The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| THE Ehret boycott is declining. That is, peo-
| pie are declining to decline Ehrets beer
| LAWRENCE BARRETT is regarded by frst-class
restaurateurs as one of the most profitable eaters
| they have.
| LEVI P. MoRroNs new house at Saratoga will
| be, according to the New York Mail and Express,
| palace among cottages.
SENATOR SANFORD has five mansions in diff
| ferent parts of the country. all elegantly and
| completely furnished.
| RUSSELL SAGE says that Mr. Tlden's greatest
fault was constantly postponing action. He
| would put off things from day to day and from
| week to week.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHcoTE is the only Tory
peer whom Mr.. Gladstone refers to in Parlia-
mentary debate as my friend" The others are
fright honorable gentlemen"
EX-SENATOR THURMAN is waving the 'old red
bandana at Deer Park, and occasionally putting
his to the ground in vain effort to hear tho
| long delayed call of the people
| MOTHER MANDELBAUM. the notorious run
away from New York. has opened an elegant
store for the sale of ladies' and children's fur
nishing wear in Hamilton, Ontaria
| HEBREW Standard Jewish young lady re-
| fused to play at game of kissing forfets. Civ
| ing as her reason the quotation Hosea xiii n:
| 'Let the mer that sacrifice kiss the calves"
| A METHOD Of sending picture by telegraph
| has been invented by Scotchman w. Gem
| mill, by which photograph taken at one end of
| wire is transmitted and reproduced at the
other.
| A GENTLEMAN who has lately visited Madame
| Patti Ncolini at her Welsh castle Craig-y- Nos
describes her as fine whip. She is also a skill
| full water-coor painter, so that music is not her
| only accomplishment
~ Al IL
widow of the late Justice Clifford of the United
States Supreme Court is still in excellent health
| and is passing few weeks among relatives and
| friends in the town OF Newfeld.
| A CHICAGO paper rejoices because two new gas
companies have been licensed in that city, which,
will insure the tearing up of the streets at closer
| intervals, and thus keep teams from running
about ON the streets and wearing out the pave
menr"
GEN. j. w. DENVER who has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats Of the Chillicothe,
| o.. district is the man after whom the city of
| Denver. Col, was named He was a Territorial
| pioneer, and settled in California fog some time
| during the golden days of that State.
| THE women crusaders at Orangeville, Ont,
visited hotel and tried by praying to induce
the landlord to close the place. Boniface invited
| the ladies to seats asked them to pray and then
| himself offered prayer, in which he dealt very
severely with the follies and vanities of women.
PRINCESS ANTONIO, the wife of Prince Leo
| pold, of Hohenzollern-S igmaringen, who is the
| de jure head of the great family of Hohenzol-
Tern and one of the wealthiest personages in Eu-
| rope, is sister of the King OF Portugal She
will celebrate her golden wedding in September,
| and great festivities are in preparation.
| NJ. ELEssEps is said to have rendered to Col
A. L. Rives, of Virginia position worth $685.
| 900 year on the Panama osnal. Colonel Rives
| is graduate of the Ecole des Points ct Chau-
| sees, of Paris a colonel of engineers in the
| confederate army, and after the war constructed
and directed numerous railway enterprises in
/ the South.
| CHRISTINE NILSSON, who is now Countess
| Angel de Miranda, was married quietly at the
| Paris Mayoraity. and has gone to Spain with her
| husband and her step-daughter, who has been
| for some time past her lady companion. Senior
| Miranda was attached to the Spanish embassy at
| Paris when the Marquis De Molns was embas
| sador there.
INTEREST in Captain Howgate, the ex -disburs-
| ing clerk of the Signal Bureau has been revived
| by the appointment of his daughter. Miss Ida e.
Howgate to a clerkship in the Office of the Secre-
| tary Of the Treasury. This young lady" said
| Assistant Secretary Thompson, spassed the
highest examination in her class and was certi
fed by the Civil-service Commission for appoint
ment 1t is generally understood that she will
be the principal support of her mother. and do
not think any one Is uncharitable eaough to pun