The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.

WESTERN paper refers to one of Ben. Buffers
oratoricai references to himself as can Ossa of
cheek heaped upon Peon of gall.'
| MR. TENNYsoN has written for the Youths
Companion. of Boston, what is said TO be beau
tiful lyrie-the best piece Of work which he has
done for some years.
Mr.. E. P. wHIPpLE, who, twenty odd years
ago. was the most popular essayist in America,
and who known as ''Whipple, the Essayist,"
is seldom seen outside of his Boston house. He
! is sixty-four years old.
| THE new Japanese minister is quite ILL., Per-
sons acquainted at the legation say that his ill
| ness is entirely due to inconsistencies He has
! led the life of a reclpse since he has been in
Washington, hardly leaving the house in three
months.
IT is reported that Mgr. Capel Will soon be ap-
pointed Archbishop of Sydney, and that his debts
will be paid by wealthy Catholic peer. The
Monsignor's debts were chiefly contracted In
| furthering benevolent enterprises. and not in
! betting on horse-races, as some people suppose.
| ISABELLA became Queen of Spain on Sept. 20,
1888 She fled from that throne and took
refuge in France on Sept 20, 1868. And her
son, King Alfonso, was hooted at by a mob in
the streets of Paris on Sept. 90, 1888 There's
announcement for people who believe in omens
and fatal days.
NJ. DE STRIVE, the Russian minister, and his
wife, have with them in Washington little Jap
anese boy, who is being educated with their
own children. They brought him with them
from Japan, when they left there In the spring
of 1882, at the request of his parents, who
wished him to be well educated.
NJ. CIESIENCEAU has no craving for petty mo-
toriety, and inQuisitive interyiewers who seek
to learn the details of his home and family life
| find no welcome at his modest bourgeois house,
He ls known to be man of simple tastes and
aostemious habits, however, allowing himself
excessive indulgence in only two Jhings-coffee
and cigars.
MR.. JOHN WANAMAKER has been president OF
the Philadelphia Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton for the past thirteen years, during which
time he has contributed to the funds of the insti.
tuition about $1,000 Feeling that other du-
ties demand his time and attention. he has
just resigned all official connection with the as
sociation. He has. however, undertaken to Sc
cure funds for the enlargement of the associa-
ton library, ana has already raised @1, 900 for
that object.
THE cable announces that Mr.. Lewis Cohen, of
London, has been exempted from duty on a
coroner's jury because he is lineal descendant
of the high priest Aaron. This will work revo-
luton in London legal proceedings; for, accord
ing to the orthodox Hebrew law. interpreted
~
hen" meaning priest-are the descendants of
the Levites OF whom Aaron was one, who have
the right, in certain matters of ceremonial, be-
! fore al! others.
| COUNT Won MoLTKE celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday on Friday. He is staying on
his estate at Kressau, in Silesia. His life ie
very simple. He receives friends in the morn
ing, plays whist In the afternoon aud works in
the evening, criticising the papers submitted to
him by the heads of departments and writing on
the margin notes remarkable for their beauty of
style and precision Of thought. Next to the
Emperor, Count Won Moltke is the most popular
man In Germany. His birthday is national
holiday.
PROFESSOR NEWTON, of Yale College, an
swered reporters question, "Why was the
seventy fifth meridian chosen on the Atlantic
coast IN the new time system9" thus because
the Philadelphia meridian, the one to be conve-
nienty used, ran the closest to the center of the
population of the country. have reckoned it
that, including the places which but from
ten to fifteen minutes distant from the seventy
fifth meridian, thereis population of more than
twelve million people along it in the United
States"
SARAH BERNHARDT's husband has at last made
a genuine hit on the Paris stage in Feulet's
| "Parisian Romance" He will soon, however,
run foul of a romance of another kind. in real
life, for M. Mayer going to bring suit against
him and Sarah for $25, 900, for breach of con-
| tract, with a good prospect of winning If
Mayer does win, Damala won't be able to pay
the damages, and Sarah says that rather than
pay them she would go to prison with her hus-
band even at the risk of there effecting a recon
Citation with him.
MEssRs. MOODY and sankey, whose arrival in
Ireland has been announced, are expected to ar
rive in London early next month, and will at
once commence six months mission in the
metropolis. The first OF the series of their serv-
ices will be he.d at the Priory grounds, Isling
ton, where large temporary building capable
of accommodating 5000 persons is being
erected. The builders have likewise the con-
tract for the erection of similar temporary
places for the of the American revivalists in
wandsworth, stepney. srratford. Croydon, and
other places in the metropolis.
NoIIKE is as good a letter writer as Nine. de
Sevigne, aud he sent some particularly charm
ing letters from the East to his sister, who had
IN FRIED an Eugshman settled in Holstein-a
Mr.. Burt. Mics Mary Burt, daughter OF Mr..
Burt by former marriage, was especially moved
by them; and. when the warrior came home his
thirty-nine winters were not considered a fatal
| objection TO union with girl of but sixteen sum
mers. 1t the happiest of matches. She
died in 1868 Christmas eve, and 1t was
revelation to men to see how Moltke sorrowed.
| Often now he can be observed at his country
seat vending his way. in the gray of the even
ing, towards his wife's tomb-a plain marble
monument on the summit of a little hill, crowned
with cypress
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE relates this of himself:
1.-TWO clergymen seated themselves close to him.
They were reading two novels of his. and began
discussing them. Here said one, lis that Arch
deacon whom we have had in every novel ne
has ever written 'And here,' said the other,