The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-26
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. ANTHONY TRoLLOPE was once saved from
drowning under the ice by Dean Milman.
RHODE ISLANDS fund for statue of Gen
eral Burnside now amounts to more than $780,
oOO
EDWARD EVERETT HALE is proteetionist,
dyed in the wool, yard wide, ana no Hancock
''local issue" about it.
Z CHARLES DIcKENs's only grandchild, the
daughter of the editor of ALI the Year Round, has
made her debut on the London stage at the age
of nineteen.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT has just added
100000 10 his 81 ,OOO, 900 endowment of Van
derb lit University. The late Mrs. Atkinson, of
Memphis, left the same Institution $4,000,
GOVERNOR BUFFERS executive messenger is a
cOlored man, French subject by BIRTH South
ern slave by education, and Republican by
preference. The appointment causes surprise on
Beacon Hill.
MR. EDWARD A. FREEMAN says tina. when one
reads "Romola" we must feel that George
Eliots Florentine characters are real. Mr.. Free
man, by the way, periodically reads Scott's
novels for history, just as Macaulay did.
COMMODORE ENGLISH, of the navy, says: "I
have dined with Queen Victoria, with high Off
Gals in various parts of Europe and in the East,
and have never handsome a table as
that at Mr. Morse's dinner to Senator Hoar at
Wormley's last Saturday night"
PRINCE CHARLES, of Prussia, who just died.
was as inveterate a smoker as General Grant.
For six years past he has smoked from twenty
to twenty-four strong Havana cigars daily, and
he livedn health ana good spirits to the rather
ripe age OF eighty-three years.
JOSEPH DAVIS, the cattle king of Eastern
Texas, sold 5000 cattle while smoking one five
cent cigar, in Austin, the other night pat
Caringle, ranohInan of the Indian Territory,
the purchaser, paid cash down in British gold,
for he acted in behalf of London men of money
MR.. @. A. HOBART, who received the Repub-
lican caucus nomination for United States sena-
tor from New Jersey, is less than forty years old,
is of medium height, is stout has florid com.
plexiOn, is temperate, has busiuess.lil1e habits,
furnished from his county tho vote that elected
Sewell, and is a native of the State.
Mrs. A. T. STEWARDS elegant new mansion,
which was erected at a cost of 81 200, 900, seems
TO be more Of a burden than pleasure to its mis-
tress. Living alone in the midst of army OF
servants, she Is in constant dread of being
stolen by ruffians and held for ransom and the
threatening and begging letters which she
oeives do not make her existence more agree
able.
MRS. COOPER, the famous English lady rider,
thrown from her horse and killed in the hunting
field, before crowd of friends who witnessed
the shocking scene without having it In their
power to help her. Lord HOpetOun and Lady
Rock savage did all they could after the horse
had fallen, but it too late, and the unfor-
tunate lady expired in great agony the same
evening.
THE most learned woman in the world is Miss
Ramnabal, young lady Of twenty. who is now
in Paris. She is a native of India, and can read,
write and talk in twelve languages, having a
wonderful gift In that way, beside being up In
mathematics, astronomy and history. She is
studying medicine. and will 20 to India to prac-
tice, where she says Thousands of her country
women die every year because they will not con-
snlt male phy sioians
BAsTIEN LEPAGE the famous peasant-born
French painter, Is said to have made his first
appearance in Partisan society all tours. His
pictures had won him celebrity, and one night
he was Invited to reception at very fine
house. His name was announced, ana he en-
tered the salon, only to trip over the dOor-rug
and plunge PROSTATE at the feet of his hostess
He scrambled up, retreated, and entere Sec
ond time, on this trial without a mishap, and
found himself the lion of the evening.
IN their accounts OF Gambettas funeral several
Paris papers stated that the Hon. L. p. Norton
the American minister, merely witnessed tho
procession from window of the Continental
Hotel This, says Galiguani is error. Mr.
Morton Joined the funeral cortege at the Palais
Bourbon, and accompanied it on foot through all
the long march to Pere "a Chaise. Mrs. Morton,
surrounded by her family, occupied window Of
the Hotel Brighton, and sent elaborate floral Of
ferings to be placed upon the dead statesman's
bier.
EMMA JAMES IN Providence Sunday Star: 'Mrs.
Laughton, regent of the Mount Vernon Assoca-
ton, u lady of great wealth and influence, and
who used in her girIhood to receive with Miss
Harriet Lane at the White House, is giving a
series of Wednesday evening receptions this
month TO introduce into society her young
daughter, Miss Camille Berghmanns. Mrs
Laughton has beautiful velvet manners, and the
little instantaneous courtesy she drops in meet
ing another person, instead of the modern bow
rarely extending her hand, but smiling with
face full of sweetness, is relic of a stately
grace of "a day thatis dead. Her still beautiful
head is covered all over with fine blonde
curls, and her foot is the smallest, 1t is sad of
any lady's In Washington"