The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


medical subjects
AKRON, o.. has pious citizen who has
read the Bible through eighty seven times.
He is great in an argument
ASIA and Alaska were probably united at
one time. They are now at the nearest
point only forty-fve miles apart.
LEWIS RkLsToN, a Cherokee. is the first
Indian to be granted citizenship under an
act OF Congress approved May q. 1890.
GENERAL BUTLER and Governor Brackett
are at the head of movement in Boston
Tor the erection of a memorial hall in honor
of Wendell Phillips
"BE sure and spit on the foor,n is the
sign placed near the cuspidors in the Min
neapolis federal building by the long
headed custodian. 1t is said to be won
derfully effective.
REV. VIRGIL MAxEY. Baptist minister.
and nephew of ex-United States Senator
Maxey, of Texas. is going to try the expert
ment OF elevating the stage by acting six
evenings in the week and preaching on Sum
day.
The young Duke of Portland does not
appear to have lost his mascot Last year
his stable bagged over half a million dol
lars IN stakes, and this season he has already
won four of the six great races run on the
English turf.
MRS. JULIA j. IRVINE, who has just been
appointed professor of Greek. at Wellesley
College, is a graduate of Cornell, and while
there won Greek prize at an intercollegi.
ate competition, where there were over
sixty other competitors.
Mr.. WILLIAM O'BRIEN's Russo Hebraic
bride consecrates herself and fortune to the
Irish cause. and will accompany him, few
months hence, to America. in company with
John Dillon, on o lecture tour for the cause
They will probably arrive early in Septem-
Der.
THE lato Herr Sigg. of Zurich. was in
early life an acrobat. His performances so
pleased the King of Siam that that mon
arch appointed him lord high summersault-
turner-Or something of that sOrt-and
afterwards Lord High Chancellor of the
kingdom.
LADY of st. Paul, Minn., the mother of
three young children, after trying about a
dozen nursing-gir with very unsatis-
factory results, advertised for a boy to take
care Of her children. She obtained one,
and he possessed more good qualities than
all the nnrse-girls combined. giving perfect
satisfaction.
KING MILAN. late of Servia, was severely
snubbed during his recent stay in Vienna.
everybody-court, diplomatic officials and
people-beng sick to death of him and his
affairs. The Emperor refused to grant him
audience. having been thoroughly scandal
lied by stories of Milan's eccentric proceed
ings in Paris.
IT is reported from Rome that there are
alarming assures in the dome of ST. Peters.
About century ago q similar state of
ungs was remedied by encircling the
.ome with a strong band of metal. The
band was heated and it's contraction on
cooling was found to be sufficient to close
up the cracks.
LUDWIG IGLEwERsTROEM "the black rider"
who for twenty-four years carried all of
Prince Bismarck's official messages between
the Wilhelmstrasse aud thel Palace Inter
den Linden, and retired from duty at the
same time with his master. has been taken
into the service of Chancellor Won Caprivi.
COSTA RICAs latest scheme for raising
money and the purpose for which it is to be
| raised are novel, to say the least. A new
theater is wanted at the capital. and an
export duty has been placed by congress
on coffee in order to raise the necessary
| money. However, as only $500, 600 is needed
| for the purpose, the tax will not last long.
ANIMALS are supposed to know what to
eat, but they do not always Justify the opin-
ION men hold of them The COW, for IN
| stance, is very poor judge of wholesome
| food. A Crawford county, Pennsylvania,
| COW took q fancy to the fresh paint on the
| fence in which the bovine was pastured
| her.
THE British census will be taken in 1891
| The cost of the census of Great Britain in
1881 was e172.OOO for population of 26. 6.OOO.-
| 0OO For England and Wales the cost per
| 1000 of the population was "a 15s sd in 1861,
] rising TO f5 5s I'd in 1871, and f6 12s Cd in
| 1881. The number of enumerators was
| nearly 35.000 and in 1891 the number will
| not be far short of 10000.
| THE telephone must have new role of
| usefulness scored for it. Sir Humphrey do
| Trafford, near Manchester, has. perhaps,
| the finest kennels in England, the kennel
| mans house adjoining them. From each
kennel telephone arrangement leads to
| the kennelman's room, Sc that when any
| dog is noisy at night the keeper can speak
| to him so as to be heard without leaving
| his room.
| THE marriage of Mr.. Stanley and Miss
Dorothy Tenant Is fixed definitely for the
18th of July. Wedding presents flow in
from all parts of England. often from peo-
| pie of whom neither Miss Tenuant nor Mr..
Stanley has ever heard. The story that
Miss Tenant is the original of Millaiss
we'll known picture, ''Yes or no." is denied,
but it is added that she was the original of
| another picture of the same artist.
THE German Emperor has summoned be-
fore him for investigation young negro
prince, known as Alfred Bell. from the
CAMERON country. west Africa. who had
| been sent to Bremen to learn the trade of q
| carpenter, and who is alleged to have joined
| gang of Socialists and anarchists. If Bell
| should turn out to be really a Socialist he
| will not be allowed to return to the Came
| rooms for fear of corrupting the natives.
Mr.. GEORGE EBERs. who has long been a
confirmed invalid, recently celebrated his
silver wedding in his romantic home. at
| Tutzing, on the borders of the Starnbera
lake. Mr.. Alma Tadema and his wife went
from London expressly to offer their
| congratulations to their old friend;
his former pupils sent HIM life
size statue of Champollion; and
| at dessert Mr.. Ebers read O romantic poem
he had composed in honor of his wife
The Supreme Court of the United States
has recently decided that failure to protect
foreign patent dated prior to an American
patent does not invalidate the American
patent. This decision. coming from the
Supreme Court. is of the greatest value. II
is estimated that it will make net saving
to inventors in this country of over $1,000
600 per annum, and IL certainly will lift @
geat load from those who unintentionally
| have taken out their patents in a foreign
country prior to making application fol
| them at home.
RICH Australian widow with an income
of S125, 900 year is the fashionable sensa
ton in London. Her story illustrates
what can be got out of silver mine in New
l III H.