The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
TWELVE ''oficial poets" have just been ap-
| pointed by the Mikado of Japan.
JOAQUIN MILLER, who is now in Texas, writes
that he is going back to Mexico to make that
| country his home.
MoNTREAL's moral city authorities have pros
ecuted an art firm for exposing Michael Angeles
| figures might" and Day
Mr.. GLADsToNEs maiden speech in Parlia-
| ment was in defense of slavery in the British
| colonies. Englands Premier is q statesman who
| learns by experience.
| AMONG the theatrical treasures that went
down in the Oregon were the score of sThe Har-
Dor lights" music and transcript of the new
| play, "Sister Mary"
| A COLUMBUS o., paper has society column
headed "Out of the Hurry Burly" The first
paragraph announces that Columbus young
| lady has gone to New York
| A HEAVY tax is to be placed on the ''miracu-
lous" waters from Lourdes and other shrines in
France, and the government expects to derive a
revenue Of Sc, DOC. 900 francs therefrom.
| THE Rev. DIR. Lormers new book, ''Studies in
Social Life" will be published in few days. In
| this work DR.. Lorimer takes up every question
relating to the social and LABOR problems.
| 1T is said that Mr.. Aston has prepared sumptu-
Gus copies OF his novel; valentino" for the King
of Italy and for the Pope. The copies are bound
in ivory boards and nclosed in silver cases, at q
cost of $3O6 each.
| JOHN G. CALHOUN is on record as having once
tried to write poem. A pretty girl asked him
to do it and he reluctantly gave his consent, be-
| ginning the effort with the immortal word
| whereas" He never got any further.
| Mr.. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, IN letter to the ed
| itor Of the Freeman. says that he hopes he shall
not horrify any of his countrymen il he ven.
/ lures to express the opinion that Edmund Burke
| lis the one only front-rank man whom Ireland
has yet contributed to the literature of the
| world"
JOHN BROWN, the Queens late servant, is
three years gone, but not forgotten At Wind
sor Castle the rooms which Brown occupied have
| been vigorously closed since his DEATH and the
| Queen has placed large brass tablet in the bed
room, which bears inscription relating how J.
b. died in this room, eulogizing his virtues and
deploring his loss
| Mr.. HENRY BERGH is the one judicial officer in
| New York who is not dependent on the caprice
of politics for retention of his Office. He is as
sistant district attorney for life and permanent
tons were given him in 1866 and are limited to
| the enforcement of laws for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals
FRENCHMEN who are not enraged worshipers
of Victor Hugo aghast at the announcement
that ten volumes of Hugo's prose and verse;
never before printed and six volumes OF CORE
| spondence, are in preparation. The first of the
ten is already published It's title is "Le Thea
/ ire en- Liberte" and the hue Of the paper cover
| is the dingy tint of mummy wrappings.
| LADIES in San Francisco do not consider them
selves born to blush unseen. 1t is not enough
for them to look out of the windows Of their
/ rck a. c;$ III
| gether. To this end safety seat for ladies has
| been constructed and it is at present in full
vogue. The front Of a San Francisco house fitted
with the new invention must present rather a
curious spectacle, but one, doubt, which the
male population of that city regard with appre-
| ciative interest.
| MRS PRUDENCE CRANDALL PHILLEo in let
tar of thanks for the annuity voted her by the
Connecticut Legislature, recalls that in 1885,
when the law was passed by which her life
prospects were destroyed, church bells were
rung and salutes of artillery were fired. But
| now, that tardy and meagre justice Is done to
| her. the only jubilant display she wished to
make was ITO have private nook where tears
Of JOY could flow, unobserved, for the change
that has been wrought in the views and feelings
of the mass of the people,
| Our deceased Presidents sleep widely apart
Virginia holds five of them-W ashington, Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe and Tyler-making her
| soil indeed sacred Tennessee three-Jackson,
| Polk and Johnson: Massachusetts, two-John
| Adams and John Quincy Adams, father and son;
| New York three-Van Buren,. Fillmore and
/ Grant; Ohio two-Harrison and Garfield; New
| Hampshire one-Pierce; Pennsylvania one-Bu-
| chanau; Illinois one-Lincoln; Kentucky one
Taylor All of them, with the exception of
| Taylor and Grant, were buried in the States
| in which they resided at the time OF their cleo
1 ton.
| Mr.. TILDENs health has been matter of con-
troversy for years. In suit before the United
| States Circuit Court he testified on Tuesday as
follows: II have an affection of the larynx
which impairs the elasticity of what are called
/ the vocal cords that they will not come to
| gether, and air passes through without their
| helping to form sounds and so reduces me to a
/ whisper. There is no soreness nor apparent dis
| ease, but only loss OF elasticity SO that it
makes me talk with great difficulty and gener
ally In whisper, excepting when have cold,
under which the cords approach each other bet
| ter That settles it.
Mr. BARNUM says that he has wasted So, 900
on boomerang throwers. you've heard of Aus
tralian bushmen," he said. ''who have weapon
made of bent stick that they throw with won
| derful skill, hitting the prey unerringly, the
! boomerang returning of itself to fall at the feet
of the marksmanl / had an agent go from Lon
| don to the wilds of New South Wales; but he
| writes me that the accounts are two-thirds lies
/ and the remaining third isn't worth bringing
/ away. The boomerang Is a fact and the native
Australian savages fling it at game, missing
about as often as hitting; and it will return, if il
strikes nothing, to somewhere near the starting