The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

So dreadful is the midday glare of the
Senate chamber that Senator Hale and Sen
ator Carey wear dark glasses TO preserve
their sight.
There are many members of Queen Vic
toria's household. Altogether considerably
over thousand officials of various ranks
receive salaries from her Majesty.
The Empress of Japan has great admit
ration for all things European and every
year numbers of dresses are sent TO her
from Paris. These sometimes cost $4,000
and more
OF the Governors of forty-four States and
six Territories. only three are bachelors.
Four have been married twice. and three
have entered the matrimonial state three
times or more.
Brandon, VT. has a remarkable natural
curiosity, the frozen WELL" which has at
tracted the attention of scientific men. On
the Fourth of July, this year, the well had
thick covering OF ice. There is no day of
the year when coating is not found on the
surface.
Some Englishmen now visiting in this
country have names quite as unique as
those for which Georgia has become fam
Gus. They are Sir Ughtred X. Shuttleworth.
Sir Godfrey Phipps Horribly, Sir NOVEL;
Salmon. Sir Redvers Butler and Sir w.
Hunt Grubbe.
typical southern Africa household de-
father, a half Dutch mother with French
name. a Scotch governess, a Zulu cook a
Hottentot housemaid and Kaftir stable
boy, while the little girl who waited on the
table was a BaSuto.
The oblique eye will soon cease to be a
means of identifying the Japanese type if
the fashion which is at present being set
in Toxic continues. An American physician
is doing rushing business by straighten-
neatly stitching up the eyelds with fine
silk thread.
In Bombay it has been discovered that an
eight-year-old girl was offered as a sacrifice
TO propitiate the god of health in a neigh
boris behalf The afflicted man and his
wife enticed the child into their house and
in the presence of a fakir. brutality mutt
lated her and later carried the body i'm the
woods two miles away and then threw it
away.
The present Sultan of Zanzibar, Hammed
bin Thueni, is one of the best swordsmen
in his empire, and this accomplishment
arouses great respect in the breasts of his
SUBJECTS. he is also a travelled and edu-
Gated man. His predecessor, Sultan Ali bin
Said, was brilliant rider, and, it is said
could pick up finger ring from the ground
when at full galIop.
Mrs. Hetty Green. the millionaire miser
is making energetic efforts TO evade the in
come tax by conveying her real estate to
her son, Edward H. Green, as trustee. who
gives his residence as London, although he
has not been in London for fifteen years
and is now living in Texas. 1t has long
been race between Hetty and the tax
collector, with Hetty generally ahead.
Chairman Joseph H. Manley. of the ma
tional Republican committee thinks that if
sentiment is TO rule in the selection of the
party ticket for President, it should not be
Lincoln and Grant. but Lincoln and Ham
lin, as in 1860. General Hamlin," says Mr..
Manley, lis, in every respect a worthy de-
scendent of his father, and, if the old tick
ct is to be nominated, 1t seems to me 1t
ought TO be the old ticket entire, Lincoln
and Hamlin
Now we nightly lie and ponder
On the GOODNESS way up yonder
Where the glistening icebergs wander
And we wonuer day and night
Why the things we want most sadly,
And the things we crave most madly
Are in life arranged SO badly
That they're always out of sight
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