The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27
ABOUT PEOPLE.

IVAN TOURGUENiEFF Salu OF MS own Russian
speech: SIT is incOnceivable that such Ian
guage has been given to a great people,"
RHEA doesn't like Paris. az tell you madam"
she said to a Philadelphia Press correspondent,
"Paris is enfer! You say in English. he!"
REPRESENTATIVES, KAssoN, of Iowa, will, upon
his retirement from Congress, assume the edit
orship of a daily paper to be started in Des
Mones, Iowa.
IT is said that at the Papyrus Club dinner in
Boston Miss Ellen Terry wrote on one of the
menu cards sent up for her autograph: ''Those
who love me call me Nellie"
Mr.. c. P. HUNTINGTON controls IL 900 miles
of railway. He is sixty-tive years old, and is
very healthy His fortune is estimated at $780,
100000, and he has only an adopted daughter.
THE bust of Jefferson Davis, which has just
been completed by #. l.. Blssell, jr, is said to be
an excellent likeness twas made solely by the
aid of engravings and photographs which were
furnished by Mr.. Davis himself.
THERE is something pathetic in the case of the
One-legged confederate soldier in Georgia who
has never drawn any State pension, because all
of his command were killed, and there is no one
to certify to his having been in the army.
MARIO. the tenor, whose death has just been
announced, was Unfortunately fond of macaroni,
and would eat 1t by the plateful at every meal.
In the days of his prosperity, when he gave bis
famous dinners in London, he employed one man
simply to cook his macaron
THE smallest, shortest and youngest enlisted
soldier in the Union army is said to have been
John H. Nichols, of Madison, Wis, a drummer
in the band OF the Eleventh Wisconsin Infantry,
and now living in Madison. He was fourteen
years old when he enlisted, weighed sixty-fve
pounds, and was just four feet high.
MARIO, the illustrious singer who died Il fort
night ago. was engaged with Grisi, his wife, at
St. Petersburg. Out walking one day with their
children they met the Gar. His Majesty patted
the children on their heads and remarked to Grsi:
~ suppose these are your little Grisiettes2"
''No, SIRE" she replied, with ready wit, "they
my little MarIOnettes."
P. II. BARNUM on Saturday executed codicil
to his will. To meet a possible future claim of
insanity, directed against his Will, he called in
his family physician and TWO other wellknown
Bridgeport doctors, one a homeopathic and
the other an allopathist, ali of whom Witnessed
his signature and made oath that they believed
the testator to be of sound and dispOsing mind
and memory.
SECRETARY. FRELINGHUYSEN has a host of
young relatives to look after. He was IN toy
shop the other day, and must have presented a
queer picture. Toys of all kinds were peeping
out OF us pOchclS, anu IA Shiilo PIdy6u upuu MS
lips 1t is said by these who saw him that he
only needed a clay pipe and hood to be verita-
BILE Santa Claus himself instead Of the chief of
the diplomatic service.
IN a recent lecture Mr.. Walker, NJ. p, claimed
that the bicycle one of the most wonderful
inventions of modern time. IT was great tenn
perance reformer, because it was impossible for
a man to ride his bicycle if he were otherwise
than sober. 1t was a great educational refOrmer,
because it enabled persons TO go from one end of
the country to the other in II fortnight at little
expense and spend their holidays i'll q reason
able and rational manner.
MR. THOMAS KINsELLA, editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, has been lying seriously i'll at his resi-
dence for several days. He is suffering from
.jaundiee and torpidlty of liver, with urinary
complications. consultation of ply sic1ans,
Prof ArInor, president of the faculty of the
Long Island College Hospita DR.. !. Byrne and
DIR. j. G. johnson, was held yesterday. The
conclusion they reached was that though Mr..
Kinsella's condition is serious it is not dangerous
OLD Uncle Daniel Drew, he was called by
his Wall-street pals, had been eoaXed into sub
scIibing a couple of hundred thousand dollars to
some Methodist educational institute, The old
man gave the subscription under protest and in
telling brother about 1t day two after,
said: "WeI, sir, didn't know where the money
was a-colnIn' from. L was reilly worried about