The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Hon Simon Cameron has come home
from Florida
THERE are only four men now living who have
personally received the thanks of the Congress
of the United States These are Generals Sher.
man, Sheridan, Howard and Terry
DR. CHARLES TucKETT, of St Louis. believes
that the theory that human beings should sleep
with their bodies lying north and south has its
foundation in true, scientific facts.
THE friends of the late Gen. Winfield Scott
Hancock have purchased an elegant house in
Washington which they win present to Mrs.
Hancock April l. after which date she will oc-
cupy it as her permanent home.
THoRoLD ROGERS, who has been elected pro-
fessor of political economy by the University of
Oxford, England. will receive salary of So 500
year. He will have an opportunity to put into
practice some of his economical theories.
Mrs. NJ. A. CRocKER. of San Francisco CAL.
has given the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation of that city $40. 600, which will be used
in purchasing lot upon which building will
be eventually erected by the association.
THE largest cotton mill in the world is that of
Krahnholm, in Russia. This colossal establish
ment is said to contain 340,0 900 spindles and
200 looms, disposes of a force of $500 horse
power. and gives employment to 1000 hands.
MISS HoMERsHAM, who is lecturing in England
on nursing. recommends that the sick-room
should contain only two chairs. sOue a very
comfortable one. for the nurse, and a very un-
comfortable one for visitors who stay too long,
THE late Mrs. Proctor, mother OF Barry
Cornwall" we'll remembered the jubilee of
George III in 1909, and used to say that her one
great desire to see Queen Victorias jubilee
Then" she added, II shall thi nix of singing my
Nunc Dimittis."
JACQUES HARToG, who acted as courier for
Jay Gould in Europe, says in newspaper in
terview ''Mr Jay Gould is one 'of the incest
men ever came across, and all the members of
his family extremely courteous and gener-
Gus in their treatment Here il one man who
Is a hero to his valet.
FRANK MORAN, author of the article in the
March Century entitled Colonel Roses Tunnel
at Libby Prison" has applied for the position of
Manager of the Libby Prison War Museum, TO
be formed in Chicago Moran prisoner in
Libby during the war, and was of those who
escaped through the tunnel but VINO were af-
forwards recantured. 1t is swell-nieh certain
thai he will obtain the position he seeks
DR. GEORGE KELLY DUNLAP, missionary
bishop protestant Episcopal), of New Mexico
and Arizona, whose death has been recorded,
was native of County Tyrone Irela nd and
was educated at Dungannon and Galway Com
ing to this country in 1852 at the age of twenty
two, he filled excessively a number of charges
In the church and accomplished career of great
activity and usefulness. and was one of the most
conspicuous of the missionary bishops.
AMERIoAN women who marry English hus
bands will have much difficulty in dissolving
their union, if the conditions are unhappy, by a
new divorce decision of the English court which
establishes the point that if an American woman
married to an English husband wishes to obtain
valid divorce she must sue in the English
courts or she cannot get it, the domcile of her
husband being the controlling fact in the eye of
the law The daughter of American consul,
who obtained divorce in Colorado court from
her husband, who declined to appear, has re-
Gently lost the custody of her child and been
divorced from her husband by the Engli b court
GROVER CLEVELAND is the only clergyman's
who has ever been elected President, though
Arthurs father clergyman. He was not,
however, elected President. The fathers of the
Virginia Observation-Disclosures, jefferson
Madison and Monroe-were planters John
Tyers father was lawyer and a statesman.
and John Adams, the father of John Quincy
Adams, was by profession lawyer. Grants
father tanner, Hayes's father merchant,
and the fathers of Garfield Lincoln, Pierce,
Fillmore, Polk, Van Buren, and jackson were
farmers. The chances for the presidency In
the past have thus been with the farmers BOYS,
and out OF the eighteen Presidents elected by
the people only one has been a parsons son.
MRS. LANGTRY's father recently deceased, is
th ia described by the London Star: '"The Very
Rev. William Corbet LIE Breton, Dean of Jer-
sey. will be known to all time the father of
Mrs. Langtry. He had a curious lire; and our
pages would glow or blush If to tell a
1.-THE of his adventures. He mad the same strange
beauty of face and figure that belongs to his
famous daught er. He was tall, stately. muscu-
Lara imposing figure. Mrs. Langtry,
with that keen eye for advertisement which
has made her successful actress, exploited
him in re cent years, in a most amusing way.
she used 20 go about during the day with her
father, the dean, dressed In CATERS and spotless
clothes supplied from her own purse This pro-
duced excellent effect"