The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-02
ABOUT PEOPLE.

BARON RoTHsCHILD, of Paris, lights his private
carriage with electricity.
THE duke of Cambridge objects to the pres
ence of women at public dinners, and will not
presideif any be present
GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN has become
the American manager of one of the Oldest En-
glish insurance companies.
THE cottage secured for Mrs. Langtry at Long
Branch belongs TO Lester Wallack, whose sum-
mer residence now is Stamford, Conn.
Mr.. IGNATIUs DoNNELLY is at his quiet re-
treat, Nininger Mimi, engaged upon another
great work of a scientific and literary character
A FRENCH Parliamentary committee has rec
commended the increase of M. Pasteur's pension
from $4,000 to $4,000, with reversion to his
wife and children.
MRS. AND Miss CLEMMER, the mother and sis
ter of Mrs. Mary Clemmer Hudson, have gone to
New York. Miss Clemmer is private secretary
to the editor of the "North American Review"
THE widow of DR.. Glenn, the great California
farmer, will realize, this year, 100000 from
the grain crop. Now is the time for the enter
prising young man in search of partner to go
West.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs, of Georgia, is some
what improved in health, and has changed his
mind about Immediately abandoning the rrac
tice of law, as he recently declared he intended
TO do.
A NINETY-YEAR-oLD Pennsylvania, who never
smoked, never drank, never fell in love and
never went out Of his native town, has just
started on his first journey. He went in a
hearse.
THE first railway porter ever employed on pas
senger traffic was John Barnett, who died re-
Gently at Darlington, England. Barnett accom-
panied the old No. engine on its trial trip with
George Stephenson.
BROTHER of Professor Henry Ruggles, of
Dartmouth College, said, on going West, twenty
years ago. "You will never hear from me unless
1 can come back rich" All trace of him was
lost. He has just returned, with his vow we'll
kept.
BROWN is Boston man who is known to have
spent nineteen years in studying the problem of
perpetual motion; and the public has his word
for it that he has made a successful machine,
which he refuses to show, but in which he is
willing TO sell shares.
A COSBY writer in the Troy Press says of
Bret Harte's father, whom he met years ago,
when ne was private tutor to two of his play
mates 81 remember him well; a very pleasant
gentleman. He married girl out of the mill,
She was one of the most beautiful girls 1 ever
saw, as handsome as a doll, but had no educa-
ton. Her husband educated her, and she be-
came one of the finest ladies in Hudson"
ATToRNEY-GENERAL BREWSTER now wears q
full suit Of ecru p0ngee, with his cambria rutfies
Professor Baird wears an entire suit of ecru lin
en-. The interpreter of the Chinese Legation,
with loose linen pantaloons, wears long loose
sack, closed up in front, made of checked gng-
ham, and over it a sleeveless waist, with high
neck, of thin black gauze His small skull-cap
is apparently of black horsehair plated. His
queue reaches nearly to his feet
SALvINI has said since he returned to Italy,
that he made $4,000 by his last American tour
He was fifty-three on the LIST of January ANA
means to retire from the stage when he is fifty
FIVE Until October next he will live in retire.
ment with his family near Florence. Then he
proposes a professional tour in Spain; from
Spain he goes to Russia, and, having played in
Moscow and st. Petersburg, he will return to
Anne RIGA and conclude his theatrical career In
Mexico.
AN accident laid the foundation of the bank
iDg-house Of the great Baron Coutts Soon after
he began business he learned that certain Lou
don bank had refused noble customer a loan of
$4,000. Mr.. COutts wrote to the nooleman,
asking him to call, and when he called offered
TO lend hisl the amount "But can give you no
security" said his ordship "Yonr Lordship's
note of hand will Suffice" The offer was closed
and the borrower departed with $25, 900, leav-
ing the rest on deposit. The story soon spread
abroad, and at last reached his Majesty's ears.
VINO, pleased with SO liberal banker, ordered