The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IID-BITS MlstreSS--DId you put the coal on
the stove, Bridget New Importaton-I did,
Mum, but it will be some time before 1t gets hot,
fur Their fires out.
THE Virginia Legislature has granted to Miss
Mary Amelia Smith the privilege of engraving
the seal of the State on the monument over the
grave of her father, the late ex-Gov. William
Smith.
THE pet charity of the late Mime. Boucicaut,
the great Partisan shopkeeper. was an asylum
for old men, There's nothing so helpless and
in the way old man." she used to assert
whereas an old woman can always exc out a
living somehow"
A PARTY of jocose Americans recently sang
Here's How Dye Do and other scraps from
THE Nikado' before the great bronze image of
Buddha, at Kamakura, japan. The Japanese
were awed by the song. and thought it was Of
fered as an invocation to Buddha.
THE Secretary of the Interior has sent on to
the Governor Of Colorado little bill of some
500, 900 for ponies and other valuables taken by
tho sheriff from Colorow and his band and never
returned. with polite note requesting the State
TO pay 1t up as soon as convenient.
THE finest house in Washington is that of B.
FL. Warder. on K street. 1t cost $500, 900 and
looks like Venetian palace. It has bath
room of white marble, and in one of the bed
rooms there is an apartment walled with
mirrors, so arranged that a woman can see every
part of herse1e without turning her head.
woodwork. Paper doors are nowlareely substi-
tuted for wooden doors The paper doors are bot
ter for the reason that they are lighter; they do
not shrink swell with changes of weather; they
are made from single sheets of paper nodded in
to any desired pattern, and they are not dearer
than wooden doors.
EMERsoNs works have been done into French
by Nine. Jules Favre, widow of the French
statesman and principal of the Superior Nor
mal-school for women at Sevres Her transla-
ton is designed to appear in eight volumes, and
publication, which would cost SO, 600, has been
DELAYED by the advice of friends who do not
think that the sales would be large enough to
cover the expense.
THE Wisconsin Historical Society has been
enriched by the gift from the dowager Lady
Vernon of Lord Vernon's annotated folio edition
of Dante in four volumes Only 100 copies were
printed and the seven other sets now in this
country are owned by the Harvard and Brown
University Libraries, the Astor library. the Con-
gressional library and the public libraries Of
Boston, Buffalo and Chicago.
a WRITER in the North American Review, re-
ferring to the position of the third-party Prohi-
bitonists. in the great tariff contest now impend
ing. says: Meanwhile, a considerable number
of intelligent men, who know how protective
tariffs have blessed the country consider it their
present duty to let the tariff be overthrown,
while they reterate at every election their con-
scientious convection that alcohol is a curse"
IT is to the Hon. Charles P Chouteau, of
Missouri, that Illinois owes the fine monument
and statue of Pierre Menard, recently erected
in the State-house grounds at Springfield. Mr..
Chouteau's father and Mr.. Menard were close
friends. Mr.. Menard was the first Lieutenant
governor of Illinois: and it is recalled that
while he was ineligible to that Office under the
first Constitution of the State, that instrument
was submitted to the people for ratification
with a special memorandum specifically waving
the qualifications for the Office for the first
election, in order that he might be chosen.
LII HUNG CHANG, the Chinese statesman, had
great admiration for General Grant where
ever we went in China" said Col F. d. Grant,
speaking recently about General Grants visit
to that empire, 1--WE were treated with great
kindness, owing to orders given by Lii Hung
Chang. One amusing feature of our visit was
that wherever Lii Hung Chang could bring it
about he had his picture taken with that of my
father. Looking at the two figures in the
picture occasion he said: You ana 1,
General Grant, are the two greatest generals of
the age Lii Hung Chang has shown that his
regard for my father was not a temporary one.
Yearly the representative of China in New
York by his orders places handsome flowers
upon my fathers tomb in Riverside Park