The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-10
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. WILLIAM BLACK ia supposed to be making
| the largest income of any English novelist liv-
| ing
| THE wife of Senator Logan hae brilliantly
fair oomplexio black eyes and snow white hair.
She is moro beautiful now than in her youth
KING KALAKAUA ordered forty cases of cham
| pagne from Baltimore firm to be used at his
coronation, The heathen in his blindness seems
to have a preltysfair idea of what coronation
means.
JAMES REDPATH says he would rather kiss the
hand of the murderer Of Phoenix Park than touch
| the hem of the garments of Gladstone or Bright.
Redpath and Most would make q fine pair to
| draw to.
| MISS ANNA DICKINSON is not far from right
when she says that the lecture platform has lost
its attraction for the people. Perhaps Mr. j. l.
Sullivan would be willing to make a few remarks
| between rounds.
| MAJOR CHARLES L. flanagan, a well-known
Philadelphia journalist, has fallen heir to $780,
| 900 inSash and several hundreds of thousands
| in ocean steamship property. An uncle In Liver
pool made him his sole heir.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR. the eldest son of the
Prince of Wales, will, it is understood, take up
his residence at Oxford, next term, when he will
matrlculate at Christ Church. house has been
taken for him and suite in the Bradmore-road.
TIE Empress of Austria lately saved an old
blind woman from falling over a bank into the
river by jumping out of her carriage and run
| ming to the old persons rescue. The imperial
| lady is a noted horsewoman. and is as nimble as
she Is generous.
| REFERRING to the difficulties experienced by
the lady students at Kingston Medical School,
Lady Stone lately wrote TO a friend in Toronto:
"The world moves slowly toward the right. You
| over there are where We were twenty five years
ago. But You will win, never doubt"
| A MONTANA paper reports that girl Travelled
all the way from Massachusetts to Bozeman, in
that Territory, to marry man whom she had
never seen, but who, by correspondence, had
| promised to wed her. The gay letter writer,
| however, was not TO be found when she arrived.
SIR TATToN SYKES, who has just been received
| into the Roman Catholic church In England, in
| tends to build superb cathedral in Westmin-
ster He has chosen as his model the votive
church of st. Savior, at Vienna, erected TO com
memorate the Austrian Emperors escape from
assassination.
LONDON Saturday Review: "Mss Austen's
six novels are, with scott's and Thackeray's,
perhaps the only English novels which those
who love them read and reread perpetually
without the slightest loss OF RELISH with GER
talnty or recreation ana uellgnt anu Win an
ever-increasing admiration for the author aud
her work"
| A PoRtLAND paper tells a story OF a wealthy
but very parsimonious Maine man who, two or
three days before his death. awoke in the even
ing and, turning to the watcher at tho bedside,
asked: SHOW much do they give you a night?"
1.-TWO dollars and a half" was the reply "WeIl,
you needn't come any more; can't stand any
such sum as that" and he didn't,
MARY ANDERSON, the actress, was, 1t is said,
really fmsshed" on Oscar Wilde They met at
u fashionable reception In New York, and she be-
came a victim. Mary'e mamma and papa OBJ
iected to his calls. Mary, grown self-willed, met
Oscar by appointment at Long Branch. and
spent one whole day wandering up and down the
pebbly strand with him. This all happened last
sumi1er-if at all.