The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Rev. Edward Everett Hale has en-
tered his sixty-eighth year in capital health.
THE tower Eiffel in Paris at the exhibit
ton grounds is capable of holding in It's
different landings ten thousand persons.
REV. j. j. O'CARROLL, a Jesuit priest,
who has just died in England, was the mas
ter of fourteen languages, n could speak
about twenty more.
HIRAM WILLIAMSON, one of the immortal
six hundred who rode into the valley of
made chief porter at the Boston postofice.
He is seventy years of age.
Miss ETHEL HUXLEY, daughter of the
scientist, is engaged to the husband of her
deceased sister, but as the law of England
will not allow of their marriage, the we'd
ding is to be in Christiana, Norway, next
month.
M%ARcELL1TE THORN GARNER, the daugn-
ter of the late William T. Garner, of Pough-
keepsie, expends $4,000 a year for dresses
alone. When her father was rowne in
his yacht Mohawk, a few years ago, he left
her a fortune of S10,O 900, 900.
GROVER CLEvELAND's new position as
commissioner of estimates and assessments
of the High Bridge Park will pay him $40
a day for the time he is actually employed.
There were 1000 candidates for the place,
but Mr.. Cleveland did not file papers of ap-
plicatiOn.
.IF / knock three times on the coffin lid
during the church service you must let me
out" said James Daley, of Providence, as
he was nearing his end the other day. Dur
ing the funeral everybody waited for the
Daley was duly buried.
Mr.. LOWELL recently said he was "one
of those men who believe in system, and
who seek to utilize every moment at their
command to advantage. l put aside so
many hours, generally in the forenoon, for
reading and writing. and try to be uninter-
rupted. If l am ! make it up the first leis-
ure / can secure"
GROVER CLEVELAND and Thomas Hen
bricks are the two twin sons of John
Crowley, of Union Springs, Ga. They are
So nearly alike that their only distinguish
ing feature is in the fact that Thomas
Hendricks invariably has a bad cold, while
Grover Cleveland's luck, of course, ex-
empts him from all such Affections.
The Rev. DR.. George f. Reed, who will
soon be President of Dickinson College,
says: "a young man who plays baseball
or pulls a stroke oar can preach as effect
lively as the man to whom long hair and a
graveyard face gives a sacred look" From
which it may be inferred hat athletics
will have a great boom in Dickinson under
the new president.
In Nagasaki, China, lives a fireworks
maker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds
of great size, that, when exploded, sail life
like through the air and perform the same
movements exactly like living birds. The
secret of making these wonderful things
has been in possession of the oldest male
child of the family of each generation for
over our hundred years.
A SMALL man, less thar medium height,
but we'll made and with the dark hair and
eyes of his race, a pointed Van Dyck beard
of raven blackness-this is Abdul amid,
Sultan of Turkey. The mans gaze is some
thing remarkable, at once soft and keen,
and while utterly frank and straightfor-
ward, yet expresses both doubt and sus-
picion of what it may find in another's.
AN inventor in Berlin thinks that he has
devised a good elevator for private dwell
ings. IL is on the principle of the inclined
railway, the motive power being Furnished
by the city water. applied in the cellar.
Each flight has a separate chair, so that one
person car go from the first to the second
floor while another is on his way from the
second to the third or still another coming
down from the fourth to the third The