The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MRS DE LONG, widow of the Inflated Arctic
explorer. will sail for Europe in few days.
THE late John Richard Green, the English his
tofian, only left personal estate Of about $751;
OcO.
Miss MARY KRUM is principal Of the Denver
School Of Mines, and is assayist and geologist
of the first class
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH, having completed his
course of lectures on English history at Cornell
University, has returned to Toronto.
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, though very old, is pre-
pairing to come to this country, where he has
not been since he came with Jenny Lind.
PHILIP PHILLIPS, "the sweet singer" has
started for Amsterdam, intending to give there
a hundred 'song services" during the Worlds
Fair.
MRS. LANGTRY has rooms engaged at the
United States, Saratoga. for ten days in July,
and for about the same length Of time at the
Ocean House, Newport.
JUDGE HOLMES, of St Louis, noted for his ef
fort TO prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare"
Is about to remove to Cambridge, Mass, and
will pass the remaining years of Ills life in lite
rary pursuits.
j. WILLIS MENARD was the first oolored man
to enter Congress-the Fortieth. He is of creole
descent. and was born in Illinois in 1888. he Is
at present the editor and proprietor of the Key
West (Fls.) News.
THE publishers of the London Pictorial World
have shown their apprec iation of an Americana
artist by paying Mr. E, A. Abbey $4,000 for a
water-color drawing, to be reproduced for the
midsummer-holidayn number of that journal.
LONDON TRUTH: "In America every actress
aspiring to any line beyond medioority aspires
to Camille. 1t is the summit of her ambition. 1t
Ia;e
is with us. Here they all make for Juliet; there
they go for Camille"
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD now expects to visit
months, beginning in October. Nothing is posi-
lively settled, but Mr.. Arnold is disposed to yield
to strong representations which he has lately
received from America.
THE Long Island railroad system comprises
352 miles, stocked at $10,000,O00 and mort
gagged at about $4,000 900, and earning three
quarters of a million year. 1t employs nearly
1000 hands. The Manhattan Beach railroad
has S. 900 900 of stock, 81 ZOO, 900 of debt, and
earns net about $3.50. 900 a year.
R. B. BROWNING, the son of the poet, who is
studying sculpture In Paris, ia now completing a
group representing Apollo in the form of
serpent wooing the nymph Every day his
studio is occupied by a professional snake
charmer, a real Hindoo master of the art, who
spends his time In company with large tame
boa-constriotor.
1t is believed that Lydia Pinkhams advertise
ments were on a greater scale than those of any
one, Holloway, of London, excepted, whose
charitable endowments amount to S95O,OOO
Newspapers can be seen at Holloway's which can
be found nowhere else in London, those con-
tanning his advertisements are forwarded from
the remOtest parts Of the globe.
THERE was in Texas an in1del named Won
schleumbacb. He organized many infidel clubs
in various parts of the country. At last he
went into Methodist meeting in Texas, and
was converted Then he studied for the minis
try, and was ordained. He is now In Berlin,
preaching the gospel with great success He
has occupied halls In six different parts of the
city, aud he always draws large congregations.
DIsGRACEFUL hoax was played o few days
since on the Rev. F. Metcalf. curate OF st. Bar
tholomew's Church, Clay Cross, In England.
When about to administer the sacrament, the
reverend gentleman poured the contents of the
wine bottle into the silver cup. 1t was then
found that the wine had been distracted and ink
substituted. The trick was at once detected,
and when another bottle had been procured the
service proceeded.
"I HEARD Victor Hugo" says London Truth,
sin dinner-table chat about elective affinities,
say that he had his mind from the German side
of Franoe-Lorraine and the Franche Comte-
but.that his sensibilities came to him from Brit
tany. 1t was they that governed his tastes and
leanings. He often admired women OF the Teu-
tonic and Anglo-saxon races. but he could not
say that his heart olave to any of them. The
New England women, he thought, would be i'm
proved IL softened by faint dash of African
blood. Whenever he fell in love, he was sure to
discover that thesobject of his passion a Celt.
His wife was Breton, and his faithful friend,
Mime. Drouet, was from ia Bretague breton
nante"