The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t was Alderman Faudel Phillips, of Lon
don, who recently perpetrated epigram
Lord Rosebery that was first used by
Tacitus in reference to the Emperor Galba:
HE would have been universally considered
as qualified to rule il he had not attempted
to govern"
Another innovation upon the conduct of
funerals has been started by Mrs Turner,
of Grand Rapids, Mich, who, upon the oc-
CASTOR of her husbands interment, delivered
the address over his grave. She knew him
best and was quite fitted to do justice to
his memory.
Captain Charles Gale, now a resident of
Sonlbre, Ont, was born in old Fort Dear
born, Chicagos historic fort in 1877, and
spent several years of his boyhood there.
There was only one log store at the set
was 20 cents a pound, nails 30 cents raisins
so cents and calico was go cents a yard"
They do not seem to be feeling the hard
times very much in Washington. Mrs.
Brice paid Ysaye $1,000 to appear at one
of her musicales and gave Media and
Edouard de Reszke an equal amount to
appear at another. The widow of Senator
Hearst and Mrs: r. =. Townsend nd also paid
attendance at a musicale.
The Chinese claim they used visiting cards
as far back as the time of Confucius. In
Corea visiting cards are foot square. The
savages of Dahomey announce their visits
to each other by wooden board or the
branch of a tree artistically carved This
is sent ahead and the visitor, on taking
leave, pockets his card, which probably
serves him many years The natives of
ssting of piece of wood about a
foot long and decorated with a bunch
of straw and a knife.
Austrians seem determined to maintain
their reputation for being the most merry
and pleasure-loving nation in Europe, for
rair DerJ Ham prf has inst reio vii a
considerable show of Indignation, a bill
making drunkenness penal. The opponents
of the measure found difficulty in con-
vincing the house that the established habits
of the people were such that it was inn
possible to punish this falling and that
the feasts and family drinking bouts which
have been customary among the popula.
ton for over a thousand years cannot be
abolished by law.
A tailor in a large provincial town in
England recently lost roll of bank notes
consisting of one flo and seven of IS each.
The police later on learned that they had
been found by a little boy, the son of a
shoemaker and candy seller. The lad took
the notes to his father, who had evidently
never seen a bank note before, for he took
them to be bogus notes, such as have re-
Gently been distributed in the town for
advertising purposes. Watkins lighted his
pipe with some of the notes and the others
he used when wrapping up half-pennworths
of sweets. None of the notes which were
distributed with the sweets were recovered.
Both Paris and London have been OFF,
cially looking into the pawnbroking bus
mess of late. In Paris, where the munic-
ipality controls it, the figures show that
the average number of watches pawned
of late years is close upon $4,000 OF these
5000 year are said &c have been 1.-The
proceeds of robberies.'' and it is added that
of the 5000 the police manage to restore
about $50 to their owners. In London over
fifteen million visits year are paid to
the pawnbroker's, or on an average so, 800
d3y. One hundred and ninety million r.
ticles are pawned each year, but the num-
Der redeemed is not quoted.