The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-30
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. MAcKEY was asked If he Travelled to Mos
COW incog. 'Oh, bless you, no." said he, 1--WE
went in a sleeper"
THE Buffalo Express says that had Captain
Webb succeeded in his undertaking he would
have cheapened Niagara"
Hon. AUGUSTUS PAGET, the newly-appointed
English ambassador to Austria, has the reputa-
ton of being the Beau Brummel among diplo-
mats.
SECRETARY FoLGER will accompany the presi-
dental party to the Louisville Exposition and
to Chicago, where he will leave to visit Mime
sofa on private business.
MRS. HUGHES, the venerable mother of Tom
Hughes, lives in a little house at Rugby, Tenn,
with her granddaughter. She is wonderfully
preserved, though eighty-sIx.
DIR. OLIVER S. TAYLOR, of Auburn, N. Y, the
one surviving member OF the Dartmouth Col
lege's class of 1903, is now in his one hundredth
year of life and enjoys perfect health of mind
and body.
TIE Paris Figaro mentions among the move
ments of fashionable people the visit of a M. No
belly to the chateau of Moyencourt He must be
a great favorite at country clearinghouse in
the summer
Plus ks statue is now in the Church of Santa
Maria Maggiore, Rome, under the chief altar.
Plus TX is represented on his knees praying.
The statue cost so, 1000 francs and was paid for
by the cardinals.
THE widow of Lord Frederick Cavendish, who
was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, will be
married again before the termination of the
present year. The second marriage, 1t is stated,
has the approval of her late husbands relatives.
ARY STRACHAN, who lives in London, enjoys
the distinction of having been the wife Of ST.
mon Cochrane, a sergeant who fell on the field
of Waterloo, and having been present herself on
the field at the time he fell. She has received
since 1922 a penson of $40 a year.
FATHER RIoRDIN, OF Chicago, who has been
appointed a bishop and coadjutor of the arch
bishop of San Francisco, is only thirty-eight,
and is thought to be the youngest Catholic
bishop in the world. He was born in New
Brunswick, but was taken to Chicago when
quite young.
A DISAPPOINTED gentleman with a
wild glance in his eye entered the Patent Office
at Washington the other day, laid a card down
on a counter, and went out without saying a
word. On the card was written: God hath made
men upright, but they have sought out many
inventions"
THE extent of electrical literature and study
is indicated by the statement of Prof. Bell that
he has record of over 10000 publications rela-
ting to this subject. He says there are more
than 100000 telephones in use in the United
Estates to-day, and the manufacturers cannot
supply the demand. -a.
Mr.. CHALEs A. DAN of the New York Sun,
puts on a white beaver about 2 O'Clock every
afternoon and goes to lunch. He straddles one
of the swinging seats at a counter, and tiltlng
his hat gently back, mods Familiarity to the
waiter, and orders a plate of soup. He is as
modest as if he did not have an income of 500,
600 a month. .
GEN. ]. L. CHAMBERLAIN, of Maine, who re-
Gently resigned the presidency of Bowdein Col
lege, is now staying at his sea-shore residence,
four miles from Brunswick. The Augusta Jour
nal says the condition Of his health is not much
impreved, and he will never entirely recover
from his wounds. He is able to sit up however.
and occasionally takes a stroll out of doors.
Hon. JOHN OBERLY, editor of the Blooming
ton, ILL.,, Daily Bulletin, is chairman of the
Democratic State central committee, and evil
IDENTIFY talks politics at home. Some time ago
his little daughter Eunice, only five years of
age, was taken out walking near the beautiful
home of Judge David Davis. When she came
home she told her father where she had been,
and he asked her if she had seen Judge Davis.
no." she lisped. 81 walked all wound there
aud l didn't thee Judge Davis ON the fence. -
The story got out, and ever since then Mr..
Oberly has been afraid to call on Judge Davis.
ONE of the hardest men to interview isgGen.
Grant. He sits upperfectly stiff and motionless
i'll his chair and stares with wide opsn eyes
straight ahead Of him. His lips are pressed
tightly together, and when he opens them to
answer your question, clap they go together
again like a trap. He never does more than
answer your question:, and when he don't
choose to answer ii, stares straight ahead of him
and pays no attention to a repetition. He used
to talk very freely about his horses, it is said.
Now the only thing a reporter can get out OF him
is Mexico.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR was personally a simple,
Kindly-maDnered man. fond of pastoral life. In
appearance he was tall and thin, with a large
head and smoothly-shaven face. He was
wealthy, owning a fine winter residence in
Washington, while he retained as a summer
home his fathers superb homestead of 600 acres
at Silver Spring, Md. He their paid much at
tention to the raising of fine cattle. He re-
ceived from his father and leaves behind him a
large and valuable collection of manuscripts
given by President Jackson to the elder Blair for
the purpose of writing his biography. Upon
that work both the Blalrs spent much time, but
tits yet incomplete.
MRS. DOLLY WHITE began her second century
on Monday last at South Ncwbury, Vt, and en-
t~ertained the company who assembled to do her
honor by vigorous Rotations of verses with
which her father kindled his ardor during the
revolution. Miss Eliza Cross, Of Haverhill, N.
! a., a s~prightly maiden of ninety-four summers,