The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-09
ABOUT PEOPLE,

GLADSTONE completes his fifty first year in
Parliament next month.
NINE. DEvRIEs is to get $780, 900 for eight per-
formances this season at Monte Carlo.
IT takes Wilkie Collins six months to write a
story. He grinds out nine pages day and then
stops.
IN connection with the announcement that
Henry Watterson was once member of church
choir, the Philadelphia Call suggests that he
probably blew the organ.
Miss TERRY has picked up a smattering of the
United States language, and the New York thea
ter-goers, who are bewildered by Mr. Irving's
cockney, can understand her very readily.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES pays this graceful
tribute to beautiful Massachusetts town: 81
can never pay my debt to Pit sfield for giving
my children, their mother and myself seven
blessed seasons and seventy times seven granar-
les full of boarded "reminiscences"
MR.. LABoUCHERE does not drink alcoholic
liquors, and there is great deal of sense in his
remark that no one requires, in order to enjoy
perfect health, more than ten ounces of meat,
sixteen ources of bread and six ounces OF vege-
tables, with about quart of tea coffee in q
day.
Mr.. ARCHIBALD FORBES has written an arti.
Gle for the London Fortnightly Review MAIN
tanning that Bazaine was absolutely innocent
VI Ono bEchCuGEy CudFSeu dSdluSb Hlu ny JuO
French, and that he deserved better OF his
country than most other prominent men of the
Franco-German war period.
THE statement that Mrs, Jesse James is ex-
hibiting herself in New York museum is very
Indignantly denied by that lady's relatives and
friends in Kansas 1t is stated that Mrs James
is spending large portion of her time in Kan
sas City in the privacy of retired life, and
that she has no intention of appearing IN 8
museum.
THE philosopher Hieronymus Lorm, of ORES
den, is totally blind and deaf. His daughter in
terprets on his hand, letter by letter, the books
and papers he wishes to know, as we'll as the
movements of the game of chess, which he skill
folly plays This year the daughter has written
from his dictatiOn eighteen large papers and two
volumes.
MRS. MORTON, wife of the United States min
lister 10 France, has quite recovered from the
effects of the accident which lately befell her.
She was inhaing medicated vapor, to cure an
affection Of the throat, when the 1nhaling appa-
ratus got out of order and exploded. Her
mouth and face we're badly cut, bruised and
soalded, and she was confined to her room for
several days, but all traces of the injuries in
ficted have now disappeared.
THE other day Butler asked how it happened,
If he was the bad man the Republican speakers
and newspapers made him out, he had sue
ceeded in keeping out of State prison. That was
rash in Butler. In remarkably outspoken and
seathing sermon last Sunday the venerable DR..
Bartol, the patriarch of the Boston pulpit
quoted the question and answered it. overly
I do not know why he is not in prison." he
said. ''The Lord knows less guilty persons have
been there"
STRANGE memorial of Robert Burns has
come to light in Scotland AT Mauc hiine, in
the possession of granddaughter of Row Will
liam Aud, who preached at Mauchline from
1742 to 1871, there exists a small manuscript
volume of about twenty-five pages, in which are
contained, in his own handwriting. the admoni-
tory addresses which Mr.. Aud used in the ex-
ercise of discipline, and among them ia the adj
dress of Robert Burns and Jean Armour con-
corning their irregular marriage.
Col. Tom BUFORD-who assassinated Judge
John N. Elliott in Frankfort KY year or so
since, and who was convicted of the crime and
sentenced to prison for life, given new trial
and then acquitted upon the ground of insanity;
then sent to the lunatic asylum at Anchorage,
and after remaining short time made his
escape and went to Jeffersonville, where he now
lves-has written letter to prominent law
yer in Frankfort, in which he says .'My health
not enough OF clothes to cover my person."