The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-25
ABOUT PEOPLE.

THERE is undisputed proof that one Of the
latest acoessions to the British ministry Is a
kleptomaniac.
sALvINI said that he studied Lear for Ave
years; but he is not satisfied with his conception
of the character.
PARsoN In Philadelphia publishes marriage
notice with this additions: "No fec for the min
lister. Empty envelope dodge"
THE Emperor William intends to appoint the
Prince of Wales Chief of the Butcher Hussars as
a memento of his visit to Berlin.
THE Marquis of Lorne does not travel free.
The transportation expenses of his party from
Louisville to Richmond were $3.50.
MIR. LABoUCHERE expresses his contempt for
the extra polite word "unwisdom" which is
creeping into general journalistic use.
THE Hon. Montgomery Blair has just pur-
chased the estate OF his deceased father at Silver
Spring, Md. II contains SID acres, and cost him
$4,000.
SCI HAVE so thoroughly enjoyed this life"
writes NJ. Renan In the Revue des Deux Mondes
shat really have no right to claim compen
sation on the other side of the grave"
PROFESSOR r. A. PROCTOR, having exhausted
the heavens, is going to strike in on the pyra-
mds in q new book published this week, and
now the mystery is sure to be explained.
sert that they have a human hand floating
in mid air above one of the hotels In that city,
and say that 1t augurs destruction by fire.
TRAMPs carry chalk not to mark gateposts, as
has been generally supposed, but to cure the
heartburn, a form of dyspepsia to which the
tramp's irregular meal makes him subject.
1T is rumored that the Duke and Duchess of
Conraught will pay visit TO the United States
after the return of the former from India,
where he will serve for one year with his regi-
ment ...--i
A GERMAN authoress whom Alphonso Daudet
has in his household to instruct his two sons has
furnished the incidents from her own life on
which his reooent novel, "L'Evangelist," is
founded.
Miss JENNIE E. DAVIS who has been chosen to
the head of the female department of Liberia
College, Liberia, was graduated at the Girls
High-sohoOl Boston, ten years ago, and has since
been teaching in Missouri.
THE Chronicle says that two old women APP
piled at the city poor office at Rochester for aid.
Their needs were supplied. Encouraged by
their success, they made bold to ask for two
tickets % the theater that evening.
WASHINGTON special: Miss Green, whom COS
sip has 1t, and it Is accepted as fact in circles
likely to know, is to be the beautiful bride of
acting Xice-president Davis, President of the
Senate, leaves in a day or two for her North Car
ohna home.
The most aspiring men known are the Wen.
nese, who are so prone to balioOning that the
authorities have announced that married men
who desire to take aerial voyages cannot do so
until they have received the consent of their
wives and children.
THERE is an undergrown lad in New York
who has been the faithful nurse of feeble
mother ever since he was five years of age, and
in the twelve years of his devotion he has never
spent more than half an hour az time outside
of the darkened chamber.
AT the recent fire In the Cambridge, Mass,
carshops, one of the engineers wanted help In
raising ladder, and, seeing a man standing on
the sidewalk near by. ne called to him, "Here
you, give us lift" The man responded with
alacrity, and a moment later, when the engineer
took better look at him, he discovered that
his assistant was President Eliot, of Harvard
University. An apology was begun, but tho