The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A GERMAN physician has traced ninety-two
distinct diseases in women to the use of the cor
set.
THE Empress of Austria has subscribed e.
500 towards the monument to Heinrich Heine
which is to be erected in Dusseldorf.
THE Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-c chief
of the British army gets $4,000 year. while
all Count Won Moltke, of the German army,
ceives is $1,000.
JOHN M. LANGsToN (co1ored), ex-mintster to
Hayti is already in the field candidate for
the Republican nomination to Congress in the
fourth Virginia district
JUDGE WARDwEII of Buffalo owns a photo
graph of Grover Cleveland taken in 1862. It
represents TALL slight young man, long haired
and with heavy mustache.
s.HoLMEs, OLIVER W. professor, Beacon
street." is the style in which the name and ad-
dress of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table ap-
pears in the Boston directory.
Mrs. MARY GALLAGHER, of South Bethlehem,
Pa, is very active woman for her age, which
is 1O4 years. The other evening she went to
party and danced an Irish jig to the music of a
fiddler.
THE mother of the lost Charley Ross devotes
much time to missionary work and is
ganizing an effort to purchase an old Catholic
abbey in the City of Mexico for a Mexican
girls orphanage.
THE Empress Eugene has prohibited the
publication of the correspondence of the late
Louis Napoleon with his foster mother, Nine.
Cornu, so it viii not appear during her life. as
she has power over Mime. Cornu's will
IT is told of Dr. d. H Agnew, the eminent
surgeon of Philadelphia, that early in his
reer he became discouraged by an unsuccessful
case of tracheotomy, gave up his profession and
went into the coal business In that pursuit he
failed and then went back to surgery.
MARSHAL MCMAHON, ex-president of France
clined to be troublesome, have lately been much
more so, and his friends have been receiving
anything but reassuring news as to his condi-
ton His intellectual powers as strong
ever.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, who lies hope1essly i'll
at Cambridge, had peculiarly rich sense of
humor, and not infrequently it crept into his
books. A good Illustration was afforded when.
in speaking of that plant called honesty" he
wrote, Common honesty is not much found in
this country"
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron prince. who
pays of his foremen salary of $4,000 a
wear did his first work in a Pittsburg telegraph
office for So a week Rufus Hatch was once a
locomotive engineer and is said to boast that
he can take apart and put together any locomo-
tive now In use.
1.-THE patent comforting an earldom on Lord
Lyons had been sent to Windsor says London,
Truth, ssbut the Queen had not signed it when
he died which is fortunate circumstance for
the inheritor of his fortune, as there would have
been some very heavy fees to pay If the creation
had been completed
BRONSON ALcoTT recently passed his eighty
eighth birthday. In private letter to a friend
Miss Louisa Nj. Alcott says: Gather fails slow
ly. He no longer goes out, sleeps much of the
time and takes less interest in things about him.
But he still likes his books at hand and enjoys
seeing friend now and then The twilight is
closing gently in, and he may fall asleep at any
moment. Thanks to the friends who hold the
dear old man in loving remembrance"
WHEN George A. Hoyt was eighteen years old
he gave his share of his fathers small property
to his mother and sisters. and became porter
in clothing store at salary of $50 a year and
board. In the first year he spent but sixty three
cents out of his salary. He never in his life
smoked cigar drank drop of wine or liquor,
and when he died suddenly in Stamford notlong
ago he the richest man in the place, and
was president of the Pennsylvania Coal Com
pany.
A Boston woman of brains has invented a
new way of making herself useful and making
money at the same time. She studies the news
papers, posts herself what's going on in the
world, uses the scissors freely, pastes, writes,
and revises carefully until she has a condensed
digest of the live topics of the day. This she
reads to class of wealthy women, who pay her
well for furnishing them with information con-
corning what they ought to be able to talk in
diligently about.
Miss JENNY TowNLEY of Upton county Ten
nessee, possesses remarkable power over do
nestle and wild animals. She is superb horse
woman, and can tame and ride in few minutes
horses and mules with which one else mas
ever been able to do anything. The most saw
age dog in the neighborhood qualis before her
and follows as docile as a pet She has the
same power over wild animals and squirrels.
and birds eat from her hand in the woods. and
she often picks up rabbits in the fields
PHILADELPHIA Record: Mr. George Bancroft
accounted for his own longevity the other day
with three reasons. First that he was the
middle child in mis- fathers family. equally dis
tant from the youngest and the Oldest second;
that he had always gone to bed at 10 o'clock, I'M
less Ii has been impossible; and, third, that he