The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-09
ABOUT PEOPLE,

| A San FRANCISCO minister sued young man
for his marriage fee. So, and got it.
| SENATOR EDMUNDs says he likes to talk to re-
porters. because he learns a great deal from
them.
A YOUNG fellow loudly announced in South
ern hotel dInning-room that he intended ITO
shoot the Colonel on sight" Before night every
male boarder had left, some in such a hurry as
not to pay their bills,
| COLONEL INGERsoLL was worsted at . game of
parry and thrust with guest the other day.
He called out as the visitors we're departing:
"May the Lord take liking to youi" "Whose
LORD" asked the other; ''your Lord or our
Lordl"
PROF. sBARBARo, of the University of Parma,
was lately sentenced to a months i'm prisonment
for clubbing his colleague, Prot. Mircovireh; to
seven days confinement for insulting and strik-
ing an editor; to two months Imprisonment for
insulting the rector of the university, and to pay
a fine of 200 francs.
QUEEN VICTORIA is very angry with the Duke
of Teck on account of the scandal which he has
brought upon the royal family by having his
| household effects sold out by the sheriff. For
his general bad management of affairs. Teck
is to be permanently exied 10 Rumpenheim
an almost desolate and unpleasant German
| schloss.
His Eninence Prince Schwarzenb berg, Arch
bishop of Praga. will celebrate the fifteth ami
versary of his priestly ordination on the 18th of
this month. He is seventy-twO years old, was
created Cardinal by Gregory XVI Jan. "a, 1912,
and is the only survivor Of the cardinals created
| by that Pope. If he resided in Rome he would
be Dean of the Sacred College.
| SECRETARY LINCOLN said to Chicago reporter:
''see here. do you know Chicago is getting up
| In haa do Of III
| ing nuisance as they call itH Why, people who
have passed through here on their way to Wash
| ington have told me that the thing was becom-
| ing perfectly awful. can't understand it, Why,
| am never interviewed in Washington or New
York"
MRS. KATE CHAsE's fine estate near Washing
| ton, called EdgewOod, is tenantless. while its
| owner roams in Europe. She left a little over
month ago, with her children, for five years
| tour abroad. The grounds are kept in tolerable
| order by the servant in whose charge they were
put by her, but the great house with its rich fur
nishings stands precisely as she left it, and the
| acres around it lie uncultvated.
BISHOP IRELAND, of the Catholic diocese OF
st. Paul, Mimi, recently said: 1.-THE need Of the
hour is grand tidal wave of total abstinence
1 sweeping over the land. The strongest protest
| possible must be made against Intemperance.
with sufficient force TO the peoplel This
| is the vital question for the future of America
and, might add, for the future of religion"
PROFESSOR PHILIP scHAFF says that the Old
Testament is still in the hands of the American
revisers, who are preparing the American appen-
| dix; that is, selecting from all the readings and
renderings which the British revisers have re-
| jected those which they deem worth laying be-
| fore the public for final decision. The revised
Old Testament will probably be published before
next spring. Then the cOnvocation OF Canter-
bury. which originated the movement, will sub
| ject it to official Judgment.
81 AM enthusiastic about it, and intend to do
| all can in this country to further our ends for
it was here that the poet received his first ex-
| tended recognition and made his name most
widely known" so says Lord Headley an Irish
| peer, who has arrived in this country TO visit
the Yellowstone Park and raise testimonial for
Martin Farquhar Upper, the almost forgotten
| poet of mediocrity. The committee to raise
something for Upper includes Lords selborne,
SALISBURY, Derty and Houghton.
MRS. SARGEN., wife of the American minister
at Berlin, in letter describing a call upon the
Empress, said "Her Majesty surprised Inc by
asking about my daughter Lizzie. She had heard
that Lizzie began the study OF medicine in Cali
fornia, and was now continuing it IN Zurich.
| we are much interested in medicines the EN-
| press added, and then spoke of the civil war In
| America and the Franco rrussian war, saying
| that rhe Germans had gained much valuable in
formation from the Americans to the treat
ment of the sick and wounded soldiers, which
| was put to good use in their last war"
A CURIOUS story comes from Cleveland in re-
| gard to the anonymous novel, "The Bread-Win-
ners," begun in the August Century. The MS. of
the story ia said to have been found In the desk
of the late Leonard Case of that city, the bach.
elOr millionaire and munifcent founder of the
Case School of Applied Science. He a man
of amiable character of tine culture and of re-
markabe natural abilities. but his life was so
clOuded by constant ill-health, and by a singular
constitutional shyness, that his talents were
| known even to his own townspeople, and hardly
appreciated by his few intimate friends He
wrote poems, sketches and tales for his own
| amusement, rarely publishing anything but an
occasional mathematical paper In the transac-
tions of the Smithsonian Institution. The MS.
of "The Bread-Winners" was found shortly after
his death, several years ago. in n mass OF other
documents, and only recently examined by his
friends and executors 1t was put into the hands
OF competent editor and prepared for the
Century, who nc once accepted it for publication
In his magazine, declaring 1t one Of the strongest