The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THERE are now in force in this country more
than 225, 900 patents for inventions.
The fund for the widow of General Hancock
now being raised in Boston is nearing the sum of
$4,000.
T. w. HIGGINsoN the writer, because of deli
cate health, does not allow himself to 60 out af-
ter dark.
HENRY WATTERsoN is said to have really ia
vored the reappointment of Mrs. Thompson as
postmistress at Louisville, although his paper
vigorously opposed 1t.
A PARIS dock laborer is said to be heir to
vast fortune in England, through the death of
his parents, who had placed him out to nurse on
visit to France. and forgotten him.
THE late Lord Chichester was the last of the
peers of the reign of George w, and Lord Redes-
dale. who took his seat in the first year of Will
lam Nv, is now Father of the House."
IT is told in the Carson Free Lance that Mrs
w. NJ. Stewards new residence there, called
Castle Stewart No. g is nearly finished. Mrs
Stewart will make 1t her permanent home.
LADY HEsKETHs mother was, in the DAYS of
the early California pioneers. pretty Irish girl,
whose father, named Murphy, used hitching
strap on her with such effect that neighbors had
to interfere.
A NOTABLE figure disappears from the British
House of Commons by the retirement of Sir
Thomas May. He has been in parlia-
mentary service fifty four years. the last thirty
as Clerk of the House.
MRS. HUGH G. HARRISON, of Minneapolis,
some years ago, persuaded her husband to pur-
chase house in that city for which he paid
$1,000. The other day he refused $I65, 900 for
the house and ground
A BAPTIST missionary in China writes home
that what an American family throws away in
year would keep dozen Chinese families; and
what Chinese family throws away in the same
time would not feed mouse
THE free Monday scientific lectures have be-
come such passion among the daughters of the
lowly of Birmingham, England. that wash day"
has been changed to Tuesday which the London
Globe considers the greatest achievement of sci
ence thus far.
MISS AMELIA REEVES, the author of the story,
IA Brother to Dragons" recently published in
the Atlantic, is described as a beautiful young
Virginia heiress. averse to small talk, interested
in craftsmanship, fond of diamonds and entirely
without vanity.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES A LoUTITT, of the Sec
ond California district, boasts that he was born
in stable in New Orleans, was brought up in a
blacksmith shop and was educated in common
school. He is now lawyer, but can still strike
q good blow On the anvil.
Mr. JOHN HOWARD BRYANT, brother of the
late William Cullen Bryant, has left his winter
home at St Augustine, Fla, to return for the
summer to his farm in Illinois He is eighty
years DID, and has the family proclivity to write
poetry, but can restrain himself
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. whose sprained
right wrist is still in splints. yet manages to do
good deal of work and says that she can write
easier than she can dictate, wherein she differs
from some women who are more prone to dicta-
ton than to almost anything else.
IL President Cleveland complied with all re-
quests for lock of his hair his head would be as
bare as billiard ball in less than week. One
lady from Indianapolis has written that she is
poor, and asks the President to instruct his bar
Der TO forward to her all the hair cut from the
executive head She proposes to make this hair
into Cleveland charms and sell them to gentle
men to wear their watch chains. Another
person IN Richmond. Va, wants the same hair
to stuff a pin-cushion made of silk taken from an