The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-01
ABOUT PEOPLE.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has taken the
pledge. That Is IT. say, he has promised himself
he will not lecture any more. ecj 81
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD girl In Holmes county,
Miss, whose parents tlaok as native
Africans. has white ears, cheeks and nose, and
! the color is spreading over her whole body.
THE late Ex-Governor Morgan remembered in
his will every relative he or his wife has alive,
! every servant in his household and every clerk
and messenger boy in his office, besides leaving
! over 100000 to charity.
THE largest man in the British service is Lieu
! tenant Sutherland, of the Fifty sixth regiment.
He is six feet four inches high and weighs twen-
ty-six stone, that in consequence of his great
bulk he does not look specially tall when walk
ing alone.
1T is believed in Canadian official circles that
the Prince of Wales will reach Montreal the first
week in March, and stay i'll America Until the
Science Association meeting in 1884, making a
journey through the United States and the far
Northwest.
DoRE's life was almost free from feminine in
! fluences. Apart from his mother, no woman
seems TO have filled any prominent place in his
life. The greatest defect in his talent rather
curious ,Oid in it, was his inability to do JUS
tice to female beauty
A LADY of high social position in London
!
ors of Mr.. Wilde Will be glad to know that upon
his return London with his pile of American
dollars he placed precisely half of the amount
in the hands of his mother"
1T is reported that Mrs. Langtry, at the end
of her theatrical engagement. intends to take up
her permanent abode in New York city. She
has recently been the purchaser of real estate
there, and the purpose of her present visit is to
complete the legal forms OF the transfer of the
property.
! SARAH BERNHARDT is disconsolate. Her hus-
band, having left the stage because his talent
was not of the highest order, offered himself to
his country for service in Algiers, but
/ jected by the medical examiners and has
turned. Her jewels brought very little, and,
mean while, her family is about to be augmen ted.
| Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE and daughter
we're guests at recent ball at Jackson vile, Fla
She asked newspaper correspondent if an &C.
count of the ball would be sent to Northern
papers. eyes, and shall says Mrs. Stowe was
at the ball. She put up her hands in mock
pleasantly and remarked: "What will the dea-
cons say9'
A GOOD many people may still remember Mr..
George 8. Phillips, who, about twenty years ago.
was the literary editor of the Chicago Repub-
lican. Many of his friends have long thought
| that he was dead, but on Tuesday 1t was learned
that he is still an inmate of the Morristown, N.
j., Insane Asylum, where he was placed ten
years ago
| AN English society paper says that Mrs. Hicks
Lord Is shortly to be married to a wealthy noble
man Of England. "She is WORTH" it says,
"e2 600, 900 herself, and has survived three hus-
bands-Mr Hicks, Mr.. Lord and Mr.. Charles
O'Conor, an eminent lawyer. 1t is not known
whether she is marrying for love or in the inter
est of some cemetery association"
| MARY IRENE HoYT. daughter of the late Jesse
Hoyt. committed to the Friends Insane Asylum,
near Philadelphia, in juno last, has been re-
leased pronounced sane. She SAYS she was put
out of the way to keep her from her fathers
death bed and will contest his will on the ground
of undue influence. The physicians certificate
upon which Miss Hoyt was committed was not
filed, and the physicians are cited to the court
TO explain.
| GOVERNOR BUTLER was shown through the
White House on Monday, and intimated that he
would like to occupy it only four years. He next
visited the Capitol and spent half an hour on
the House floor talking to members. He Incl
dentally mentioned that he had been to the
White House, and Democratic member asked
"Governor, will Mcdonald find it necessary to
make any repairs in the building In 1851" The
Governor smiled sickly.
A WOMAN was the only passenger in Montana
stage except her baby, whom she wrapped in
her fur cloak, leaving herself unprotected from
the zero temperature. The driver saw that she
was benumbed and would freeze to death unless
aroused to violent exercise. He dragged her
from the coach and left her by the roadside
"Oh, my babyi" she cried Tho driver cracked
his whip The stage flew over the snow with
the woman running after. The race was kept
| up for nearly two miles, when the driver took
| the mother IN again and wrapped his coat
around her. He had warmed her blood and
saved her life.
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