The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-02

a total of 1928, 900. This is believed ~
| largest individual insurance carried in
though in Chicago alone, where life II
Investments are very popular, there a Fa
bly, twenty individuals insured for S1OG
over.
JUST as Mrs. Langtry, IN the charactei
lind, had pronounced the words Of tba'$t.'
II would kiss as many of you as had
pleased me, compilations thar liked
was exhibiting her most comprehensi
Cleveland audience, gallery gami'
ION, Freddie!" with gusto which
eneet, but sent the people home in go, Tat
COLONEL COLE, once the great railro
the South, Is living retired life at spe
| He is said to have sOftening OF the
cannot live long. Mr.. H. Victor lisi
once the young Napoleon of the South 10
most formidable antagonist Of King -
ing in New York q life OF retiremerti
, most blind and no possible hope of
Four years ago their names were 4 .hs@S,.
| every breeze that came from the land OF sun.
To-day they are forgotten, and tomorrow they
may be dead.
THE Philadelphia Record states that Cedar
croft" the residence of the late Bayard Taylor,
is again offered for sale. At the sale after the
owners death that part of the property upon
which the residence, greenhouses and other
buildings were erected bought, with lis
acres Of land, by Silas Warner, Of Montgomery
county, who made it his home. The remaining
eighty acres, with a tenant house, were pur-
chased by another gentleman. Mr. Warmers
wife has died, and as his household is now
broken up the property is again in the market.
THE library of Mr. George W. Childs, Of Phila
delphia, has been graphically described by Mr..
+. w. Robinson in a pamphlet OF about
pages. Among the valuable manuscripts
| letters in the library the touching epiA
which Franklin Pierce wrote to James T. Fielt
on the morning after Hawthorne's death, thu
manuscript of the first book of Mr.. Bryant's,
translation of the "Iliad," Poe's "The Murderers
in the Rue Morgue," and Dickeus's ''Our Mutual
Friend" There is also letter from LongfellOw
to Mr.. Childs telling "what it is to be seventy
years old"
MRS. LILLE DEvEREUX BLAKE tells her audi
ences that when woman marries she is merged
in her husband. The other day a stout German,
with pale and feeble wife, got into a crowded
horse-car. A gentleman rose to give the wife
seat, but the big fat husband seized it, settled
himself back, and folded his arms, looking com.
placently at his wife standing alone. "Sir" said
the irate gentleman, al gave the lady my seat"
The husband looked surprised, shrugged his
shoulders ana replied; "OnJ uOt vas all rlgnuCi
dot mine wife," and he kept the seat She
was emerged"
LEOPOLD MEYER, the well-known pianist, is
dead. He had a certain degree of execution and
elegance of touch; but thai was all. He was.
however, well patronized by some arisJocratio
old ladies in Vienna, and was invited to play at
court before the Emperor Ferdinand, whose
brilliant intelligence was not exactly an Orna-
ment to the line OF Hapsburgs After Meyer
who was rather a stoutish man-had played, the
Emperor spoke to him and said: my dear Mr..
Meyer have heard List Meyer bows low,
have heard Thalberg (Meyer bows still lower,
but not one of them-perspired like you" Tab
leauI
SOME OF the papers announce that Her Royal
Highness the Princess Louise aud the Marquis Of
Lorne will reside, on their return from Canada,
at Dornden, ga place which they have purchased
near Tunbrdge Wells" The Princess and Lord
Lorne bought Dornden shortly after their mar
riage, and frequently resided there for several
years; but when they went to Canaua they re-
solved to get rid of the place, and after having
been in the market for a considerable period, it
has lately been sold to a Liverpool merchant.
Princess Louise and Lord Lorne Will probably
have the Use of Roseneath. the Duke of ArgylP5
beautiful place on the Gareloch, q country
residence They will go to Italy for the winter
directly after their return from Canada All ru-
mors respecting Lord Lorne's successor at Ottawa
are speculative and premature.