The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-10
ABOUT PEOPLE.

DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HCLMES iS writing life
of Emerson.
A LONDON dramatic critic says that Henry r.
wing in the role of Hamlet looks as solemn as a
mule in snowstorm.
THE physicians of Judge Kelley require that
he shall remain in Paris a week longer, and they
say that exertion or excitement may prove in
furious.
AN almost incredible story comes from Bos-
ton. "Have q hack2" cried hackman to a new
arrival at railroad station. eyes, if it rains,'
was the careless answer. 'Wal, no. it don't
RAIN" said the hickman, dsappointedly turning
away; at only drizzles."
THE little Connecticut town of Stamford comes
up place in New England where the color
line is drawn. A restaurant there tables one Of
its tables in dark corner "Colored Peoples
Table," and negroes are allowed to eat at no
other place in the restaurant.
THERE is a man in Vernon parish, Louisiana
who is a hermit. He lives alone, visits no one
and receives no visits, does his own sewing and
mending, works by himself, and will remain in
sight of a woman no longer than he can help. He
seems to have plenty of money, and says he cares
for nobody.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE has taken up his home in
the quaint old town of Sag Harbor, L. I. Mr..
Hawthorne inherits his fathers taste for Sc
cluded life His children are rapidly developing
athletic tendencies, his ten-year-old daughter
having just accomplished the feat of running
mile in seven minutes.
GENERAL SHERMAN, who has great fondness
for the stage, is said to be making special
study of the character of Cassius, and he in
tends to appear in connection with John McCul-
Tough IN "Julius Caesar" some time next season.
1t is supposed that st. Louis will be favored
with tho Generals histrionic effort.
LADY ANNE BLoUNT, daughter of the Earl of
Loveace and his late countess, Ada Augusta
Byron, is said to be speaking likeness of her
grandfather, Lord Byron. When Lady Anne
presented to the Queen. her Majesty kissed
her, saying as she did so: "I do that for the
love bear your ancestor, the poet whom most
love-"
A FRENCH paper remarks that the COMPARE
tive values in England of two panes OF glass and
ono baby are illustrated by two recent trials. In
one it says a young man sentenced to six
weeks imprisonment at hard labor for breaking
two window panes in a police station; in the
other a drunken father kicked his baby This
baby was fatally injured, and the father was
sentenced TO one months imprisonment at hard
labor
SENATOR CULLoM, of Illinois, tells that when
he first visited Westinghouse a newly elected
representative-he went one day to the White
House, with which he was entirely unfamiliar,
hoping to find there some one he knew. After
unsuccessfuly looking into several rooms, he
opened door, and to his dismay found himself
in the presence of President Lincoln and his
cabinet. He was Young and green, and was
overwhelmed with confusion; but the President
instantly arose from his seat at the head of the
cabinet table, called the young man by name,
Shook his hand and drew him into the room.
Seward" he said, turning to the Secretary of
State, edo you remember my FREUD SO-and-So,
who was in the House from Illinois last session.
Well, he was beaten last fall for reelection, ana
this is the boy who did it." Lincoln's hearty
way established cordial relations at once, and