The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-21
ABOUT PEOPLE.

sit down 10 his desk and elaborate any thing"
THE Earl of Cork and his son, Viscount Dun
garvan. have been studying the methods of Con-
gress in Washington.
Ex-Governor ENGLISH, of Connecticut, who
started in life as a carpenter is now worth
$6,oO0,0 900, and is the richest man in his State.
M. ALPHoNsE DAUDET is a man of forty, with
long, black locks of hair like an artist and Sc
| rene, evangelical look He is short-sighted and
slightly lame.
SENATOR FARLEY, of California, remains in
delicate health. Governor Stoneman will be his
competitor for the Senate if the Legislature
should be Democratic.
EX-SENATOR CoNKLIEts is in Washington. He
is counsel for Edison in patent matters His
Washington friends say that his income from his
practice is 100000 year.
THE graduates of Harvard College residing in
Washington are about to form club, and TO
dine together annually. Mr.. George Bancroft
will probably be it's first president.
AT Werden Westphaia) an aged prisoner was
at his urgent request granted permission to be
| taken to the railway station in order to see a
| locomotive and train for the first time
| Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., has pri-
vately printed SIX copies OF an historical sketch
of the early settlement of Boston. part of
the book consists of paper on the Antinomisn
| controversy.
OF Matthew Arnold DR.. Leonard w. Bacon
says: "Mr. Arnold is of little group of
| literary DULLES. of whom Mr. Ruskn is the ring
leader. who hold literary England in terror by
their supersttious d0gmatism." ..ta
In Garfield's diary, extracts from which will
appear in the next Century, he declares that
when he entered Williams College in 1854 he
probably knew less of Shakespeare than any stu
| NJ hil att ia in
In the matter of music the English, and most
other European nations, are far behind the leu
tons. According to statistics recently published,
| there are SEQ towns in the German empire pos
sessng orchestras aud choral societies that give
| concerts in the season.
JOHN G. WHITTIER was seventy-sx years old
on Monday. The day was spent in a quiet way
| by the venerable noet at his home in Danvers
Many friends, supposing him be at his resi-
dence in Boston, called at the Hotel Winthrop to
| pay their respects.
| ONE Of the greatest mathematicians of our
time is lady of one of the highest Russian fam
| lilies, Nine Kovaleffsk the widow of the we'll
known Russian naturalist She took the doc
tors degree in 1874 at Gottlngen. and is said to
be enthusiastically devoted to her profession.
| THERE is a Jewish penman In Vienna who
writes 400 Hebrew letters on one grain of wheat
tory evidence of his extraordinary skill. he has
written the Jewish prayer for the imperial fam
lily on the narrow edge of an ordinary visiting
card. 20
SENATOR ANGUS CAMERON has returned to
Washington this fall with a snow-white beard
on his face, which previously has been smooth
shaven, excepting a mustaehe. He cultivated
the beard while camping out in the Yellowstone
region last summer, and it quite transforms his
appearance.
Miss BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, the writer of
of the best novels of the day, is described In
letter from Rome, as ga magnificent blonde of
generous proportions with charming eyes, of a
hazel cast-such woman as, one of her admir-
ers recently remarked, men were once won't to
fight for in the lists"
OLD Governor Begole was as handsome man
two years ago as you could expect TO meet in a
days walk. Now he looks like the twin brother
to a rag doll with the sawdust run out of it,.
There is nothing more wearing upon these hand
some men than political life Another grand Old
ruin is Governor Il. t. Crirtenden, of Missouri.
A CREMAToRY association has been formed in
Washington, and Congress is to be asked to give
it charter. A German physician has given a
lot on which to erect crematory similar to that
in Washington, Pa. One of it's members says
that the expense of burning body will not be
more than $685. and that soon they may be able
| to reduce it to 500.
| SUNSET Cox is rapidly losing his faith in hui
man nature. He was very active several years
ago in efforts to ameliorate the condition of the
Jews in Russia. There are three Hebrews among
the Democrats in tho House, but none of them
supported the little joker for Speaker, while one
of the number is trying to deprive him of the
Craftsmanship of the foreign affairs committee,
| to which he is entitled.
| AT the famous luncheon party on Sir Donald
Curries yacht in the harbor of Copenhagen, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, Mr. Tennyson. in conver-
sation with the Empress of Russia ami the
Princess of Wales is said to have asked by what
! title he ought rightly to address those ladies.
~ do not know" he said, "what ought to call
you." "Oh," said the Princess "there is no diff
| fculty; Minnie and Alec, to be sure"
| THE Rev. r. w Summers recently found in the
upper valley of the Salinas, California, at an
elevation of 97S feet above the sea, Il perfect
bivalve sixteen and onehalf inches in length,
eight inches broad and twenty-three inches
around the thickest part. The interior is as
smooth as though the oyster had but just been
taken out. These big shells are found in beds in
the valley, They were formerly burned for lime;
but now they are noted as curiOsities.
THEODORE TILTON is living quietly in the
Quarter Latin, Paris, near the School of Fine
Arts, engaged busily in literary work. az have
not had vacation for many years." he says.
81 have my portfolios full of unfinished work.
1t struck me THAT if could get away into some
quiet nook like this, should find opportunity to
complete what have begun. I may remain
here all winter, with the exception of n little
visit to Rome I quite alone. both of my
married daughters now being in Chicago"
ABOUT the busiest man in the Quilted States Is
william Cornell Jewett, formerly known as