The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-03-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PRINCE BISMARCK carries stick when
he walks. but not as a means of support.
He carries it across his back, between his
shoulders, and its only use, IL IL has any at
all, Is 10 keep him erect.
GOVERNOR WooDFIN, of the National
Soldiers Home Hampton. Va, opened his
new theater to the public laet Wednesday
evening. 1t has three tiers of seats. with
all the modern cOnveniences, and Will hold
about l.5O0 people.
THE Msrechale Booth Clibborn writes in
the Salvation Army's War Cry that she
spent q whole morning visiting New York
miliionaires," and that they were gener-
ally gushing and ready with any amount
OF sympathetic talk" AZ for cash. she
didn't collect her car-fare, she says.
AT present Oscar Wilde is very different
in appearance from the aesthetic. long
locked. short-trousered individual who
visited American almost ten years ago. He
Is now fat. almost as unesthetic in appear
ance as the word is in sound! He has thick
lips, not well controlled, and heavy, sleepy
eyes.
GUY DE MAUPASsANT may, Of course. re-
cover his health. bodily and mental. if he
has not paresis. 1t is impossible for the
faculty to point with q certainty to a re-
So'CAoo RhiCtlC. IOT Tue NtIl ldCb VI
covery leads the medical mind to doubt If
the sufferer really mad paresis alter all.
But 20 French writer OF to-day has more
friends among American readers.
MRS. LIE FAvRE, president of the New
York Vegetarian Society. has completed
an experiment on which she started Feb. /,
to determine how cheap she conld live and
Yet take nothing but the very best of food.
She las discovered that she can subsisJ
rrnIa 4
there 10 no reason why all working men
and women should not adopt her bill of
fare and save their money.
UNCLE JERRY SIMPSON has at length
walked boldly up to the public confessional
and told the world all about it. lie did
discard socks once, way back in tho period
OF puppy love. ana was moved 10 the omis-
sion by determination to wear a pair OF
boots smaller than those adjoining the feet
OF n dread rival. The boys learned of his
trick, and from that time Oh he was Sock
less jerry by name, but never more in
fact.
THIS IL the heartless way one Baptist
brother gives away" another. DR.. Lori
mer. of Boston. while introducing DR.. Tai
mage to an audience in fremont Temple
the other evening. said that ne might not
DO good Judge of masculine beauty. but
ho WINS Obliged to confess that the last time
he saw the Brooklyn pastor that gentle
man did not appear very handsome. 1t
was on shipbOard, and Or. Talmage was
sucking leglOn!
Kate FIELD is authority for the state
ment that George Washington used to
give his gardener. Philip Batter. 81 at
Easter, with which to be drunk four days
ana four nights" In view of the approach
of Easter no patriotic American employer
need, however, feel like following great
Georges example The descendants of
the earth, for If living they ought 70 DO
"somebOdy" socially, and it WINS no doubt
due to their ancestors habits that they
vanished.
THOUGH NJ. Abeille, who fell before Mr..
Deacon's revolver. was knight of the Le-
gion of Honor, the military compliments of
that organization were not rendered at his
funeral. During the services over his re-
mains the church was tbronged with
women many of whom, including not n
few members of the half world. stopped on
the steps TO discuss IN shrill tones the mer-
its OF the case. MosV of those present
showed that they regarded the proceed
ings merely as the event of the day" and
nothing moro.
LIEUTENANT GRAYDoN, formerly of the
United States navy. and inventor Of the
dynamite gun, has fallen ont with the
Graydon gun syndicate, and publicly ac-
cuses it of fraud and deceit. He says that
the last annual report of the syndicate
showed that there were 80 in the treasury
and that a fifteen-inch gun had been ready
at Birmingham for delivery to the syndi-
cate for the past nine MOI this, and that the
builders are SUNG for $1,000 balance due.
Lieutenant Gray don sues the directors tor
breach OF contract AND one years pay. and
threatens series of other suits. He says
that the sy Indicate Is circulating a state
ment that the United States government
had appropriated SlO,000,0O0 for his invep-
ton.
A ISLANDER on THE MUGwUMP.
The mule can KICK as we all know,
And few can do IL slicker.
But the mugwump can just lay him cold
He is the champion kicker.
New York Herald.
wOMAN's CONsTANCY.
She loved her dog and swore she would
BE parted from him never;
She got husband; now she loves
The poodle more than ever.