The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Mrs SALA, the wife of George Augustus Sala.
is dead in Australia.
THEODORE THOMAS is in his fifty first year.
He was born in Germany.
MRS BRowNLow, the famous parsons widow,
is still living at Knoxville, Tenn
THE death has been announced of DIR. Julius
Chaser. who was Austria's most eminent lawyer
THREE snow-white beavers lately cap
tured in the river st. John at Fredericton, New
Brunswick
How To Be Happy Though Married is the
alarming title of volume that has been present
ed to the Princess Beatrice.
OLIVER JOHNSON. one of the few survivors Of
the old abolition movement. is lying dangerous
ly sick at his home in New FORK city.
Count PUcKLER who has just resigned the
post of High Court Marshal on account of his
age, is only six months younger than Kaiser
Wilhelm.
THE Bank of England issued nearly FIVE mill
ions of dollars between 1897 and 1919, and the
numismatists are asking what has become Of
these dollars?
THE late Col Henry Goodfellow, Judge-Advo-
cate of the Department of the Missouri, was
next to the last surviving member Of the Kane
Arctic expedition.
MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT and her sister,
Mrs. Jones, are visiting in Washington. Mrs.
Fremont remains, as she has always BEEN q
great social favorite there
CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the sugar kingof the Sand
witch islands, manages to exc out miserable ex-
istence in San Francisco upon the insignificant
annual income of So, 000, 900.
HARRISON. the "Boy Preacher" who is now
forty four years old. has opened fire on the
forces of Satan in Manchester, N Ell. This is
the boys first venture in any of the New Eng
land States.
THE grinding of the crown glass disk of the
immense lens for Lick Observatory. California,
is we'll under way at Cambridge, Mass yet
whole years work remains to be done before it
can be finished.
THE hedgehog is favorite food of the gypsies.
and those who have eaten of it as cooked by
them in their travelling caravans in England say
it is excellent. Hedgehogs are incest in the fall
months, and are said to be more delicate than
piglings.
DR. HARTwELL, of Johns Hopkins University.
says that a German soldier can scale twenty
foot wall with his arms and accoutrements, or
Jump an iron-spiked fence without getting
caught, and he attributes this to the fact that
gymnastics are compulsory in the German
schools.
MITcHELL's proposition to fight Sullivan for
the benefit of charitable institutions opens up a
new field of benevolent enterprise. We may
presently see scientific sparring" replace the
rattle at church fairs, and smuggling for knock
OUT succeed the antediluvian kissing games Ct
Sunday school picnics.
Dr. Fillmore Bennett wrote the favorite
hymn, "Sweet Bye and Bye" in 1868. Dr. Ben
nett lives at Richmond H.. and is quite poor.
He says it did not take him more than twenty
minutes to write the hymn which Lolita. the ac-
tress, did SO much to render famous by its in
PRODUCTION in one of her plays.
SENATOR GRAY. of Delaware made fine i'm
preston by his first speech He is not only q
handsome man, but an able one. His voice was
clear, resonant and well sustained throughout
He was generally congratulated and senators
feel that the Delawarean has proved himself te
be decided acquisition to the chamber
PROF. HUXLEY, recalling the fact that he is
four years older than the oldest steam railroad
SAYS ST confess it fills me with astonshment to.
think that the time when no man could travel
faster than horses could transport him, when
our means of loeomotion were no better than
those of Achilles or OF Ramses Malmum, hes
within my memory.
IL NJ Grevy lives to the end of this present
month he will be the first ruler of France-if he
is its ruler-for sixty years who has served ont
his full term of Office Louis XVIII ended his
reign naturally by death But his three sue
cessors Charles x, Louis Philippe and Napoleon
III, died in exile. and NJ. Crews two predeces-
sors in the presidency, Theirs and MacMahon,
resigned.
THE Duke of Edinburgh will assume COM
mand of the Mediterranean feet in February.
The Duchess of Edinburgh will transfer her
home to Malta and will there set up mimic
court and make her residence brilliant socially
rs her position will permit 1t IS said that she
frets good deal because her position as a royal
princess is practically ignored in England. and
that she goes to Malta gladly
SINCE the Philadelphia Presbytery refused to
admit DR.. Leonard Woolsey Bacon as a member.
it has withdrawn from the Woodland Church the
privilege of employing as STATED supply" any
minister not belonging to presbytery. But at
the urgent request of this church, whose pulpit
he has been filing for the last year. and which
had lately called him pastor, DIR. Bacon Is
permitted to remain until July /. Some of his
Episcopal friends are urging him to enter that
denomination.
THE Sultan has sweet tooth. which was q
good thing for German tramp who stopped the
rova1 arri in a srhurh NJ Coustar$;nnnla xcs