The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Holland was so named by the Danes from
a word signifying "marshy ground"
The name of President Faure, of France,
is pronounced as one syllable, the "aur" as
nearly as possible like the or in the word
cork.
To the Pyramids by trolley may soon be
a possible trip. The Egyptian government
has Just granted a concession for an cleo
trio railroad in Cairo, and the Pyramids
are only eight miles away.
Vice President Stevenson, it is said, shows
marked signs of the severe sorrow through
which he has recently passed. Mr.. Steven
son has returned to Washington. and has
resumed his duties as President of the Sem
ate.
King George. of Greece, is forty-nine
years old and has reigned since the abdica-
ton of Ohio I, in 1863. He is the second
son Of the King of is q brother
of the Princess of Wales and an uncle OF
the Gar.
Here Is the summary marriage formula
of E. NJ. Johnson, a Kentucky magistrate:
We've met here to p'rform the sacred
rites of mat'mony. Join hands. Do you
take man your lawful husband? Take
woman be wife? Dismissed"
It is said, says Cosmos, hat women's
voices do not give results in the longdis-
lance telephones; their high notes, excellent
scribers know, are an obstacle to clear
transmission in lines of considerable length.
Many victims of the servant-girl brigade
will read with interest the following from
the Union Signal During a recent street
car blockade a woman was heard confding
her household cares to a, neighbor. She
said: Yes; l keep a girl awhile so as to
rest my mind
Joseph Cook began his twentieth course
of lectures at the Park-street Church, in
Boston, on Monday last. A continuous
series of lectures of this length is quite as
no re nc q ma Qt0rafa of an1Ia1 lanUfh Mr.
Cooks general topic for this year will be
REVEALS and six lectures on the subject
are announced.
The Rev. James Boyd Brady, of the
Peoples Church, Boston, is nothing IL not
sensational. IF you go down to the gates
recorded that you come from Boston they
will say. Make it hot for him. because he
comes from Boston, an Intellectual place,
where he ought to have known better"
Ward McAllister, New York society's
dead leader, was of medium size, thick set,
weighing about 15 pounds, and Of a rudy
complexion. He wore mustaches and an
imperial, which, in his latter years, were
gray. He walked with a peculiar swing
ing gait. Though not a wealthy man, he
enjoyed a comfortable income of 10000 a
year.
The late James Anthony Froude did not
have a high opinion of English university
methods. In a letter written at oxford
last June ne SAID. "1ne teacnlng business
at Oxford goes on at high pressure-in
itself utterly absurd. Education. like SO
much else in these days, has gone mad,
and is turned into a mere examination
MILL"
The good people who have been d~ecrying
the wearing Of birds on feminine headgear
so long and so vigorously should turn their
attention to the powder-puff. The powder
puff, according to the reformer, is heavy
with the blood of slaughtered innocents."
1t is said that 10000 young swans are
killed each year to supply women with this
airy and Indispensable nothing.
The forced sale OF the old home has left
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague destitute. it is
said. She has nothing but her wardrobe
that she can call her own. and that has
not been replenished for two years. while
she is in debt to friends for small sums
of money adyanced to her. Her decline
within thirty years from affiuence AMI the