The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.
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GENERAL Lew WALLACE is writing novel,
the scene of which Is laid In Damascus.
IT is now said that both Mrs. Grant and her
son Ulysses deny the report that the latter Is
engaged to be married to Miss Flood, the
daughter of the California millionaire.
JUDGE BLACK is quoted as saying that his
articles on Buchanans administration and
the early days of the war are not drawn from
a diary. al never kept a scratch Of pen,"
he declares. az draw upon my memory ex-
clusively for facts in regard to those days"
Ex-MINIsTKR WAsHBURNE's personal ap-
pearance is matter of comment In divers
newspapers. 1t is solemnly stated that he
wears "a stylish Prince Albert coat buttoned
closely about his fine figure" that he indulges
in "loose morocco boots" and that he "twirls
little gold -headed rattan cane.'
GENERAL. BEAUREGARD writes to Captain
Eads In regard TO De Lesseps' project that at
is next to impossible to make reliable esti.
mate of such q work. If this estimate be
Sl6S, 100000, exclusive OF interest during the
construction, 1t is reasonable to suppose that
the total cost, including interest, will reach
double that amount, on which no dividend
several generations to come"
ST. PATRICK 8 ball, which closed the Dublin
castle season, was great success. The lord
lieutenant with the lady mayoress, the
Duchess of MISUNDERSTANDING bunch OF
shamrocks presented to her by her Limerick
sub. committee-with the chamberlain, Mr..
Lambart, and Lady Randolph Churchill with
the lord mayor, opened the ball by tripping a
country dance together down st. Patricks, to
the stra ms of the Irish national air.
A UNITED STATES senator says that ne
would not give fig for a girl who could not
answer these question: "How long must a
hen set before chickens are Matched? How
| lying does a turkey set before Matching a
| brood? How old must chickens he before
they are ft to broi? At what age may young
pigs be roasted?" He has trained his daughter
on these points, and is proud to say that she
can pass the examination successfully.
CHARLES c. FROST, learned shoe maker, has
just died at marlborough, VT. at the age Of
"A years. He began to take morning walks
through the fields on account of his Ill health,
and SO became interested III botany He sent
| to London for a standard " ork on botany, and
| when he found that the work was In Latin he
| bought q Latin grammar and began the study
| of that ancient tongue. He mastered Latin,
| French and German, and received the degree
| of A. NJ. from Dartmouth and Middlebury Col
| leges. In botany he was a leading authority.
THE nineteenth annual meeting In connec-
/ ton with the Home for Lost and Starving
| Dogs was held recently In London, Colonel
Burdette In the chair. The report stated that
| during the past year the institution had found
homes for upward of $3.50 dogs, being 5sS
more than In the previous year. Now COM
| partments had recently been made at the
| home for additional accommodation, at a cost
| altogether of about ESQ, all of which had been
| paid for by the balance from last year, except
f9OO.
JOSEPH K. EMMETT, the former negro min
strel, and now the prosperous actor Of German
| American character, has accumulated large
fortune within a few years. He has bought a
place on the Hudson near Albany, and begun
| the erection of magnificent residence. There
| is q large music room, furnished with an i'm
mense orchestrion; the parlor is modelled after
that Of an English manor, with timbered roof;
| every room In the main story is an octagon,
with bay window and balcony. A feature OF
the grounds will be a big windmill of the
Dutch sort, which will pump water for pic
| turesque cascade,
THE widow of a once prominent tobacco
mist OF Petersburg, Va, has just received a
| check for between $500 and $500, under cireum-
stances somewhat remarkable. About 45 years
ago, while her husband was In business, he
sold some tobacco to a merchant In Bremen,
who subsequently failed and died without SET
thing his Indebtedness. son of that iner-
chant, Mr.. II. Lamotte, recently advertised
that he would pay all claims against his
fathers estate, and through Messrs. Bonner,
/ Oafa a nf a f1ll
amount of his fathers indebtedness to the
Petersburg merchant.
THE English newspapers refer humorously
| to "an alliance of beer and Bibles, bricks
| and mortar" There Is a great brewer at War
rington, Sir Gilbert Greenall, who, on one side
of one of his public houses, has built school,
| and on the other side a church. Somebody
quotes as apropos Of this queer contiguity the
| old couplet: wherever God erects a house of
prayer, the devil builds a chapel there" This
Tory brewer, they say, has taken a contract
for both But this is not SO good as the ancient
| quatrain written upon q church, the vaults of
| which were let for the storage of strong drink.
| Upon the door Of this miscellaneous edince
| some wag wrote: there's spirit above and
| a spirit below, A spirit Of joy and spirit of
| woe; The spirit above Is the spirit divine.
And the spirit below Is the spirit of wine."
| THE Improvement of noses has become an
art In this city, If q correspondent OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer is to be believed. "a lady
ofmy acquaintance" the writer says, twas
given by nature a nose that was fiat--a sort
of pug, with wide nostrils. Meeting her a few
| days ago, did not at first recognize her. She
was immensely improved. Iasked the cause.
Cant you see p she asRed. 1 scrutinized her
| face yes / exclaimed: its your nose and
1t has grown out. Well, l never! wha did
it?' Her nose stood out to a proper length,
and was as shapely could have been de-
sired. i've got an extensor In it, she said,
but you mustn't tell whats extensor!'
"A metal lining, or form, which wear In my
nose to give IL good shape. I'll show IL to
| you when we get home.' She did show IL to
me. It was simply two forms of silver, colored
red on the inner surface, to be pressed up into
| the nostrils. They effectually lifted the end
OF the nose out from the face, and were not
| uncomfortable or discoverable." These
articles are further declared to be an article
Of common manufacture by fashiona able dem
lists.
THE New York Tribune's staff correspond
| emit writes from Wilmington, DEL: "Mr. Bay
ard is not accounted a wealthy man. His
townsfolk think he Is worth, psrhsps, 500 600.
He has an income they say. from his invest
ments, his salary senator, his attorneyship
| the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti.
more railroad, aud his law practice In vaca-
| ton, of about $4,000. He lives In a large,
| plain, old-fashioned mansion, which he
| bought a few years ago. It stands on the crest
OF ridge about mile from the principal
business street, Is surrounded with spacious
| grounds, and commands q superb view of the