The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-09
ABOUT PEOPLE.

JOHANNA WAGNER, niece OF the great COM
poser, has been appointed professor of singing
at the Munich Conservatory. She is the first
woman ever chosen for such a professorshlp in
Germany.
JOHN G. WHITTIER the poet, never drank a
glass Of grog, never Smoked IA cigar, never chew
ed tobacco. and never INDUCED in profanity
Notwithstanding all this. he is over seventy
years of age.
PRINCE LEOPOLD was so sure of getting the
Canadian -generalship from Gladstone
that he was already reading up on American
subjects, when his new course of study was
rudely interrupted by the news of Lord Lans-
downes appointment
THE lawyers of Kansas City have peculiar
method of announcing their presence in their
offices. When their feet hang out of their office
windows, their clients find them by follow
ing this cew; when the case is otherwise, it is
generally safe to conclude that the lawyer is not
at home.
Miss RosALIND, q young lady of Pitcairn
Island, who is the Organist of the place, is about
twenty-six, weighs 200 pounds, never had a
shoe on her foot, and can swim like a fish, writes
a dainty hand, and is assistant teacher in her
fathers school. Her fatheris pastor as well as
pedagogue.
In a recent letter Mr.. Whittier says: 81 have
simply tried to do my duty in life, and am sensi-
BILE of much failure and weakness. Yet it is a
cause of thank fulness that was so early called
to the great conflict between freedom and slavery
and that my life has been spared to see the end
of the latter"
THE Empress of Russia and her sister the
Princess of Wales are both pretty women, but
their sister, the Princess Thyra, now the Ouch
ess of Cumberland, is so plain that she frghten-
!
ing in 1878. which brought such storm about
his ears that he went to the Zulu war Hence
the consolidation of the French republic may be
said to be due to the Ugly Duck.
ARAB PAsHA and his fellow-exiles in Ceylon
are considerably astonished at the amount of rain
which falls in the island; and Arab who is study
ing English with great zeal, describes his new
home as place of "much rain, much sun, much
trees" His companion, Toulba, does not equally
appreciate the moist climate, as he suffers from
chest disease, and declares that, if the present
state of affairs continues, che will not be long
for this world"
BISHOP O'HARA, of Scranton, Pa, who is re-
ported as likely TO receive the palum from
Rome as the successor of Archbishop Wood has
been in the priesthood for forUy-one years. He
was coDsecrated as the first bishop of Scranton
in 1868 Pennsylvania formerly part of
the province of Baltimore but at the elevation
of Archbishop Wood to the archiepiscopal chair
the State was erected into a separate province
with Philadelphia as the metropolitan city,
AFALsE report OF the death Of Paris Bohem-
ian was recently printed in one of the papers,
whefeupon he wrote the following letter to the
editor: "sir-You announce in your valuable
paper this morning that have ceased to exist
Yonr journal is too serious and too wel-nformed
for the fact not to be true. Only you have for
gotten to mention that am 50rr short to pay
my funeral EXPENSES. | rely on your kindness
to receive that sum by return of poet.-The De-
ceased"
MRS. FRANK LEsLIE's friends contradict the re-
newed story of her engagement to the Marquis
de Leuville. Mrs Leslie was in London during
June, in the height OF the season. Lord Houghi on
gave luncheon to her, ana in various ways she
met great deal of the literary society of Lon
don. Bnt the compliment which she doubtless