The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE New Haven Register says: I'm article on
Yale yesterday, for alum water read alma
mater"
Mr.. ALMA TADEMA has arranged to paint a
picture of Mary Anderson as ''Salammbo" at the
barbarian feast as she is descending the grand
stairway, Tyre in hand.
81 MAY commit many follies in my lfe wrote
Lord Beaconsfeld, when young man, "but l
never intend to marry for love- which / am
sure is guarantee of infelicity."
Hon. MILTON j. DURHAM, First Comptroller
of the Treasury. and Mrs. Margaret Letcher
Carter, formerly of Kentucky, now of Washing
ton City, will be married at an early day.
DAN LAMONT will wake Mr.. Cleveland up here
after by kicking on the door, instead of going in
and tickling the soles of his feet with quill pen
as formerly. At least, he will do this if he
knows his place.
THE Jena University has received legacy of
about $75, 900 from Paul Won Ritter, of Basic, to
be applied in geological research on the basis of
Darwin's evolution theory, which the testator
regards as the greatest sign Of progress of the
century.
THE infant King of Spain enjoys the almost
unique distinction of having been born mon
arch. There is no other like instance in the his
tory of Spain nor of England In France there
has been one such incident, in the case of John
l. in 1916
TEN-YEAR-oLD Nancy Taylor of Grant, Ia.
reads with the book upside down and writes with
inverted characters beginning at the right side of
paper or slate. She says that everything within
three feet of her eye seems upside down. AT
greater distance her sight is normal.
IT is estimated that $50, 900 worth of wedding
presents have been given to Mrs. Cleveland.
They come from all quarters of the country, and
are by no means confined to those invited to
the wedding. great many manufacturers have
sent articles hoping thereby to get advertise
ments.
ONE by one the roses fall. It is now found
that Sir John Newton did not get the great idea
of the law of gravitation from the fall of an
apple. He was in a garden when the white flash
Of truth came to him, but he saw no apple.
That story is proven to be fanciful and was an
invention of Voltaire
THEY tell of boy in England who, seeing a
great tent, in which panorama of "Bunyan's
Pilgrims Progress" was being exhibited, went
to the ticket taker and asked if Mr.. Bunyan was
in. Receiving a negative reply he remarked
that he was sorry. as Mr. Bunyan was his father.
and ended with the query, "Of course you'll pass
me in freeF
AN ingenious idea has been carried out at the
new circus in Paris, where the Sisters johnson
are nightly astonishing the natives with their
aquatic feats The swimming bath is lit up by
electricity from below, that, the theater being
darkened, the water becomes transparency in
which the movements of the naiads can be mi
nutely followed.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER will doubtless be
able to pass happy summer in the Old Do
minion. The State has sold the bell-punches
with which barkeepers were required to regis
fop aaoh Hrin oEn phaa pncf
the State s., We're sold to the whisky dealers at
$40, but had to be taken back. and now the
tire lot has been closed out at auction at six
cents each.
B. G. WALLER has been unanimously elected
as tho ugest man of the Vanderbilt University
at Nashville-and yet he is not happy. He didn't
want the degree, but the students decided that
not to give 1t to him would be false to human ma
ture, inasmuch as Kentucky mad evidently
scraped up all the unappropriated ugliness within
her borders and had bestowed it upon him with
lavish hand.
A KINGSTON family moved from their house
month ago. and recently. says the Freeman, the
little girl of the family and her mother went to
call on the lady who occupied the house they had
vacated. While there the child saw very
small baby that had arrived but few days be-
fore. She looked at it carefully. and then said
Mamma, we moved too soon; we'd have got that
baby if we had stayed here"
IsMAIL PAsHA, ex-Khedive of Egypt recently
took possession of the Villa Mirahori. the famous
residence of Victor Emmanuel and the "bella Ru-
sina," his morganatic wife. The Khedive cele.
brated the event by grand entertainment given
to the Roman arstocracy. The villa ia only
three quarters of mile from the Porta Pa and
is surrounded by wonderfully beautiful gardens.
Before purchasing this magnificent palace Victor
Emmanuel presented Rosina, who was not mar
ried to him at the time 800 900 villa at Castel-
gandolfo the summer residence of the Popes,
and where Plus TX possessed beautiful palace.
The inhabitants Of the place made life too hot
for Rosina and she refused to stay there. the
King then purchased for her the palace and park
which will henceforth be the residence of the
fat old ex-Khedive and his numerous harem.
REoDA BRoUGHToN, the famous English nov
elst is thin and has Ratchet features, but her
manners are fascinating in the extreme She
whose society she is very proud. She is said
with the single exception of OuiGa to have re-
fused more offers of marriage than any woman
in Europe One of the most famous and richest
dukes in England-a member of the Prince of
Waless set-has proposed to her score of times
only to be refused He has endeavored to drown
his sorrow and tried to show his Indifference by
marrying twice in four years. One wife left
him, and he abandoned the other Both are
living. A grass widower for the second time he
still perseveres, but Miss Broughton considers
literature her spouse. She has refused offers
from three dukes. an earl or so, and sprig of
the Russian royal family, which shows more
than ordinary strength of will for an English
aristocracy loving woman.
COMuENT AND OPINION