The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LIFE Fat old lady lin dry goods store -'I
| will look at your dress goods" Clerk-"Yes,
ma'am Something in double withl'
1T is said that Queen Victoria can wash and
dress baby equal TO any other woman, and can
| generally diagnose the trouble when a child
| cries.
THE King of Greece has purchased large
mansion at Copenhagen. tits generally believed
that he contemplates abdicting and returning to
Denmark.
Mrs. BELyA LOCKWOOD the lawyer, is WON
an of diversified talents She threw trouble
some client out Of the window of her Office the
other day.
GENERAL ROSECRANS recently registered at a
hotel as from Columbus, O., and there is a ru-
NOR that when he leaves the Treasury he will
take up his residence at Ohio's capital, and run
for Congress.
CAPITAL profile portrait of Gladstone of
colossal size, exists at Athens. carved by nature
! in the solid rock of the Acropolis 1t is on the
northeast angle of the rock, and is to be seen
plainly from DR.. Schliemann's house.
THE published report of the dismissal from
the Interior Department of Mrs R. A. johnson,
granddaughter of the late Robert Morris
tsigner of the Declaration of Independence, is
| correct The reason given for her removal is
that she was competent.
Ottawa, Canada, wants to build capital of the
earth in Palestine, and he thinks that the job
could be done for about $40, 00O,O OO An irrever-
ent contemporary suggests Monkey as good
name for the proposed capital.
Mr. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRTCH, who has just
returned from three months trip through the
interior of Russia, says: ''The civilization of
Moscow reminds me of some wild Indian chief
who. in his old age, puts on pair of epaulettes
or high hat 1t simply emphasizes savagery."
THE scene is young ladies' seminary. ."Ah, "
said one young pupil to another in triumph,
"my mamma gives me penny every morning
for taking spoonful of cod liver OIL" "And
what do you buy with the peuny" eagerly re-
turned the second girl in a tone not devoid OF
envy. 90" returned the former speaker, II do
not spend it all; mamma puts 1t away for me
every day to buy more cod liver oil witha"-Lon-
don Figaro.
| taken up his permanent residence in the mag
nifcent Loredan Palace, on the Grand canal,
Venice. A Madrid journal has caused much
gossip by declaring that Don Carlos has been en-
deavoring to secure the crown of Spain to his
| little son by having him marry in due time the
Queen Christina. 1t is admitted on both
sides that had the infant King of Spain been
born girl, so to speak. the quarrel would have
| been definitely settled by the marriage of Don
Jaime and the little Princess Mercedes.
THE Rev. DR.. G. A. Bartol, of Boston, abiding
| last Sunday to the recent defalcations, said
1.-THE badness of the bad shall never prejudice
my mind against the goodness of the good, the
purity of the pure the honor of the honorable.
There have been one or two defalcations on a
great scale lately in Boston. pray you consider
how many in places of trust, ten thousand and
more in this city. there are who do not default
| even by cent Nay say, who have lived a
good deal more than seventy years, that have
found ten thousand honest men to one dis
honest"
Miss VAN OLAH leading tragedienne of
Prague, has discovered and will soon introduce a
new tenor The circumstances of the discovery
of his voice by the fair tragedienne, as we'll as
the marvellous timbre and caibre it is said to
possess, are likely to enhance the promised SEN
satien. One rainy evening Miss Van OiaE ac-
cepted the escort of Policeman Knockmaan,
whose post was at the door of the theater On
| arriving at her hotel she asked him in, and he
sang for her an old Bohemian cradle song with
such pathetic and almost cultured rendering
that the lady was not slow to perceive that she