The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-20
ABOUT people.

MARRIAGE" wrote Mrs Jane Welsh Carlyle,
with all the truth woman could put paper,
'may be as Immoral an Institution we know
it 20 be profoundly disagreeable one."
THE Canadian Department of Finance has
infatuated to Professor Virgins that his services
will be required in official capacity for the
present, and the professor is canoeing his lee
turing engagements in consequence.
THE Queen is a very successful journalist The
three official papers published by her authority,
the London Gazette, Edinburgh Gazette and
Dublin Gazette, paid profit last year of $780,
SIG and in the preceding twelvemonth of $780,
$40.
LOUISVILLE CourieF-Journal: general Dlaz
says one sentence in English with ease and a
perfect pronunciation, Il am happy to meet YOU
The General. it Is thought, will soon be suiii-
GENTLY familiar with the language TO get of,
Got any tobacker?"
A FUND is TO be raised ia England for the ben
eft of the widow and three daughters of the late
Frederic Martin, editor of ''The Statesman's
Year Book" who are left almost entirely desi-
tute, Mr., Gladstone heads the list with con-
tribuion from the royal bounty fund
JAMES LICK left $15O,000 to establish and
MAINTAIN free baths in San Francisco. One of
! the trustees, DR.. Stilman, now proposes to in
crease the fund by popular subscription to $780,
900 and to erect saltwater bath large enough
for the accommodation of the whole city
QUEEN VICTORIA has second personal SER
want in LOhlein. who went to England with the
Prince Consort as valet de chambre, and remain
ell in his service till his death. Lohlein was the
only person in the royal household with whom
the late John Brown never attempted to inter
fere.
TAwHIAo, the Maori King, must be funny
tnfn ha HaNvp
'The first glance at his head forcibly reminds
one of an American ak, it being broad at the
chin and narrow at the crown. If his head were
iron it would be- q valuable acquisition TO the
Dushfaller for splitting shingles"
A CoRREsPJ NDENT writes that the ordeal of
presentation day at Buckingham palace is the
curiosity of the crowd, who surge about the
riages and take an inventory of the apparel of
the occupants. One lady has stained the glass of
her coach windows i'll order to escape the in
quisitOral eye, and another used her court train
for a screen.
IT is related to the great credit of Major Henry
D. Mcdaniel, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor OF Georgia. that having been the guardian
of some orphans and minor children during the
war, and having invested portion of their es-
tate In Confederate bonds he redeemed every
dollar of them after tho close OF the war, soon
as he had earned money enough to do
THE accident to Mr. Henry Bergh, president Of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, by which he broke his collar-bone after
jumping off the platform OF a street-car, has
elected many expressions of sympathy. Mr..
Bergh was born in 1928, and is a son of the emil
nent American ship-bullder, Christian Bergh.
His useful and successful society incorpor-
ated in 1866.
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE, who has been
! spending some time at her country place near
Washington - Edge wood =. has her daughters
| Ethel and Porta with her. The former, who is
fine eyes, is unlike her as possible otherwise,
| having quite stout figure, which her mother
has never had, 1t is rumOred that she has a
talent for the stage and may adopt that pro-
| fessiOn
HERE is a Boston portrait of the Marquis Of
Lorne: "Hs countenance, though not unlike the
familiar portraits had much more of expression
and maturity of thought than they suggested.
The well-marked features, especially the pene-
! trating eyes and slightly aquiline nose, gave an
| expression of quick discernment and fearless
| ness His complexion is the ideal of health in
| rudy freshness his bearing is erect. and his
| step easy and elastic. A shapely head, tiaxen
| hair and mustache, and wel-defined chin also
| catch attention, so that even the humble hab-
| itues of Cambridge street, who had no knowledge
| of his presence in Boston, looked after him as he
passed along with expressions of admiration,
| blended with curositv."