The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-18
ABOUT PEOPLE.

SENATOR VOORHEES, has accepted an invitation
to deliver an address at the Agricultural Fair to
| be held at Weldon, N. c., on October 8, next.
AS Amasa stones will WAS made within year
of his death, all its requests to public Insttu-
lions void, but his family will pay them
nevertheless
SIMPLE and novel convenience may be seen
attached to the front of house on Murray Hill.
It consists of small tin sign, placed just be-
meath the door bell, and ettered as follows:
"Gone to Europe; return in October"
| 1T ia said that whom the present President of
the French republic chrlstened, his spon sors
| bestowed upon him the strangely promiscuous
and indefinite nomenclature of Francois Judith
Paul. But he calls himself simply Jules.
| IT is said that Captain Webb intends to at
| tempt to swim the whirlpool rapids in Niagara
river. If he fans, the sum he would have re-
ceived for his exploit will, by arrangement go
to his family, which is now in this country.
AS a rebuke to the trustees of Harvard College,
Governor Butler, accompanied by his staff, will
attend the commencement of Williams College,
on July 4th. The honorary degree of LII D.
was conferred upon the Governor by Williams
| in 1864.
MRS. MACKAY, the wife of the bonanza mil
lionaire. is accompanied wherever she goes in
| public by private detective The duty of the
hIreling is to so screen the diamonds that they
| shall not dazzle the eyes Of person with light
purses and lighter fingers.
Loco, whom General Crook captured, is law
| fully the head chief of the Apaches When he
was gilded youth OF the cigarette-smOking
| period he got the name Loco, or "fool" but dur
ing recent years his ability as scalp-taker has
been proven more than once.
WHEN Sarah Bernhard passed through Ham
burg recently on her way to Copenhagen and
Stockholm, she had forty-six trunks full of bag
gage, and waxed furious when the customs
officers insisted upon examining the contents of
every one to the very bottom.
MRS. KING, an English dress reformer, in a
| recent speech, breathed a wish that Mr.. Worth
| might be drowned in the Seine, remarked that a
| fashionable woman smiled at as people
smiled at the antics of drunkard, and summed
up the greater part of the sex as pack OF Gin
durable dress maniacs."
THE famous "Cock" inn in Fleet street, whose
"plump head waiter Tennyson immortallzed
by means Of Will Waterproofs monologue, has
been sold and is to be torn down. 1t is said
| that the plump headwater was much offended
at the liberty which the poet took with his in
divduality, although it brought him many a
"tip." ..-
PROFESSOR JOHN STUART BLACKIR has en-.
listed with all his soul in behalf of the Highland
| Crofters At recent meeting in London he
said that he had resigned the Greek chair at
Edinburg that he might do something better,
and he had found something immeasureably
| better in aiding the Crofters. "Let Greek die, {"
| he cried, "let Hebrew die, let learning go to the
dogs, but let human beings live and let human
I brotherhood and charity live"
| FROM one of Mrs. Carye's letters: "When my
husband is at work hardly ever see his face
from breakfast till dinner, and when 1t rains, as
often even as when it does not rain no, living
sonl comes near me to speak one cheerful word;
| yet so long as en- in what the French call my
| lonely. Send me to my bedroom for day, to
that great red bed in which have contracted SO
many headaches, so many influenzas, and feel
| as if l were already half buried"
THE head OF the French Roths chllds does not
seem to have the ready wit for which his father
was distinguished. When his Office was invaded
the other day by fifty Polish Jews clamorlng for
money he had to call the police In to ole ar them
out. The late Baron James ROthsehild was dur
| ing the revolution Of 1913, confronted in his
study by two brawny ruffians, who announced
that they, as representatives of "the people, y
OF property. "Well," said the Baron, "and at
what figure do you put my fortune9" "a hun
! dred millions" "GoGd and what is the popu-
lati0n OF France3 You don't knowf Well, will