The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-27
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Miss MAUD HOWE is writing biography of
her mother Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
KAISER WILHELM and Bismarck look upon the
Crown Prince as dude. He is too domestic and
affects art too mucb.
IT makes the average Cincinnati girl mad to
call her "artless creature" Cincinnati is the
art center, you know.
GLADLY JIM" the Piutes' "squaw man." died
recently. Having refused to fight with his tribe
at Pyramid lake, in 1860, he was condemned
ever after to wear petticoats.
COLONEL INGERsoLL recently received letter
from an Ohio man, covering ninety pages of
foolscap, pasted end to end The writer wished
to have friendly argument with the nfidel.
Miss ALICE FREEMAN, president of Wellesley
College, is slight and girlish in figure, with a
youthful face. She is doctor of philosophy,
and at the head of a college five hundred strong.
AMOS HARMED, who has been in the Associated
Press office at New York about a quarter of a
century, says that the present agent Mr.. William
Henry Smith, is "the whitest man" who has
ever had the place.
MISS HoAR, whom Mr.. Bowles, the editor of
the Springfield Republican, is going to marry, is
tine original of one of Miss Louisa Alcott's "Lit-
tie Women" The Hoars and Alcotts are neigh
bors at Concord, Mass.
DIR. j. 81. MACCREARY, of Lancaster, Pa, sug-
gests that each public school pupil in that
STATE should contribute one cent for the cree
tion. in the capitol grounds at Harrisburg,
of monument to Thaddeus Stevens -"the
father Of the common school system OF Pennsyl-
vania.'
SENATOR DoLPH, of Oregon, is on his way to
Washington. His accommodations are rather
more crowded than BELTS Senator. The North
ern Pacific road has limited him to sleeping
Car, dining-car and car for sitting-room.
John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to reach Con-
gress on pack-mule.
THE Pail Mall Gazette asks: us Mr.. Matthew
Arnold the only one of the distinguished En-
glishmen now in the States who needed lessons
in elocuuonf The British public would owe
American audiences real debt of gratitude if
they could persuade Mr.. Irving also TO learn
how to speak English in a manner understood
OF the people,"
WILLIAM HENRY HUBERT is now happy in
England, says a letter writer. He may some
time stray to Brazil for he speaks Portuguese; to
Italy, Prussia, Spain, for he is familiar with
these languages and would still be at home;
but he will never exile himself by returning to
America. Hubert always as lonesome out
of England as John Keats was out of Greece.
WILLIAM ROGERS, the owner of Washingtons
headquarters at Tappan, New York, has found 1t
necessary to remove the tiles over the fireplace
in the parlOr to preserve them from theft. The
tiles of the most delicate workmanship.
They are eighty mine in number. The subject of
the first is the crucfxiou of Christ. Andres
prison, in another part of the old Dutch town,
where Washington was this month hundred
years ago, is in ruins
A FUNNY but thoroughly enjoyable feature of
the attentions paid at Ramsgate recently to Sir
Moses Montefore was the singing under his win
dow in the early morning by an admirably
trained choir of children. First they sang in
Hebrew the famous Jewish hymn of Moses, and
then "Rule, Britannia" which closed the pro-
gramme. as intended by the teachers who had
drilled the choir But the little fellows had not
got their blood up and their voices in tune for
nothing, and so finale they burst out with;
"For he's jolly good fellow, which nobody can
deny"
LORD WEMYss, better known as Lord Elcho.
came into great wealth last year at the death of
his father, and is building a magnificent house
at Amsfield, not far from Edinburgh. This
property, with a vast amount of money, came to
the family in the last century by the marriage
of Lord Wemyss with the heiress of the infa-
nous Colonel Charters, who, after being
drummed out of the army for cheating at cards,
became usurer, a keeper of houses of ill-fame,
and would certainly have been hanged but for
the intiuerce exerted for him. Pope and Ho-
garth have handed him down TO lasting igno-
miDy,
London letter In New York World: at is
whispered in the inner royal circle and more
loudly talked OF by the world at largo that
Prince Albert Victor's sudden departure for
Cambridge is accounted for by his having fallen
desperately in love with the young beauty, Miss
Frsl N I
pleasing to the Prince of Wales, who himself
considers the young American the most charm
ing girl as well as the greatest beautyin Europe,
and instantly decided his eldest son had much
better pursue his studies at Cambridge. Miss
Chamberlayne may well feel flattered at having
so completely captlvated the heir apparent and
the h, ir presum ptive to the English throne"
Ii HUNG SHANG, who is at present playing so
important part, has in his time played many,
his acts being seven principal stages, In 1853
when thirty. he employed TO drill the
Chinese troops. He was made Governor OF
Thiang-Sin about decade later, and in the re-