The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

York city not one is the keeper of grog-shop.
SOME Of the ladies of Cincinnati presented a
purse of $135 to Mrs Jones, wife of the revival
| list, last week. in appreciation of the sermons
| that her husband had delivered to the ladies
only.
IT is said that President Cleveland has given
| away to charitable institutions so many flowers
| from the White House Conservatives that ne
now has to buy bouquets TO adorn his own table,
| A LONDON picture-d dealer has been sent to Jail
for two weeks for putting the names Of we'll
| known painters some of the daubs he offered
for SALE By this, means he got $500 for $50
| picture.
TOMMY CRUISE, the millionaire miner, of Mon
tana, is soon TO be married to young dress
maker of Helena. Tommy is sixty years DID,
but will give his bride $500 900 as an Offset for
the surplus thirty-fve years.
WHILE two women were looking at cage of
parrots in the St Paul. Mimi. dime museum a
day or two ago, one exclaimed to the other 'Oh,
| Mary, come and look at these partridges, and
look at the foliage on that onew
! Poor old Louis Kossuth is wintering at Ma
| Piles, where his boys are paying his board. He
is in pretty good health, tolerably cheerful, and
retains his full faculties especially AS memory,
| and often recalls recollections of this country
and of his many American friends
PHILIP D. ARMOUR, the Chicago millionaire,
|
six days in the week. and goes to bed at 9P. M.
Asked how he succeeded in business, he said re-
Gently: II always made it principle when the
Almighty wasn't on my side to get on his"
| THE new Spanish minister to Washington,
Senior Don Emilio Murnaga. was partly educated
at GEORGETOWN College while his father sec
rotary of the Spanish legation here, many years
| ago. His wife, who was Russian lady, died
while he was minister in Mexico, and he has no
| children.
THE factory girls in an English town have re-
ceived orders to cease wearing fringes and to
part their hair in the middle, on pain of immedi
ate dismissal Such command may be obeyed
in England, but it is not to ne believed that an
American factory owner would dare to issue
| such order. j
| PHILLIPS BROOKS, the most prominent
preacher in Boston, is bachelor of fifty, who,
without being handsome. has noble head and a
| frame of massive proportions. He is eloquent,
I but not, according to the Boston standard.
| orator, is as popular as he is prominent and he
lives in one of the most beautiful houses ever
| built in Boston.
COLONEL COUGH, whose marriage to Miss
Hemming was one of the noticeable society
events of the London season, had the peculiar
middle name of Sutlej after the river near which
| his ancestor, Lord Cough, won his victories.
| This is a new way of perpetuating family honors.
| There is young officer of the army whose name
| is Malvern Hill.
| NINE. WILSON, the daughter of the President
and Nine. Grevy, is quite different sort of
person from her mother who is home body.
| She has fine black eyes and great fondness for
| and taste in everything relating to art Society
| people who do not like the republic say that she
is so fond of music that she once thought Of mar
| ryipg certain tenor at the opera.
| PARIS Figaro: NJ Pasteur received. the other
day, visit from a countryman, who showed
him his hand, which he said had been bitten by
| a mad beast. The Doctor examined the wound.
.'Why," said he, Il do not find any marks of
| dogs teeth here" "Oh it was not dog which
bit me- 1t was my wife. who got into a great
| rage, and they told me that this was much more
dangerous than the bite of dog"
| MISS CATHERINE LoRILLARD WOLFE, who
has already made many gifts to the Protestant
| Episcopal Church, has just given an additional
! $4,000 to build new clergy house. intended as
| the working headquarters Of the diocese of New
! York. The building will contain a hall for meet.
ings. an Office for the bishop. and a number of
reading rooms and lodging apartments for the
use of the Episcopal city missionaries.
A GENTLEMAN who knew Col Thomas A.
| Scott intimately tells the Philadelphia Evening
News "that one OF Mr.. SCOTS distinguished
traits was mis- ability to pick up promising young
| men and develop them into able lieutenants In
this way he picked up Frank Thompson, who is
now first epresident of the Pennsylvania Rail
| road Company, and Charles e. Pugh its gen.
| eral manager. Thompson a gentleman's
| son who was in the companys shops at Altoon
| learning to be machinist and railroader. He
| has made fine one Mr.. Pugh was a conductor
| on the road"
| MRS. HANCOCK, widow of General Hancock. is
very prepossessing woman in manner and ap-
! pearance. She is of medium height and rather
slender; her face. while not beautiful, is charm
| ing face to look at, showing great nobility of
| thought and character. Her hair is dark. inclin-
| ing to the auburn tinge; her eyes dark hazel,
| appearing almost black at times, and her COM
| plexion fair. OF late years she has dressed al
ways in black and has been seen little in socie-
| ty. although she has entertained great deal in
quiet way at her island home. She has been
| her husbands constant companion and her des-
olation, now that she is left childless and wild
| ow, is almost beyond endurance.
| THE celebrated Polish novelist Michael Czai-
kowski, known also as Sadyk Pasha who late
| ly committed suicide, had singularly romantic
| career. He took leading part in the uprising
of 1880, and was wounded at Warsaw For some
years after he lived in England and France but
| in 1910 went to Turkey secret agent of
| France, and became a Mohammedan. He executed
| many important secret commissions for the
| Porte, and in the Crimean war organized and led
| the Polish Legion that occupied the Dobrudscha.
| Constantinople was his home thereafter until
| 1873, when the Gar pardoned him and allowed
| him to return to his native place. where he spent
The remainder of his days in literary and horti-
| cultural pursuits
| ASENT the attack of dipththeria recently suf-
fered by the Princess Of Wales ''the interest
taken in everything concerning her. says the
| Lancet iLondon). sis scarcely less than that
taken in her Majesty, so thoroughly has her