The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
THE late Mrs B. Gratz Brown had been in
failing health ever since her husbands death.
Mr. HORACE DAVIS, the new president of the
California State University, is about to take up
his abode at Berkeley.
TRoy Times: High license is invariably fatal
to low class dogRsries. That is prohibition that
prohibits. Hence Democratic opposition.
BISHOP BEDELL, who has been in poor health
for year or more. is about to retire from active
work in the Ohio diocese of the Episcopal
Church
THE dogs OF war are literal reality in the
French army, where corps of mastiffs is being
trained to fly at everything that wears Ger
man uniform.
MRS MAcKAYs latest fancy is an Angora cat.
She has beautiful male specimen. of tortoise
sh ell and gray, with tail thick as fashion
able boa. A collar, jewaled with diamonds and
sapphires, adorns the animals neck.
NEW YORK statute forbids car companies to
have bells On their horses Sunday. 1t would
be very troublesome TO take off the bells every
Su nday. . tiny rubber band is slipped over
tn clapper os each bell, and they remain silent
tn roughout the Sabbath day.
THE Prince of Monaco has an income of $780,
600 year and 10 very penurious. He is seventy
years of age and is blind He is widower and
has one son, who was married to the Duke of
Hamiltons sister, now the Countess of Tassilo
Fests.ics. Tho ultimate heir is Prince Albert,
born 1870.
MRS GEORGIA A. PECK, of the Boston Com
monwealth, is the only woman in New England
who is the managing editor of a new spaper.
She is a daughter of the late Willard Allen. of
Worcester, from whom she inherited the liter airy
ability and scholarly tastes which have marked
her career.
A COUNTRY school ma'am near Des Moinee Ia,
short time ago. gave fogging to
young man who was one of her pupils and the
county SUPERINTENDENT had TO be called in to
settle the trouble that the affair created That
schocl-ma am and the young man were married
the other day.
AN association which has lately appeared in
London supplies foundation skirts to amateur
dress-makers They are carefully made and fin
ished with q pocket, carefully stifened facings
and loops whereby the skirt may be hung in the
wardrobe. Here is chance for a clever Amer
lean woman to hasten to ''fll a lona-felt want"
THE Rev. George o. Barnes, tho Kentucky
evangelist, conspicuous among his kind as the
one who does not make money by his cslling, is
in real financial straits and is beginning to feel
the bitterness which flows from a conviction
that he is not appreciated. He writes strongly
of his neglect by his people. and says that if he
were to die he has doubt a thousand-dol1ar
monument would be crested to his memory.
THE venerable president of Prin ceton College.
DR.. McCosh. retains in unusual degree his
activity in literary and scholastic matters. Dur
ing the last college term he delivered a series of
lectures on "The Religious Aspect of Evoiu-
tion." which have already been published by
Putnam q Sons, and next week he will begin
course of lectures s.Assthetics." in connec-
ton with the supplementary work of the Prince
ton Art School.
Or 600 tornadoes of which record has been
made in the United States not more than sew
enty-fve were east OF the Allegheny mountains.
The warm air tempestuousiy driven from the
Gulf OF Mexico up tho Mississippi valley is
caught by the polar winds and driven in gyra-
tory tornadoes across the pra1ries. The Appa-
lachian range serves those on the Atlantic slope
barrier against the storms of that sort
THE excavations of the German School at
Athens have brought to light part of the tenn
pie of the Cabiri. Thebes The objects OF
ancient art found hitherto have been some small
bronzeeS and tsrra-cottas representing chiefly
votive animals, copper and silver coins, and
many fragments of inscriptions. Or animals
in terra Gotta there are about five hundred.
Amongst the statuettes in the material
there is one preserving traces of painting in
colors.
THE committee for the erection of monu-
ment to Max Schneckenberger, author of die
Wacht am Rhein," met at Stuttgart recently
under the presidency of the Prince of SAKE
Weimar. Over &c, 900 marks have been con-
tributed, much Of it coming from Germans in
Austria. Russia, Switzerland. the United States,
Australia and other countries. An appeal for q
design expressing the sentiment of the song has
been addressed to German artists The town of
TuttlinRen, where the monument is be
erected. will provide site by making another
channel for a small arm Of the Danube running
through it, at an exDen 30 of 80 900 marks.
AT the opening Of the session. ''as usual. says
the London Star, the! new home-rue organ,
''Mr. Gladstone made everybody look intensely
uncomfortable by his exuberant boyishnses.
Sir William Harcourt always looks uncomforta-
BILE when he secs tho G. O. M. about to drop into
the seat by his side, for he knows he will never
have moments peace afterward. In the first
place. Mr.. Gladstone prods him numerically
with his forefnger while he discusses tho Irish
situation. and, in the second place. Sir William
is bulky man who likes to be quiet in his seat
while Mr.. Gladstone 10 never still for second.
Sir Williams worst fears were realized. Mr..
Gladstone had no sooner pumped down by Sir
Williams side than he began wrigeling like
eli. twisting round to get q look at Mr. Parnel.
bending his ear hear Mr.. Brad!augh and job
bling Mr. Morley in the waistcoat SIR William
bore the ordeal fairly well, but no got redder
and more uncomfortable every minute. One
day there will bee secession from the front OPP
position bench. and then We shall know the