The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JUDGE ALBION W. ToURGEE has patented
metal harness.
SENATOR BEcK's son George is getting rich on
his Wyoming ranch.
GENERAL BERDAN, the famous sharpshooter,
will. before long, return to this country for an
extended visit.
THE English Church Times advertises home
for ''lajies suffering from the effects of intern
perance or from the excessive use of drugs"
IT is probable that Mr. Andrew Carnegie's
offer of $3.50 900 for public library in Pittsburg
will be accepted and the terms complied with by
that CITY,
JOHN JACOB AsToR has promised the Young
Womens Christian Association of New York
$50, 900 for the building fund if they raise that
much from other people this month
NINE. NILSSON is to be congratulated on get
ting the $780, 900 which her husbands relatives
borrowed from her through him, and which,
ever since his death, they have been trying to
avoid repaying
A DINNER in Guatemala concludes with coffee
It is not the fragrant deeoction one might ex-
pect in coffee producing country, however, but
thick extract, handed round In bottles, from
which each person takes small quantity, dilut-
ing with hot water.
THE walls of the famous mosque of st.
Sophia, in Constaatinople, are said to be sadly
in need of restoration The cubes of mosaic
constantly fall out, or, worse, are picked out to
be sold to strangers and many of the arcades
and lesser walls would tumble down had they
not been rudely shored up.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET is satisfied with his pres
ent fame, and thinks seat in the Academy
could add nothing to it. Besides, it would be
intolerable to him to have to think each minute,
Aoo
clamp "Can J. an Immortal afford to be seen
thereW etc. So he prefers to remain outside.
THERE is some prospect that cocaine, the val
liable an@sthetic, will not always be as costly
remedy and, therefore, as inaccessible to the peo-
pie in general as heretofore. According to the
Vienna Medical Journal cocaine has been sue
cessfully procured, not from coca leaves, but in
a synthetic way from chemicals by W. Merck
in Darmstadt and others.
PRINCESS ISABELLA. who recently inherited
81 0O0, 900 from her mother, evidently has not
the fear of Pasteur and the rabies before her.
She keeps twenty dogs and twenty cats in her
Partisan palace who, being fed to the full, agree
very happily together She intends to found
home for the aged and INDECENT of both races.
GENERAL ScHENoK, who still lives on a milk
diet because of kidney troubles, recently Sc
cured the payment OF claim of Sc, 000 900 to an
American citizen who built railroad in Uru-
quay, which was seized by the government. 81
understand" says correspondent, that the
General got a fee of $4,000 in this, which will
buy all of the crackers and milk he will need the
rest of his life"
THE weeping willow, says the Garden, seems
to have had romantic history. The first cion
was sent from Smyrna in box of figs, to Alex
ander Pope. General Clinton brought shoot
from Pope's tree to America in the time of the
Revolution, which, passing into the hands of
John Parke Gusts, was planted on his estate in
Virginia. thus becoming the progenitor of the
weeping willow in America.
A RECENT writer notices the fact that although
the present century has been, par excellence,
the century Of science, yet il has given birth to
| the marvellous imaginst1ons of Scott, Byron,
| Keats Shelley, Carlylsl Tennyson, Browning,
Arnold, Leopard, yicFor Hugo Tourgusnef,