The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-20
ABOUT PEOPLE.

ABOUT PEOPLE.
SENATOR ZEBULoN VANCE, of North Carolina,
is handsome, jovia1 story-teller, whose good
nature makes friends for him In both parties
MIR. HUNTINGTON, the railroad millionaire, is
put down as worth $50.000,000. Heis sixty-five
years old ana has no family OF his own blood.
An adopted daughter is the sole heiress
| THERE is said to be less formaity at the recep-
tiOns given at the Frennghuysen mansion than
at those given by any other high officials fami-
! ly in Washington; and they are accordingly pop
uar.
THE largest observatory dome in the world is
now being made in Cleveland, o., for the Uni
versity Of Virginia. The dome weighs ten tons
and measures forty five feet four inches at the
| base
| ONE purpose which Mr.. Kasson has in retiring
from public life is TO devote himself more close.
ly to literature. He finds 1t impossible TODD
this and to properly attend to the duties of a
congressman. rr.x-
| Mr.. BENNETT, the owner Of the New York
Herald, is said by persons who have seen him
in Paris lately to have become "permaturely
old. His hair is turning gray and he is as slow
snd,precise in movement as an old man."
MISS ELLEN H. ARTHUR, the Presidents
daughter, is president of the Children's Christ
whose object is to provide poor children with
food. clothes and toys at the holiday season.
WHITTIER is color blind fire having dam
aged the wall paper in his residence, he I'M
dertook to match it with a new piece, which
| was neatly pa sted on, to his great admiration
| and the amusement of the family. He had
| used green vine with one OF Grim
BARON RUPERTswooD, the richest man in
Australia, is worth 5000. 100000. His father,
Mr.. Clarke, went to New South Wales with a few
thousand pounds and bought land where the
city of Melbourne afterwards was built. The
little bali of gold Increased in size ike the ira
| ditional snowball.
| A MAN of the name of Colas, who had the
mo nopoly of rat-killing in Paris. has just died.
| He used to feed exclusively Oh the produce Of
his sport. Eight or ten times already he had
| nearly died of indi gestion this time he expired
| after heavy meal of rats before the doctor
| could be called in. c[y rpts-4.
| IT is alleged that Vanderbilt wanted prosce
MUM box in the Academy of Music, but August
Belmont, who owned the house. objected. Mr.
", who has hundred and ninety millions more
money than Mr.. B., went straightway and built
the Metropolitan, in which Mr.. B. can't get a
proscenium box, neither can any of the little
| BIS.
g; CARLO LEANDER CLARK was the name of n late
lamented eighteen-year-old black-and-tan of
Philadelphia. His bereaved mistress had his
remains emhalmed, and they will rep0se in the
family vault in Woodland Cemetery The dear
departeds demise was Only recorded, with po
etic attachment, in the obituary columns of the
Public Ledger.
MGR. CAPEL sees. in regard to marriages, bet
Ter results Of the French business idea than the
English sentimentasm. Referring to England.
he says: "Nowhere else do we dukes and
marquises marrying their servants, ladies' mar
rying their coachmen, and old women of three
score and ten marrying youths scarcely twenty.
The system ripens out into divorces, until to-
day the courts cannot do the work they are
called upon to do"
THE Council General of the Seine have ordered
the removal of the large portraits of the Emper-
or Napoleon and of the Empress from the
Court of the Tribunal of Commerce. The same
are to be relegated to the municipal cellars in
the Boulevard Morland, where are stored once
famous portraits and statues of Louis XIV, Louis
XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III,
and other royal personages which, from po-
litical reasons, have at various periods been put
out of sight
THE st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Deutsch Montagsblatt says that the Princess
DolgourOuki, widow of Alexander III. recently
had personal interview with the present Gar
concerning the education of her son, Prince
| George. Alexander III wanted the lad to enter
NJ. Ka:offs gymnasium. at Moscow, but the
royal mother would not consent to this, insisted
on retaining for the Prince the private tutors
selected by bis father. and left the presence Of
the Gear in state Of great excitement.
MARY CLEMMER complains of findiag. en-
tering the Capitol, that the beautiful corridors,
given 10 cleanliness and silence for nine months,
had been seized by the Philistines and be.
smeared and defiled by the tObaeeoche wing pol
itcians. During the sessions Of Congress, she
says the internal condition of the Capitol of the
nation ia q perpetual insult and grief to every
refined American. Moreover she believes that
the Huns of Attila, when they swooped down
from the north. did not look half so dissipaed as
these men do.
WHAT sort Of a man lie Uncle Remtsa" asked
OF a Georgia friend, writes Washington corre-
smiling. "IIe's little, red-headed, freokle-
faced farmers boy from Putnam county. Just
about as handsome as a burnt shoe. He's a
good fellow, though, and bright, but fndolent.
Sort of singed cat He has been very well
treated by the Atlanta Constitution people.
They give Hitn good SALARY for writing an hour
or two every day, in addition to very moe
house, Which they gave him outright as Christ
mas gift thirk. SO he has plenty of time for
literature ana pleasant place to write itin."