The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Pope is a careful reader OF the daily
papers
THIS is rious. First L. @. c. Then K. M.
@. Now G. B. O.
PRINCE BISMARCK usually goes to bed at 2
o'clock in the morning and gets up at noon.
A HARVARD student has been fined $50 for
hugging two girls at once He paid without
murmur.
PROF. CLEVELAND ABBE is now in charge of
the weather predictions which emanats from the
Washington bureau.
PROFESSOR BERGMANN, who is attending the
German Emperor. is tall, fne-looking man,
with high forehead. long nair, full beard
large nose, and blue eyes.
Mr. LABoUoHERE has been suffering from
govt and rheumatism. He says he prefers the
former, but he endure both more easily
than the wrongs of Ireland.
SENATOR HoAR has received the degree of
LII. D. from Harvard. Amherst, Yale, Williams.
aud William and Mary's. There those who
say. however, that it never took"
MIcHELET says that if all the birds should die
not human being could live on the earth, for
the insects upon which the birds live would in
crease SO enormously as to destroy all vegeta-
ton.
JAMES R. GARFIELD. of the murdered
President, who has just been admitted to the
Ohio bar, resembles his father in most of his
personal traits. He is a clever, reserved young
THE Springfield Union, which suffered so
severely from the fire, gives $500 to the fund
for the relief of it's employees. It's rival the Re-
publican started the fund with subscription
of $50.
BINGHAMToN Republican, A writer says ga
woman carries mischief in her pocket" A
good place for it. There is nobody under the
hlue canopy of heaven that get into it but
herself
THERE is a large and healthy moral in the
boast of saloon keeper of Danville, ILL.,. that
his two grown sons have never tasted whisky,
never used tobacco, and seldom swear.
FULL many shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant
And many word at random spoken
May soothe or wound heart that's broken"
OF his inability to dovetail with the Harpers,
Tom Mast said to San Francisco reporter: az
am getting too old or they are getting too young.
or | am getting too young and they getting
too old don't know exactly how it is They
are becoming more conservative"
It'd Bits: Dry Goods Clerk Ito lady looking
at mourning goods)-That is excellent piece
of goods, madam Lady-Wil it do up niceyl
Cle-k-O. yes, madam. I sold some of that
crepe to Mrs. Smith several years ago. and to-
day she is wearing it for her third husband.
PHI. ARMOUR the great pork man, has made
it practice for several years past TO have the
heads of departments of his various interests
dine with him several times week. He finds
that the dinner hour Is the best time to ''get at
his men, and 1t is the most convenient way to
bring them togatner.
Boston Transcript: Lady Purchaser-Now,
please do not ask me. after I have bought all
1 want. if there's anything else If 1 want
anything else remember to ask for il with
out being reminded that there is something
else that / may want. Do you understand?
Salesman-Yes'm. Anything elsel
A RANcH1IAN at Dayton, New, found one of
his cows choking potato. He thrust his
arm into her mouth and pushed the potato down
her throat. bnt when he tried TO withdraw his
arm she set her teeth in II and kent them there
until her jaws were pried apart with crowbar.
The was so badly crushed that 10
essary to amputate It.
QUEEN CHRISTINA of Spain 10 now thirty. She
has pleasant smile, large eyes and soft, dark
brown hair, which she wears high with rather
either afable or naughty. just as the circum-
stances may require. She is kind and gentle TO
those who come to her IN trouble, but cold and
hard to those who forget neglect to do their
duty toward her. She is fond OF reading and
loves music.
THERE is current among the peasants of Ba-
yaria a legend that the long life of Kaiser Will
helm was due to mysterious philter Of which
his Imperial Majesty alone possessed the secret.
How the Emperor Obtained the magic beverage
is not known. 1t was said To be kind of spirit
which, if 1t did not give him immortality, would
enable him to live many years more and sup
ply him with sufficient bodily and mental power
to retain the government of mis- vast empire In
his own hands The legend furthermore states
That the German sovereign condescended to
make present OF few drops of the charmed
liquid TO Marshal Moltke and Prince Bismarck.
hence also their respectable age but, strange
say. he declined to give any OF 1t 10 the Crown