The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Janauschek will deliver a series OF leo
lures on the drama during the winter. She
will deal with the origin and development
of the theater.
The living war Governors are Sprague OF
Rhode Island. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Sam
uel J. kirkwood of Iowa ana Richard j.
Oglesby OF Illinois.
1t is said that Senator Dolph. of Oregon.
never smiles. In the whole course OF his
service In the Senate nobody has seen his
eye light up or his lip culver. Why II is no
one has ever had the courage to ask r
1t is reported that Miss Frances +. Will
lard has decided not TO advocate political
prohibition any longer. She thinks that the
best way to promote temperance among
workingmen is TO better their social condi-
ton.
The piano, the billiard table and the game
of tarock are the favorite amusements of
Johann Strauss, the great composer or
waltzes. He has grown rich from his mu-
plain house in Vienna. His devotion 10 bill
lizards is SO intense that he has been known
to pass a whole night at the table
A recent issue Of a newspaper Of Monon-
gahela City, Pa, announced that Elder J.
NJ. Springer, of Belle Vernon. would preach
on Sunday at Duquesne,. marry a couple
at Fayette City on Monday and conduct a
funeral at Belle Vernon on Wednesday
Mr.. Springer is a preacher. a justice or the
peace, al iut NdnSf ~
dealer.
Thomas A.. Garfield, the only brother of
the assassinated President, is living on q
farm ten miles from Grand Rapids. He 10
more than seventy years old. and is now
lame with rheumatism and suffers with
neuralgia. In the house opposite dwells
James A. Garfield, his son. also a farmert
who has recently been elected justice OF
the peace.
Although the use Of quinine as a remedy
for malarial fevers has been known since
1858, 1t remained for DR.. Mailiot, who died
in Paris a few weeks ago. aged ninety-one.
TO apply it on a large scale in hospitals.
which he did in 1852, and later in Ajaccio
and Algiers. In 1888 the French government
granted him for his services TO the army a
pension of 6,ooo francs.
Louise Lease, the eleven-year-old daugh-
ter OF Aunt Mary Lease. shows that she
has inherited many of the traits Of her
mother. In Topeka. the other day, she
gathered one hundred boys of the reform
school under the trees and lectured them.
telling them they ought TO behave. At the
conclusion she announced she would be a
candidate for President some day and want
ed them TO vote for her.
Sir Isaac Holden. NJ. p, has an odd taste.
One-half of the week ne is a vegetarian;
during the rest of the week he seeks susie
nance In the flesh pots. He browns his
claret in aerated water. will make a night
tourney on the Thames without an over
coat. will walk six miles. and cSn manage
four big cigars after dinner without finch
ing. He is the oldest man bur one in the
House. and Mr.. Gladstone's senior by four
years
More than two hundred persons have an
swered an advertisement for American sing
ers to form part OF the chorus a; the Met
ropolitan Opera House In New York. Here
tofore the chorus has been made fup for the
most part of foreign singers. whose one
Recommendation was that they knew most
OF the music and could be made ready Win
few rehearsais- Fresher and better VOICES