The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-20
ABOUT PEOPLE.
ASS0Ao I
America.


PROF. MoMMsEN, the historian, has for some
time been in very poor health.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA will spend the COM
ing winter in the West indies. His mother was
a native of Demarara.
MRS. LANGTRY appears in Mr.. BoswelPs mort
gage assignments as "Eme Charlotte Langtry,
OF the Island of Jersey"
Mr.. JOHN L. SULLIVAN says there is only one
difficulty about his business--hs hands are like
ly to strike at any time.
THE Empress of Russia has just ordered a
qtOak of sable fur trimmed with gold and en-
cirelod with precious stones, the whole cost be-
ingBplaced at $43,O
ANNA DICKINsoN's sister, Susan E., isn't max
ing much of a stir In the world. but does great
deal of good journalistic work for newspapers in
New York and elsewhere.
THE Emperor OF Brazil has given Prof LAGER
da 10000 for his very of permanganate of
potassium, hypodefncllly injected, as an anti
dOte for the bite of the COBRA
RALPH WALDO EMERSON says Of Edward Ev-
erett: HE had nothing in common with vulgari-
ty and infirmity bur, speaking. walking, sitting,
was as much aloof and uncommon as star"
MR.. TILDEN eats eight times day, "a little at a
time, with very little whisky and water, and
he takes phosphates. He still converses in a
cessity.
SIR MICHAEL COSTA has given to the Naples
Royal College of Music the manuscript scores of
four operas and four ballots and the baton used
by him for ten years. The baton is tipped with
a coral effigy of Garbadi
DIR. THOMAS DWIGHT. professor of anatomy at
Harvard College, and Sarah, daughter of the
late Oscar Iasigi, Turkish consul at Boston,
were married at st. Mary's (Catholic) Church,
Lynn, Mass, on Friday. More than 1000 peo-
pie witnessed the ceremony.
PHIL. ROBINSON says the Mormons would like
to hear Salt Lake City spoken of by its reformed
Egyptian name, "Deseret." for the name means
"the honey bee," and the MOrmons pride them
selves upon the symbol of the hive. In every
way MormOns would probably like to be spoken
of as they speak of themselves.
EXCHANGE: ga London Clergyman, the vicar
Of st. Jude's, Whiteohapel, has boldly attempted
to make Sunday a cheerful holiday as well as
holyday. On a recent Sunday he gave in the
playground of his parish an exhibition of choice
hot-house flowers. WOrkingmen and their fam
lilies made up the bulk of the visitors. and the
vicar believes that the unwonted sight of the
beautiful flowers had a humanizing effect on
them"
DEvOUT Moslems confidently predict the end
or the world on NOV. Sth, the close OF the Mo-
manned an thirteenth century. Tradition de-
clares that in the present moSh, during the
Ramadan fast, the sun shall rise in the west the
day of mercy and forgiveness shall cease, and
that of Judgment and retributiOn begin. Thus,
a proclamation has been issued from Mecca
warning all true believers to prepare for the
coming day, which has been widely rculated,
and has created great impression.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG did not think much of
the "royalty out Of employment" to be seen at
the European watering places. 81 couldn't for
the life of me help looking at them as so many
IL. The ex-Queen of Naples, sister to the En-
press of Austria, is "tall lank, ugly-looking
creature" who carried fan whether 1t was hot
or cold, wet or dry. She never spoke to any of
the guests at Houlgate, but every afternoon
after dinner went down TO the beach to cnat
with the bathiu g-hOuse attendants.
WHOLE series of unlucky accidents has
lately befallen the Austrian Imperial family,
Just as the Empress Elizabeth was passing on
horseback over a small bridge which spans a
torrent in tho Syrian Alps, near Murzsteg, a
plank way under the horses hOof. The
animal stumbled and threw his rider over his
head. On tho very same day, at the same hour
Archduke William brother of Arc hduke Albert,
while experimenting the cavalry exercises at
the camp of Bruok, was taken ILL., and fell in a
dead faint off his horse; and at the same mo-
meut the ATchduchess ClOtild6, wife Of Arch