The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-15
ABOUT PEOPLE,
Newport,

AbOOI FEOHLfs
MRS. Tom THUMB is on exhibition as "the
charming Widow Thumb"
Col. JEROME BoNAPARTB is going TO reside in
Washington this winter, and has imported an
extensive retinue of French servants.
GOVERNOR BUTLER has accepted the bond OF
Miss Clara Barton superintendent of the Re-
formatory Prison for Women without the sigma
lures of bondsmen.
EMILY 8. RICE was elected county clerk Of
Harper county, Kansas, last Tuesday, by over
300 majority. She is the first woman ever elect
ed to the position in Kansas.
ARCHIBALD FORBES throws cold water on the
millionaire gentlemen from Australia who cut
such a swell in London society, and says they
can't get further than the fringe of Australian
society at home.
LORD LoRNE and the Princess are said to
have sickened of Canada on the occasion of their
first ball at Rideau Hall, and the London World
believes that they both hes rtily glad of the
chance to get ont of the Dominion.
MR BLAINE objects to the word ''new" as ar
piled to his literary pursuits. 81 almost began
life in Augusta as a reporter" he says, land
afterward edited newspaper. Writing is really
second nature to me. find it easy and pleas
ant WORK"
BULwER's autobiography is said to abound
with illusions to the peccadilloes of his father,
to which he refers with greater and more dis
tasteful frankness, if possible. than Dickens and
Trollope do In referring to the shortcomings Of
their parents,
MISS EVA MACKAY, the daughter of the bo-
nanza king. is just now the subject of gossip In
Paris. Notwithstanding the general belief that
has prevailed that she would eventually enter "a
convent, it is said that she now has her choice
between choosing a prospective English ooronet
or the veil of a Saint C9ur nun.
DIR. BATES, of Columbia Veterinary Hospital.
New York, says that in the whole United States
there are not educated veterinary surgeons
enough to supply one for each large city, TO say
nothing of the country districts In the mean.
time the ranks of the regular medical profession
are uncOmfertably overcrOwded.
DANTE GABRIEL RossETTIs former home at
Birohin gtOn-on-Sea on the isle of Thanet, is now
called Rossetti Bungalow and adjacent street
has been named Rossetti road. monument
designed by Mr. Ford MADDOX Brown, is to be
placed above his grave, and stained glass win
dow to his memory will find place in the vii
lage church.
1T is on record of Mr.. BIillais, the English
artist, that at the age OF ten he was lifted onto
form to receive medal he had gained by SO
early product of his pencil. gentleman re-
laJes that he recently saw in the house at Full
ham quaint and by no means ineffective PEN
Gil portrait of a lady, with the words under
meath, ~. E. Millais, etat g."
"MIss MACKAY's portrait is at present on
view at the Palais d'Industrie Art Exhibition.
1t is near her fathers, and does not flatter her
in the smallest degree. Some people would,
under ordinary circumstances, consider her good
looking, but" says the London World, "taking
into han IA
Others be said to be beautiful"
AT Berwyn, an unpretentious little station a
few miles of Philadelphia, almost any day
in summer fall, one may see step from the
train Country fed" looking man, past middle
age, with a heavy, corpulent figure clad in an
almost seedy suit and crowned with a worn and
battered hat His boots are heavy and clumsy:
his shoulders stoop like those of a plowman;
his face is broad and brown. He is not a farm
er, however, but a Philadelphia politician of
national reputation-Samuel ]. Randall.
DOCTOR SCHLIEMANS being asked in Paris
where he considered his home to be, replied:
"l born in Germany, am a naturalized
American since 1850, and own property in In
dianapolis, Ind. 1t has been fourteen years
since was last in the United States. My wife
is a Greek lady, and we now consider that our
home is in Athens, where have built a house
and where have resided when not in the Troad.
I still retain my nationality American
citizen, and intend to continue to do so, but do
not contemplate an early return to my adopted
country"
81 went to the War Department the other
day." says the Boston Travellers Washington
correspondent, land saw short, stumpy-ook-
ing man in dark clothes, with a cutaway coat,
seated at desk, vigorously engaged in pushing
a pen across large white sheet OF paper. That
man was Leutenant-general Phil. Sheridan,
commanding the army of the United States He
is brusGue, bow-legged, transformations in man
ner, and while he has been in Washington only
a few days, he has given some of the dandy sec
oud-eutenants on duty here a severe shock.
Just think of 1.-THE commander of the entire
army of the United States refuses to use his car
riage, and walks in fair weather, and rides in
'bob-tail three-cent horse when it rains.
Such thing has never been heard of in WASH
ingtOn, for the general rule is, and has been that