The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-22
ABOUT PEOPLE,

E. SMALLEY describes the Princess of Wales
as ga vision of white loneliness"
MOSES, the fat girls widower, is making love
to the arlnless woman in Baltimore.
THE whisper of a beautiful woman can be
heard further than the loudest call of duty.
RED bamboo canes with enormous silver
heads carried to the opera by the swels.
THERE twenty female neutrality-suspicious.
ents in Vermont, all elected by the votes OF the
men.
The wife of inventor Edison is said to be one
of the most extravagantly dressed women in
New York.
Iris reported that Ballard Smith has accepted
the editorial mana cement of the New York Her
add vice Flynn, resigned.
OVER the door of her summer cottage by the
sea at Gloucester, Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
has this incriptien: "Let your peace rest upon
it,
S1XTY-oNE years ago next Christmas eve the
mother of Matthew Arnold hung up his first lit
tie stocking. and on Christmas morning he
found himself in 1t.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN has young brother seven
teen years old whose Muscular Development Is
such as to give promise that he will be able to
lick John inside OF three years.
EX-SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan, is now liv-
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none too good, and he sees no signs which sug-
gest return of political ambition.
1T is related of John B. Cough. the lecturer,
that when abby, alone, friendess and penniess
in New York, he sold his kuife to buy postal
stamps and letter paper with which to write TO
his parents.
AN artist not without fame and celebrity in
his own country has made a proposition to paint
the portraits of four notably beautiful New York
matr0ns and TO present them with the picture,
providing they will agree to exhibit them for
six months 1t is stated that two matrons have
accepted and two declined the somewhat un-
usual offer.
M. DE BLowTTz has been 'interviewing" that
clever representative of royalty, the Queen Of
Roumanla. He addressed her in French. She,
in feigned surprise. asked him if he were a
Frenchman "No, your Majesty, am a Ger
man Bohemian" care you ashamed of your
own language. thenf" Whereat, SAYS the chron-
icler-and this, 1t must be confessed, is most
difficult to beleve-M. de Blowitz blushed
A GENTLEMAN who recently visited the Kansas
penltentiary says that he found Maj. WATSON
| surrounded with engineering tools and maps.
He dressed In citizens dress and still wears
his handsome mustache. He Is now engaged in
the work of surveying the road from Lansing to
Leavenworth, and apparently as contented and
happy as he could be under the circumstances.
He has no complaint TO make regarding his
treatment at the hands of the prison officials.
GEORGE VANDERBILT, William HIS youngest
| son, was twenty-one years old last Wednesday,
and was at once handed over, IN big envelope,
the legacy left him by his grandfather, the old
Commodore. The original legacy was $1,000
600, but by wise handling and careful husband
Of IatiO fha veil W al
found to contain on Wednesday $2,645,OOO 1t
is pretty good start in life for young man
whose father used to sell shad.
THE Boston Herald tells of a remarkable feat
| of memory accomplished by DR.. Hedge in that
| city on Saturday. He delivered without notes,
and repeated word for word with all the energy
of one engaged in extempore speaking, dis
course which makes thirteen pages of closely
printed matter in the December Atlantic Mac
aulay might have done this week before his
DEATH but he did not pass his sixtieth year. DIR.
Hedge wrought this surprising feat when with
| in month of his seventy-eighth birthday,
which falls the 18th of next December
EVERYONE will be pleased" says the London
Daily News, speaking of the Lord Rectorship OF
the ancient University of st. Andrews, of the
st. Andrews men elect Mr.. Lowell. The choice
will be all literary, and not in the least political
The election of Mr.. Lowell VIII be graceful
compliment to distinguished scholar, humOrist
and university man, from a country which is
always receiving English visitors with the
warmest welcome Mr.. Lowell's charming gifts
as speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder
of an office where to make speech is almost
the only public duty"
MORE than one famous author has had his
heart wrung by seeing the fruits Of his years OF
| labor consumed In the flames before the manu-
| script had gone to the printer. Mr. McMasters
the young historian whose appearance in the
| field made such sensation few months ago
has had the equally bad luck to have q large
portion of the matter for his second volume
stolen when it was nearly ready for the com
positor. This has involved the e-collection Of
much OF his material gathered from re mote
| sources, and the incident is about as exasperat
! ing to an ambitious author as could well be con
| ceived
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS