The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.


clerk in the surgeon-general's office, at Wash
ington. yte eJ4ee
THERE is rumor that the wife of Chief JUS
tice Waite has melancholy idea that if he be-
gins to build house he will not live to Occu-
ny it, y-r ar.
MRS. ALMA TADENA, Mrs. E. W. Gosse and a
third sister the daughters of Epps, of cocoa
fame, and are known "NatritiOus," "Grate-
| full" and sComforting."
1.-THE JUDGE" has been sold to some Phadel-
| phia gentlemen who are friendly to Conkling
Caricatures of that gentleman are likely to dis
appear from it's columns.
GRADUALLY the Germans have gone back to
Paris and are trying to live down the askance
looks of dislike they still see. The German col
ony now musters 10000 strong
GATH: hear that the son of the late Senator
Nye, who for a time initiated his fathers conv1v-
ality instead of his brilliancy, has become a
serious, earnest man and a temperance apostle.
His MAJESTY KING WILLIAM of Holland is a
large rather stern-looking man of sixty-three
years Of age. Queen Emma is forty years his
junior, and is pretty and graceful, with an affa-
| BILE manner.
81 KNOW you," said King Theodore of Abys-
sinia to the English. "First you send mission
airy; then you send consul to look after the
missionary; then you send army to look after
| the consul"
EXTRACT from a letter of congratulation: 81
was delighted to hear that Mary doing so
nicely. But you haven't told me OF what sex
the child was, so L can't say whether 1 am In
uncle or aunt"
| PROFESSOR JOHNSON, OF Trinity College, re-
fusng an anodyne when he was dying, said: 81
prefer in making the passage to paradise to go
with my eyes open." and displayed playful hui
NOR and cheerfulness to the end
HENRI GREvILLE, the famous French writer
of Russian romances, is a short, round and some
what stout woman. with full brow, well marked
features, shapely head, large mouth, full lips
and dark and brave-looking eyes, and is of a
CHEEKY and merry disposition.
WHEN Scotchman answers a question he set
| ties the matter In dispute once for all On a GER
tain occasion the question was asked: "Why wac
| Mary Queen of Scots born at LinlithgOwl" Sandy
Kerr promptly answered: because her mther
| was staying there, SIR" and there actually
| seemed to be nothing more to say on the subject
LONDON special: st. Blaize, the winner of the
Derby, was partly owned by the Prince of Wales,
Lord Arlington and Sir Frederick johnson, and
they shared over 100000 ON the race. The
Prince and Princess of Wales gave a brilliant
| party In celebration of the victory. Walton, the
American book-maker. lost heavily on both the
Derby and the Oaks.
1T is a favorte amusement of some artists to
| jot down on piece of paper q number of dots
and challenge each other to make picture by
connecting them with lines. Curiously enough,
this is the method used by the South African
Bushmen In the drawings with which they used
| to adorn their caves when still untouched by
| European influences
LONDON special Oscar, Wilde seems to be
played out as an aesthetic apostle. He worked
the art dodge in America for all it was worth,
and has now abandoned it, He surprised his
friends at reception given to Mr.. Whistler, the
| artist, by appearing as an ordinary iudtvidual
dressed in a commonplace suit and shorn of HE
beautiful locks. Over here ne is regarded as
| crazy.
PROFESSOR W. W GOODWIN, the professor of
| Greek at Harvard University, is to receive the
| honorary degree of LII. ID. from the University
| of Cambridge, England, on June IL. At the
same time Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold,
Pasteur and several other distinguished men
will receive that degree. Professor Goodwins
| textbooks are in use at the great English uni
versity, and his scholarship is fully appreciated,
ROBERT CoLLYER, the famous preacher who
| earned the money for his education by working
at the anvil, is now over fifty years of age, but
scarcely looks it. He is O tall, well-formed man,
| with broad shoulders, well-padded muscles, and
| a head bigger than that of Ben. Franklin. He
| has bushy hair of sable silver, rising thickly
from a straight, high forehead, covering his large
ears and falling down his neck almost like q
name. He has broad, full features, pale-blue
eyes, and fat, red nose He wears spectacles
while he breaches, and his face changes to cor
respond with the different sentiments which his
words express.
MR. PRESTON PowERss marble bust of Presi-
| dent Garfield is now on exhibition in Boston. A
critical view of it, the Boston Journal thinks,
indicates that the artist has strven more to
show the man than the sOl6ser or statesman;
but the work in no respect lacks dignity or
| force. 1t is to some extent work of Ideally
and ina gnation, bnt Mr.. Powers has given play
to those elements 50 carefully and cleverly that
the statue is still faithful portrait, and will
not fail to add to the makers fame The bust is
| to be sent to Cincinnati this week, to be put on
exhibition there on June 5, in competition for
the commission for heroic-sized bronze statue
for public square in that city.
| Mr.. DANIEL LoTHRoP. of the well-knOwn Bos-
ton publishing firm of ID. Lothrop & Co., has
purchased "The wayside." That historic place
at Concord Mass, was the home of Nathaniel
Hawthorne-the only one he ever owned-where
he lived and wrote, and from which his remains
were borne to the grave, In 1852. when Haw-
! thOrne bought 1t, II was quaint and pictur-
esque old house, nearly century old, with a
| gambre root and the big Oaken beams charac
teristic OF colonial architecture. Hawthorne
made many alterations in IT, and built over the
| l. tower in which he fitted up a study. Still
the house retains to this day venerable aspect
well Dehtting the historic ground on which it