The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MRS FRANK LESLIE, who has been interviewed
by the Pail Mall Gazette says that she lives the
life of man without mans enjoyment
ANDREW FoNTAINE. WILSON MoNTAGUE, "a Lon
don dandy with an income of G37, 600 year, has
an odd affectation. He never wears collar
THE Queen of Spain is said to be suffering
from pulmonary disease. which is making alarm
ing progress The affection is similar to that
which caused the death of King Alfonso
ARA D. SANKEY, on his return from Europe,
intends to reioin Mr.. Moody at Chicago. Said
he the other day: "DoI consider Chicago the
worst city in the Union? No, but consider 1t q
very inhammable city"
Mr.. NATHAN ROBBINS, the veteran Boston
banker. who this week celebrated his eighty
third birthday, has occupied an Office in Quincy
market for sixty years, and has been absent be-
cause of illness only eight days.
For several months Monsignor Capel has been
educating the children Of tho Countess Valensin,
in the San JOAQUIN valley, California. and writ
ing two books. He is a guest at her country seat
His aged mother died recently in England.
THE English Churchman lectures tho Prince
of Wales sharply because he recently gave
dinner to forty guests on Sunday The dinner
was followed by variety show, In which Japan
jugglers exhibited their skill and a string
band played
r. James, the novelist, is reported to be
tremely eccentric man, bent on antagouizing the
popular disposition He is an Anarchist simply
because everybody else in the community in
which he lives is opposed to the doctrine.
WHEN Bismarck goes to Gastein he always
stays on the upper floor of an oldha5erdasher's
shop adjoining the Badeschloss. They made
him comfortable there when he was poor, and
comfort is all he wants When it comes to style
Bismarck is hopeless, lamentable. dishearten-
ing failure.
THE Lewiston Journal tells of pretty girl at
Bar Harbor whose dress at recent hop at
tracted much attention. aud we'll it might One
half of the waist was high, with long, closely
fitting sleeve and high military collar The other
half, beginning at exactly the middle OF the
bosom and back, was remarkably low. and the
only sign of sleeve was narrow shoulderstrap
INVESTIGATIONS by Dr. r. Won Helmholz de-
scribed to the Berlin Royal Society, confirm the
statements that the formation Of cloud in satu
rated air is induced solely by particles of dust,
and that the finer and sparser are the dust par
ticles the moro slowly is the cloud formed. These
results are also contirmatory of Prof. TyndalPs
explanation that the blue color of the sky is due
to floating dust
In 1867 Gen. r. E. Lee was seated with party
Of gentlemen at the White Sulphur, when he
saw General Wilcox, of the old Union army, en-
ter the room. Partisan feeling was pretty bitter
then in Virginia, and General Wilcox
noticed till General Lee saw him, and at once
hurried to greet him, and did all in'his power to
make his stay at the Springs pleasant. This is
what any Southern officer would do now, but
not all at that time
THE Rev DR.. Joseph Parker, of the City Tenn
pie Church, London, who has been entertaining
Mr.. Beecher, has come to the conclusion that as
he writes to The Advance, ''You must live with
Mr.. Beecher to understand Mr.. Beecher. Before
he came to be my guest had viewed him with
the wonder which may be bestowed upon a
planet; now that we have lived together l accord
him the affection which is due to the tenderest
manlness and the most winsome modesty."
THE Masyars having demanded that the body
of List be inferred in his native land. the Ger
man papers point out that the great pianist so
far expatriated himself as entirely to forget the
Hungarian language In the summer of 1882 he
had q letter wholly written in the language Of
Peto6, addressed to him at Weimar by poor
shoemaker of Pesth, asking him for monetary
relief. There being no in Weimar that
could translate the letter. Liszt sent it to Jena.
hoping to find translator there. There being
unfortunately no Hungarian student at the Uni
versity, Transylvania Saxon undertook to
translate the letter into German with the aid of
dictionary
JUDGE McCUE, of California, who Is now in
Washington, thus tells how he manages to live
on 10 cents per day: II usually turn out at
about IL o'clock and take breakfast go to the
dairy around the corner and buy cup of coffee
for cents, and with the other cents get five
Maryland biscuits My breakfast is eaten slowly
and we'll digested. 1t generally lasts me until
about o'clock in the afternoon, l always go
provided with several pieces of alum. When
begin to get hungry place one of these bits OF
alum in my mouth and allow it to slowly dis
solve. The effect is that it contracts the throat
and the stomach, and the sensation Of hunger
disappears. repeat this dose until bedtime,
and fall asleep like child. Gentlemen, let
me tell you that eating is nothing but habit,
after all.n