The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

goods store outfit to Tacoma. w. T., three
thousand miles, in a twenty-eight-car
train.
SOME vegetarians are dissatisfied with
the name vegetarian" They think that
'fruit-eater' or "fruitarian'' would be
better.
"STEPNIAK" is a good deal of an orator.
At Newcastle on-Tyne he once spoke to
1000 people for two hours and ten minutes
without notes.
PETER SwEENY, the intellect of the
famous Tweed regime, is broken in health
and respondent in mind. He says himself
that he is played out now"
The Empress of Austria is a terribly af-
flicted woman. She suffers from insomnia,
rheumatism, malaria, govt. ear-ache, nerv-
BUSINESS and the poetry habit. "
One of the most entirely satisfied men in
the country lives at Columbus Junction,
la. He has drawn 800 per month all winter
for experimenting a snOw-plOw that hasn't
been out of the rOund-hOuse. -
GEORGE w. CHILDs is working early and
late in the interest of the proposed bi-cen-
tennial celebration of the first paper-mill in
America, the ruins of which may still be
traced on the banks of the Wissahickon.
The celebration is to be in September. J.
MANY Easter gifts will take the form of
the egg. Perhaps the egg will contain con-
fectionery and be a brightly colored bon
bon basket. A basket of bright eggs will
be sure to bring good luck, if the eggs were
laid on Good Friday, the Netherlanders
say. =
The newest society fad is in reference to
the addressing of letters. Formerly the en-
dearing title was 'My Dear Mr. or. my
Dear Miss" Now this is regarded as the
cOmmoner expression. and Dear Mr." and
Dear Miss" is taken to express greater en-
dearment.
LITTLE KATIE REIMER, of Scio, Kan,
now carries the mail from Atwood to Sell
den three times each week. The distance
is about forty miles, and the trip is made
in q blackboard drawn by a pony. Miss
Katie is the only girl carrying the mail in
that State.
SENATOR VANCE is resting quietly at his
home in Buncombe county, North Carolina.
He A, improving in health very rapidly.
His remaining eve is stronger than it has
been for years. The Senator is much as
tonished at the report which is going about
that he is totally blind.
PADRE AGOsTINO, the eloquent Augustine
ian monk, whose sermons are creating the
greatest excitement in Rome at present., OBJ
jects to the presence of reporters at his SER
mons. He says that If any profit is to be
made from his words he is the person en-
titled to it, not the newspapers.
LIBRARIAN GOULD, of Brown University,
has prepared a paper ON the birth and par
entage of Roger Williams, the founder of
Rhode Island, which contains more about
the history of that famous man than was
known before. He shows, contrary to most
writer's. that Roger was an Englishman and
not a Welshman, and that the family name
was spelled Wylyams.
DEER and elk are literally massacred in
Wyoming and western Colorado by wealthy
Englishmen who come over to enjoy the
sport. The great herds along the "conti-
mental deer traiI' are being rapidly depleted
by this useless slaughter. Men who belong
in the region do not kill an animal except
to use it, and will pass by whole herds with
out firing a shot.
DEAN STANLEY used to tell this story
with relish; He sent a note to a shoemaker
about a pair of shoes that were making for
him, n the writing was so bad that the
shoemaker couldn't make it out. So he re-
turned the note to the Dean, with a note of
his own, saying that he was ''unaccustomed
to the .chirography of the higher classes"
story the Dean said he didn't propose to be
held responsible for the handwriting of the
entire British aristocracy.
PROFESSOR ANGEL, of Michigan Uni
versity, furnishes the following as a test of
the purity of water for drinking: dis
solve about half a teaspoonful of the purest
white sugar in a pint bottle completely full
of the water to be tested, and tightly
stopped; expose it to daylight and a temper
allure up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit. After a
day or two examine, holding the bottle
against something black, for whitish float
ing specks, which will betray the presence
OF organic matter in considerable propor-
ton"
"a WORK will shortly appear" says the
London Academy, ION Sir John Franklin's
fate, claiming to show that it's discovery
was through a revelation made to a little
child seven years of age, to whom was re-
yealed the locality where the ships would
be found, and how they could be reached;
and that. after the great expeditions of the
government, extending over a period of
seven years, had proved fruitless, the
efforts of Lady Franklin, guided solely by
the revelation of the little child, were
crowned with complete success
ACCORDING to an old English authority,
the custom of making fools on the 1st of
April originated from the mistake of Noah
in sending the love out of the ark before
the water has abated, on the first day of
the month among the Hebrews. which an
swers to the LIST of April; and to perpetuate
the memory of this deliyerance. il was
thought proper. whoever forgot so remark
able a circumstance, to punish by sending
him upon some sleeveless errand similar 10
that Ineffective message upon which the