The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE aged grandfather Of the Rev. Sam jones'
the revivalist is dying in Gainesville, Ga, from
the effects of q fall on the ice
M TAME has fortunately finished the final
volume of his French Revolution for his
health is so poor that his physician has ordered
Tame to abstain from literary labor
The famous portrait of Goethe, by Heinrich
Kobe. which was recently discovered after it
had been lost for half century, is about to be
placed In the National Museum at Berlin.
A MANUSCRIPT epitaph in the possession of an
Italian reads: 'Here lies Salvino Armota
d'Armat of Florence, the inventor of spectacles.
May God pardon his sins. The year 1918"
PROFESSOR HUXLEY has written for the
rejoinder to Mr.. Gladstones January article on
the order Of creation as described in Genesis.
AN experienced vocalist has, it is said, during
fourteen years cured any number OF cases of OBJ
stinate cough by prescribing the free use Of raw
oysters as diet The remedy is easily tried.
Mr. RUsKIN recently said. in lecture on
art" Il do not speak of the Celtic race because
!! should now be expected to say Kettles and
don't mean to, If only for fear that should next
be required to say st. Kekelia."
The most valuable postage stamp known to
collectors is said to be one issued by the post
master OF Brattleboro. VT, in 1847 which was
suppressed after few weeks. A specimen is
now worth six or eight hundred dollars
"YoU should visit the Supreme Court to-mor-
row." Justice Bradley IS credited with having
said once "for there will be some interesting
arguments made. Mr.. Sidney Bartlett, of Bos-
ton, is on one side, and Mr.. Roscoe Conkling is
on the other; and one of them is a great law
YER"
The right of women to vote in municipal
elections is already conceded in Ontario and
British Columbia, and it has been contemplated
to extend it to provincial and even Dominion
elections. That right is now petitioned for by
sixteen ladies of prominence in Portland City,
N. B.
The health of ex President Arthur has caused
some anxiety during the last few weeks. He
has been under treatment for severe Indigestion
and his diet has been restricted to the simplest
articles of food. principally milk and pepsin.
He has suffered much from insomnia and the at
tendant nervous excitement and depression.
PRINCE FREDERICK LEOPOLD Of Prussia. who.
it is likely, will marry the eldest daughter and
fourth child of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
is the fourth son of the famous Red Prince, ,
Frederick Karl and is granddaughter of the
Emperor William. He is now in his twenty
second year. while Victoria Alexandra of Wales
Is In her twentieth year.
MARY ANDERSON has not quite made up her
mind what she will do next season. Her ambi-
ton prompts her to attempt professional tour
Of Germany, and she has many reasons for be-
lieving that she would succeed. On the other
hand she finds her present American tour SO
fatiguing that full years rest is the most pleas
ing prospect which the future holds out to her.
PARIsIAN handles have new title-'becarre."
This new creature of fashion must be grave and
sedate. after the English model, with short hair.
tight high collar, small mustache and whiskers,
but no beard. He must always look thirty years
OF age, must neither dance nor affect the frivol-
ity of a boutonniere any jewelry, must shake
hands Imply with gentlewomen and gravely
bend his head TO gentlemen.
Sic NOR MARTINI. one of the largest owners Of
house property in the city of Genoa, had feel
ing of gratitude to his tenants, who, by their
regularity of payment, had enabled him to spend
his declining years in comfort. When his will
was opened it was discovered that the old gem
teman had instructed his executors that all his
tenants, rich and poor. male and female, were to
reside, rent free. in the houses then occupied by
them, II they desired to do 80, as long as they
lived
LADY MILLAIs, wife Of the English artist, Sir
John Millais. was formerly the wife of John
Ruskiu, from whom divorce was procured. A
London correspondent says that besides being
CioFer. u GnrlIGy. ana yet n handsome woman,
she is full of Scottish pride She scars She
has mind above buttons. Earls, countesses,
lords, ladies, judges. generals, baronets bishops
she dsigns to consort with. but not mere painters
and sculptors, even If they have r. A. tagged to
their names.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA knows az little about
politics as about the value of money. It is said
that when, once in the days of her power, she
ordered one of her Ministers to send poor pro-
fessor 81 900 from her nearly exhausted treasury.
the Minister determined to administer a much
needed lesson, and heaped the money in small
silver coins upon table by which the Queen
would be sure to pass. She stopped, surprised,
and asked what all the money was for ut is
the money for the professor" said the Minister.
The Queen understood the situation and smiled
but sent the money all the same. Once when
one of her advisers was trying to impress on her
that times were changing and new political ideas
gaining ground, she exclaimed, impatiently:
"Welll Don't know it2 OF course the times
change. You never see me driving out now with
my white muleSn
THE agent Of a New Mexico ranchman paid
his semi-annual visit to distant grazing ground
only to find the sheep-herder dead. and the sheep
quietly feeding in a fertile canon near by, ieal-
ously guarded by his dog. In the rear of the
corral, into which the sheep were driven every
night, lay the bleaching skeletons of dozen or
more sheep. Astonished at the sagacity of the
dog. the ranchman secreted himself and waited
until night AS the sun began to sink the sheep
came trooping in, with the dog in the rear They
crowded into the corral through a narrow open
ing, and. as the last one pushed forward, the
dog seized and killed HIM. and dragged the life
less body to the rear of the coral, where he made
a comfortable supper off portion Of the ear
cass, leaving the balance for future meals He
had been doing this ever since the death of his
master, and would probably have continued his
guardianship over the flock until he died
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Mandalay Just
after the deposition of Thebaw: Next morning
obtained admission to the palace, and for sew
eral hours wendell my way through the endless
succession of buildings. 1t is impossible to at
tempt here any detailed description of the min
eied magni6cence and squalor, filth and splendor