The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

HERoIc-sIZED monumental statues of
Grant, Sheridan and Farragut are to be put
up In Boston.
BARON HIRscH has just paid 10000
francs for Vasistas, the winner of the
Grand Prix of Paris.
SUDDEN distemper is puzzling the doc
tors of Montreal. Within the past day or
two nine persons have been afflicted with q
loss of vision and five of them are COM
pletely blind.
MAJOR Pollock. a clerk in the Postofice
Department at Washington. was for a num-
bel Der OF years an Indian Inspector, The
Man-Who-Never- Lies"
MIR. SAMUEL JONES. the ''revivalist." was
recently offered $4,000 a year and q fine
church to preach in at Minneapolis. He
replied: DO you take me for fOolf I'm
getting $4,000 year n0ww
PROFESSOR BOYEsEN thinks that TolstOi's
Anna Karenina" entities him to be called
the greatest novelist living. He says he
has read no other book so moral in tone,
and SO truthful as the one named.
THOMAS A. EDISON is to sail for Europe
next Saturday for the purpose of getting q
view of the Paris Exposition. and of the
way in which his various inventions are
uiopldy tutTe. he Will Do accompanied
by his wife, who is the daughter of another
inventor.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw is talked of in New
York as candidate for the United States
Senate to succeed Mr.. Evarts 1t is under
stood that. while Mr.. Depew will openly
take no active part in obtaining votes, he
will consent that his friends shall arrange
the details of a canvass in his behalf.
An American syndicate is said to have of
fered COO. 900 francs for the right of keeping
gambling house, like that of Monte Carlo,
at ToptchIder, about four miles from Bel
grade TOptchider is highly picturesque.
But, although the syndicate offers one
third OF the profits to the town, the author
| tiles hesitate.
A SMALL boy of Lunenburg. Mass,
wanted his father to give him some money.
go into the garden and pick potato bugs
| off the vines, and PlI give you cent apiece
| for them" That night the boy counted
out $40 of the bugs. and received from his
| surprised parent S640. But the contract
terminated then and there.
A COMPANY of three hundred artists have
| left Madrid for Paris, where they will
operate in the tableaux at the Spanish fes-
rivals. A large corps de ballet. the entire
| orchestra of the Theater Royal, at Madrid,
$50 picked Andalusians in their national
costumes. guitarists. mandOlinists, students
and others are among them.
THE residence in the Taurus which the
Empress Frederick has purchased, and
| which was formerly known as the Villa
| Reuss, has been renamed SchlOss Fried
| rlchshOf. 1t occupies beautiful site on
the wooded slopes of the Alt K9nig. and is
| surrounded by chestnut and beech forests.
The park extends over 200 acres.
j. b. WATSON, the Australian quartz reef
king, died ecently at Sydney at the age
of sixty-four. He was native of Paisley,
Scotland. and emigrated with his fathers
ifornia and Sandhnrst, and finally to the
Bendigo gold mine, where he made a
| fortune estimated at forty million sterling,
SOC, 100000.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE is nearly six feet
| tall, and looks like an athlete His sister,
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. is very small
| woman, with tiny, childish face, sur
| rounded by fluffy auburn hair. The two
are the only living children of their father.
| though there was another daughter, very
| handsome girl, who died in England num-
Der of years ago of a very distressing mall
ady.
ANITA MCCORMICK, who is engaged to
| Emmons Blaine, is described by the Times
as one of the prettiest girls in Chicago
society. OF Medium height for woman.
slender and delicately fair. she combines
| the transparency of skin and color peculiar
to a blonde with the dark hair and olive
tints of a decided brunette. Her fathers
| estate will soon be divided, and her share
is estimated at &, 100000.
A sTURDY-LOOKING man is Prof. William
| G. Sumner, of Yale. His features are Sc
we're, his step is measured, his speech is
guarded, and in all his expression and
movements there are evidences of that de-
cison of character which is well known to
Yalensians. Prof. Sumner, who is not yet
fifty years old, has held the chair of political
economy in Yale for the past seventeen
| years, and is the author of half a dozen
books on that subject.
| THE most extravagant instance of liter
ary relic worship on record is said to be
that of an Englishman of letters, who
wears constantly around his neck portion
| Of Shelley's charred skull 1t is inclOsed
| in a little gold casket. The bones of Victor
Hugo are being turned into money, for
among the relics exhibited to sight-seers at
his former home is q huge tooth, with this
inscription below: Tooth drawn from
| Victor Hugo, 18th August, 1871, at Wan
den. at o'clock in the afternoon"
THE Emperor of China, who is young
and progressive man, is very anxious to
make trip to this country. He is in con-
slant communication with the Chinese
minister at Washington on the subject, and
shows a good deal of iupatience at the
latter's advice. The minister has written
to the Emperor that there is to be an ex-
position in New York in 1892. and that he
had better defer his trip until that time. 1t
would be strange coincidence if the cele-
bration cOmmemOratIng the advent of
Columbus should be made memorable by
the presence of the Emperor of China.
SLOWLY the great falls of the Niagara
river are changing in shape, through the
eating away of the shale rock which under
lies the hard rock that forms the bed of the
rapids. 1t is almost a misnomer now to
speak of the Canadian portion of the great
| cataract as the Horseshoe falls" and
within week this designation has become
more than ever misplaced in consequence Of
the fall of a large section of the bed rock in
the very center of the falls. So much rock
fell that an eddy below the falls near the
Canadian side of the river has been mar
rowed more than half, and the little steam
er Maid of the Mist has less difficulty than
before in running into the curve Of the
falls.