The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.

desk from O'Clock to l, and after lunch until 6.
He keeps no horses.
GENERAL HANCoCK's health is greatly i'm
proved, and he is rapidly convalescing. IL is
probable that within a week the General will be
able to get out.
THE Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, occupies
magnificent suit of apartments at the Hotel Con-
tinental. Paris. facing the Tuileries garden, and
Is accompanied by numerous retinue.
''WBLI, enemy of mankind, what can do for
you9" asked Mgr. Capel of a reporter who called
on him in Washington the other day. But the
reporter did not mind the vocative smiingly in
terjected.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM had the mis-
fortune to enter Philadelphia on the same train
with the returning baseball players, and local
paper says he "didn't attract the least bit Of at
tention alongside of our boys"
JOHN JARRETT, of Pittsburg, who has entered
the service of the Iron and Steel Association OF
the United States as managing agent of the
United States Tin-plate Association, will receive
salary of $4,000 per annum and expenses.
EX GOVERNOR LELAND STANFORD, of Califor
MIA, has disease of the spine, and his health,
which was so bad in New York, does not improve
in Europe Mrs. Stanford is also in i'll health
and she is compelled to remain in a darkened
room in order to avoid total blindness.
ONE Of the letters of introduction that Miss
Kate Field brought to Denver was from Sir
Charles Dixie to Judge McCurdy. She sent
note to the Windsor Hotel office asking where
the Judge could be found The answer came
back: Don't know; he's been dead eight years."
THERE is story told of the late Professor
Henry Smith that when explaining some new
discovery in the theory of numbers to his Ok
ford pupils, he added the remark: "And the
great beauty of the thing is that it cannot pos
sibly ever be of the slightest practical to any
body"
IRELAND's two dukes-of Leins:er and of Aber-
corn-are constantly resident in the troubled
island. Both are highly esteemed; both have
married daughters of English dukes; both have
had thirteen children, just as if they were poor
and both have estates valued at the same
amount
WHEN Mr.. Bookwalter was in China he became
acquain ted with judge, who invited him to see
a tried The culprit was arraigned for lar
ceny. Within thirty minutes that Chinese court
tried the prisoner, convicted him, sentenced him
to death, took him out In an alley and cut his
head off.
THE Hon. Gilbert Coleridge is a tall yodug
fellow, rather American in appearance and APP
parently younger than his recorded age. He is
of healthy blonde type, has gOod-humored
face, not too expressive of English prejudces,
and might. with some little coaching, make a
fair "plunger."
THE tradesmen of Florence are rejoicing at
the prospect of having Ismail Pasha and his
harem settled in their city. The ex-Khedive has
just concluded the purchase of the Gheradeska
palace, one of the finest in Italy-an enormous
structure, with extensive outbuildings and spa
cious gardens. The price for the whole was
$4,000
A LIFEsIZE statue OF John Brown is to be
placed OH pedestal erected in the grounds at
Balmoral. The site selected by the Queen Is TO
the south of the castle, and the statue will DE
visible from its windows. monument in MEM
DRY of Brown is TO be put up in the Prince Con-
sorts mausoeum at Frogmore, and he will also
be commemorated by q tablet in the nave at ST.
Georges Chapel.
THEY say that Carlyle's ghost, arrayed in
white, naunts Chelsea at the twilight hour and
recently asked little girl for ga penn'orth o.
tobacco" That Carlyle should walk, after the
manner in which he has been treated by Mr..
Froude is, thinks the London Echo, not sur
prising; BUTT might be supposed that, instead of
asking for tobacco, he would have made grim
demand for his biographer.
THE new novel by E. P. Roe, entitled ellis
Somber Rivals" has the scene of the story laid
in the time of the war of the rebellion. Colonel
Hasbrouck, of West Point, TIC whom the author
submitted his proofs for criticism says of his de-
soription OF the battle of Bull Run: SIT is the
best and truest description Of that battle that
have yet seen, and the accounts of other actions
are truthful descriptions OF the fighting in The
civil war"
A LADY Of Berlin, possessed of some property,
sent letters TO all her relatives land their name
was legion), inviting them TO come and see her
"on an important family matter" They came
in expectation and in troops, and were received
at the station by her two sons. On arriving at
the house it was discovered that the good dame
had taken the opportunity of hanging herself,
ana had left behind her nothing but numerous
Invitations to her funeral.
Miss KELLOGG's first appearance on the stage
took place when she was a child five or six years
of age, at a juvenile concert in Birmingham.
She sang song entitled and ending, "Who will
buy my roses red?" and as she uttered the last
line, at the same time holding forth the flowers,
Thomas NJ. Newson, then editor of the Daily
Journal, exclaimed, 81 will buy them" and
placed bright, new silver coin in the hands of
the haf-frightened young singer.
"THE wel-dressed wOman," remarks the Prov
idence Journal, ''heeds the harmony of her
colors and is careful that the forms adopted suit
the lines of her face and figure. If she is tall,
she does not drape herself in meager clothing;
if short she is not flounced around like a fancy
pen-wiper. If her skin is fair, and her hair lies
in curves and ripples of light brown against the
creamy white, she Will not put sra w-eelor in
her hat; if she is ruddy and warm and dark,
she will not frame herself in waxen blue or the
tender shades of pink"
Mr.. EDWARD PAYSON WESTON, ''the father of
long-distance pedestrianism," is about to under
take a remarkable feat in connection with the
work Of the Church of England Temperance
Society, with which he is prominently connected.
He proposes to travel over the highways of
England and Wales, on foot and In ordinary
costume fifty miles daily for 100 consecutive