The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.


CANON LIDDoN has been working hard on his
Life of DR.. Pussy, and hopes to have it published
| this year.
GENERAL ORD leaves widow and five chill
dren, one of whom IS Mrs. Lieutenant John s.
Mason, Jr., of Columbus, o.
The Pope has donated picture to the Detroit
Art Loan Exhibition of September as q first
gift toward a permanent museum.
BOYLE OREILLY the poet-editor of the Bos,
| ton Pilot, who started from the head of the
| Connecticut river to paddle canoe to tn 9
sound, capsized, lost his paddles and took the
| cars.
Ex-UNITED STATES TREASURER sPINNER--he of
the incomprehensible sign-manual-is enjoying
| life st Lancaster, N H., so much that he has
decided not to return to his Florida home and
orange grove until fall.
FRANCOIS CoPPEE, Unpopular French poet, is
| at work on a new and long poem. He is also
writing a drama in verse. NJ. Coppee Is a can
dldate for the vacant academy seat. He is un-
married, and is not yet forty years old.
| Mr.. FRANK sANBCRN, prominent in Massa-
chusetts affairs, is very tall, very thin and
| very handsome man of about fifty years; he has
black eyes, thick dark hair and a high color
His manner is most kin lily and benignant
| CALAMITY WELLER, the Iowa Greenbacker, de-
clared in recent speech: II know fact
that can get nearer to heaven in fifteen min
utes with three straight drinks of whisky than
any other way know of. know, because have
| tried it,"
A LETTER from Atlantic City to the Baltimore
American says: General Joe Johnston, of Vir-
ginia, ia still a conspicuous guest of the Brgh-
| ton. His gray hair, straigbt-cut black coat and
fine, benevolent features combine TO form a
| ~ "a nj n
old gentleman.
THE Jersey Lily remarked to her manager
that the press notices falling Off She said
"Maybe I'm not bad enough, or, great heavens!
can it be that am learning to aet2" Her man
| ager told her that the latter was most assuredly
not the trouble, and that he would consult with
Freddie Mercury.
DIR. ". c PALMER, who died at Ocean Grove
Friday, claimed that the last fifty years of his
life passed, not only free from sin, lint also
from any inclination to wrong-dolng. He was
the foremost advocate of the doctrine of perfect
holiness, ana travelled for four years through
Great Britain holding religious services. Every
summer for eight years lie has held revival meet
ings daily at Ocean Grove.
AN unusual sensation was caused at the
Olympic Theater, London, the other night, by
the appearance among the audience of Miss
Mary Anderson. She was gazed at more than
the actors on the stage. The Court Journal goes
into raptures over her beauty. "Her face" iG
says, sis of the soft creole wilderness which gives
such immense value to dark eyes; her hair of
the brightest gold, and the expression of the
cOuntenance that of the purest and most child
like innocence. Never was the realization of
the poets ideal in the Dream of Fair Women SO
completely illustrated as by this new beauty"
NEXT to the Princess of Wales the most adj
mired of the many ladies present at Newmarket
was Nine. Michel Ephrussi, the recently-marTied
and sweetly pretty daughter of the Baroness AL
phonse de Rothschild. who was accompanied by
her husband aud her handsome mother. The
Baroness and NJ, and NINE. tphrussi were
the guests of Mr. Leopold Dc Rothschild during
the meeting; and, besides making purchases Of
blood stock for her husbands stud in France. the
Baroness had the qualification of witnessing the
success of his "blue and yellow hoops" in two
races ON Friday, with Louis dor and Serge IT.,
both of the Baron's own breeding.
SIMS REEVES, the famous tenor. Is a portly
man, weighing nearly 200 pounds, with full,
chubby face and quantity of curly, irOn-grsy
hair, once jet black, of which he has always been
very proud. He was born in Kent sixty one
years ago next October, the son OF a village or
ganist, and he learned to read music before he
could read books. His father discovered that he
could sing, and trained him persistently. "By
Jove, he just did, you know" says the great sing
or; "eight hours a day running scales and bowling
like a calf" At fourteen he succeeded his faith
or as organist and choir master at $40 year.
He has now been singing in public for money for
forty years, during most Of which time his fee
has been at least $500 and often $3.50 night.