The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

EIGHTv-sIx choral societies, numbering in all
1923 mel ,ers, have entered for the choral fes-
tival to be held at Milwaukee during the present
summer.
SOME iconoclast now says that the famous
emancipation pen" was one of a dozen or more
which lay on Mr.. Lincolns desk, and may be the
true one and may not.
SENATOR MORRILL,, Of Vermont. is twenty
years older than Edmunds; still his hair is not
as white as that of Senator Edmunds, and he
does not look to be older than he.
A FARMER near Davisville Col, IS so absent
minded that he actually forgot the day fixed for
his marriage, and was obliged to offer most
humble apologies to his intended.
THE Albany Express gravely announces:
Matthew Arnold the world famed author of
THE Light of Asia and The Light of Islam,'
passed through this city Saturday"
THERE is story afioat that Gen. Alfred Pleas
anton, the gallant cavalry leader of the Union
army, is in his old age dependent for support
upon saloon-keeper at Washington This is
shameful, il true.
Our in Minnesota Democratic orator was
castigating brother in party convention when
his false teeth fell out rendering him inarticu-
late. Before he could replace them his adver
sary gotin very telling speech.
THE Ri. Rev. DR.. futile, who goes from his
Utah mission to be Bishop protestant Episco
pail of st. Louis, is muscular Christian, and
has been known to pitch a frontier rough neck
and heels out of stage coach.
LIFE: Butcher Ito young housekeeper)- II have
nothing left mum, but hindquarter of lamb
and liver.
Young Housekeeper-Very well. You may
send small hndquarter Of liver
A MAN of Day county, Minnesota, lives on the
bank of large lake where wild ducks make
their nests He hunts I'D the nests and replaces
the eggs with eggs from his hennery. The wild
ducks have Matched out number Of fine broods
of chickens for him. His hens have no time for
sitting around.
BEHIND a shop window on Broadway hangs
the following letter, written in an easy English
hand, on small sheet of note paper
EXECUTIVE MANSION. WASHINGTON.
'Mr. - authorize you to continue the sale of
my photographs. FRANCES CLEVELAND"
PIERRE LoRILLARD, whose purse is as long as
giraffe's neck, has spent $500 900 so far on
Tuxeoo Park and he intends to lay out $500. 600
more. The Tuxedo Club, for the ducal delecta-
tion of which the park is being put in order, has
260 members. Mr.. l.. lately offered the boys
living near the park 81 a head for every copper
head snake killed there.
THINGS are getting fairly well settled in Buenos
Ayres and that country. President Roca, of the
Argentine Republic, was assaulted in the street
May 10. by man with a heavy stone in his
hand, and YVES knocked down. But the motive
was not POLITICAL the assassin was an epileptic,
and President Roca read part of his message to
Congress, after bandaging his head
MRS LIvERMoRE is yet firm in her belief in
cooperative housekeeping. She thinks that
isolated housekeeping must be merged into CO.
operative housekeeping in order that house
wives obliged by the increasing demands of the
nineteenth century life to be Jacks at all trades
and good at none," may have time and strength
to prepare themselves for the higher social, in
tellectual and benevolent demands made upon
them.
AT a recent meeting of the Browning Society
one of the members expressed his sorrow that
many sincere and ardent admirers of the poet
were shut out from half the enjoyment to be de-
rived from his works, because they had no ear
for his music-''that music of rhythm which
characterizes most of Brownipg's poems" This
rhythm, he explained was an inner rhythm,
or rhythm of the imagi nation If Browning
was obscure. the fact was partly because his
language ''often lowered between the inartcu-
late expression of music and the articulate ex-
preston of common speech"
THE Rio journals describe Sara Bernhardt's
first performance in Fedora" as surprising any
thing ever witnessed in that city. The average
price of seats was So. The elite of the Brazilian
capital thronged the vast theater of San Pedro
d Alcantara, and numbers were unable to gain
admission. detachment of military had to be
placed at the doors of the theater TO keep back
the throngs that gathered about the building.
Sarah, inspired by the enthusiasm she had
created, surpassed all her former efforts. She
was called, recalled and acclaimed by the entire
assembly, and the Emperor Dom Pedro who
with his family attended the performance went
forward and congratulated the great artistic in
person.
AN English chemist has found a way for turn
ing to account the practically illimitable guam
tity Of seaweed that the ocean supplies or at
least much of it as may be desired. He boils
the weed with carbonate of soda and treats the
filtered solution with sulphuric acid, obtaining
from it In this manner a substance that has more
yscosity than starch. or even gum Arabic, and
that can be profitably employed in stiffening
various textile fabrics. 1t is also said to be ex-
cellently adapted tor the making of syrups aud