The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE.

NATHANIEL GRhENE, tDe only living grandson
OF General Nathaniel Greene, is a practicing
physician in Middletown, RI.
W. S. GILBERT, the drsnatist is building
$25o,00O residence at Kensineton, England
The playwright's lot Is indeed IA happy one
Mr.. w. SAvILE KENT, an Englishman has
probably the best personal knowledge of the
habits and manners of live sea beasts of living
men.
THE old Rhineland Cologne of our earlier geog-
raphies is no longer spelled that way in English.
koln takes its place. Servant girls, however,
will still buy Koln water.
HARVARD is about to raise a monument to the
memory OF John Harvard, the founder of the
college. The model has just been completed by
Daniel c. French, the sculptor of the Minute
Man." of Concord.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY, who is staying on his
ranch in New Mexico, is said to be very much
depressed and melancholy, not 30 much from
his trial as because he discovers that he made
great mistake in attacking President Garfield,
who vas so many years his friend.
| FORNEY's Progress says that 1.-THE man in pub
lie life without a wife cannot answer as he
should what is socially required of him, and that
goes without saying. President Arthur is "a
man of the world and with the aid of his sisters
gets through remarkably well, but be should be
| married."
EPHRAIM KEYsER of Baltimore, is to be paid
by the government $40, 900 for a bronze statue
OF DeKalb. The figure will be nine feet high
The shields Of Maryland and Delaware will fig
ure on the side panels of the die. The Baron
will be represented as d Continental general
leading The Blue Hens Chickens and the Mary
land Line.
GENERAL SHERMAN has received houses and
other presents worth $4,000 since he became
Ganaral IF no Arm Of tba
worth of diamonds given by the Khedive to Mrs.
Fitch, and since divided among the Generals
daughters. For the past fifteen years he has
been paid $17 500 year, and he will draw this
! salary until his death
A soCALLED American duel has just been con-
Guided between two ladies at Grosswarden, in
Hungary married actress, Nine. Gethfalvi,
who has attempted suicide in that city, wrote
lettes saying that she had entered into an Amer
lean duel concerning her husband, with a lady
| in Vienna, anu had drawn the fatal lot. Mime,
Gethfalvi, however, is still alive, though her
condition is reported to be hopeless.
1T is understood that the Major Gutrippah
sketches which have from time to time appeared
! in the Chicago Inter Ocean will be collected and
| published in hook form. The author is Mr..
| Charles d. Wright, and he has sold the copy
right to an Eastern publishing firm for the hand
some sum of $4,000. with which he will soon
| make tour abroad with q view to collecting
material for a volume on European travel.
| SIMS REEVES attributes much of his success to
| Milton. Paradise Lost, ~ he says, "was my
| favorite poem, and read it over and over until
| knew it by heart 1t was splendid dream of
my youth to hear the wondrous majesty of the
! scriptural subjects interpreted in music. =
| learned the sentiment of OratOriO from that,
and there has been my chief success. Milton
| exalted my imagination aud created a desire to
sing in great themes"
| THE tallest man in the country is said to he
| Henry Thurston, who first behed the light of
day near Jefferson City, No. but who now owns
cattle ranch in Texas. Mr. Thurston is seven
/ feet seven and a half inches tall, and as he is
thin and gaunt, and invariably wears stove
! pipe hat, he never fails to produce a positively
startling effect upon the beholder. Moreover,
he has acquired several habits of posture which
! add to the impression. For instance, il he hap
| pens to feel tired when walking in the street he
| is accustomed TO rest himself by dropping his
arms over a swinging sign and reclining his chin
upon it.
| SARAH BERNHARDT's latest account of her sep
aration from M Damala is TO the effect that she
| left him because she would not continue to bear
outrageous expenses, to pay for carriages, bou-
quets, penalties for broken engagements, etc.
| "My equipment she says, twas not grand
enough, aud my carriage did not suffice. We
had violent alterations, and one day, after one
OF these scenes, l rushed out of the house with
out hat or gloves, telling him he could take
every thing, for as he would not go away
would, and should not return so long he re-
manned there wandered about the whole day,
and at nightfall sought refuge at my aunt's. 1t
was after this that he entered into an engage
ment at the Gymnase, where had Immediately
afterward TO pay the penalty for his breach of
contract i'll order to enlist in TuniS He com
pletely equipped himself for starting. and paid
for the poor volunteer recruit. Only the poor
volunteer recruit never served That is not all.
M Damala wished to be lessee of theater 1
have had to bear the consequences of this, too.
NJ. - is inquiring whether am really mar
ried or not. Be this as IL may, / have paid for
the freak royalty, and, married or not married,
on no my reprenda plus"