The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-21
ABOUT People AND THINGS.


The Pope will present the golden rose this
year to the wife of Prince Ferdinand Of Bull
garia.
All the merchants In Plymouth. Mich,
have entered into an agreement that none OF
them will In the future offer chromos. prize
packages or any other gifts In the effort TO
secure trade.
A woman In San Jose, Cal, who got a d.
vorce from her husband seven months ago
and had him sent to Jail for six months for
extreme cruelty TO her, was remarked TO
him last week. three weeks after he was
released from prison. &C.
Eight hundred thousand francs Gl6O, 0OW
have been given to the Paris Academy of
Medicine by a Nine. AudrIffred, the income
TO be paid yearly to the man who discovers
a specific remedy for ~nsumptio whether a
Frenchman or a foreigner.
Ten acres and a mule for every man in the
country has never been realized. A man who
Is forming a RussiantJew colony in Color
upon every head of a family two acres OF
irrigated land, a house, a team. a COW and
farm implements, and allows fifteen years
for payment for the outfit.
Joseph Gaspard, the sIeper of Brussels, is
dead. He had contracted his malady in SUI
matra, where he was a soldier. He was a
drunkard, and often attacked men with
strange oaths In the streets, but people were
g gardo to nd run o away from him; T., and the police
~ nv ~ AithA. ~ AAAC llOpiOdi lii1l
ady was not contagious in temperate Bel
GUM. : -,
The oldest physician lin France, DR.. De
Bossy, of Havre. celebrated. the other day.
the 105th anniversary OF his birth. Recently
he has been confined tBhis room for the first
to be 10S years old. sandhthe son says ne ex-
poets 10 attain the same, age. He is wonder
fully we'll preserved, and is an entertaining
Loud complaints against the Mckinley
tariff are made by the Berlin manufacturers
OF photograph albums. which during 1886 and
1889 were among the chief articles OF export to
the United States from the German capital.
From about $1,000,00 o in each OF the years
ISL 20 s ssss. s sspO in 1872 IL l 81. ssas, 7 s. s in i iss; To To
$2sS,15S, and in 1894 to $s2y5+6o,g t1,V g.slagas
The Rev. W.. H. Moore, pastor of the Meth
odist Church at Stevensville. Mich, is now
a firm believer in special answers to pray
ers. He prayed for a new suit of clothes the
other day, and on the day following received
The fact that the suit was on it's way to him
when ne was praying for II counts for moth
ing With n ; Something might have hap
A new ecstatic has arisen in Paris. Her
name is Mile. Couesdoh. she lives in the Rue
de Paradis. and-appropriately enoagh-she
claims to have been inspired" by the ange,
Gabriel. Sine 1894 she has felt the spirit of
the angel Gabriel moving her to prophesy.
in a state Of ecstasy and enabled her to Dream ng1
dreams and see visions. She says that a
war will be the result ofLthe Egyptian com,
plications. France will have to undergo ter
rible misfortunes. England, too, will be
cruelty struck, her population decimated, her
pride humbled. and her riches destroyed.
They say bright red and purple will be the
--latest thing" Tss-
And worn by al the tulips in garden-beds
IUlS [IU rA az
The hyacinths, and orocuses prefer much
paler shades; ss
The daffodils wear ~yelow-the color seldom
fades 80. re
or course, for small feld-blooming the styles
are not so bright s.1
The daisies still continue to dress in simple
white: ~ Ees,t
And .%clovers wear last seasons shades-al
honor to their pluck
the finder luck.
st. Nicholas.