The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NJ. COQUELIN seeks and acts upon his wife's
| advice in all important matters
| BISHOP XIII, of California, has recovered
| from an illness that threatened to destroy his
| sight.
THE Crown Princess of Prussia frequently
reads English poetry aloud to her husband and
Browning is the sick princes favorite author
IT is announced that gold has been found in
Wales ''on Guynfynydd farm, near Iransfyndd,
between the beautiful waterfalls of Pstylly Cain
and the Rhajadr Mawddach"
MISS JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN, the Ohio beauty,
who created SO much enthusiasm in Europe, is
living at a hotel in Cleveland. She seldom goes
out, receives few visitors and leads an extreme
ly quiet life.
ED HERoN-ALLEN, cheirosophist, who was
trading on fashionable credulity at $40 hand a
year or so ago. is TO be interpreter at Castle
Garden at ST, 900 year, He succeeds an inteli-
gent boot black who got only 1850.
THE report that Mrs. Grant and her son, Col.
Fred Grant. had purchased a controlling inter
est in secondsrate New York magazine is en-
phaticaily denied by Mrs: Grant in the New
York Herald The Grant family are kept busy
denying various rumors concerning them set
a1oat by irresponsible newsmongers in New
York city.
THE post-mortem examination of the brain of
the late Mrs. Emmons, of Washington, whose
eccentricities led many people to consider her
insane, has been completed The result of the
examination has not been made public, but il is
known that three large ulcers were found in
the brain. The consulting physicians. with one
exception, declare their conviction that Mrs.
Emmons was insane DR.. Garnett does net con-
cur in this belief.
AMONG the hundreds of letters received by P.
T. Barnum since the recent fire in Bridgeport is
one offering chicken with three legs. another
which tenders him a dog with three legs aud
still w tp1 IN ha M
tain a eyed cat. Among other things
which have been offered him by mail violin
belonging to George Washington. blue-eyed
cat, woolly horse cat with six legs. Ohio
man who has not been mentioned for the presi-
dency, etc.
THE important developments of recent science
with regard the bacillus of tuberculosis, the
infectious character of the disease, its apparent
origin in domesticated and unhy CHEMICALLY kept
animals that communicate it to man through
their milk and meat and the climate and other
influences that so powerfully affect patients for
good or evil, have resulted in the calling of
international congress for the discussion of
these ard other subjects related to consump-
ton, at Paris, the 18th to the 3lst of next July.
JOEL WILCOX an eccentric pioneer resident
of Milwaukee. who died recently, very fond
of animals. and was especially attached to his
horses At re approach of the winter he said
to a nephew, who owns farm near Milwaukee:
Jun. take my horses out to your place and
take good care of them over winter. If / die.
shoot them when spring comes and give them a
decent burial. | don't want to have them
abused" He died before spring, and, in ac-
cordance with his wish, his pet steeds were shot
and bu ried.
THERE is in the Patent Office at Washington,
says the Rochester Union and Advertiser the
model of a patent issued to Abraham Lincoln in
I649. There used to be a further evidence of
Mr. Lincoln's inventive genius in the form of
steamboat built after this model and wrecked on
the San CANON river. four miles below Spring
field, Ill. The contrivance which Mr. Lincoln
patented arrangement OF series of bel
lows designed to lift the boat over the shoals of
the Sangamon, in whose future the President to
be was at that time deeply interested. The idea
seemed to nave been dropped after the first
successful experiment. After LincolnA cleo