The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-10
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mr.. GEORGE KNAPP, senior proprietor of the
ST. Louis Republican, is ninety weight years old.
Ex-SECRETARY WINDOW sails for Europe next
week TO place lot of Mexican railway bonds in
England He expects to return in September.
GENERAL SHERlDAN's mother, eighty-three
years of age, still lives in the same house in
Perry, Somerset county, O., in which he was
born.
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, the successor
OF Thomas W. Ferry, has leased ex-senator Win
dom's new residence in Washington, Scott
Circle
ERNEST RENAN, now instructor in Hebrew in
the College of France, is likely to be elected
successor to the late Edouard Laboulaye as di-
rector.
GATH: "Moses Handy, who did great deal
to build up the Philadelphia Times and the Press,
told me yesterday he should resign and go to
Europe"
THE rumor is being revived that Colonel Fred.
Mussey, the brilliant son-in-law of Governor Fos-
ter, is about to embark in the newspaper busi-
ness. The Ohio State Journal is mentioned as
the probable purchase.
PRINCE LUCIEN BoNAPARTE, nephew OF the
great Napole on, is to be given a $3.50 pension
by Queen Victoria because he is very poor, and
has done some remarkable ph biological work.
He Is seventy years old.
BOSTON Transcript: "Joseph Cook has refused
an offer to preach at Highland Lake Grove on
Sunday, as he considers il would be desecra-
tiOn of the day. Now understand why Mr..
Cook does his preaching on Monday"
SEMIAHMoo, in WhatcOm county, Washington
Territory, marks the extreme northwestern cor
ner of the United States. 1t is lucky that there
is at least place in the United States that
hasn't the same name two or three other
places
The Hon. William c. Howells, father of the
noveist, has resigned the position of American
consul at Toronto, Canada. He has held the pO-
sition for nine years. He is seventy seven years
of age, and now proposes to go to farming in
Virginia
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS is trying in earnest
to get pardon for Waterman, the wealthy en-
bezzler of the Pacific Mills, in Lawrence She
says that five years of Imprisonment, out of tie
twelve TO which he was sentenced. has shattered
his health.
LADY CRAWFORD, the widow of the Scotch
Earl whose remains were stolen last year from
the vault at Dunecht, has caused a beautiful
granite monument to be placed over the spot
where the remains were found buried several
weeks after their removal from the vault.
ELLEN NJ GltFoRD. of Boston, has donated
birds The building is now in process of com
pletion, and will he ready for business this week.
The rates will be 76 cents per week for small
dogs. so cents for cats, and 80 cents for birds.
THE most iagenously constructed Jail in the
country is to be found in Naples county idaho.
1t is hole in the ground ten feet deep, into
which the prisoner is dropped, and out of which
he cannot climb, as the whole is larger at the
bottom than at the top. When a prisoner is
wanted the officers drop line and pull him up.
JAMES PARTON says when General Butler
sent his son to Harvard he gave him a check
book and said to him: "Take that, and when
ever you want any money draw as freely as you
like. If you in dOnbt consult your
mother" At the end of his college course the
young man had spent only 81 800 year.
which is considerably below the average sum
spent by the sons of wealthy parents at Cam
bridge.
THE Comte de Cnambord, who is said to be
dying from Intestinal troubles, has been terri
bic gormaudiser all his life. gentleman who
saw him dining at hotel in Bruges some years
ago says that the divinely appointed Count ate
two roasted chickens, two large dishes of salad,
no end of vegetables and a lot of dessert, and
washed the whole down with two quarts of
Burgundy. OF late years he has been fat that
locomotiou was at times next to impossible with
him.
THE Rev. Granville Moody, best known as ''the
fighting parson" of the Seventy-tourth Ohio vol
unteers, is spending the summer with relatives
in Mt. Vernon, Ia Now far past threescore
years and ten in age, and having preached regu-
larly for than half century, he has
finally retired from the active ministry with his
health seriously impaired. He is, however.
husily engaged in writing his autobiography a