The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, it is said, will sue
coed Lord Tennyson as poet laureate of
England.
APROFEssIoNAL traveller advises folks to
observe the number of their baggage checks
and avoid much trouble.
WESTERN paper calamity remarks that
the lady prisoners in our Jail are about
the most desperate lot we have seen in a
long time"
BISHOP GILMoUR, of Cleveland, has been
selected by Cardinal Gibbons to preach the
sermon at the dedication of the new Roman
Catholic University OF Washington on Nov.
Is.
Ex-Governor KELLOGG, of Louisiana,
who has been in New York lately, has
aged very much in the last year or two.
His once raven hair is now white and he
looks feeble.
DR.. EDWARD EVERETT HALE says the
flaw in Edward Bellamy's Looking Back
ward" is the assumption that method is to
correct all social evils. 1t makes no pro-
vision for sin. hence will fail.
THE women of Berlin use daily 202 kilos
of face powder, III kilos of rouge. 614 of
coloring matter for eyebrows, 80 Of lip po-
made, 29s4 of glycerine, Is of cold cream.
A kilo or kiiogram is equal to 2 1-5 pounds.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND is still unde-
cided as to his European trip next winter.
His wife is anxious to cross and spend a
few month. in the south of France. Mr..
CIeveland's intimate friends assert that his
Discrimination for the trip lies in his fear
that he would be woefully seasick.
PRINCE HENRY of Prussia, the Kaiser's
brother, is the idol of the German naval
service. He is the "Unser Heinrich of the
navy, Just. as his father used to be the
"Unser Fritz" of the army, and many stories
are told to illustrate his good nature, his
devotion to his profession, and his physical
prowess.
THE cigarette has advanced to the dig
nifty of being an element of debate in the
British Parliament. Mr.. Goschen said in
his last budget that, in his opinion, the in
ner was partially accountable for the de-
creased consumption of wine. Men smoked
more and drank less.
THE Rev. J.. o. Corlish.' travelling repre-
sentative of the Seventh-day Adventists, is
in Atlanta, e~ndeavoring to secure a change
in the law which will allow people of his
sect to do certain kinds of work on Sunday,
as, keeping Saturday holy, they cannot af-
Tennessee are the Southern States in which
the sect have most trouble with the Sunday
laws.
A CLEVER Buffalo woman has been to
England, Travelled all around London,
| seen everything worth seeing in a two
months trip. and all it cost her was $500.
| A more skillful piece of peripatetic econ
omy, remarks the Boston Herald, is not on
adage Where there'sa will there's a way"
| must have been written by some one with
Europe on the brain.
THE features of the poetess Sappho have.
perhaps, been discovered in a mosaic re-
Gently unearthed at Sparta. The greater part
| of a mosaic floor in a private house, in fair
| preservation, contains a square with a
wOman's bust labeled Sappho. The head
handsome. Other portraits were in the
same mosaic, but, unfortunately that
| which was labeled Alkeiades lacks the por-
| trait itself.
THE greatest hymnologist of the day"
| died lately. in the person of DR.. Bonar. He
was indefatigable in his work in connection
with books, tracts and hymns. He was con
suited from all quarters about questions of
experimental religion and prophetical In
depreciation" and his correspondence was
immense. The circulation of his Gods
Ways of Peace" amounts to $4,000 copies:
of THE Night of Weeping" to $1,000, and of
"Hymns of Faith and Hope" to 140. 72s.
THE Baltimore flag controversy. which has
been going on for some days between Eben
Appleton and the city of Baltimore for the
possession of the original Sta~r-spangled
Banner, has assumed another phase by the
statement of Mrs. Mcpherson, widow of the
old defender. Captain Mcpherson. that the
original flag which fOated over Fort Nc
Henry, and inspired the "Star-spangled
Banner" is not in the possession of Apple
ton. She states that it is wrapped around
her husbands body, and is buried with
him in Greenmount Cemetery.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE lives a
peculiar existence at present. She eats
very little, combining her diet almost alto
gether to bread and butter. and fruit. She
sleeps well in daytime. but is apt to be
wakeful at night. At times she seems to
have a mOmentary return to her old brill
fancy, but as a general thing is mentally
apathetic. She is fond of being in the open
air, and can walk about a little with a cane.
Her tenure of life is considered remarkable
by her physicians, who say she has the
strongest vitality of any woman they have
ever known.
SwAMEE PHAsKARA NAND SARASwATEE
is the name of an East Indian from Lahore
who is now living in Philadelphia. He is
in this country to acquire q practical
knowledge of certain mechanical indus
tries preparatory to introducing them in
India. He is a prominent member of the
Arya Samaj, or Aryan Society, which was
founded about twelve years ago and now
has over nine million adherents. The or.
ganization is opposed to idolatry, and
would restore the ancient Aryan religion as
formulated in the Vedas.
You may talk Of Christian science, with its power
of healing great,
But there's one thing Christian science cannot
cure or palliate.
1t may stop the hyp instanter; it may knock hys-
terics out,
Base hiccough, banish freckles, cure a tendency
to pout.
Christian science, taken daily, may obesity re-
duce,
Or may fatten up a lean man till he waddles like
a goose;
It may raise a growth Of whiskers on tho downy
cheeks Of boys,
Or remove a sprouting mustache which Q pretty
maid annoys;
Christian science may do wonders, but its power
is put to scorn
When the healer tries to work 1t for the curing OF
q corn.
Warren Tribune.
COMMENT AND OPINION.