The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MR.. BENEFITS cottage at Newport has been
taken by Lord and Lady Vaudeville for the sum-
mer season.
MISS ANNIE GEsANDNER, of Milwaukee, is
probably the only woman switch tender in the
United States.
THE income the Pope could have from the
Italian government, If he chose to take the
money, is $65O,O0O.
BECAUSE of the stiffness of his finger joints,
the Able Liszt has determined never again to
play the piano IN public.
MRS PARTINGToN, dear old lady, says that
there are very few people nowadays who suffer
from "suggestion of the BRAIN"
THE proprietors of the New York Graphic
have taken the necessary legal steps to start a
daily illustrated paper in Chicago.
THE King of Bavaria has appointed niece Of
the late Richard Wagner to be "Royal Professor
of the School of Music" this being the first ap-
pointment of the kind which has ever been given
in Germany to a lady.
FEMALE education is advancing in India in a
manner which few could have anticipated ten
years ago. Two young ladies of Bengal have, at
the last examination at the Calcutta University,
carried off their B. A. degrees with great credit.
Ex-Governor HoRATIo SEYMOUR, whose po-
litical career dates back fully forty years, will
be seventy-three years old on the 3lst of May.
He has one brother and four sisters, the young
est of whom, Julia, is the wife OF Roscoe Conk-
ling.
A LADY in Washington owns the wedding-vest
buttons and knee buckles of Light Horse Harry
Lee. They are made OF Opals. surmounted with
diamonds. She also has q piece of his watch
chain, which he broke one evening while waltz
ing with her grandmother.
GEORGE CABLE has made himself unpopular
| in New Orleans by his latest stories, and is az
cused of "pandering to the tastes of his North
ern patrons and admirers" and of nfuslng Unto
his works of fiction spirit of satire and ridicule
against Southern civilization"
MIR. WILLARD, in public talk at Seattle W.
T., the other day, said that he proposed to leave
New York in his private car next September,
and to ride without change from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. He expecus to be a passenger by
the first train over the Northern Pacific road.
THE late Charles W. Foster is said to have
been completely absorbed for a dozen years
past in the political fortunes of his son, the
Governor of Ohio. His ruling passion has been
to see him made chief executive of the Nation,
and he was often heard to say: "Could but see
Charles President would die happy"
THE Rev George F. Moore, of Putnam o.
who has been chosen to fill the chair OF Hebrew
is natural lingnst whose accomplishments
cannot be truthfully described without seeming
extravaganza. 1t is somewhat remarkable that
his wife has a knowledge of languages almost
equal to his own and is one of the two or three
ladies' in the United States who can speak
Arabic.
JOHN MITCHELL, the Irish patriot, was asked
by friend while here If he had ever viewed
Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. He re-
Piled in his broad accent: mo- sir; I've too
much respect for me neck to indulge in any such
curiosity. AS the Qneen keeps such a sharp
eye on me- IA view from the Falls from that
side would doubtless insure the prospect of
another fall which might not prove 80 epjoya.
BILE to me-"
HAMILTON 8. WHITE, Of SYRACUSE N. Y, "a
nephew Of President Andrew ID. White, and a
millionaire, amuses himself by going to all the
fires In that city, and the other day rescued two
children from Il burning house with the aid OF a
fireman. With his own money he built and sup
ports splenddy-equipped engne.hOuse, and Is
such a favorite with the fremen that he has
been elected assistant chief engineer OF the Ere
department.
RICHARD WHITEISG's Paris letter: general
De Ga llifet is always named when there is an
alarmist cry for a strong man to deal with the
mob. AS for him, he hates them ex-ofIlcio as a
noble, and with as little care TO conceal the feel
ing as COriOlanus. He showed 1t openly, re-
member at the marriage of his daughter, two or
three years ago. There was rumor that he
would be poignarded in the crowd. Some had