The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Switzerland for the winter
THE Harp at Natures advent strung
Has never ceased to play;
The song the stars of morning sung
Has never died away.
BARON GUSTAV HEINE, brother of the poet,
Heinrich Heine has been for forty years editor
of the Vienna Fremdenblatt, which he founded
Its circulation is 25 600 daily and street sales are
forbidden.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD in the current North
American Review adheres to his first declara-
ton that the federal army was surprised at
Shiloh The confederates were surprised the
next day.
Mr. GILBERT. the ibrettist, answers to the
full name of William Schwerik Gilbert He is
credited with having said shat husband can
hope to be hero in his wife's eyes only two
| months-the month before he is married and the
month after his DEATH"
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. of Philadelphia,
for the past eighteen years, has been as much of
wanderer as the gypsies about whom he writes
country to country. staying in one place month
or year, as he liked. and never, as he says
without trunks in his bedroom.
at is very cheap wit that finds it SO droll that
woman should vote" says Ralph Waldo Elmer
son. eff the wants. the passions, the vices are
allowed full vote. through the hands of half
brutal, Incorporate population. think it but
fair that the virtues, the aspirations. should be
allowed full voice as an Offset, through the
purest of the people"
FATHER LIE PALLIEUR, founder Of the famous
and benehcent order of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, is still living in Paris, where the order was
started in 1910 His golden jubilee was cele-
brated last month The first sister, Marie
Augustine de Ia Compassion, is residing in the
mother house. There are now 240 houses and
nearly 1000 sisters within the order
WHILE the world is shivering from severe
frosts, the population of the Caucasus, on the
shores Of the Black Sea, are enjoying second
summer. At Sukhum the apple and pear trees
are blooming. At Bukhum they have a new
crop of cucumbers. In gardens in the open air
there are blooming roses, gerariums, heliotropes
and pinks At noon the temperature is TO in
the shade, and 1869 in the sun.
THE President has pardoned Wnship Swift. a
boy formerly in the postal service who was re-
Gently convicted of violating one OF the postal
regulations in losing maipouch which he was
taking to the railway station. and who is now
awaiting sentence. In acting on the case a ques-
ton arose as to the power of the executive to
pardon person who had been convicted, but not
sentenced. and it was decided that he had the
authority.
BRIaADIER-GENEEAL GEORGE Crook. u S. A.,
commanding the Department of Arizona and
New Mexico is a native of Ohio, and now in his
fifty sixth year. The Apaches named him the
Gray Fox" in 1877. He has been brigadier-
general of regulars since 1873, and was major
general of volunteers during the civil war. He
is a graduate of West Point. General Crook is a
man of middle stature, large head, fair hair and
complexion, and quiet and pleasant manners
ALTHOUGH banker, and one of the best bust
ness men in the world the late Lord Mayor of
| London. Sir R. N. Fowler, writes so atrocious a
hand that a sentence which he intended to be
read as follows: Il regard the conduct of the
government in this matter as absolutely in
human" was, owing to the inability OF a printer
to decipher what was meant, transformed in
type into Il rarely can compass tale. Ny
grandmother Is the best narratar of amusing in
cidentsn
THE railway cars of Russia. says writer in
Mechanics, are among the most commodious in
the world. They resemble ours rather than the
compartment cars in use elsewhere on the cont
| nent Of Europe but in Russia the aisle is shifted
to one side so that the on the left will ac-