The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-06
ABOUT PEOPLE.

GENERAL GRANT has been elected president of
the National Rifle Association.
SENATOR-ELECT SABIN, of Minnesota, believing
that his duties at Washington will occupy all his
time, has given up his lagre and profitable busl-
ness at Saltwater
A GREAT crowd of men who few years ago
specialized largely in the London Stock Ex-
change are now described as being in state ap-
preaching starvation,
FRANCIS JOSEPH. Emperor OF Austria, will
spend the summer at Carlsbad for the purpose
of trying its healing waters. A special to the
London Standard from Vienna says he has for
months suffered from painful internal malady.
DAVID A. SMITH, an ex-Union private soldier
of Fredonia. N. Y, has just received 1884 as
ba ok pension land will hereafter be paid $72 a
month. He is lame from a gun-shot wound in
the thigh and blind from measles contracted in
the service.
A DISTINGUISHED Queens counsel writes to a
friend in New York; ''Sir George Jessel was the
most disagreeabe of a dozen disagreeable stand
ing bores of the Athen8um Club. He was per-
verter OF youth at whist, and on the bench his
Insoence passed for acumen."
THERE is rumor in Boston that DR.. Holmes
hao agreed to devote the leisure which his re.
tlrement from his profession has given him to
the Service VI Uue AtitullC mOuDnly. his pro
misc to write the Emerson" for the Gamer
loan Men of Letters" series would seem to
show that he did not intend so to restrict his
work.
AN advertiser in the Vienna Neue Freie Presse
announced his want of ga man without encum-
brance, of middle age, willing to travel; must be
a misanthrope with bitter experiences of the
wickedness of mankind; pay and position good;
fOundp pnfnhar nf .nio
thrones responded, so many, in fact, that the ad
vertser had to hire secretary to deal with
them.
THE Paris correspondent of a London paper
celebrates a dress sent by Worth q few weeks
ago, for American lady, to New York 1t
was called '9a Lumiere," and cost $500 francs,
The train was sapphire velvet. embroidered
richly in rays of gold and silver. The front was
a sort of marvellously shining gold brocade,
shot, il we're, with silver, and really the whole
dress seemed % throw out light
THE May number of the Chautauquan will in
troduce to the literary world Mrs Joseph Cook,
the wife of Rev. Joseph Cook, the famous lee
turer. Some of the thoughtful observations
made by the lady during her recent trip around
the world are to be furnished the readers of that
magazine. These articles will be a continuation
of the series by Mrs Mary Lowe Dickinson, be.
ginning in italy, where she closed.
THERE is good story told of the late Baron
Solomon dc Rothschld, of the Vienna honse.
His son, who greatly patronised cabs, was in the
habit of giving the drivers about five times the
amount to which they were entitled. One day
Baron Solomon hired cab and rendered the
legal fare "Much obliged" said cabby; "but
your son always gives us three. four five and
even six times as much" "Ah," said the Baron,
che has rich father; haven't"
WHILE some of the English journals are talk
ing about the "mashers" of London 1t may be
well to say that the London masher is not the
same kind of person as or masher. He i5 some
what akin to our ''dude," the latter being the
more ridiculous. Our masher is any foppisb,
overdressed fellow, who parades more than he
pastures, and who may be q gambler who In dull
seasons lives on the earnings of his mothers
washings, or who may pick enough pockets to