The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-05
ABOUT PEOPLE,

chestnut in his pocket to prevent rheumatism.
A PRESIDENT of the United States of Colombia
was elected on Monday. The returns, SO far as
received, are in favor of Nunez.
LoTTA and Mary Anderson are liked by Chi
cago, although there is wide difference be-
tween them. Miss Anderson always kicks with
her arms.
NOT only American young men, but French
and German young men as we'll, are charged
with aiming to be mistaken for Englishmen. So
| the English say.
| Mr.. VANDERBILT, it is said, has offered Miss
rnursby $4,000 year to sing on Sundays at
| st. BartholOmews Church. New York city, and
it is thought that the proposition has not been
| declined
In Portugal seventh son" is looked upon by
| the common folks with horror, because 1t is sup
| posed thut he assumes the likeness of an
| Saturdays This must be when he stands in front
| of the doors at matinees.
| SIR SAMUEL BAKER says that he never met
\ missionary who did not compare himself with
| st. Paul. and it is said that amateur. dramatists
always claim that they have as much right to
borrow their subjects Shakespeare mad.
| A NEW YORK journalist met in San Francisco
a gentleman connected with the New York stage.
| The journalist remarked: "New YORK is pretty
nice place" "Great heavens!" exclaimed the
other, edo not say 1t aloud; you might be mob
| bed"
QUEEN MARGUERITE, of Italy, holds her
captions Oh quite democratic scale. Instead
OF the persons being led up to the Queen to be
presented she herself goes around the room,
giving her hand to each one, accompanied by a
| few pleasant words of greeting. Unlike her
husband, the King. she speaks English fuently.
ION, grannie, grannle!" exclaimed Brook
Ign boy, CHANGING up from paper which he was
| reading, "Java has been visited by shower of
| fire." "Dear mel" returned the old lady, not
actly catching the full import of the communi-
| cation, ''dear me, you don't tell me so! Well,
| thought the coffee this morning tasted O little
| burnt"
MRS. DAHLGREN, who wrote the novel, ga
Washington Winter" of which many Washing
| ton people complained on the charge that it
not generous to hospitality, will not live in that
city during the coming winter, but Will reside
| at her country place on South Mountain. She is
not in good health, and she will rent her WASH
ington house while anew one is building
THE honor of having attached to it the oldest
soldier of the United States army is, without a
| shadow of doubt, to be accorded to Fort Nj
| agara, at the mouth of the Niagara river. The
individual to whom this distinction is accorded
is Ordnance Sergeant Lewis Lehman, a man
HiHoby years Vi age, WIN Is SILL III S6ENlco; III
though by a special act of Congress he was
| tired on full pay several years ago-the only &C.
| currence of the kind on record.
AMONG the euriosities taken by Joseph Bona
parte from Madrid was ring containing a lock
| of Queen Ehzabeth's hair when fourteen years
| of age, that period of life when Blanche Perry
describes her "my lovely young mistress"
The ring is additionally glorifed by pervsding
belief that it presen ted to Elizabeth by Sir
Thomas Seymour, hef earliest lover, who had in
her youth so many opportunities of "beseeching
| the golden honors of her queenly hair"
By the will of Mrs. Eliza F. Eddy, of Boston,
| Susan b. Anthony and Lucy Stone receive the
sum Of IS 2, 900, to be divided equally between
| them and used TO further The cause of womans
rights. Both these ladies have worked long and
| faithfully for their oppressed and down-trodden
sex. Lucy Stone is comfortably situated, her
husband. Mr.. Blackwell, being prosperous
| New Jersey farmer, but Miss Anthony, being
single and somewhat averse to money-making,
has been close-hauled for funds at times
A BAD man writes to the Paris Votair3 about
| the plumbers made by eminent French authors,
which he has taken pains to CLEAN from their
| works. NJ. Sarcey is quoted as writing of ga
duel in which one of the two blades ia plunged
| into the breast of the other" and Paul de Cas-
| sagnac is charged with the prediction that
| France will "throw herself into the arms of the
| iiberating sword" NJ. Duruy's History of
France, however takes the prize for saying
that ''the first king of France was Pharamond,
an imaginary being, who has never existed; he
was succeeded by his son."
| A CONSCIENTIOUS tippler who recently died In
Paris left diary in which he had carefully re-
| corded every glass he had drunk during the last
| fifty years. His daily quantum of wine was four
| ltres so that in the half century he had put
away the respectable total of $4,000 litres.t AS
| prelude to each of his three daily meals he was
| in the habit of imbibing couple of absinthes,
making six day, or 109, 500 in the fifty years.
This was, however, by no means all; for it was
hie custom between meals to take an occasional
sip of liquor, averaging a ronnd dozen day,
and amounting in the ten lustrums TO a total OF
219, 900 petits verres. He had drunk 25O,0OOf
worth or alcoholic beverages, and yet lived
mans full allotted period of threescore years and
ten.
THE Prince of Waldeck- P yrmount was given
the grand cross of the bath by the Duke of AL
bauy during his recent visit to Germany. A
Iudicrous accident marked the ceremony. The
insignia were sent to Germany by special mes
senger, who took them by some mistake to Ber-
lin, instead of to ArOlsen, and when the day
came which had been fixed for the ceremony of
investiture, to which all the notables of the
Grand Duchy had been summoned, 10 and be-
holdi there were insignia, and therefore,
there could be no investiture. German courts
are always touchy, and particularly the small
courts, and the Duke was almost beside himself