The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08
ABOUT PEOPLE.


ANGLoMANIA has got to the point that we have
a Guelph Club here.
The Albany Express calls the Albany Journal
apolitical grass widow.
Mrs. AGAssIZ, the naturalist's widow, is trying
to raise 100000 for the Harvard "Annex."
JESSE and Ulysses Grant, jr., spending the
winter III the South of France with their wives.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE will visit this
country late In the summer, on invitation of the
New York bar.
NINE. WILSON, President Grevys only child.
has recently become the Mother of a little girl
the first child 1t is said ever born in the Elysee
Palace.
MRS. LANGTRY announces that Mr.. Gebhardt
will be her manager next season; also, that
celebrated dramatic author has taken her
measure for new play.
ARuNAH HUNTINGTON who died recently at
Brentford, Ont, bequeathed 100000 to the
State of Vermont, without directing how the
munltlcent gift should be applied.
HENRY HIGHLAND GAKNETT's burial spot at
Morrovio, Liberia, is to be marked by a monu-
mental shaft, for the erection of which money
is being subscribed in this country.
THE Comte de Chambord is winning popular
favor in Paris by having distributed among the
poor free bread tickets bearing his coat-of-arms.
The plan works better than Plon- Plon's posters.
CHRISTINE NILSSON says that the criticism of
Mrs. Langtry is unfair; that Sergeant Ballatyne
has no right TO abuse her, for he does not bear
good reputation as gentleman, if he is great as
a barrIster
EX-PREsIDENT MARK HOPKINS isnow eighty
one years of age, yet he is active and vigorous,
as is shown by the fact that he is now delivering
a course of six lectures at Princeton College,
which were prepared this winter.
SENATOR TABOR is going to spend his winters
in Washington in the future. Ha will build him
a residence in a fashionable quarter, and he
don't care what it will cost. 1t VIII be gorgeous
but not gaudy, as the monkey said when he
painted the cats tail skybu
CHARLES READE, the ambidextrous novelist,
is a believer in scrap-books. and has volumes OF
newspaper clippings properly indexed and
shelyed for reference. DIR. Tamage obtains
many illustrations for his Sunday gymnastic
entertainment in the same way, and Henry
Ward Beecher has trunks full of newspaper
WAITS.
THE Vienna Tagblatt says that Madame Wag
ner laid the body of her husband Ill the coffin
herself. She cut off her long, beautiful wavy
hair, which he so much admired, and placed it
in a red satin cushion, which she put under his
head. She allowed only the family physician
and two others TO assist her in preparing tho
body for burial.
JOSEPH Cooks Boston audiences are good
that when ne asks all who were Christians TO
rise, the entire company of probably 5000
persons stood up. Then he asked those who
were not converted at time of special religious
awakening and effort to sit down. Those who
remained standing were estimated at four
seventies of the whole number.
Ono Con- .NsNsfc iaO Of oir
of Athens. 1t is built of white marble and
adorned with numerous statues of the same ma
terial. He and his wife talk ancient Greek to-
gether, and have called their two children An
dromachi and Agamemnon. Around the pro-
lessor circuates large body of erudite Germans
lin fact the Teutonic element is omnipotent In
the Hellenic capital
LONDON Truth: "And Sarah2 Seriously, you
have not had enough of Sarah2 No! Well,
Damala has not enlisted. He has been
moned back to the conjugal domicile; his debts
are TO be paid; the bald man of the Gaulois is to
be kicked out; and Sarah %, this Is very deli
cate!-Sarah hopes soon to augment the pOpula-
ton of the Fatherland. This is authentic-until
tomorrow morning"
HIS Grace the Duke of Norfolk, premier duke
of England. tried to enter Palace Yard, London,
during the Bradlaugh demonstration at the
opening of Parliament, but was prevented by
policeman, who didn't recognize him. In vain
the Duke revealed his august identity. "You
peer2" cried the guardian of the law; "You're no
peer; you're Bradlaughite." And the Duke had
to give it up bad job.
BRADY, the Washington photographer says
that when he removed from New York to the
capital, some thlrty-five years ago, friend told
him 30 be sure to secure the portrait of Alexan-
der H. Stephens, already n prominent Southern
representative, for his gallery. "You must Sc
cure him soon,' he said, "for he is an invalid
and he won't live long" Yet Mr.. Stephens lived
long enough to bury a full generation after leav-
ing his negative with Brady.