The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A BAvARIAN named Bachmayr has left all his
wealth, valued at 1000, 600 marks, to the city of
Wiesbaden.
Mrs. VANDERBILT received mark ed attention
from the Sultan during her recent visit to Con-
stantinople.
GOVERNOR DINGLEY of Maine, has introduced
a bill at Washington designed to arrest any
more ocean raft projects.
Ton MARSHALL, the Kentucky orator of forty
years ago. lies in neglected grave in an open
field. where hogs wallow and root.
NINE. PATTINICOLINI has about decided to
leave her splendid home in Wales forever She
is led to this by the recent robbery of her castle
by burglars
1T is rumored that Miss Adele Grant has re-
fused various noted and eligible men since she
began to shine in Washington society But her
mere presence at the capital was sufficient to
start such reports.
WILKIE COLLINS lives in pleasant, substan-
tial house in Gloucester place. Portman square.
London. He suffers much from nervous pros
tration and govt in the eyes. The novelist adj
mits that what he needs is Goodness, peace and
quiet"
FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, was recently snubbed
by Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria. In
sending a New Year greeting to the Emperor
the former signed himself Ferdinand, Prince of
Bulgaria The Emperor sent his reply to
prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburg"
SAMUEL PICKETT of Rowayton, Conn.,. has
made fortune in cider. He supplies all the
large hotels in the country with that beverage.
His cider-nill at Rowayton covers several acres
of ground. Mr.. Pickett travels constantly and
knows every hotel proprietor in the country.
He is typical Yankee of former days, and wears
clothes of ancient cut and the ABE Lincoln"
collar and cravat.
MEAT biscuits are now being discontinued, as
well as the former pea-sausage in the Prussian
army and biscuits of the best wheat, well sea-
soned, are supplied instead The latter food is
cut up in small cubes and carried in linen
pouches, to be used only on forced marches
", When there is no time for cooking in camp.
chewed, and digestible
THE process of making type from paper has
been patented in England. The invention
in its present state of perfection has been
found fully adequate to succeed the large
wooden type now in general The pulver-
lied paper pulp is mixed with parafine oil or
linseed drying oil and pressed into form in
molds Heat under pressure consolidates the
pulp by of the adhesive qualities of the
oily mixture Paper type is less expensive and
more durable than that cut in wood
DAVID GREGG, of Pittsburg, Pa, father of
the new pastor of Park street Church, at Boston,
has made New-year's gift of S100e to the
Reformed Presbyterian Church, of which de-
nomination he is counted the leading lay men,
Der. Mr.. Gregg is a Scotchman by birth,
seventysi years of age, and has fortune of
three quarters of million, which has been lib
orally drawn upon by his sect. large part of
his latest gift will go to the theological semi
nary, of which he was treasurer for twenty
years.
BRbWN's family quite alarmed,
He comes home dizzy;
When asked the cause he thus replies,
I'm busy, very busy"
But the problem has been solved
WHY he has been so gidoy;
He writes many IS, IS, IS,
It makes his head unsteady.
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