The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1T is proposed that Mr.. Goode run for Congress
in the Norfolk IVA district.
THE deaf mutes of the United States are hold
ing quiet convention at Berkeley, CAL
NJ LEON SAY has bought the Petite Repub-
| lique Franchise and it is said that the Due
D'Aumale has contributed 600 600 francs towards
the purchase
IT is reported that knightship will soon be
conferred upon Mr. Martin Holloway, the pres
ent head of the famous pill manufacturing fam
| lily, Of London.
NEW HAVEN Register: The force of habit is
so great that should any go into New
Haven store and buy it entire the proprietor
would ask. Anything else to-dayP
| LOUISE MICHEL says she seldom met Victor
Hugo, but correspondent with him much She
has preserved carefully all his letters, but will
show them to no one, and will ultimately destroy
| them ALL
| ANENT the stories of the intimate friendship
between Mrs Grover Cleveland and Miss
| Susan Bancroft, granddaughter of the historian,
| it is said that the ladies have never even seen
| each other.
MISS MAGGIE fine, hardy specimen of West.
ern womanhood, has secured the government
contract for carrying the mail between Pomona
and Rincon, Cal. They call this girl plucky, and
| out there the word means volumes
| SPRINGFIELD Union: We have talked good
deal about educating girls to become wives and
mothers. Has it ever occurred to the faculties
OF male colleges that it would be good thing to
| train young men to become good husbands and
| fathers
| HEATHER Chinese at Spokane Falls w. T.,
| is under arrest for removing the figures $50"
! from revenue stamp and pasting them neatly
| on dollar BILL which he afterward passed for
! 800. The Chinese are acquiring Western civil
| zation quite rapidly.
| WE have Mr. Martin Tuppers authority for
| pointing out the ominous fact that the anagram
| of 1.-THE Right Honorable William Ewart
| Gladstone, M. p" is II am the Wing M. p.
| who'll be traitor to England's rule" and that
| by Transporting the letters in civilian Ewart
| Gladstone" we get Erin, we will go mad at
| last
! HARPER's Bazaar: A teacher in of our
| grammar schools was giving her class lesson
on the art of putting words into sentences.
The words selected, with their definitions, were
| ''aQueduct. a conductor and effervesce to
| work" One of the sentences handed in was:
| my father is an aqueduct and has to efferyesce
| very hard"
THE Russian national hymn is Haynes Bay
lys's ''I'd Be a Butterfly" played in slow time.
Lady Duferin's song. 80 Miss Myrtle is going
| to marry, is going to marry" is "For Thee, Oh,
Dear, Dear Country" a wellknown hymn in
| Hymns. Ancient and Modern" 'We don't
want to fight, but, by jingo if we do" is from
Mozarts Twelfth Mass" sung in the English
Church to the words Judge me, O Lord"
| THE business colleges of the United States
have within twenty years multiplied from a few
institutions TO several hundred some of which
have an annual registration of over one thou.
| sand students each. United States Commits
| sioner Eaton reports greater number of grad
yates from the business colleges than from the
| colleges of law, medicine and theology ombined
| Official reports show about fifty thousand stu
| dents during the past year.
| NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON has been presented
| by the directors of the Philharmonic Society of
London with tribute of admiration and es-
| TEEN" in the shape of solid silver table orna-
ment supporting crystal basket for flowers,
and bearing an inscription on one side of the
| plateau, and on the other side lyric, encirced
with laurel leaves, and an open book showing the
! titles OF the operate parts chiefly associated
with the name of the recipient.
THE garden of Albert Smith, in South Sodus,
N. Y, has been a well behaved and well-culti-
waited patch for nearly sixty years. Two weeks
ago an area of thirty eight square feet rose three
| inches above the normal surface in q single
| night, and two inches more during the day
| The next morning it was seven inches above the
| surrounding land. This yeast-like process has
| been going on until now the spot is three feet
higher than the rest of the garden, and still ris-
ing. Cornell professor is going 10 visit the &c
centric garden and explain the phenomenon
| LADY correspondent at Washington has got
herself in fix. A letter to the Albany Journal
| says: zone of the lady correspondents has of
late been wonderfully enthused over Mrs. Cleve-
land, and has represented her as the most beau
| tiful, lovely and accomplished Of her sex I'm
fortunately for the eulogist, the male CORE
spondent of the same paper has disnterred from
old files the opinion of the same lady when Mrs
Cleveland came here soon after the Inaugural
ton, and described as fresh-looking,
rather plain young lady and "a Buffalo school
girl who is great favorite with the President,
although she is neither handsome nor quick
witted."
BACON RAYMOND DE SEILLERE, who is now
travelling in the United States has recently, at
the request of his family been placed under ju-
dicial control having run through his own fort
une and contracted debts TO the amount Of close
upon s., 100000. He has. moreover, been legally