The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IN her absence abroad Mrs. Logan will edit q
new periodical, the Home Magazine, of which
the first number appeared Nov. /.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough will
pass the winter at Monte Carlo They have
taken villa there for Eve months. The Ouch
ess will be delighted 10 entertain her American
friends who stroll that way.
A. T. LILLY. for many years treasurer OF the
Nonoiuck Silk Company at Florence, Macs, has
given $4,000 and fine lot of land for the cree
tion of public library at that place. 1t will
have a capacity of TO- 900 volumes.
A CooKING-sCHooL in Pittsburg makes q
speciality Of educating mon cooks. If the women
in Pittsburg do not know how to cook their
husbands will prevent marriage from being q
failure by taking up the skillet and the roasting
pan.
Daniel d. Maenun, of Danbury Conn. Is a
blacksmith who has made bid for fame and
fortune He has invented a wagon reach so
constructed that the wagon can be turned
around anywhere without the backing process.
His invention is called a Magnum bonum.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE has made the
most remarkable recovery her physicians have
ever witnessed. When she left Sag Hsrbor il
was believed that she could not live 10 reach
Hartford. Now, however, she is better than
she has been for some years, and is able to walk
with the aid OF a cane.
PHILADELPHIA engineer estimates that a
horse can draw on asphalt pavement three
times as much as it can Belgian blocks aud
six times as great a load ga il can on cobble
stones: and estimates that the wear and tear of
wagons and carriages on Bsigian blocks is about
ten times as great as on asphalt
THE Emperor William did not kiss the Pope's
hand is the solemn declaration OF the official
German papers, nor did the Pope kiss the EN-
perors forehead. That the Emperor ''bent his
knee" 10 the Pope 10 also characterized as an
ultrauentane Imagination. HIS Msjesty bowed
twice and shooE the Holy Father by the hand
three times.
AMELrE RIvEs CHASLER's latest sensation Is
caused BY her toes instead of her pen, and is,
therefore. less objectionable She recently ap-
peared at an afternoon tea wearing beneath her
short walking costume a pair OF kid shoes made
like . glove. Each supposedly dainty toe had
kid ponch, close-ftting and separate, like the
fingers ct a glove.
THE approaching visit Of the Empress OF
Austria to this country has thrown Boston into
q fever Of excitement Kapolsni is forgotten
in the prospect OF a cali from enc of the two or
three leading empresses OF the Continent. Ii is
rumored that Boston is willing to economic on
her baseball team in order TO give the Austrian
Queen a gorgeous reception
The Minneapolis Tribune reports great un-
happiness among the bank-tellsrs Of that city
because Of the great food OF brand-pew bills.
Their crispness makes the tack of counting
peculiarly difficult, the plaeuey things curl and
twist so, and refuse TO lie In quiescent resgna-
ton The bank teliers prefer old greasy bills,
even with the corners OF and holes worn
through.
THE late DIR. J. Hostetter. OF Pittsburg, Pa,
was peculiar looking man. He was abnormally
short, with a large head and long white beard
He Was brilliant hnancier and owed his pros-
perity not to chance bat his own good jueg
He will be a great loss to Pitisburg. The poor
whisky which was favored in his name and sold
for medicine in prohibition districts will con-