The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-13
ABOUT PERSONS.

PETROLEUM v Massey and A. P. Knutt are IL
Paris, working out an emotional and sensational
drama, in which Miss Leona Dare, the we'll
known Goddess of the Air." is shortly to anton
ish the Parislans.
DURING the last fifteen years the Baltimore
Am erican has been defendant in libel suits ag-
gregating damages over 100000. The sum
which the aggrieved parties have actually re-
ceived reaches just $500.
QUEEN YICToRIA's Park estate on the Harrow
road has 2.173 comfortable houses let to work
men, laborers and railway men. On the Shaftes-
bury estate are 200 dwelling-houses rented; on
an average Gig persons live in one house.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND lives in Twenty
third street, New York, and makes $4,000
year writing about people just he pleases.
Nevertheless he is described as "dignified and
unobtrusive." We all change we grow old.
JUDGE GRIFFEY, of Nebraska, has resigned
from the bench because his horse is dead. "Old
Doll" had carried him through the war, and
afterward on all his hunting and judicial
journeys He said that he was too old to break
in new steed.
IT is stated that John Brown caught his death
Of cold while investigating Lady Florence
Dixies strange story of the alleged attack made
on her in the grounds near Windsor Castle. 1t
must be comfort to Lady Florence to know
that the story really led to something.
Mr.. WYNDHAS, the English actor now play
ing i'll America, was attached to the staff Of
General Banks from 1862 10 1864. Some of
his former comrades met him on his arrival
at Rochester, N. Y, the other night and gave
him formal reception, with speeches and the
like.
LABoUCHERE, who has faculty of picking up
interesting bits of English court gossip, asserts
lad tn ba
shp-general of Canada for four months to
Gomez" but that Lorne's successor will be neither
Lord Wolseey, Mr.. Foster nor the Duke of Al
bany.
"IHAvE always been polite to wise women and
indulgent to foolish Ones" said Father Hyacinthe,
when interrupted by woman during one of his
public lectures at Marseies. AS the excitement
continued, he boldly addressed his tumultuous
enemies drunken savages" and revolution
aries of the worst type"
THE practice of keeping night lights in chill
dren's bedrooms is pronounced very injurious
by DIR. r. H. Blackwell. Instead of allowing
the optic nerves the perfect rest afforded by
darkness, the light keeps them in perpetual
stimulation, with the result of causing the
brain and the rest of the nervous system to
suffer-
REV. DIR. MARK HOPKINS, ex-president of Will
can bestow. He is more than eighty years old.
AS a college professor he has been successful
as most men in his line of business. Twenty
five years ago he was considered a great au
thorty In moral science. He is now visiting in
Washington.
TIE story is told of Mrs. Croly C"Jennie June")
that she was intrusted by her mother with her
entire living. ST., 600, to invest. By the failure
of q bank the amount was lost. Mrs. Croly
made no mention of the loss to her mother, but
set to work to replace the sum from her own
earnings, meanwhile regularly paying the inter-
est In several years the heroic task was COM
pleted.
HERR MAX BRUCH, the distinguished German
composer who arrived ct New York on Tuesday,
Is man of medium height, but his thick-set fig
ure makes him appear somewhat short. His
head is large and his face broad. He is bald on
the top of his head, but long fringe of wavy,
brown hair falls upon his neck. short brown
beard surrounds his typical German face, The
eyes are small and gray, and in conversation
twinkle with good humor.
MRS. LIvERMoRE told lunch party in Detroit
of Bronson Alcotts extreme admiration for his
talented daughter Louisa, and how he made her
his frequent theme in conversation. Miss Alcott
disliked this paternal trait, and on occasion,
when he began his usual praises, she said
sharply: DRY up, father; people will think you
are paid to go about and advertise me-" "But
she can talk as smoothly her philosophic
father" Mrs Livermore added, ''about the thing
ness Of the here and the why of every where
fore"
BELFAST claims Mrs. Langtry of its own, who
has all the points of beauty Oscar Wilde accords
to that lady She is worker in Carriers mills
there, and comes from Black Rock, near Cork.
So surprising is her beauty that thousands
daily await her departure from the mill, thus
compelling the manager to allow her to leave
half an hour before the other workers. The other
day she went into a store in Belfast to buy pair
of boots, and enormous crowd gathered that
the police had to be brought out in force to dis
perse them.
DURING WILSON'S recent visit to the White
House she made dead set at Justice Grey, of
the Supreme Court The Judge like most elder
ly men who have lived single life, is diffident
in the society of ladies, and the more attentive
Nilsson, the more embarrassed he. Finally she
became Disguised at his stammering replies to
her pretty sayings and told him he was no good,
and then ADDRESSED herself entirely to the Presi-
with much interest and amusement. 1t will be
a long time before Justice Grey will hear the
last of this little affair
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.