The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The most unhealthy city in Europe is
Barcelona, Spain. The number of deaths
there at present exceeds the number of
births.
Every Chinese implement has it's deity;
there is a god of knives. another of spades.
another of hatchets, another of swords;
every kind OF animal has its deity.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of jeff
Davis and the Daughter of the Copfeder-
acy." who now lives at Colorado Springs,
Col, whore women have the right TO vote,
has announced her determination to vote
the Republican ticket.
One girl is partly kept employed in she'll
ing and skinning walnuts for the Queens
table. The nuts have to be extracted and
peeled whole; any broken ones are dis
carded. Her Majesty is also very fond of
blanched almonds and large dish is al
ways provided for the royal dessert.
Sarah Bernhardt has not lost all her &C.
centricities though she no longer sleeps in
a coffin. She appeared at a London after
noon reception not very long ago-a very
warm afternoon it was, too-in a sealSkin
coat down to her heels. with high puffed
sleeves by the way of additional fur.
Shakspearean quotations have been flying
around the United States Senate a great
deal of late, but no one has ventured, in
discussing the subject of sugar, to bring
forward the verse from Hamlet begin
ming: with devotion's vsage and pous
action, we do sugar DER the devil himself"
The yellow jacket" about which so
much has been heard of late, is rather a
vest than a jacket. 1t is made of rich yell
low satin, has no sleeves. fits the wearer
closely and reaches TO the thighs. 1t is
fastened on the side with small buttons
and has embroidered on the bosom the roy
al dragon of China.
The wealthiest denomination in the United
States, if we estimate UNCONVENTIONAL
oo14 -
the church edifices and Sites is the Jewish
The next is the Unitarian, the third is the
Reformed Dutch). and the fourth the
Protestant Episcopal The average value of
the churches of Reformed Jews is SIS, S39;
of the Unitarian, 4.725; of the Reformed
Dutch), $l9,227, and of the Protestant Epis-
copal, N6,1S2.
Three evangelists who are al present work.
ing in the coal regions near Scranton-B.
F. Armstrong, Thomas Thorburn and J. c.
Tennant-recently held a revival meeting
for the miners of the Ontario mine under
bottom of the shaft. Slips of paper with
the words of hymns printed upon them
were handed around and the miners, gath
cred in the gloom of the mine, joined heart
lily in the service of song.
Knitting of one kind or another occupies
the leisure hours of women, young or old,
in many of the foreign quarters of New
York. The Italian women from seven TO
seventy, save those too busy with their
children, are forever seen with a ball of
thread or yarn in their bOsOmS and their
hands busy with needles, even they
walk about the streets. The German women
take their knitting to the vein stubes. The
Syrian girls and their mothers sit in the
doors of their homes, their necks deco
rated with great quantities Of coarse lace
work and their hands still adding to the
string.
Mr.. Gladstone when he went to Eton was
he in ha
school. but he was not very popular as he
cared very little for outdoor games. His
companions rarely saw him ever run and
a boat he had for sculling the river he
invariably locked up and rarely loaned to
other boys when he was not using ii. What
long addresses on serious subjects in the
school club of which he was a member.
Then for amusement he helped to edit an
Elton magazine, for which he wrote a
great number Of poems, editorials, transa-
tons and essays.
Will the tariff help us out?
We shall seei
Will il give us hope for doubt?
We shall seei
Will the cackling pullets lay
Any more fine eggs a day?
viii we have less bills to pay?
We shall see,
Atlanta Constitution.
OF the learning of the physician
He laid In a goodly stock.
But IL did him no good, for the people
Insisted on calling him Doc"
Detroit Tribune.
Behold the youth in white duck pants!
He tolls not, neither does he spin.
Yet Solomon. in all his glory.
Had no such clothes he in.
Behold how more than fair he is
Fit mate for any daughter
Those lovely pants mot trousers) cost
SL25.
Detroit Free Press.