The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ceive over So, 000 900 for its public library.
S. j. TILDEN is regarded as favoring Carlisle
for the presidency, with Governor Hill as the
tail of the ticket.
IT is announced from Paris that unfortunate
Anna Judic made only $780, 900 out of America,
or but So, 900 per month.
THE Magazine of Art says very wisely that
the Grant monument fund wants only $3.50, 900
of the million ito be collected"
ADMIRAL DAVID D. PoRTER's History Of the
Civil War; has run to 20, 600 and realized al
ready $50, 900, to be divided between author and
publisher.
A MAN in Brooklyn has obtained verdict for
5000 against liquor dealer for having sold intox
icating liquor to his 1.-THE plaintiff 81 sixteen year
old son.
MRS. JANE AUGUSTA CoUES is said by
Washington evening paper to have applied for a
divorce from her husband DR.. Elliott Coues. the
eminent scientist
THOMAS A. EDISON has returned to Akron, o..
with his bride, and next week they will 60 to
New York to spend the summer, returning to
Florida in the fall.
A FEMININE optimist observes that although
women may have very hard lot in this world,
there is one thing that never troubles them, and
that is trousers that bag at the knee.
up sign in his window which reads: 1910 Re-
ward be caught any person who may be broken
this window brought to the correction"
A FRENCH scientist is going to dig round the
Sphinx of Ghizeh to see if he can find out what
was Gdipuss answer TO the conundrum that the
monster was ford of posing people with.
The young ladies in Connecticut female
seminary have written sealed letters to each
other under the solemn pledge that they are
not to be opened until the day the recipient is
married
COUNT BRENNER bought three pairs of Ameri-
can wild turkeys in $780, and let them loose on
his estate in Austria The number is now esti-
mated at 500, and the Count enjoys his shooting
very much.
AT the sale of Ferdinand Wards effects, a
portrait of James D. Fish brought 81. 25 on &C
count of It's frame, and chair from General
Grants chamber was sold for $110, on account
of the man whom it had framed
THEKE is said to be but one confederate flag
staff standing, and that is at Blakely, Ga 1t is
one hundred feet in height, and Jeff Davis was
recently asked to go and stand under it, while
the stars and bars were unfurled from its top.
MR. EDWARD G. KNIGHT, the millionaire mer-
chant of Philadelphia, whose semi.centennial of
business life was celebrated last week, began his
career as an errand-boy at So week and saved
5000 out of that income with which to start
grocery store.
FIRST BoY-My ma says mustn't play with
you. because your father is nothing but shoe
maker. Second Boy-Sos your father shoe
maker. First Boy-Ma says he's manufacture
er. He makes thousand pairs of shoes to your
| fathers one pair. Second Boy-Then he must
be thousand times worse than my father
guess won't play with you any more.
| SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE. ON Englishman who
INDUCES a taste for orchids. writes to contradict
the preposterous fable THAT he gave f672 for
certain plant" He says the most he ever paid
| for orchid was f2.0 for cattleya triane He
thinks that some recent prices paid by collectors
are as absurd as were the sums which s'blue
ginger jars brought few years ago.
The prize of $500 offered by the alumni asso
citation. of the College of Physicians and Sur
geons. has been awarded for physiological re-
searches, illustrating by means of a camera the
heart and other organs IN motion, to Dr. William
Gilman Thompson, whose experiments have been
recorded by the Scientific American. Medical
Record Science and other scientific publications
PRIVATE letter has been received in Boston
from Buenos Ayres stating that E. d. Winslow,
the Boston forger, is in Jail there for swindling
and that all his property has been attached.
Winslow goes by the name of D. w. Love- and
| is quite prominent in business and society
circles. He married a lady in Buenos Ayres
and has lived there for some time in consider.
able style.
Liable HYvERNAT. Of Rome, the editor of
the "Coptic Martyrs" has lately discovered in
MS Of the Vatican library Coptic and Arabic
text of an apocryphal assumption of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. DIR. Caster, of Bucharest will
perhaps be able to complete his Roumanian text
of the assumption of Abraham, which ne com
municated lately at a meeting of the Society of
Biblical Archaeology.
Coup GAY PAcIA Y PONY" was solemnly
chosen few days ago by Signor Sacchi, mem
Der of the Common Council Of Pavia. as the
name Of his newborn child. little girl.