The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
ABOUT PEOPLE.

IN Mr.. Robert Buchanan's new play the hero
snowballs his rival to death.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE left his family $l25,000
and copyright of fifty novels.
MRS. MARK HOPKINS, of San Francisco, gave
her sons bride 100000 as wedding present
The Car has ordered his coronation throne.
1t will be made of black oak, carved in antique
Slavonc patterns, and Will cost over $4,000.
GEN. JAMES WATSON WEBB celebrated his
eighty-first birthday in New York Feb. g. Peter
Cooper, his senior by ten years, called to tender
his congratulations.
THE Prince of Wales is said TO be growing old
very fast, and giving evidence of impaired health
and strength in many ways. He has been trit1e
careless in his habits.
Now let some enterprising writer get out a
work for the Methodist Book Concern in New
York, entitled: "The Endowment; or, What 1
Know About Mining"
WHEN the Count de Chambord heard at Corr
of Prince Napoeon's arrest he is said to have
observed: 81 would sacrifice the rest of my
life to be King of France for one day, but the
present moment will bring us no luck"
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY is about TO make a
prolonged tour in Europe 1t is said that she
has recently been left fortune, which will be
welcome, as her own small means were long ago
expended on the idea to which she has devoted
her life.
MRS. CoRNwALLls WEST, who was Mrs. Lang
try,s chief rival as professional beauty" in
the Prince of Wales's set, is to visit America,
accordingto "socety" weekly, during the
season of the watering places" The lady does
not come professionally"
A GERMAN medical student, whose money was
all gone, advertised for the loan of enough cash
TO complete his studies, offering to pay a mod
crate rate of interest, and as security to marry
his creditors daughter, either before after
graduating, whichever was desired"
EARL SPENCER has undertaken the mantle
nance OF the little boy who is the sole survivor
of the Maamtrasna massacre, and his brother,
who was absent from home the occasion of
the murder. The children are being educated at
the Arrane Industrial School. in Dublin.
MR.. CoNKLING in Washington again last
week. and met Dewitt c. Wheeler, who once ap-
piled to him to get the appointment of Second
Assistant Postmaster-general from President
Garfield, and the New York senator remarked:
"For heavens sake, man, get some place where
they won't turn calcium light upon you"
STEARNs CARPENTER, OF Granite Corners, N
Y, aged eighty years, is the strongest man in all
the country round. Some years ago he grasped
a twenty-fOOt iron rail in each hand and walked
off with them. Once he shouldered a cannon
that weighed 1,4oo pounds, aud the next day
lifted a box weighing 300 pounds.
THE London Stock Exchange does not have
much respect for its aristocratic members, and
refuses to give them their titles. When a mes
senGer called for Lord Walter Campbell, the
porter regarded the mention of his title as almost
insult to the democracy of the place. "Lord
Walter Campbelli" said he; 1--WE have got no lords
here" and then he shouted, "Walter Campbell is
wanted"
MRS. THOMAS GORDON, OF Collinsburg, West
moreland county, started to cross the Youghio-
gheny river the ice last Friday, and when
near the middle 1t began breaklng g into big cakes.
Like the famous Eliza, she leaped from one ice
cake to another, momentarily in imminent dan
ger of death. When near the shore a skif that
drifted down the river with the ice came within
reach, and in it she sought refuge. The skiff was
showed so near the shore by the ice that she was
able to reach the limb of an overhangug tree,
and thereby saved herself.