The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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AN Iowa man has invented and patented a
system of photography for the type writer, by
means OF which fairly rapid operator OF the
caligraph can write about 200 per cent. faster
than with pen.
D. w. BUsHYHEAD, principal chief of the
Cherokee nation is fine locking man, of half
quite rich and well educated. He was entered
at Princeton, but not graduated.
THE Rev. Mr.. Miburn, Chaplain Of the House
Of Representatives. is slightly built man of
medium height, with gray hair and beard, who
walks about so confidently that one at dis
lance would suspect him to be blind.
BLoNDfN, desirous of replenishing his purse,
wishes to make another tour through America
and repeat his Niagara performance. but hest
tates, because the law would compel him to have
a safety net under the rope which would detract
much from the interest of the feat He is low
sixty-two years old and lives in London.
RUMoR flying from the West proclaims that
Judge Bedford, erst dubbed the Redheaded
Rooster of the Rockies, has entered the lecture
field, and will presently become audible through
out the land, decauting upon Labor Problems, /"
under the auspices of the Knights OF Labor.
Leadville is his initial base of operations.
Mr.. SHIRo AKABANE, the accomplished secre-
was educated at Yale, but is strong protection
ist He thinks that If the freetrade professors
of New England would travel and study the ex
perience and conditions of other nations they
would not be so one-sded in their views.
In the Buffalo Express a writer remembers
George NJ. Pullman, the palacecar millionaire,
as he lived at Albion in his young manhood
His mother and two sisters were dependent upon
him for support, and he was dilgent in caring
Gov hn o. ryArlyL Ay
somewhat "dandifed" in appearance and was a
great social favorite.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, is to have the largest
hotel in the South. 600 by 400 feet. and costing
81 000, 900. 1t will be built in strictly Moorish
architecture, of coquina, ground and mixed with
cement, and will be ready for next winters bust
ness. A garden and fountains will occupy its
interior court. and an orange grove is to be
planted on one part of the roof.
DAVID SINToN, Ohios richest man. is a
Scotch Irishman, and grew up around the big
iron mills of Pittsburg. He began business as a
clerk in a country store at So a month; then was
and at last half owner. After that the advance
in wealth was fast He is worth $12 000 900,
and gives largely to public charities.
Mr.. PARNELL and Prince Bismarck have one
quality in common They are both liable to at
tacks of illness, but neither is afflicted except at
convenient moments. Whenever the Chancellor
does not wish to appear in the Reichstag or to re-
ceive some foreign ambassador he has timely
attack of his neuralgia, and whenever Par
nell wishes to keep silent he catches cold
no matter what the temperature or the season
may be.
THE New York Graphic directs attention to
the fact that three American millionaires FL. B.
Claffn, w. H. Vanderbilt and Edmond Richard
son died suddenly. and that it is notable that not
one Of the three died in his bed; Zone dropped
dead at his desk another in his hall, and the
other in the Street" The moral of all which, we
suppose, is that if any plumber wishes to make
sure of dying between sheets he had better so to
bed ard stay there.
ELEANOR BOUDINoT is the granddaughter Of
Elias, who translated the Bible into the Chero-
kee tongue. She is described as having fine,
strong face but. though only one-quarter Indian,
shows striking traces of her Indian ancestry,
while her full brother, Cornelius, is blonde and
scarcely shows it at all. William P. Boudinot is
Miss Eleanor's father. He is a distinguished
statesman and a rather remarkable musician.
The whole family are noted for musical talent
EMPEROR WILLIAM, at eightynire years of
age. is still very busy man, and has his days
work cut out for him as regularly as any state
official. For several years past he has pursued
the same routine. He rises every morning even
III WluL6r, al l:OU, anu DRESSES III ONCE IOr the
day, disdaining to either dressing gown or
slippers. Another account describes him as
failing rapidly. His face is shrunken and his
flesh has shriveled. He daily becomes leaner.
and his legs are notably weak and tottering. Yet
he sticks to his work.
A FAREWELL meeting was held in Denver on
Sunday in honor of Misses Mary L. Cort Della
A. Fuller Mary j. Henderson and Jennie M.
Small. who are about to go to Siam as missiona-
ries Miss Cort, after ten years in Siam, re-
turned a year ago for a vacation. She is the
daughter OF an ola citizen of Denver. Miss
Small has been teaching school in Denver for
three years She is Pennsylvania girl. Miss
Fuller is returned missionary. Miss Hender-
son is Kansas girl, and graduated from Park
College, Missouri, last summer. They all 60 for
ten years.
For some time past the Prince of Wales,
although in other respects in fine health, has
been rather a martyr to dyspepsia which threat
ems to assume a chronic form. He is reduced to
all 'siron ration" both as regards quantity and
character. So far back as his visit to Eaton
Hall his enforced allowance for dinner consisted
solely of the lean part of the mutton chop and
what Sir Andrew Clark calls CHUNK of stale
bread. The restriction on the fine appetite of
f. r. H. which his medical adviser has pre-
scribed. and to which he adheres with loyalty
which must be sore strain, is having the Incl
OoHbdl cn0Ct VI EouuCluE WolSut
M. CHARLES GIRARD, chemist, of Paris, re-
Gently amused himself by investigation of the
ingredients of a beautiful red currant jelly.
charmingly put up for export to the United
States There was not an atom Of fruit in the
mass, as was demonstrated by the adding to it of
methylated alcohol which would have turned it
green had it contained any fruit acid. 1t was
found to consist of gelatine, sweetened with
glycerine residue, colored with pichsine la pois-
sonous mineral extract), and favored with no
one knows what. A great many people in this
country imagine no currant jelly is SO good as
that which is imported from France.
A LOUISVILLE newspaper complains of the
street.car manners of the ladies of that town,
and says that they keep cars waiting while they
kiss and bid each other goodbye. This instance
is related: s'Two ladies on the sidewalk hailed q
car, and the driver stopped supposing they
wanted to get aboard. But they had simply