The Indianapolis journal., 1883-10-31
ABOUT PEOPLE.

TRUTH says that the late DIR. Begg, the leader
of the Puritanical section of the Scottish people,
has left his family 100000, the fruit of success
full stock gambling.
EDWARD MCCLINTocK, who owned three
fourths of the present site of Denver. a few years
ago. disposed of it for pair of French calf boots,
| a pound of plug tobacco and burrO
A CONNECTICUT woman has written to the
Emperor of Brazil and asked him II he won't
please emancipate the slaves of that country.
If Dom Pedro he a courteous gentleman, how
can he refuse such requestf
A CURIOUS incident of Mr.. Gladstone's recent
visit to the Orkneys was that while all the shops
save one in Kirkwall were closed in his honor,
he and his party literally patronized that one,
the keeper of which was "stern, unbending
Tory"
THERE are at present one hundred and twenty
newspapers in the United States of which the
! publishers, editors and chief contributors are
negroes. The Oldest Of them is the Elevator, OF
San Francisco, which has alreody attained It's
eighteenth year.
| On state occasions the Emperor Dom Pedro
wears n long cape made entirely of the breast
feathers of a rare South American bird. These
| feathers are bright orange-cOlored, wonderfully
fine and glossy, and it takes the breasts Of cne
hundred birds to make cape.
HE uOWdStf OuCuoSS VI hupuITuSo 10 III
trouble over the will of her husband, Stirling
Crawford, the great sporting and betting man.
She claims upward OF 100000, while his rela-
tives declare that the poor man was too feeble
to think even TO sign his will.
THE Vicar of Walzall, England. the Rev. r.
Hodgson NJ. A, after profound researches, has
reconciled science and religion by the remark
able discovery, which he recently announced in
a public lecture, that pre-Adamite remains are
nothing more nor less than fossil angels.
A GOOD story is told of General Eckert in con-
ncction with the recent strike OF the telegraph
operators. He was appealed to by Gould, Sage,
and others, as to what policy to take in regard
to informing the public as to the condition of af-
fairs. "In emergency always tell the TRUTH"
said General Eckert.
| THE London Times accredits America with
more genuine love for literature than England
possesses. "The Americans" saws this critic,
"as "A nation. more active-minded than we,
though they fall short of us in s0lidity and
stamina. They genuinely fond of litera-
ture, and literary men are, perhaps, more highly
valned than here. Nothing literary is really
popular in England, except fiction, gossip and
sermons"
QUEEN ISABELLA, who has spent much of her
time and all her money in Paris, is furious with
the reception given to her son, with whom sheis
now ON excellent terms She is about to dispose
of her hotel in the Pare Monceau. and shake the
dust of Paris off her feet, proceeding which all
would regret, except her husband, who would
| thus be spared the formality Of leaving his card
once a year at her ex-MaIesty's residence. Is
mail Pasba is said TO have offered good round
sum for the establishments.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GREsHAM's office is on
the third floor of the Postotfice building. His
IL.
TWO windows, is directly behind his chair. He
sits in u common cane-seated chair, and gives a
visitor seat at his side in leather-covered
Turkish cushioned chair and all other furniture
in the room is walnut, leather-covered. The
floor is covered with plain mating. In writing
signing his name, simply, ali his correspondence
being dictated to a secretary-Mr. Gresham uses
plain steel pen.
FRIEND of Mrs Howgate says that from a
once proud position in Washington society she
and her attractive daughter have been reduced
to the necessity of seeking employment where
ever 1t may be found in order to gain liveli-
hood Miss Howgate earns a small salary copy
ing for some legal firms. When Howgate fed
from the officers he took with him some $4,000
in bonds, which his daughter owned in her own
right, and turned over to her erring father at
home to aid him in making good his escape from
the clutches of the law.
In England absurd fashion has set in of un-
dervaluing pictures as ornaments for a room.
Tho room itself, say the apostles of the new dis
pensatiOn. must be d picture. Nothing but
decorative art is permissible An art patron
not long since got well-known decorator to
produce an ideal dining roOm When it was
finished he asked: where shall put my pic
turcsl" The reply was: "Your pictures would
spoil the room. You must build gallery" and
the art decorator laughed scornfuly when the
poor householder pleaded: "But bought my
pictures to live withy Fewer and fewer pic
lures are now hung on English walls
ALLEN G. THGRMAN and his wife are in Wash
ington. He looks very gray and feeble He
can hardly walk, he suffers so much from rheu-
mausm. He has heen able to argue several
cases in the Supreme Court. His wife, who is
with him, is his very opposite She is small.
gen tlefaced and quiet. as if her every ambi-
tion in this life had been satisfied. There is
hardly line in her peaceful face, shaded
upon each side by a bunch OF handsome gray
curls. Her look of content tells more than
words of hef enjoyment of private life. Mr..
Thurman says he has no future ambitions; but
that is what all OLD men say when they are re-
tired.
Mr.. HOWARD KRETSCHMER has made, for the
Union Veteran Club, of Chicago Il clay model
for "A marble bust of General Sheridan, which is
said to be a capital likeness. The club had hard
work to induce the General to sit for tho sculp-
tor, as he said he was tired of being caricatured,
all previous attempts of sculptors and painters
having been unsatisfactory 1t is, Indeed, re-
! lated that once Mrs. Sheridan became 80 thor
Oughly disgusted with n portrait OF her nus
band, paint ell NY an artist not unknown to fame,
that she drove to the Generals headquarters