The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
THE composer Gounod is candidate fes Il
French Academy.

THE composer Gounod IS candidate Ecr the
French Academy.
Mr., RosooE CoNKLrNG says: II have never
looked upon the face of the lawyer whom be-
Iieve would sell out his client"
PUCK: Western school-teacher has fallen
heir to 5000 When last seen she was bound
for restaurant to get her first square meal.
THE Wisconsin correspondence of the Chicago
Times says that Philetus Sawyer will be re elect
ed Senator without a word of remon STRANGE.
SAYS a writer: II think it must somewhere
be written that the virtues of the mothers shall
occasionally be visited on the children as we'll as
sins of the fathers"
PRESIDENT ELIOT of harvard University the
cook in the Parker House restaurant and Mary
L. Booth, who edits Harper's Bazaar, each re-
ceive 81, 900 per year.
TID.BITs: "Wnat would be good name for
a society of old maids2' asked Scroggs. 'Don't
know; what would?" replied Staggers II think
lone association would do"
In Australia tramp is called ''sundowner,"
because he always reaches cattle or sheep
ranch at shutdown, too late for work, and just in
time for supper and lodging.
PHILADELPHIA News: Senator Wade Hamp-
toms friends ought to keep him busily occupied.
Whenever be has nothing else to do he seems to
HERR WILLIAM HERR, the famous Berlin man
ufacturer of ladies' cloaks, recently celebrated
the completion Of the one hundred thousandth
cloak of this seasons make with grand banquet
to all his employees.
DIR. BERNAYs of ST. Louis last week success
fully performed gastrotomy upon tailor aged
forty, for the extraction of an ordinary silver
plated dinnerknife nine and one-half inches
long, which he had swallowed In imitation of
the juggler's feat
THE Importance of the stage carpenter in the
construction OF plays is illustrated by the fact
that wher Sardou read his new piece. ''The
Crocodile" to the company of the Porte ST. Mar
tin, the carpenter the scene painters and the
other purveyors OF stage accessories were invited
to attend
THIS is what man wrote to his prospective
sor-inlaw, young doctor: "My Dear Walter
have received your letter, and, as your practice
seems to be flourishing, have no objection to
your marrying my daughter Kate, but shall
have to stipulate that If she is taken i'll at any
time you must employ some other physician
Yours, ETC., -
ACCORDING to LIE Gaulois the Princess of
Wales lately got from Paris winter costume
trimmed with fine, dark gray fur which she
greatly admired. ''You are a sportsman. said
she to her husband; tell me what kind of fur it
is" II don't hunt rats and MICE he replied,
laughing II leave that sport to the sewer men, "
And now the Princess doesn't like the costume
as we'll as she did
PROFESSOR RUsKIN makes this amusing and
delightful literary confession in his autobiogrs-
ply: "My own literary work, on the contrary,
was always done as quietly and methodically as
piece of tapestry. knew exactly what l had
got to say, and put the words firmly in thar
places like 80 many stitches, hemmed the edges
OF chapters round with what seemed to me grace
full fourishes, touched them finally with nv cum
ningest points OF color, and read the work to
papa and mamma at breakfast next morning, as
girl shows her sampler"
In the vault of the Capucine Church at Wen
ma, whore the Austrian sovereigns have found
their tombs, is splendid and enormous sarcoph
agus raised by Joseph II over the remains of his
mother. Maria Theresa, and at its foot plain
iron box in which are the bones of Joseph him
self. with the inscription--often repeated by him
in life-''I have got so far that love nothing on
EARTH except my mother and the state" Near
by is the tomb of the unfortunate Macmillan of
Mexico, by the side of which the Emperor often
spends an hour in meditation and prayer.
ACCORDING to a Constantinople correspondent.
the Sultan of Turkey is in fearful dread of assas
sina:ion The Russian proclivities of the Sultan
have brought down on his head the wrath of the
high government and palace officials. Bairam
Aga, the chief eunuch was requested recently
70 point out to his Majesty that Turkey was in
the way of becoming second Persia and ne
gently reminded his Majesty of the deposition
Of the late Abdul Aziz because Of his leaning
towards Russian ideas The word deposition is
an exquisite euphemism for assassination.
AT meeting of the California Historical So
ciety paper was read by Professor Davidson on
the early discoveries in California He said the
word California" first occurred In novel en-
titled ''Las Sergas de Espiandian,r published in
1870 and that the name was first given to this
country by Bernal Diaz Costello. who served mr.
der Cortez. who writes in his memoirs of the voy-
age from Santa Cruz to California" The Bay of
San Francisco was discovered in 1769 by several
French Swans who came here to see the transit
OF Venus This party persisted of malaral fe-
yer near Point St Lucas. The Columbia river
was discovered in 1775 by Heceia, Spaniard.
WHEN Richard Wagner was living in Paris he
used to take his midday meal regularly at a res
taurant in the Boulevard Saint Denis He
Away seated himself at the same little table, on
the right hand OF the large room. close by win
dow, from which he could look out upon the
Boulevard. The proprietor of this restaurant
at the request OF number of Wagners admir-.