The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-12
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COLONEL NIcHoLAs SMITH, "the handsomest
man in the United States" has perfectly snow
white hair.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY has been elected president
of the Royal Society, London, the choice being
unanimous.
MILE. THEo, IN an interview with one of the
Paris reporters, said: "The journalists and crit
les of New York city are very jovial, very bright
and very chic, but they all seem very fond Of
weska."
PROFESSORS for eleven different chairs or de-
%partments in colleges, polytechnic schools ard
other institutions of higher learning in the Unit
ed States, have recently been chosen from the
alumni OF the University of Virginia.
IT IS now seriously announced that neither
Mr.. Abbey nor Mr.. Mapleson will have Patti
next season, for she has received such tempting
offers for engagements at st. Petersburg thai
she has decided to spend the winter there.
MISS LOUISA DE IA RAME c'Ouida'D is serious
ly ill at Florence. Overwork and a slight touch
OF Roman fever, to which her constitution has
hitherto been impervIous, have affected her
brain, aud she is now in strict seclusion and un-
der careful treatment.
I'D. Jones, OF Durham, N. c., has in his posses
sion a long, black whisky bottle out of which
Generals johnson and Sherman took their last
drink after signing the articles of the surrender
on the 26th Of April, 1865. This bottle was left
with Mrs. Bennett, who lives four miles west Of
Durham. where johnson surrendered.
THE statement that Mr.. George w. Childs, of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, mad purchased
the Germantown Telegraph from its veteran ed
iuor, Major Philip R. Freas, is incorrect. Mr..
Henry ". Raymond, for many years connected
with the Chicago Tribune as it's literary editor,
has purchased the Telegraph, and MI. Childs has
guaranteed the sale.
IF the new Duke OF Marlborough should soon
drink himself to death, or break his neck, and
his son would drown himself for sorrow-or joy,
either-then Lord Randolph Churchill would be
Duke of Marlborough, aud his wife (nee Jennie
Jerome, of New York; would be Duchess of
marlborough These contingencies make some
American snobs hold their breath.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has been charmed by
Mount Tacoma, in Washington Territory. ~
have been through the SWISS mountains" he
says, "and [ am compelled to own that, incredi-
BILE as the assertion nay appear. there is abso-
lutely no comparison between the finest effects
that are exhibited there ana what is seen in APP
preaching this grand isolated mountain"
PRINCE ~BIsMARCK's manner of eating aston
ishes the critics. He dimes not wisely, but too
well, it is said. His appetite is not oaly gigan-
tic, but 1t Is satisfied at irregular intervals.
Sometimes, when he is much absorbed in affairs
of state, he eats nothing TO speak of for a couple
of days. Then he makes up for his abstinence
by a feast of Homerio or Gargantuan proper
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SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia, is full of the un-
couth ways of his uncultured boy hood, and seems
to take pride in them. Thus, he will take up a
water-pitcher and drink directly from it, instead
of using a glass, even if he Is in public, and so
| on with an endless number of things calculated
to offend well-bred people. But perhaps they
make him popular among the great majority
who are not well bred.
SENATOR TABOR is said to be losing money rap
idly, and it is predicted that in five years he will
be as poor as he was when he came across the
plains in a wagon. A Denver capitalist says
Tabor Is spending a great deal and is making bad
Investments on all sides. A few years ago every
thing he touched turned, Midas-like, into gold.
Now the wheel of fortune seems to have turned
the other way, and instead of the prizes, he is
getting the blanks.
DONNA MARTINA CASTILLO, of Spain, who is of
the age as Mrs. Langtry, is as lovely as sine
is learned. She CONNER ced her studies when
she was nineteen. She has taken honors in
Latin, mathematics, history, physiology and ny
giene. She was made a bachelor % of arts in
1877, and selected medicine as her profession.
Slnee. then she has distinguished herself in
| anatomy, therapeutics and surgical pathology,
and has gained prizes in every branch of medical
science. Last year she received the title of licen-
tiate, and in October she was invested. at the
College of San Carlos, with the dignity of doc
tor. She is the first Spanish lady who has ever
gained the degree of medicine and surgery,