The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-13
ABOUT PEOPLE.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has shaved with
the same pair of razors for fifty years
PERE HYACINTHE LoYsoN and wife will visit
this country in about month, and will remain
nearly all the fall and winter
REV HENRY GREY, Earl of Stamford, has
married a eOlored women in Barbados. His
son, William Grey, has resigned his professor
ship at Codrington College, Barbados, and has
returned to England.
Miss LovEY LEE daughter of the late William
P, Lee, of New York, who Last winter was de-
clared to be the prettiost unmarried woman in
Rome, has been betrothed to- Mr.. Denison, a
wealthy London banker.
THE granite shaft that for more than half a
century marked the grave of Thomas jefferson
has been given TO President s. 8. Laws, of the
Missouri State University, who will place 1t in
the campus of that institution at Columbia.
THE Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton was not, as
annoying reports have stated, delegate to the
recent Autobiography convention In Chicago.
He was at the time in Philadelphia, and had
nothing to do with the convention whatever
EX-SENATOR SIMON CAMERON is now staying
at Bedford Springs. In his old age his faculties
of sight and hearing still remain almost unlm
paired, and he walks about briskly and vigor
ously without support other than a light stick.
TIER was neither boat nor bridge TO cross
the Iowa stream which separated Patrick
Foley from his sweetheart Kate Marion "If
you loved me, Pat" tine girl called to him, you'd
swim over to me-" He was drowned in trying
to do it,
PUNsTERs have builded better than they knew
ON the name OF Judge Foraker, Republican can
didate for Governor of Ohio. The family name
was it is said. originally Fouracre, and that
form of spelling is still retained by some of tho
branches.
AN acquaintance of Mrs Langtry says that the
lady is employing some of her spare time writ
ing book. in which she gives her impressions
very fully of American customs and American
people, A New York publisher has arranged for
the copyright.
AN agent of the Heidelberg University pur-
chased in London half a dozen skulls for the
cabinet of anatomy. The German custom house
officials found that If they, were entered as
"bones" they would come in duty free. So after
long and painful cogitatior, the skulls were
classified as sworn effects" and were charged
with duty accordingly.
Miss SALLIE PARSONS, Of Arnoldsburg, Cal
houn county, Virginia, was killed recently by
lightning under very distressing circumstances.
She was aged fifteen and was to have been mar
ried in three days On the fatal day, as a
storm approached, she ran into the yard to meet
her brother, bringing her wedding clothes, but
before reaching him struck by lightning to
the ground a corpse.
DELICATE tribute was paid TO the value Of
Mt Holyoke seminary last week by a lady hand
ing to one of the trustees $4,000 "to be used in
helping girls not blessed with this worlds
goods" circumstances prevented her from
securing an education there in her girlhood, but
she has ever had deep interest in an institu-
ton which she longed to enter, and hence this
gift in aid of others situated as she once was.
THE real name of joaquin" Miller, author of
the "Sons of the Serras." is Cincinnatus Heine
Miller. His divorced wifcs maiden name was
Minnie Theresa Dyer, and her literary pseudo
nym was tMinnie MYRTLE" It is said that the
name joaquin" was given to Mr.. Miller by "the
boys" in his early California experience, when
he was "roughing it," from real or fancied re-
sembance to a noted Spanish highwayman and
he adopted it as pseudonym.
MR.. STURGEON surprised his congregation IL
few Sundays ago. He began his sermon as usual
and got through his Firstly" pretty well. Then,
feeling very warm himself, and seeing his con-
gregatiOn growing listless, he interrupted HIM
self with the remark, "That is the end of the
FIRSTLY and its so warm to-day that think the
secondly and thirdly will very well keep for a
cooler Sunday" So the congregation went its
way, and Mr. Spurgeon went his way.
A CORRESPONDENT from Brazil describes a
rather singular street scene, He says noticed
a gay young dandy driving smart English dog
cart, while his negro servant sat beside him
smoking cigar. Astonished as such sight,
turned to ono of the bystanders for an explana-
ton, when l was still more astonished to hear
that the negro, whom had taken for the SER
want, was the master, and that the white dandy
was a Cockney driver, imported from London
expressly to mark the wealth, fashion and I'M
portance of his sable master.