The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


"OuIDA" asserts that no man or woman
can possibly write more than five really
admirable works of fiction.
FANNY DAVENPORT has lately become so
stout that she has been forced to buy a
rowing machine, on which she exercises an
hour or two each day.
THE four thousand students of the Uni
versity of Naples have determined to wear
continually henceforth the style of cap
winch they wore on the occasion of Mr.
Oladstone's recent arrival in that city.
SENATOR DANIEL, of Virginia, is strik-
ing figure on the streets of Washington
His smoOth-shaven. pallid face is set off to
such degree by his head of l-black hair
that the contrast, at first sight, is startling
The first bank in the United States was
the Bank of North America. chartered by
Congress at the instance of Robert Norris
III 1850, and by the Stateo of Pennsylvania in
1871, with a capital of $500 600. 1t is still in
existence in Philadelphia.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD writes a small
and neat but eminently strong and vigor-
GUS hand, with no fourishes; sometimes, in
earnest haste, running several words to-
gether She signs herself: Sincerely yours,
Mary A. Ward" with a single straight dash
beneath the name.
strength to the friends of woman suffrage
in Great Britain. She is at the head of a
powerful organization whose purpose is to
insist on the rights of women to place in
municipal councils and to stir them up to
the taking of said right.
The Lord Proprietor of the Sicily islands
is Colonel Smith Dorrien-Smith, who holds
lease of all the islands from the govern
ment. He is virtually a king. Should any
of the tenants prove Objectionable they are
shipped off to the mainland, an arrange
ment which lnSureS his having lust the sort
OF subjects he desires In all matters, civil,
social and religious, his word is the SUI
preme authority.
QUEEN VICTORIA is going to erect q mon
ument to the Royal Stuarts who are buried
in Paisley Abbey. 1t will be placed oppo-
site the high altar, over the grave of Rob-
ert III. Mr.. Hutchinson, r. S. A. (who re-
Gently executed admirable busts of Princi-
the gallery at BalmoraD, has designed a
recumbent sculptured cross in the Iona
style.
IT is claimed that persons addicted to the
use of alcoholic liquors can be entirely
cured by the new French method ofhypnot-
Ism. The patient is hypnotized and then
told by the doctor that he must never want
to drink again, but must feel disgust for
liquor. This method of treatment is said
to be successful in every instance. Mrs.
Hannah Whitall Smith writes to Miss Will
lard that the cases are wonderful, and have
excited SO much attention that French
specialists now have a hospital devoted to
the treatment, and publish review.
THE Sevres desert set owned by the Brit
ish crown, and kept in the green drawing
room at Windsor, is valued at 100000, the
punch-bowl alone being appraised at f1O,-
00O During the illness of George Nv and
the incident confusion many pieces of the
set were stolen and sold to outsiders.
These, as they have from time to time been
traced, have been bought by a prominent
dealer, who now offers them to the Queen.
Her majesty, however, prefers keeping her
t1OO 900 to presenting any such equivalent
In china to the crown, and refuses to con-
slider the question.
In demolishing house near the Arch of
Athena Archegetis, known by the name of
the Market Gate, at Athens, some frag-
mentary inscriptions have been found, one
being dedication by Herodes Atticus, to
the Emperor AntOninus Plus. of the Ago
ranOmion built by him. a discovery which
confirms the conclusion that this site
served as the market-place in Roman times.
Another fragment belongs to the base of a
statue, and bears the name of the orator
Lycurgus, son of LycophrOn. A third is
Latin inscription of a small marble altar,
being VOW of Q. Tedius MaXimus to Jove,
Venus, and Mercury.
THE Princess of Wales is woman whom
even the Pail Mall Gazette is constrained
to admire. Speaking of her presence at the
railway station on the departure of En-
press Frederick from London, it says: "Her
tact and amiability were really quite adj
mirable, for, while the rest of the august
party at Charing Cross station began to
show unmistakable signs of Impotence at
the long delay of the Queen and the Empress
Prince Christian even going out of his
way to ask the stately German valet as to
the cause of this delay-the Princess never
for one moment lost her pleasant smile or
her gracious affability. and talked to the
Duchess of Albany and Princess Louise and
Lord FoulkestOne in an unusually animated
glittering and sparkling, and the electric
light catching here and there in the silver
gray plush of which the sleeves of her long
cloak were made: l have seen the Princess
of Wales many times, but never have seen
her more lovely and fascinating than last
night especially when, with tender solicit
tude, she drew the loose cloak which the
Queen wore more tightly around her Maj
esty''s shoulder, just after the train left the
station"
ST. PATRICK was a gentleman of eminent degree,
And exc sage beyond his age, as any man may
see.
'Ts, therefore, vain presumption for an innocent
like me
! To criticise man so wise and world-renowned
as he.
But when the tale is told of how he put the
snakes to rOut,
1 must confess it doth impress my mind with
grievous doubt
| In Erin's Isle he might have brought a better
| state about
Had he but let the snakes remain and turned the
landlords out
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