The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SIGNoR VERDI will preside at the opening of
the International Musical Exhibition at Bologna,
on May l.
NJ. ALBERT WOLFF, of Figaro, is called s4the
Partisan of Parisians,' yet strange to saw he is
German by birth and was educated at Co
!ogne.
Mr.. LEOPOLD DE ROTHsCHrLD has been re-
decorating and rearranging his cottage at Ascot.
The crimson and gold draperiesfor his drawing
room cost only fifteen guineas yard
VERY correct people in Boston spell Handel's
name Handel. But they don't go far enough
The family name of the composer varously
written Hendel. Handeler Hendeler and HendI-
Ter.
THE organization of postal saving banks in
England has proved disastrous to other savings
banks, which. in consequences, are settling their
affairs and closing their doors. The govern
ment institutions are deemed safer places of de-
post
BINGHAMToN Republican: A young man was
found frozen to death in Michigan forest few
days ago. Leap year is getting in it's work
promptly. Stand up to the rack. young men.
Only Ounce would take to the woods in mid
winter
NINE. PATrINIcoLrSI will take with her to
South America a wardrobe filing forty-three
monster trunks. Her '.Traviata" costumes alone
cost S15.OO0. She has paid 81. 500 for the trans
portation of herself and baggage from Lisbon to
La Plata.
A CURIOUS theatrical event is chronicled by q
Berlin paper-the five tn ousandth appearance of
an actor at the same theater Paul Debuke
made his debut at the Royal Theater in Berlin,
in 1858, and on Dec he reached the number
Indicated.
PHILADELPHIA News: "a young lady living
up town received special delivery letter. The
messenger handed her the book to sign for it.
She took the book and instead of writing her
signature she wrote: Dear John: glad to hear
from you Come up Sunday night. She had
answered the letter"
JAMES A TRorrER, the Massachusetts, gentle
man of color who is Recorder for the Dis
trict of Columbia, is making a small fortune in
he records. and has sometimes taken in 1925 in
one day It is not strange that he should wear
a silk hat and terra-cotta gloves.
A YOUNG Boston maiden visiting in Washing
ton asked prominent Congressman whom she
had met at a reception if he was ''fond of Car
lyle" As the Congressman had been snubbed
in the makeup of the committees. the answer
he made the startled girl was both emphatic and
unconventional "Ah, you prefer Emerson"
she remarked. with effort to appear at her
ease, but won't you please take me to mamma
at onceF'
AN astonishing experiment may be performed
with no apparatus but piece Of string Ave or
six feet long. persons hands being held over
his ears this string is passed around his head
by another person. who holds both ends in one
mana, ana Ov drawing the myers or nails or the
other hand over the cord produces upon the tym-
panum OF the subject Impressions of almost
startling intensity. Sharp peals of thunder,
changing into distant and prolonged rumbling,
are effects that may be readily given.
THE wife of United States Senator is be-
lieved to have broken the Washington visiting
record. She made forty eight calls in one after
noon. Assuming that she galloped the round of
her social duties in four hours. she made twelve
calls an hour every five minutes. De-
Quoting the time taken in going from house to
house and estimating it at two minutes, the
.erage duration OF q call would be about three
minutes Three minutes. however, is sufficient
for the requirements of Washington friendship.
Christmas number of La Revue nlustree that
he lived. thirty years ago. in the Rue de Bouogne,
the Rue Ballu, in little house which was
afterwards tenanted SUCCESSFULLY by Francsque
Sarcey, Edmond About and Paul de Cassagnac
There were in it an infnitesimal dining room, a
drawing-ro ON of the same dimensions, and
garden wherein two cats might have a chance of
swinging one another. On the first floor there
was bedroom about the size of large band
box. and several other holes which also
designated by the landlord and the concierge as
chambres. His father, the Alexander the Great
of fiction. used to visit him in this place, and
when dining with him on one hot July evening
facetiously told him to the door of tho sale
manger to air the garden. NJ. Dumas
says that he quite happy in this limited
space for a period of six years, because he had
health. work, success and freedom. He used to
work from in the morning until or 5 in the
evening. and when inspiration refused to come
he simply sat at of his windows, stared
at passers by, and when there was nobody about
contemplated the opposite wall.