The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS,

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
WASHINGTON Critic: Runaway couple in Ken
lucky to Minister-"Will you join usi' Minister
Thanks; I don't care If / do"
MRS LESLIE CARTER. Of Chicago. d said to
be the lady whom Kyrle Bsllsw 10 to marry.
now that he has secured Q divorca
Mr. RIDER HAGGARD is taking a vacation In
Iceland. He is . keen lover Of sport, and il .
capital gunner. fisherman and horseman.
THE bar steward Of the steamship Alaska says
that on one trip from the United States last sum-
mer his receipts Melted 50. 500 in seven days.
EMPREss VICTORIA of Germany has invented
awriting-desk of intricate design, which can be
used by the sick Emperor. either lying down or
standing up
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ir., justice of the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, is visiting
California. and will closely study the Chinese
cheap-labor question.
Mr. THURMAN 10 nearly sevsnty-dve and il ter
ribly afflicted with rheumatism. There were
months as far back a. 1884, when he did not stir
out Of his house at al.
MAGGIE HueHEY, q Philadelphia woman of
forty, was married. Friday, to her third husband
just five hours after her lamented No. 2 had
joined the silent majority.
The Rev. DR.. j. P. Newman, bishopelect Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. will preach
this years baccalaureate sermon at the New
England Conservatory Of Music, at Boston, on
June IL.
SAYS Richard Henry Stoddard: NJ Henry
James is the most accomplished Of living Amer
lean writer's, and We are not sure that he is not
the most accomplished American writer that
ever lived"
Ex-PREsIDENr RUTHERFORD B. HAYES is
said to have dramatized SCOTS Lady Of tho
Lake" when a boy of ten, and before he was
twelve he had read through all tho plays of
Shakespeare.
SECRETARY Villas has the gavei used by him
in presiding..ove the last Democratic national
convention bound with gold and mounted on .
square of plush, hanging up in his parlor at
Washington.
PASTOR KGGEL, Of the Berlin court, looks
wonderfully like General Grant. He might use
fully perfect the resemblance by crying aloud
throughout Germany when the war rumors
arise: Let rs have peace!"
Mrs. ELLA DoNNAUD BENTLY, ice-president
of the Louisiana Press Association. is scarcely
thirty years of age. She is a w~ideawake. clever
writer. and is very popular with the members Of
the newspaper fraternity throuehout the State.
was let loose on the floor Of the
Stock Exchange. in New York, the other day.
1t caused great alarm among the operators,
not because il WAS q snake, but because they
feared that 1t was not . snake, but an optical
delusion.
TIL death has been recorded of Mr.. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, grandson of the famous man
whose name he bore. He Was for many years
a member of the British House of Commons.
His third son. and heir. is married to q daughter
of John Lothrop Motley.
PROF. DAVID SWING, Of Chicago, rises before
6 o'clock every morning. though he rarely re-
| tires before half-past ii. One hour q day 10
l given up to walking. His companion in his
walks and in his study 10 a fox terrier. which he
has taught to join in the chorus Of . hymn.
MRS. JOHN P. NEWMAN, wife of the new
| Methodist bishop, is an enthusiastic advocate Of
the faith cure. She devotes much of her time in
visiting her sick friends. and tries to persuade
them that they will become we'll IL they pray
fervently. and endeavor to think that they are
not i'll.
1sA VISITOR in the south of France writes &C.
s~tatically of miles Of rose hedges and fields that
are pale yellow with the flowers of tea roses.
The harvest of orange blossoms spreads about
Cannes q delicious perfume almost too strong.
Sheets are spread under the trees to catch the
blossoms.
JOHN BOYLE OrREILLY wrote the poem, 1.-THE
| SCQOOl-uOueo OlOCk, WDu0 q prlSOuor ~ ArUOr
Hill prison, Dublin. The verses were written
on q bit Of brown paper, and were called forth
by q clock standing in a corridor Of the prison,
which WAS the facsimile OF the one that licked
in the old school-house in a little village, near
Droeheda. when he was . boy.
Dr. N. A. RANDOLPH, an English physician,
mentions that minnows which throve in brook
water and remained alive in it without food for
many days, died In . few hours when placed in
distilled water properly aerated. He holds that
one of the chief dietetic advantages Of salads
and uncooked vegetables in general is that the
| mineral elements have not been removed out OF
| them.
WORD has come Of the death of Dom Eugene
Gardereau. prior Of Solesmes. and head Of the
French Benedietines. He was eiahty-one years
of age, and been fifty years q monk. NJ. De
Freycinet was his guest some years ago, and
account of the recovery of sight by M. Laserre.
who by NJ. De Freycinets advice had tried the
| Lourdes water.
SOMEBODY threw several stale eggs at General
| Boulauger when he was exploiting himself at
Lille. and NJ. Rochefort, in an amusing article in
his paper on "The Policy Of Rotten Eggs"
| charges NJ. Ferry with having instiga ted the
outrage. He proposes that M. Ferry and the
wouid- be dictator settle their differences on the
field OF honor" by nlnging rotten eggs at each
other at q distance of twenty-five PAGES.
DETROIT Free Press: A little rosebud bloom
ing in the wilds of New Jersey appeared one day.
dolly in her arms, at the house OF a friend.
.'Tan I tum IN and muse myself and on q little
whileln she inquired. An hour or more went
by, when her father appeared search ing for her.
why did you do so. RosebudF he inquired re-
provingly. "You must ask your mamma if you
want to 60 visiting" "Oh, / knew shed say
no. replied the child coolly; $50 just 'quired
of myself"
GENERAL B~oULANGER is moving into bis new
house, No. IL Rue Dumont dUrville, Paris.
The house. 10 q hadsome one, containing .
drawine-room, conservatory, studio, dining
room. petit salon and eight or nine bedrooms.
Boulanger has leased the house from the Comte
de Brigode for . term Of fifteen years ut q rental
of 10000 francs q year: Gen eral Boulangers
pension amounts to 1900 france q year. he
thus has 1000 francs with " hich 70 buy carna-