The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ROSE TERRY COOKE has found an inter
esting place 20 spend her invalid days. at
Pittsfied, Mass, where. she says. the soil is
pure gravel and the dogs are only less nu-
merOus than at Constantinople.
A CURIOUS iron key of ingenious work
manship, has been placed in the National
Museum at Washington. This is the first
key to the National Treasury, and Alex
ander Hamilton himself is said to have
designed it.
VISITORS to the Eiffel tower are charged
these prices for going up in the elevators:
To the first platform. two francs; second.
three francs; to the top, five francs They
are allowed TO remain as long as they ike,
but it is already noted that few care to
make protracted stay.
KATE SHELLEY, who when girl of fif-
teen} saved passenger train from destruc-
tiOn at wrecked railway bridge over the
Des Moines river, one terribly stormy night
in July, 1881, is reluctantly telling the
story of the deed in order to lift a mortgage
from her mothers home. The railway COM
pany should buy two seats at least.
THE Zulu believes that the reason the
hyrax has no tail is because, when tails
were being distributed, each animal had to
fetch his own, and the hyrax was too lazy
to perform the journey. Hence the Zulu
proverb. if one Zulu asks another to fetch
him something simply because heis too lazy
to do ithimself: ''The hyrax went without
tail because he sent for it,"
FRANCIsQUE SARCEY, the famous theat-
rical critic of the Paris Temps. is occasion
ally offered brides for favorable notice.
Once he received check from a manager
for $1,000, with letter asking considera-
tion for new play. Mr., Sarcey went at
n
gave the money to an Orphanage. Then he
went to the theater. Next morning the
manager found his piece utterly condemned
by the critic.
DUELs between ladies are not altogether
unknown, but one which has recently
taken place at Nurnberg, Germany, has
nothing of the comic element which, as
rule, distinguishes the attempts of the
women of the period to pose as fighting
Amazons Two sisters. aged eighteen and
influence of the demon jealousy, fought
duel in the old South German town. The
arms chosen were knives, and the result
was that one of the girls lost an eye, while
the other was terribly cut about the face.
PROFESSOR HARTLEY, of London, has
been trying to find out why the sky is blue.
His experiments show that the color arises
from the action of ozone upon the rays of
light. The result of his examination of
ozonized air goes to prove that it is impos-
sible for rays OF light to pass through so
little as five miles of air without the rays
being colored sky-blue by the ozone COM
monty present. and that the blue of OBJ
jects viewed on a clear day at greater dis
tances up to thirty y-fveOr fifty miles must be
almost entirely the blueness of ozone in the
air." In his laboratory experiments he OBJ
served that the quantity of ozone giving
full sky-blue in a Tube only two feet in
length is two and half milligrammes In
each square centimetre of sectional area in
the tube.
NOTHING can be happier or more peace
full than the life at Sandringham, and,
whether alone or entertaining their friends,
the Prince and Princess are an ideal host
and hostess. They do not, as a rule, appear
at breakfast; but, shortly after II, they
come down and spend the rest of the day
with their guests. In winter luncheon is
generally taken at some cottage near where
skating is going on, and the Princess and
guests join the skaters and walk with them
after luncheon is over. Tea is always
ready in the hall at 5, and every one ap
pears, the men in velvet suits and knicker.
bockcrs, and the ladies in tea-gowns. Din
ner is at 8, and the evening is passed either
In dancing or games, and about I2 the
Prince and Princess give the signal for
retiring, and those who 60 to bed early can
get to rest; but the majority of the guests
go to the smoking-rOom till an early hour in
the morning.