The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Queen Victoria has such deep-rooted
objection to the smell of a cigarette or a
cigar that smoking is strictly forbidden
at Windsor Castle, at Balmoral and at Os
borne.
Gail Hamilton wrote big. round. bold
hand that compositor could read yard
away and she always wrote what she
meant. Her copy must be printed as Ii was
written, or there was disturbance in the
office.
william NJ. Evarts' Vas sa going up once in
the elevator at the State Department. which
was loaded with applicants for minister
ships and consulships. Turning to friend.
who accompanied him. Mr.; Eyarts said:
missions that l have seen taken up for
some time.
Gail Hamilton, is well known, was Mr..
Blaine's literary executor and had almost
completed her book on his life and letters,
which she was writing from his volumi-
nous papers when she became i'll. She wor-
ried so because the last chapter was not
quite finished that Mrs. Blaine sent for her
friend, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford,
who came. and. undsE Miss Dodge's direc-
ton, completed the work and looked after
the proof-reading. This relieved Miss
Dodges mind and, undoubtedly, had much
to do with her recovery.
An ingenious application of the horseshoe
magnet is found in tack hammer recently
invented. The head of the hammer is of
the ordinary shape. but the pointed end is
divided into two prongs nearly touching
each other and fiattened at the tip. These
prongs are magnetzed like the poles of an
ordinary horseshoe magnet. and when the
hammer is introduced into a box or paper
CT tacks 1t picks up one and holds it with
the head against the fiattened tip, the point
of the tack directed outward. A light blow
fixes the tack in the wall and ii may then
lie driven in with the other end OF the ham,
mer This does away with holding the tack
at the risk of hamrnering ones fingers.
George Davenport. Of st. Joseph, No.. is
to be married his wife for the second
time in a few days. They were married be-
fore the war. but when he enlisted his
wife heard that he was killed. and married
again. He believed his wife and child 10 be
dead. and never went back to his old home
nearly thirty years, and finally drifted into
the soldiers home at Leavenworth. After
leaving the home he went to ST Joseph
A few weeks ago he read an item in
newspaper which convinced him that his
son was alive. He went to Columbia, and
found that his wife. too: was alive, IT was
his identity. but she became convinced,
and they decided to remarry at once.
The agent of big office building in
Chicago has just issued order TO the
effect that no bicycles are to be stored in
the building during the day. One tenant Of
fered to carry his wheel up fourteen flights
of stairs on his shoulder so that he would
leave no mud in the halls. but the jantor
refused to permit him to do even that And
the wheelman Is now going TO bring suit
against the owner of the building TO test
the question. AS the same question will
doubtless come up In other cities, the case
will be followed with interest by wheel
men An office building about to be erected
in Cleveland will be provided with a b;cy-
Gle stall for the use Of the tenants. which
leads the Leader of that city TO remark:
who tell but brand new business
will be created by the establishment of BIZ
cycle livery stables in which the silent
steeds may be groomed and cared for while
their owners are not using them?"
The fly that once through Taras halls
Went buzzing sad and lone
Now has a myriad of friends
family full grown:
And when old Tara falls asleep,
On each warm summer day,
They meet on bis bald pate and dance
Ta-ra-ra boom-de-aye.
-Pittburg Chronicle-Telegraph.