The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28

OF his friends attribute to them Queen Victorias
lack OF fondness for that statesman. Her Maj
esty' they say, has on several occasions been
actually terrified by Gladstones gaze.
A. BRONSON ALCoT, of Concord Mass, left his
house ON Friday for the first time since the be-
ginning of his long illness of nearly nine months.
He was wheeled in an invalid's chair from his
residence TO that of Mr.. Frank B. Sanborn. He
now intends to visit the Concord Summer School
of Philosophy, but not to speak
A wELL-KNowN sculptor, while leaving the
hall of a New York clubhouse, had his attention
called to a sleek bust of a distinguished actor
winch stood near the principal entrance.
That's fine portrait" remarked his friend adj
mlringly. "a fine likeness possibly" replied
the artist "but not portrait. portrait is an
Interpretation of character"
A YOUNG woman went to sell a book to jay
Gould. She hid 1t under her cloak and seemed
mysterious. "No one but Mr.. Gould would
do" she told the messenger. Mr.. Gould was not
in. She would come again. She kept on call
ing daily until. in despair, the messenger it,
formed Mr.. Gould, who had her shown in. az
suppose, Mr.. Could" said she, "when you know
my business you will kill me. 1 am selling
DOCKS" But after some persuasion he pur.
chased volume, and gave her list of Lam Is
OF his friends to whom he thought she coulf
sell. Russell Sage was the only one with whom
she was not successful.
NO doubt the operate stage offers as grea
contrasts in respect to remuneration as can be
found in any walk of life. During a recent per.
Torrance in Algeria OF an italian company
there was such a wearsome delay after the
second act that the audience made loud demon
STATIONS of disgust. Thereupon one of the
actors appeared before the scenes and explain
go on with the performance. The manager, ne
said, had run away with all the receipts, leav-
ing the singers in abject misery. The only
member of the company who had tasted food
that day was the prima donna, and she had
breakfasted on slice or bread and an onion
This statement aroused the Indignation of the
audience to q high pitch, and several men
jumped upoh the stage IN the hope of finding
the manager concealed somewhere and admins
tering to him a lesson which he would have re.
membered the rest of his life.
MIR. ]. A. FRoUDE's latest magazine article Is
devoted to Martin Luther. He wakes enthu-
siastlc over the reforner. "The appearance of
Luther before the Diet of Worms is one of the
| fnest-perhaps it is tho very finest-scene in
human history. Many man has encountered
death bravey for a cause which he knows to
be just, when he is sustained by the sympathy
of thousands of whom he is at the moment the
champion and the representative. But it is one
thing to suffer, and another to encounter face to
face and singe-handed the array of spiritual
and temporal authorities which are ruling su-
preme. Luther's very cause was yet unshaped
and undetermined, and the minds of those who
had admired ana followed him were hanging in
suspense for the issue of the trial There was on
one side solitary low-bOrn peasant monk and
on the other the legate of the dreaded power
which had broken the spirit of kings and EN-
perors Well might George, of Frendsburg, say
that no knight among the assembled princes Of
Germany had ever faced peril that could equal
this!"