The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.


-. sSk. PACKARD, the president of Bowdoin Col
lege, says that he never was sick day in his
life. His age is eighty.four years.
1T is recalled by those who were at Wiesbaden
| in the spring of last year that Hicks Pasha was
for several weeks stopping there with his fam
lily, and that he was known as 1.-The handsome
Colonel"
/ MIR. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT, Mr.. ]. P. Nor
gan, Miss C. L. Wolf, Mr.. John Jacob Astor and
Mr.. william Aston have each subscribed SIC, 900
to the Bishop Potter fund.
| THE denial by Miss Jennie Flood, the daughter
of the California millionaire, that she is engaged
to marry an English peer recalls the fact that
she once refused New Yorker because, as she
contelLptuously told him, he had not energy
enough to spatter the mud on his trousers in
rainy weather. ..r
| OLIVER DALRYMPLE, of the famous Dalrym-
pie wheat farm, is described as a typical "Uncle
Sam" in appearance. His face is "peaked," his
hair long He wears big white hat and old
fashioned farmers Clothes and might be mis-
| taken for a New England shoolmaster trans
planted to the Northwestern prairies
ARTHUR PEEL. who is announced as the COM
ing speaker of the English House of Commons,
| is very presentable sort of a genteman-tall,
dignifed, and, witha good looking. Nor is
there any reason to believe that he is wanting
either in judicial calm or in decision, though, of
course, he has mnch to learn in the way of man
aging unruy members.
BEING cOmplmented by one of his interview
ers the other day, on his powers of eloqucnce,
the Spanish King said Il know speak with
bold and easy freedom That is gift derive
from nature. When came Spain as youth
of seventeen, had to make a speech on horse
back the first day of my arrival at Barcelona
ot m pVa al thaO
have always been able to speak"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Brooklyn Eagle
writes: "Those who make practice of study
ing the obituary notices must have been fire.
quently struck by the remarkable longevity of
the Friends L confident that the average
duration of life among them is greater than in
any other body, and the fact speaks most en-
phatically of the orderly, frugal and industrious
habits which are sedulously cultivated among
Friends.
PROSPECTIVE brides may be interested TO learn
that there are thlrty-two days in the year on
which it is unlucky to marry, according to the
authority of a manuscript dated in the fifteenth
century. These days are January l, 2, 4, ., z,
10, Is; February 6, 7, Is; March 1, g. 8: April
5, IL; May 3, 6. 7; June 7, L 81 July 3, 10; Au-
gust Is, 10; September g. 7; October 6; Novem-
Der Is, 16, and December Is, 16, II. Conse-
Der the best month in the year for marriage.
HERE is a httle story respecting Keats, just
published in the Pail Mall Gazetteer "Mss Char
lotte Reynolds tells me that he was passionately
fond of music, and would sit for hours while size
played the piano to him. 1t was to a Spanish air
which she used to play that the song Hush!
hush! tread SOFTLY, was composed; and so sensi-
tive was he to proper execution that when a
wrong note has been played in a public per
formance, he has been known to say that he
would like to go down in the orchestra and
smash all the fiddes'"
TIE London City Press records the death of
Mr. Henry Oxenrofd at the age of 100 years,
He the last survivor OF the official agents in
the Customs Long Room, Custom House. There
were, about sixty years ago, twelve of these
gentlemen, who were called the Twelve Apostles.
The Treasury being desirous of abolishing the
ancient privileges pertaining to the office of
agent, made an arrangement by which they
were Offered large PENSIONS seats in the Long
Room free of rent and charges in lieu of these