The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE latest phrase which Mr.. Cleveland
has succeeded in evolving from his inner
consciousness is 'indelible ineligibility."
LOUIS KossUTH is very sick at his homo
in Turin. He suffers considerably from
asthma. and also has trouble with his eyes.
The Queen is so favorably impressed with
the picturesque turbans worn by her own
Mussulman attendants that she has re-
quested Lord Lansd0wne to restore the old
fashioned Oriental head dress whenever
practicable.
The boundary controversy between
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. after
two hundred years, has been finally settled:
The early surveyors did not understand
the variations of the magnetic needle.
hence the quarrel.
MADAME DELAGUERRA, the widow of
Don Pablo Delaguerra, who was q prom
lnent figure in the early history of the
State of California. is suing the city of
Santa Barbara for the recovery OF the
plaza on which the City Hall stands, claim
ing the land by virtue of grant made by
the Ayuntamient0 of the town in the forties.
and confirmed in 1851 by the City Council.
NINE. SOPHIE ZELA. the operatic star. has
sent home from Stockholm to her husband
in Boston. Mr.. E. o. Achorn, handsome
Christmas present she received from the
Swedish King, with whose family she is q
favorite. 1t 10 an after-dinner coffee Set OF
finest china, which the King gave to his
daughter Eugenia when she was married.
and each piece bears the name OF the prln.
cess in letters of gold.
DIR. ID. SCOTT MoNCRIEFF. late medical
officer of the Fourth United States Csval-
ry. stationed at Fort Walla Walls. has been
engaged by Prof. F. w. Putnam. of Har-
ward University, chief of the Departments
OF ethnology and archaeology of the worlds
fair, TO gather statistics and take measure
ments among the Yakima and Umatilla In
dians, which are to be used in making q
series of charts showing the physical char
acteristics of those tribes.
THE boutonniere fad, which has reached
Its zenith. has developed another tangent
in decoration. undoubtedly suggested by
the SNOWY effect of the bunch of flowers in
the button-hole. Whether this is or ia not
the melting cause. it is . fact that recently
o well.kn0wn society and club man in New
York made an appearance wearing a mini
ature upon the lapel Of his dress-cOat. 1t
was one OF those rare specimens, about two
inches in diameter. representing some
grand-dame of his family that lived more
than hundred years ago.
GENERAL SHERIDAN. whose famous raid
of the Shenandoah valley in 1864 was made
with view to depriving Early's troops Of
the means of subsistence for their annoy
ing excursions down toward Maryland, is
credited with the remark that he meant to
clean out the valley so thoroughly that
thereafter "a crow Tying over it will have
to carry his rations." But letter of Gen.
Grant to General Halleck. advising just
such measures. and recently reprinted
from official records, contains the phrase,
$50 that crows flying over it for the bal
ance of this season will have to carry their
provender with them" Instructions to
this effect were sent to General Hunter in
the valley before Sheridan was placed In
command there.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD is now criticised by
native Japanese living in this country,
Ysbake Sangln by name, for taking too
'.poetic" q view of people and things
In japan. The gifted EnRlishman, he
says, enormously attributes certain graces
and virtues of the people in that Kingdom
to the influence of buddhism: while
MIR. Sangin insists that they adhere
to the race. regardless of religion. He in
sIsts that the poet errs In saying, after
praising the Japanese for their cleanliness,
that they have no towels no Sheets no
uuderclothes, no linen." in representing
the jinrickshamen as living on q cup of tea
and Q small biscuit instead of having vo-
racous appetites. and in several other par
ticularS.