The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-14
ABOUT PEOPLE.


HENRY THOMAS, for years the coored head
waiter at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, is
worth $15O,0OO.
1T Is reported that the Prince of Wales, on first
seeing the gilded statue of the Prince Consort.
in Kensington Gardens, London. exclaimed:
"My awful dadv so astounded was he at the in
artistic effect of the gliding.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE has q beautiful room
named In honor of Mrs. Browning, and contain
ing story's bust of the poet and the manuscript
of her poem, Little Matte" This manuscript
was the gift of Robert Browning.
W. L. ALDEN, the "funny man" Of the New
York Times, is going an extensive canoeing
trip in Canada. He says he has made sixty
miles in seven hours In canoe. and that his
penses were seventeen cents a day while actual
ly canoeing.
JUDGE JOHN PITCHER, of Mount Vernon, Ind,
is said to be the only surviving member OF the
first Indiana State Legislature, since the death
of General John 8. Smonson. who died about
year ago, at tho age of eighty-seven years.
Judge Pitcher is now eighty-nine years OF age.
ONE WILLIAM MCCARTHY was mentioned
Gently by the Boston Transcript as the author
of "The Bonnie Blue Flag" The error has led
to the disclosure of the fact that the man who
wrote the song is Harry Mccarthy, now the
manager of a rough variety theater at Missoula,
Montana.
Mr.. F. MARION CRAWFORD, the author of "Mr.
Isaacs," is described as being tall. blonde and
young, being only twenty eight. He is accom-
plished. speaking half dozen languages and is
fine musician as well, though caring little for
society. He was educated at st. Paurs school,
Concord, N II.
SENATOR COLQUuT, of Georgia, has just given
II. W. Grady. one of the editors of the Atlanta,
90 Of AM rrio
whereupon the Macon, Ga. Telegraph says that
it is very small return, for Grady not only
made Coquitt Governor of the State, bar, as he
then very poor, gave him the clothes he
wore when inaugurated.
THE late George SharswoOd, chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, left an estate valued at
S131.300 He bequeaths to the Law AssooIa.
ton OF Philadelphia his manuscripts, volumes
of notes Of trials and arguments in the District
Courts of Philadelphia, and the Courts of Nlsi
Prius, and his manuscript journal Of the Su-
preme Court of Philadelphia.
JOHN LEvERIDGE, the oldest lawyer In New
York, will be ninety-two years old Sept. 1. He
distinctly remembers the funeral of Washington,
witnessing 1t in company with his sister at the
corner of Broadway and Vesey streets. The
event was forcbly impressed upon his mind by
the fact that when he got home he and his sister
were sOundly spanked by their mother.
CARVING in ivory is carried, nowadays, to a
very high degree of excellence in Paris. There
is in London at present a bust of lady OF the
time of Mary Queen of Scots. executed in Paris
by A. Moreau vauther. which is said to be the
finest piece of ivory carving ever executed. The
Pail Mall Gazette states with grim irony that so
high price is demanded for it that 1t will most
probably, be purchased by Rothschild.
THE enaton of celebrating mass Mt the cha ned
of the Hotel des Invalides, the burial place of
the First Napoleon, on May 5. the anniversary
OF his DEATH omitted this year by order Of
the French Minister Of War. He has forbidden
the chaplain to preform any service In COM
mem Grafton OF the founder of the Napoleonio
dynasty, thus evincng a bitterness of feeling
toward the fallen empire which belittes the
republic.
A WINE merchant in Leipzig retains q poet to
write advertisements in both English and Ger
man, and publishes an almanac in which the
following original argument against water
drinking was introduced
And to the Lord old Noah said:
"Tne wator now tastes very bad
Because there have been drowned therein
All beasts and mankind In their sin,
And therefore, Lord, even think
l should prefer some other drink"
WEST POINT Letter. "Among the guests at
Cranston's Hotel are I. j. Austen, of Newport,
r. l., ana w. Il. Drayton, of South Carolina. They
graduated from the academy fifty years ago in
the same class. They were warm friends at the
academy. but never saw each other after their
graduation until they met yesterday on the
hotel piazza. Despite tho changes which tho