The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A BILLY-GoAT got into the Argentine MOI
Council chamber the other day and devoured all
the city records.
Pope LEO has civil list of SO. ooO. 900, but
his expenses large that his household has
10 practice petty economies.
THERE are said To be- thirty men worth 81
000, 900 in st. Paul, and twice as many who
could draw their checks for at least s50O. 900.
MISS JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN. the famous
beauty aud her mother have returned to Cleve-
land. o ]. from Florida. Miss Chamberlain will
soon sail to Europe.
VANITY Fair asserts that the Gar of Russia
is afflicted with recurrent fits of insanity. He
has TO be closely watched to prevent him from
injuring either himself or others.
QUEEN VICTORIA has invited the King and
Queen OF Italy to visit Windsor Castle in June.
and they have accepted the invitation provided
the situation of affairs At the time will permit
CAROLINE HERsoHEL. the discoverer or eight
comets, and the accomplished partner of her
brothers astronomical labors, never could re-
member the multiplication table and always
had to carry copy of it about with her.
THE Rev. DR.. Arthur T. Pierson will resign
the pastorate of Bethany Presbyterian Church,
Philadelphia, and next month set out for an ex-
tended tour in the old world. He has greatly
overworked himself, and needs rest and relaxa-
ton.
DOLLS HILL. the home Of Lord Aberdeen, at
which Mr.. Gladstone is frequent guest. enjoys
for otherwise) the fame of being the last place
which Jack Sheppard robbed. He murdered the
old lady TO whom it belonged, and for that crime
hanged
MIR. ISAAC PIT3rAN, the ''father Of shorthand
writing" is now seventy-six years old. He is
almost an ascetic. using no wine, beer, spirits,
tobacco nor animal food Of any kind. In reig
ion he is an earnest Swedenborgian. He is an
early riser and q hard worker.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN son of the General,
is the latest addition to the editorial staff of
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer's pushing paper. He is
about twenty three years Of age, has spent
great deal Of time in Europe. aud is said TO
possess talents of no mean order
THERE is such demand for the volume of
memorial addresses delivered in the Senate on
the death of General Logan which were hand.
sonely bound in black and silver by the Senate,
that the pages who have succeeded in collecting
copies are making money by selling them at the
news stands.
NEW York religious paper makes the fol-
lowing statement: 'tAt ST. Thomas's Church,
Homestead Md, the Rev. William Brayshaw,
rector, is at once to be reShingled and otherwise
repaired, and bids are now in hand; the cost will
Dc some 5000" The rector must need suit of
clothes badly.
An English family has custom of feeding
wild birds regularly after breakfast. Opening
the dining-room window, they ring bell, and
Immediately all kinds of birds. and sometimes
even squirrels. come to the feeding place.
applicants are seen each morning waiting the
sound of the bell, like many patients at a hos
pital.
OF course. every visitor to Venice takes lock
at Lord Byrons pen, in the Armenian rnonas-
terry. At least, he thinks be does But IL has
just come ont that some time ago an old monk
wearied by the constant inquiries for a sight of
the poets pen, took bundle of goose quills and
manufactured whole sheaf of Byrons pens.
which he distributed to the younger monks for
00l6CtRtiOu
SOME light is thrown upon the recent cable
dispatch announcing that the eldest son of Lord
North had opened butcher shop by proceedings
in bankruptcy against the Hon. Roger Archibald
Percy North. Lord Norths second son. His liza
bihties amounted to more than $21, 900 and his
assets to $780, He was formerly lieutenant in
the Sixth Battalion Rifle Brigade, but was now
a sergeant in the Royal Dragons. with in
come of 48 cents per day. Evidently the strait
ened circumstances of his family has driven the
heir to the title into trade.
THE coolest spot On the face of the earth is
Werchojansk, Siberia. The mean temperature
at that spot for last year 2 degrees below
zero. or 90 degrees Fahrenheit For January
and December it was 62.9 below zero, and ia
July it rose TO 50. above zero The lowest point
in July was 49, 2 degrees above zero, while in
January the mercury sc one time fell to S8.6 de-
grses below zero. Werchojansk is in latitude
degrees 81 minutes east. ALTOGETHER it is not
particularly inviting spot at which TO reside for
permanency, even in summer.
MRS. PARAN STEVENS has raised the boycott
she decreed last summer against Newport. The
comment caused in the press by the Duke OF
Marlborough's letter caused Mrs. Stevens to as
sert that she would never again set foot in Mari
eta Villa, her summer residence at Newport
She says she will go to her villa about the
1st of July, and that during the summer she will
entertain ceEtang distinguished guests. This
probably means that Lord and Lady Randolph
Churchill, who will visit Lady Randolph's pa
rents. Mr. and Mrs Leonard w. Jerome. during
the summer, will accept Mrs. Stevenss hospital
ity for time.
MAN master the free-lunch route
And carry the banner
But he can't the rip in his Sunday coat
For he isn't built in that manner.