The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. GEORGE B. MCMILLAN, who is in poor
health, is going to Europe.
The education of Prince Albert Victor of
Wales is tobe completed on the plan drawn many
years ago by the Prince Consort for the Prince
of Wales.
IT is stated by Rhode Island paper that
has been a marked Improvement in his personal
conduct and financial standing.
EVERY Spanish woman at her wedding be-
sides the wedding ring, receives thirteen coins.
The custom was observed at the recent royal
marriage of Donna Eulalie to Don Antonio.
A GEORGIA man who has just died at ninety
seven could lift barrel containing thirty gallons
of whisky and drink from the bunphole. and
handle $50 pound bale of cotton as If it were a
baby
ALGY: Say, Jimmy, you come around to my
house some time an I'll show you my pas d.
ploma what he got in college. Jimmy: Humph!
That amt nothing. Wait till you see my pas
divorce papers.
BETWEEN five hundred and six hundred essays
were contributed by competitors for the prizes
offered by Messrs +, Prang g. Co. for the best
essays written by women on the social and edu-
cational character of Christmas cards and kin
dred topics
WHEN Mrs. George Bancroft died." says a
Washington letter writer, "Mrs. John Davis,
Secretary Frelinghuysen's youngest daughter,
told me it was the fifteenth death of persons
with whom she was intimately acquainted since
her father left her on the 18th Of March last
year.
ARcHDUKE CHARLES, of Bavaria, brother of
the Empress of Austria, has developed a dan
gerous proclivty to practice medicine as an
amusement, and for member of his family,
his suite his retinue of servants to pretend to
be sick is presumably as much as his or her life
is worth.
WHEN Mrs. George Bancroft died. says a
Washington letter-writer, MRS. John Davis
Secretary FreliI ghuysens youngest daughter
told me 1t was the fifteenth death of persons
with whom she was intimately acquainted
since her father left her on the 18th of March
last year"
THE gentleman whose humorous verses o
Boston Courier make thousands smile, il r
George Russell jackson. He is native OF Scot
land about forty-two years old. and according to
published portraits as handsome as his poems
are funny. His ''Pencilings" are among the
most entertaining humorous verses published in
the country.
THE late attempt to kill Jules Verne recalls an
attack with murderous intent that was made
upon Alphonse Karr, which that veteran is still
fond or referring to. 1t was made In the davS of
his youth by excited woman. Karr disarmed
her, and next week in his satrical journal, Les
Guepes, published picturesque account of the
affair. embelished with a drawing of the carv-
inc-knife which prominently figured therein.
THE sublmation of the mind-cure craze in
Boston is man named Bennett, to whom
patients 60 in and lay down $40, never more nor
less, the doctor pronounces the formula "you
are cured and the patient walks out again. This
is humbuggery reduced to its simplest form
There is no diagnosis, no treatment, othing but
faith. and yet it Is said that Bennett is making
big income ten-dollar bills comingin by the mail
and requests for consultation by telegraph. He
calls himself apostle of the ''Order of the In
spirati"
a. FRITZ METzLER, the famous banker OF Frank
fort-onthe Main, has lately celebrated his eight
ieth birthday anniversary. 1t is remarked that
the oldest banking firm in that city is that of j.
Mertens, established in 1905, followed in chrome
logical order by d. & j. de Neutville estab-
lished in 1907; Johann Coll & Sons, in 1870 b.
Metzler Son &c Consorts in 1914 Brothers Beth
mann, In 174S; NJ. A. Won Rothschild & Sons, in
1771; Phi. Mic. Schmidt, in 1773; Brothers Meyer,
in 1916; Brothers Schuster, in 1880, and En-.
Mueller, established in 1899.