The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ANNIE LOUISE CARY-kAYMOND has grown
very stout since her retirement from the
concert stage.
THE Prince of Wales is reported to have
won f15.O 600 in cards last week during the
Newmarket races.
The daughters of Julian Hawthorne are
named Hildegarde. Gwendolen, Gladys.
Beatrice and Imogen.
JOSE DE LA Rosa, who lives at San Diego,
is the Oldest printer in California. He Will
be 100 years of age next January, and
printed a paper at Monterey in 1888.
A SOUTH CAROLINA mar who was tracked
by a bloodhound s~prinkled two pounds of
snuff on his track. It saved his trousers
and cured the dog of observation-disclosures.
A KANSAS farmer has written to the
Johnstown Bureau of Information asking
that a wife be chosen for him from among
the flood sufferers, n sent on to his place
near the town of Parsons.
IT is said that the new consul-general at
Berlin, William II. Edwards. has remained
Nellie Grant 'Sart0ris. MI. Edwards was
raised with the Grant family.
In Titusville. Pa, q young man who had
just been married. but, who could not leave
town, went on q novel y~edding-tour. He
purchased s. worth OF ticketsfOr the merry
go-round, and he and his young bride rode
to their hearts content.
SHIRLEY DARE, who gives women col
umns of seemingly good hygienic advice
through the newspapers, is a tall, we'll
formed woman, with rich, red hair, prOmi-
nent features and a look of health that
commends her preaching.
&MONONGAHELA CITY young woman re-
Gently received a letter from her ''best fell
low" which, for length, surpasses all others.
1t was closely written on both sides, and
when the sheets were pasted together it
was seventeen feet eight inches long.
DR.. JOSEPH TAYLOR, of Kenneth Square,
Pa, has just finished the task, begun over
seventeen years ago, of reading through
| Webster's Unabrid ged Dictionary. some
and be a Georgian. Time is cheap among
the Georgians, and over among the Quak-
ers.
AFARMER in Goshen, Pa, had a pet goat
which was the pride of the family. Re-
| Gently the goat was killed, much to the sur
prise of his neighbors. 1t was afterwards
learned that it had stolen a roll of bank
notes amounting to S341 and two checks for
$500 and $3.50 from its owners pocket and
eaten them. The farmer keeps no more
goats.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL is now understood
to be one of the coming young men of the
G~ladstonian party in England. His titles
| to distinction are various. He has written
a book and he has married a wife. The
wife he has married was the widow of
| Lionel Tennyson, a lady known and adj
mired in London; the book is "Obiter
Dicta."
MARSHAL IMAGINATION. ex-President of
France, now in his eighty-irst year, is as
fresh as a boy, and has never had yet, from
a natural cause. a days illness in his life.
| All the experience of illness that he has
had arose from wounds. The Marshal, in
speaking of his health. said: II owe it to
my Irish blood. The Irish are the hardest
people on the face of the earth.n
Rev. HUGH o. PENTECosT, who addressed
the New York Socialists at an early cele-
bration of the fall of the Bastile. on Satur-
day, said there ought to be a revolution
here every ten years. even If it were a
bloody one. He also asserted that there
was enough in the country to give every
person in it an income of 5000 a year, an
assertion which statisticians will receive
with some skeptlclsm.
On the evening of the fatal food in Johns.
town, n wealthy young woman, who was
rescued from the debris and taken into q
clubhouse at the lake. removed her cloth
ing and attired herself in a pair of trOusers
belonging to one of the male guests. The
man who owned the clothing has demanded
IS in payment, and the young woman for.
champion mean man is McHenry.
AN Illustration of how much our country
is enriched by European immigration il
seen from the fact that one steamer re
Gently took twenty-eight Italians back Il