The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AM THINGS.

A FACETIOUS man in Howell. Mich, put over
alls mare he owns. lad its picture taken
and sent it to Anthony Comstock.
MRS. G. H. MOORE, of Philadelphia, wears the
most costly diamonds of all the society women
of the Quaker City Her jewels are said to be
worth about $50. 600.
EVANGELIST WOLFE jumped up and cracked
his heels together in the pulpit at Lancaster
Wis. last Sunday night and exclaimed: "Oh,
how do love to worry the devil
Ion GENSADIUs. the Greek minister. is a
bachelor. He is D. C. L. of the Oxford Uni
versIty, and wears short jacket and multi
folded stiff white pstticoat for full dress
THE latest fad in the jewelry line consists OF
a small strap of delicate yellow or black leather
prettlly cut into q shauely design. At the
centre is tiny watch. The strap is to be worn
upon the wrists OF the ladies while they are
shopping.
The Duchess OF Hamilton, wife of the Pre-
mer peer of Scotland, and sister-inlaw to Lady
Vaudeville, has opened retail butter shop at
Ipswich. in the neighborhood of the White
Horse Inn immortalized by Pickwck. and is.
according to latest reports, crowded with or
ders.
GEN. DAN SIckLEs never seems to grow any
older, and in spite of his 1ameness he is a hand
some and imposing figure in any company. His
elegant military bearing and his strong hand
some face invariably command the universal adj
miration of ladies, while all men admire him for
the courage they know to be in him.
BISHOP BEDELL. of Ohio. is so feeble that it
is thought he will not be able to preside at the
diocesan convention which will meet in Cleve-
land on March IA The Rev. Drs. Bodine of
Kenyon College. Gibson, of Cincinnati, Greer.
of Pr evidence, and Coleman. of Cincinnati
mentioned in connection with the assistant bish-
opric OF the diocese.
THE appearance of bits of original verse by
Walt Whitman in the Personal Intelligence7
column of tho New York Herald, which has
been pnzzling people OF Late is said to be
the result OF arrangement made BY Mr. Ben
nett during his last visit to America for the
purpose of re1iving the Camden veterans needs.
The verses are reported to bs paid for at figures
liberal even for AR. Bennett
w. r HUGHES. of Manchester, England, has
in his house Dickens ROOM" which contains
from 1000 to 5000 articles relating to the IA
nous novelist. Among these sixteen por-
tfaits, 200 volumes of Dickens.s works with no
less than eighteen editions of "Pickwick," and a
copy of the autocrat OF the breakfast Table,"
with Inscription by DIR. Holmes, bought at
the sale of the Die kens library.
JOHN MURPHY, who was probably the worst
deformed earth. died recently in the
county-house at Beaver Pa, at the age of fifty
fye He was born a cripple and pauper. There
was not perfectly formed bone in his body
and he was drawn and twisted out of all human
shape. He was never able to walk. He was
the first inmate of the county-house at Beaver
and had lived there for thirty-fve years.
THOSE who once knew the Rev. Jabez Curry,
of Virginia. would hardly recognize the staid
preach er in the present gay and hospitable min
lister from the United States to the court of
Spain Mr.. Curry is becoming noted for his
handsome entertainments in Madrid At re-
cent dinner he amused his guests with con-
cert at which Napoleon Verger and Mime.
Pasqua sang, while rumor has it that very en-
gaging ballet chorus supplemented the work of
the solois:s
THERE 10 in Philadelphia blind newsdsaler
whose sense of touch is acute that he not
only makes change accurately and rapidly. but
can detect counterfeit note or coin at once
is stand has been for many years the
a.er Of Sixth and Chestnut streets. In nine
years. he says, only So 80 in counterfeit money
has been successfully passed on him. His sense
of hearing is also rem arkable and after he hears
the voice of regular customer he can always
cali him by name.
A NAUGHTY Man: He (hodng a skein OF
worsted while she winds)-Do you no tice how
my hand trembles, Miss Juliaa She (shyly)-
Yes, Mr.. Sampson. He-And cannot you divine
the causea She fshyness increasing)-N-no, Mr..
Sampson. He-Miss Julia. have confession
to make. Will you hear it, She (shyness be-
comes painful as she anticipates proposa1l-lf
you like, Mr.. Sampson He-I out with
some of the boys last night and il was o'clock
when reached home.
CANON KNox-LITTLE, in recent address be-
fore ecclesiastical body at Oxford on the i'm
portant duties and functions of the clergy, said:
81 have lately number of mustached
clergymen, VINO reminded of second hand
cavalry officers. l admire cavalry officer. and
| admire priest. but do not like a be-
tween them This called forth a smart retort
from "A Mustached Clergyman in the Stand
ard. as follows: II have lately seen q number of
clergymen. who reminded me- of
women. | admire woman, and | admire
clergyman, but do not like cross between the
two"
MUCH satisfaction ia to be felt at the an
that Professor William R. Brooks,
of the Red House Observatory at Phelps. N. Y,
has been elected fellow of the Royal Astro-
nomical Society OF Great Britain, IN recogni-
ton of his numerous astro nomical discoveries.
Professor Brooks has discovered no less than
eleven comets, and added many facts of the
highest Importance to the worlds sto ok of
knowledge of other worlds It is observe Il, too,
that ne has accomplished these results with tel
escapes of his own construction. he having even
hands.