The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-20

drawn by a p-ancing muel and venerable
horse Clad in pair of hish-topped Napoleon
boots and o coat of many colors, the smiling
poet laureate looked tile picture OF innocence
abroad.
MRS. HOOPER, in one of her late Paris letters,
says that there is such thing as a really salts
factory portrait of Gambetta. The best is prob
ably sldefaoe. painted some years ago by Mr..
Healy.
MILE. CoRvlsARr, the daughter OF the doctor
of that name who was the physician of Napo-
leon III during the last year of his life has been
sent for by the Empress Eugene, who intends
to take charge of her
Mr.. GLADsToNE's illness is solely due to a cold
and the want OF sleep. The latter is serious,
since hitherto Mr.. Gladstone has commanded
sleep at will, like Bonaparte. Mr.. Gladstone has
always been able to sleep anywhere and at any
time.
A SOLUTION of alum in water has been found
so useful and effective In putting out fires that
the French Minister of the Interior has recon-
mended that tiremen in cities should be fur
nished with that substance for fuse, whenever it
can he employed to advantage.
SOME persons VINO live near Tintern Abbey are
angry because the Midland Railway Company
proposes to build a new line through the "steep
woods and lofty cliffs and green pastoral land
They demand to know whether such scenery is
to be ''pOlluted by cuttings and sidIngs"
Mr.. LESLIE STEPHEN, being about to edit q
new biographical dictionary, has been asked
whether anything in the way of LITERARY style"
is to be admitted into the work He replies: "If
style means superfuous ornament, 1 say, en-
phaticaly, No. But style, and even high literary
ability, is required for lucid and condensed mar
ratve, aud of such style shall he anxious to
get as much as oan."
TIE Boston Post prints letter written by
President Andrew Jackson, Jan. IT, 1887, in
which he said: 81 with pleasure comply with
your request and inclose you my autograph aud
inform you that l was born in the Warsaw,
South Carolina, OR the 18th of March, 1857"
The letter has been called out now by Governor
Buffers assertion that he was born III Ireland.
Some of the books say he was born in North
Carolina.
JUSTICE SAMUEL L, MILLER wrote to the I'LL
nois State Bar Association: sit is TO the State
Bar associations we must look for such control
over the social relations and professional inter-
course OF the members of the bar their in
creasing numbers render necessary; for only by
the united sense of the profession, as expressed
by these societies, can only practical restraint
be exercised over the black sheep that get into
our flock, into all Others"
Mr.. WILLIAM GREY, according to the White
hall Review, suddenly become the pre-
sumptive heir of the earldoms of Stamford and
Warrington, the barOny OF Grey, OF Groby aud
estates yielding 100000 year, unaware OF his
good fortune, is filling the appointment of pro-
fessOr of classics mt the COdrington College, in
Barbados lie is a nephew of the present earl,
aud thirty-twO years of age. Here is the ready
made material OF good old-fashioned. romance.
LOUIS BLANC's wife was ignorant of French,
imperfoctly acquainted with her own language,
the German, and ncurably consumptIve, and he
was more than fifty when he married her. But
he prided himself on her beauty, and spoke of
her as resembling the Empress Josephine. She
was the daughter of his landlord during his resi-
deuce in London, and won his affection beca use,
while busting mis- room, she respected his papers,
and allowed his table to remain in all the litter
that he loved.
A GoDsEND is the telephone to the imperial
family Nihilist-besieged at Gatsohina. It enables
them to hear at will their favorite prima donna
without exposing themselves to the deadly bomb
or forcing the singers to come to the bomb proof
palace. wire has been run from Gatschna to
the Marinsky Theater, st. Petersburg, forty miles
away, and over 1t are conveyed to the listening
ears of timid royalty all the music, vocal and in-
applause, too, of every opera there performed
THE most notable piece of furniture in General
Grants house, No. East Sixty-sixth street, Is a
carved oaken cabinet in the library on the first
floor, which contains a variety of presents re-
ceived by the Industrious soldier during the last
twenty years. One of it's shelves is laden with
gold-headed canes, suitably inscribed; another,
with little Baskets nclosing the freedom of
several European cities; third, with curious
meerschaum pipes and other knicknacks. So
liable has the General been TO give to q guest
some souvenir from his collection that Mrs.
Grant recently locked the cabinet and hid the
key
NATIONAL Republican,: "Dld you know" said
a senator to the avenue man. "that Senator
Plumb and Whitelaw Reid worked in the same
office one time" The a. III. pleaded ignorance,
and the speaker continued "Plumb was fore
man OF little weekly paper in Xenia, O., of
which Reid was editor, and they worked to-
gether for quite a while. Both have struck luck
since those days The unknown editor OF the
insignificant weekly got in with Jay Gould and
Jim Blaine, made money, and married millions.
His foreman went west of the Missouri and
caught on TO use street term, just at the right
time. told he is worth $4,000 900 or
$6.000.000."
VICE-PREslDEST DAVID DAVIS has addressed n
letter to an intimate friend in Bloomington, ILL.,.
that after the 4th of March next he expecIs TO
return to his home In Bloomington and devote
his entire time and attention to his private bust
affairs. During the past year he has pur-
chased some very valuable farm property
throu ghOus Central Illinois. and the Vice-pres-
dent to be anxious to make the land still
more valuable by additional improvements. He
intends to make visit to Europe next summer,
and will be accompanied by his niece, Mrs. P.
V. Pierpoint. of Chicago. During the past two
years 1T is said Senator Davis has made $4,000
in real.estate speculations.
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.