The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Adult AND 1uANUOs
WHEN the Prince of Wales attended the thea.
ter at Homburc, during his recent visit, the
price of seats near his was doubled
SENATOR SHERMAN's house at Mansfield, o.,
says the Boston Journal, is the highest point in
the State. It is 300 feet above the sea level.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is not a Prohibtionist n
either theory practice but he makes it a rule
never to take a drink in the presence of young
men.
| CASE is reported in Sweden where blind
| ness in one eye was Immediately removed by
the pulling of the decayed and infiamed moar
| teeth.
DREAMS of persons who have been blind since
the age of five years never contain imaginary
visions. They dream mainly of hearing things
or feeling them.
| GEORGE w. CABLE thought he would be smart
| in Sunday school. He told the class that he had
FIVE children and that half of them were girls
| Then when the best boy in the class politely
called him falsfer, he said the other half were
| girls too
BOSTON Transcript: FoeG has said the mean
| est thing any man ever was capable Of saying
| When Mrs. T. left him alone in the house. the
! other evening" she remarked, "You won't be
| lonely, dear2" NO" he replied; 81 shan't miss
you at all. The parrot, you know, is here"
Prof. PROCTOR says that earthquakes are as
surances that the earth is not near death; that
! hundreds of thousands Of years will still pass
before the end is seen in the steady disintegra
| ton and removal OF the land without renovation
or renewal by the action of subterranean forces
MR. GLADSTONE takes every day two glasses
of claret at lunch and two at dinner, with a
glass of port wine His alcoholic consumption
|
year, which would be three and half times the
average consumption per head in England. and
four and half times the average of Europe
A CITIZEN of Portland, who has lived there
forty years, and has kept statistics, as far as
practicable, of the mortality of Oregon, has come
to the conclusion that the average longevity is
greater than that of any State in the Union.
He ascribes the fact to the climate and simple
| ity in the mode of living During the year end
ing last June nine Cregonians died, aged 100
A HARVARD professor has been playing Marc
Antony to Barrett's Csssus, in New York, and
the small boys in the audience cay that he was
in dead earnest when he said "Lend me your
ears" The funeral grafton over the dead
Caesar was somewhat marred by the gallery
gods, who found much TO amUse them in the ap-
pearance of one of the Roman citizens with
long rip in his tights.
MINNEAPoLIs man applies to lawyer for q
divorce for a friend whose husband had deserted
her. It was promised faithfully. the case was
placed on the docket for hearing, and the day
was named on which the knot should be united
The gentleman interested was to marry the lady
in question on the day following the divorce. In
vitations were issued. the minister engaged and
the feast ocaere1. The lawyer forgot all about
it. The wedding was postponed.
THE willy Dutch Chancellor tries
By very transparent disguise,
To prove it's sin
To go back on Berlin.
And to pull thus wool over his eyes.
But the reasons it's wrong for the Gar
TO go back on his promises, are.
Not a turpitude moral,
But the danger of quarrel,
And fear Of the Russian in war.
SAYS Mr.. Labouchere in his Truth: ''Mrs
Mackay the latest American star in the ever.
changing social frr<SNaent, has succeeded In cap
turing the Prince Of Wales, both in London and
at Cowes. and l hear that she is so much inspired
by her success that she is anxious that her
Spouse should purchase Houghton Hall from
Lord Cholmondeley. Mr.. Mackay is however
a man of plain habits and plain common sense
and az he has no sort Of sympathy with his
wife's social aspirations it is doubtful whether
generous in money matters as re is--he will
consent to spend 43O0, O00 on a cumbersome and
hideous palace in Norfolk, for the honor of the
Prince of Wales occasionally visiting it,
BISHOP JOHN F. HURST tells the Northern
Christian Advocate that religion had something
TO DO with the recent deposition of Prince Alex
ander of Bulgaria The Prince, he says, SIS
Protestant His chaplain, like hiaself, was
Lutheran. He began to build little chapel of
his own community in the capital. but because
of the prejudices Of the people, all of whom are
Greek Catholics. ne was ompelled to give up the
undertaking. Here was Protestant prince, far
away FROM any Protestant nation, trying to rule
Young people of Greek Catholics and surround
ed by Russian influences. Protestant
ism entered Bulgaria largely through Robert
College. noble American institution. It annu-
ally sent out students into all Bulgaria, who took
charge of the important educational and other