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

| SHOP in the Italian city of Bari. on the
| Adriatic, bears this sign: "Leeches. bread sold
in slices loaves. and tuition in mathematics.
| Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS is passing
| the winter at her Andover tMassl home. Her
health is bad and she seldom gets out of the
house. fact her many admirers will regret to
hear
THEY say in Washington that Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain does everyth thing well except waltz
ing AS dancer he is failure. But then
Waiting is not an indispensable attribute of
craftsmanship.
p. T. BARNUM denies a current story that he
has made his will bequeathing $4,000, 600 to
| twenty seven heirs He admits that he is very
wealthy, Int says that he has only three heirs
Bismarck has only three hairs on his head
SOMEBODY who has watched Mr.. Chauncey NJ.
Depew says he makes great clatter and show
with his knife and fork when at public dinner,
but eats little nothing. This accounts for his
continued existence in the land and usual good
health.
THE performances Of the Irving company in
this country are regularly advertised in the
theatrical advertising columns of the London
papers. just as though the company was APP
pearing at its own lyceum, instead OF several
miles away.
JOHN FIsKE. of Cambridge, according to
writer. does not suggest the philosopher in his
appearance. He is described as looking more
like Defeating Englishman than philoso-
pher. with his sturdy figure. short, thick neck,
bullet bead sandy beard and hearty manner.
LEMUEL J. CURTIS, of Meriden, Conn, to
whose enterprise was largely due the develop
ment of the silver-plate trade in this country,
died fortnight ago. and his will, now made
public, gives $3.50, 900 to the Home for Old
Women" founded by him in Merden ten years
ago.
SENATOR EDMUNDs was given the degree of
LII. D. By Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. re-
Gently. Mr. Edmunds at once sent the college
treasurer a check for 800, saying that it was
customary in England for the recipient of .
college degree TO paw the costs of registering,
engraving printing and such other expenses as
might pertain to the granting of the diploma.
WHERE is the woman between LIZ and 100 that
does not pet handkerchief, some mystic bit of
loom done in forgetme-nots that an old sweet
heart gave or rejected hero pressed to his
quiverine and perhaps chapped lips before he
ashes Of dead hopes9 A man is known by his
boots but the key TO a woman's taste il her
handkerchief.
THE widow of the late Mayne Reid, the wide
Unknown and popular novelist, is engaged in
writing bis life. ana will be much aided in her
interesting work il favored with any letters
written by him friends 10 the United States
and such "reminiscences of his life and advent
ures here. before and after the Mexican war.
Matter OF this character will be promptly for
Mac-o-cheek, o.
AN American who saw the Mikado of Japan at
Toxic, recently says: HE sat in lonely state.
dark-featured, black-haired, thick-lipped man,
dressed in the uniform of European general,
and with nothing grand in his makeup APP
million people in a tight fitting, gold-lac ed blue
coat and French shake for cap! Shades OF
Gilbert and Sullivan preserve US! I wanted to
pull off his foreign tailor trumpery and pitch his
at irifO M nkev-
like soldiers and make him and them all over
again in the likeness of their royal ancestors"
THE only man, so far as heard from, who has
beaten the billiards. this winter is Hannibal
Hamlin. of Maine. When the thermometer
marked below zero in that State the neighbors
of the venerable ex-Vice- president watched his
front door ehout postofice time with great in
terest expecting to see the overcoat at last
They were disappointed, for when Mr. Hamlin
appeared pair of new wooden mttens was the
only change to be seen in his dress as he stepped
briskly down the street. He obtained his mail
and returned home in triumph without sneeZe.
THE recently current statement that the Hon.
John D. Long, of Massachusetts, is of North
Carolina ancestry lacks credible confirmation.
It is true that his great grandfather. Miles Long,
came to Plymouth from North Carolina in 1770.
But there is excellent reason to believe that in
doing he was only returning home Both his
names are purely Yankee, not Southern. In
1892 there were about thirty Long families in
New England, and many Miles families. The
presumption is that Mr.. Long comes from origi-
nal Pilgrim stock, and that his grandfather was
only temporary sojourner in the old Nor tn
State.
GENERAL BRAGG. the newly appointed minis
ter to Mexico. lived last winter with bis wife
and daughter at the Ebbitt House. The little
man not favorite. His intense concsis
was accompanied by such bitterness that unless
he was abusing one enemy he was not pleasant
to listen to. Somebody explained this acIdity
by saying in his infancy the General was bottle
fed chow chow. Mrs Bragg is a kindly faced
little lady, with gray hair. and her daughter,
fair haired, sensible and amiable, with quiet
manner. and a love of needie-work, made her
first debut in Washington society under the
wing of Mrs. Senator Spooner.
WE have often heard of the terrible results OF
star-eaziue and incoming youthful couples.
but there is certainly unique flavor in the fol-
lowing story told by Sir Robert Ball. the astron-
omer, in lecture, Dec. q. in the Royal In
stitution, Dublin. Speaking of Lord ROSES
great telescope. he said: "A certain astron.
omer, who was in love, but who, being bashfuI,
had never found place sufficiently secluded for
the making of offer. induced his fair lady to
go to see the Rose telescope, down the great
tube of which. sixty feet long, visitors made
point of walking. and the end of this tube |
seemed to have been sufficiently secluded for |
the astronomer emerged from the telescope an
accepted man."
COMMENT AND OPINION.
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