The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


perfectly tuned piano open in his stuGy when
ever List was likely TO visit him.
MRS GENERAL FREMONT, who has rendered
her husband great service with his book has
written one herself, which is to be published in
Boston.
A COMPLETE set of school textbooks to be
sold at cost is being prepared for California in
accordance with the vote OF the State, and will
be introduced into the schools next winter.
WESTERN editors are engaged in dispute over
the meaning of the following decision of the Con-
cord School of Philosophy: "The self can know
itself only in discriminating itself through self
regulated distinctions in itself"
MRS CLEVELAND. who has been very anxious
to get way from Washington. has lately found
her chief pleasure in driving. She has worn
white dresses constantly in the carriage; also,
becoming white hat trimmed with black and
pink.
ANY educator out Of work is informed that
vacancy exists In the University of Tennessee,
where the secretary was shot and killed the
other day by the professor of law. Of course,
the new man will be expected to keep reason
ably good terms with the professor of law.
THE Mayor of Philadelphia, determined to
make bold strike for his rights as free citizen
of these United States, makes declaration that
he will buy no more excursion or picnic tickets.
He complains that his salary is not large enough
to pay for all the tickets sent to him from all
sorts of clubs and organizations.
'DocToR, my son William is not WELL He has
not got any appetite, and he complains Of head
ache and general debility" my dear madame,
the best thing is to try simple household rem
edy." what household remedy do you suggest,
DoctorW deprive him of mis- latch-key, so ne
xw,i he g. 80 NJ how nff do
A WRITER in the Bee Journal says that bees
have strong antipathy to dark-colored objects.
A brood Of chickens ran about his hives The
bees stung one of the dark ones to death, and did
not modest the light-colored ones. He says that
man with black plug hat rarely gets stung,
the bees devoting their attention to shooting the
hat.
COUNT Won MoLTKE plays amateur farmer at
his country place of Creisau He likes to 60 over
his fields and to prune the young trees planted
in the park. He insists upon having home
grown fruit upon his table and he enjoys talking
to his guests about it. He has built school
house on his estate and he often visits it, listens
to the teaching and questions the pupils
THE largest fish ever taken at the Isles of
Shoals was recently caught by Miss Rose Mill
mine, of New York, and was a halibut weighing
Ill pounds. The lady was accompanied by Skip
chances are that Miss NJ. felt the bite, emitted
series Of assorted shrieks and dropped the line,
which the skipper caught and thus saved the fish.
To be loved by children is blessing to man.
1t makes him better and happier in every way.
One of the guests at the Isles of Shoals is Still
man B. Allen, Boston lawyer, with whom the
little children all seem to have fallen in love.
Nearly every afternoon and evening group of
a dozen or twenty gather about him. either in
the parlor or out on the rocks, and he entertans
them with stories.
COLONEL INGERsoLL is growing fat He isn't
any balder than, formerly, for that's impossible.
His eyeglasses have turned to spectacles and his
chubbiness is turning to freshness. His years
are beginning to tell but his smile and twink
ling eyes are the same. Ipgersoll has habit,
when interviewed, of writing down both ques-
tions and answers, and reading them over before
the reporter goes.
MORE than twelve months ago woman in La
Grange Ga, while feeding large flock of
chickens dropped diamond ring from her
finger, and, not being able to find it, concluded
that one>of the fowls had swallowed it 1t was
not thought best to kill all the chickens in order
to find it, but the internal arrangements of each
fowl afterward killed were carefully examined.
A week ago the ring was found. 1t was under
the dirt just where it had been lost
THE Rev. Leonard Bacon who himself APP
parently is visitor Of watering places has no
good wordsf for other clergymen who do the same.
He is quoted as saying that at many of the idlest
of summer resorts there is no one profession so
simultaneously represented as that of the men
who are supposed to be officially burning with
zeal for the rescue of dying world, and that
there is no smaller small talk talked and no
lazier dawdlng done by any than by them.
The late Mile Morlacchi whose death not
long ago in little village not far from Lowell,
Mass, is sadly remembered, left quite hand
some little property, amounting to something
like $25 900, which is likely to go ultimately to
the actors fund, as none of her immediate rela-
tives survive her. A good part of the property
she left is in the form of diamonds, which are
said to be of rare brillancy. color and cutting.
els beyond price in Mile. Morlacchi's estimation
when she was alive
THREE rather able girls are the daughters of
F. A. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, each
worth $4.000,O00, who have been brought up to
look after their own affairs, and to make good
use of their wealth. They maintain great ed
vocational charity at Torresdale, Pa, and are said
to have a list of $50 pensioners upon their pri
vate bounty. They live and dress plainly and
horses about their only dissipation. They
have just sailed for Europe to visit the educa-
tioLal institutions of tho old world and gather
points for their own guidance in the manage
ment of their school.
HER Majesty Queen Victoria is anxious to
sell the Villa Hohenlohe, her residence at Ba-
den Baden. The villa, which came to the Queen
from her half sister, the late Princess Feodore
Hohenlohe, has been enlarged and much inn
proved by her Majesty The Empress of Aus
tria inspected the place during her recent visit
to Baden, as she contemplates buying villa,
and the German Empress took look at it the
other day, as she has house at Baden, and
has to rent, during her frequent visits. the
Villa Messmer, near the Conversation House.
But neither Empress Elizabeth nor Augusta is
willing to agree to the Queens price, which is
nearly twice as much as the property is gen.
orally thought TO be worth.
COMMENT AND OPINION.