The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-21

fragments at the heads of the jurors, crying
''1ake your base fraud. 1t is "a symbol of your
rascally doings."
GEORGE Vanderbilt, the Youngest son of
William H., reached his majority during last
week, and received fortune of nearly So, OOO-
600. Mr. James McHenry gave the young man
the set OF chess-men Napoleon Bonaparte used
at Saint Helena-his last army TO be set in mo-
tion-and the chess-bOard on which the freshly
dissected heart of the Emperor was placed.
George Vanderbilt has literary and newspaper
inclinations, and is a modest young person.
CHARLES DICKENS, in Household Words, re.
marks that the recent publication in America
of his fathers letters shows cynical and I'M
scrupulous spirit of eagerncss to turn possibly
honest, but certainly dirty penny. 1t is obvious,
he says, that the letters never were intended for
publication. He declares, with emphasis that
none of the family knew Of or consented to their
publication, but that they will prevent. If pcssi-
BILE, their circulation here He also attacks Mr.
Ouvry's executors, showing more acuteness than
discretion.
81 DO not read many novels nowadays" saws
Edmund Yates; "the pastry cook never touches
tarts-and when did. the tales of Miss Rhoda
Broughton were not very much to my taste But
last week, haphazard. took up Belinda and
a
stretch. The style is still little tricky, trife
coarse; but the story is admirably told with the
happiest humor the closest and cleverest char
acter sketching. Sarah is a gem-one of the
truest, liveliest ana most amusing persons of
modern fiction.
MRS. TENNYsoN, the mother of the poet was
so kind-hearted that it had passed into a
proverb, and the wicked inhabitants of a neigh
boring village used to bring their dogs to her
windows and beat them in order to be brbed to
leave off by the gentle lady, or to make advan-
tageous bargains by selling her the worthless
ours. She was intensely fervently religious, as
a poets mother should be. After her husbands
death The had added to the rectory and made IL
suitable for his large family she still lived on at
Somersby with her children aud their friends.
Miss CHAMBERLAIN is tall and slight, with
graceful, glrlish figure, and possesses small,
heautfully-shaped head and magnificent light
brown hair, tinGed with gold. Her eyes are
dark, with long black lashes and dark eyebrows,
while straight Grecian nose and small mouth
with lips rather inclined TO fullness, complete
face of remarkable beauty Miss Chamber
layn's colorng is brilliant, though delicate,
and one of the chief characteristics of her face
is the extreme delcacy OF her features. Her
success is, however, due in a great measure to
and unspoiled.
RAMABHAI, the Sanskrit pOetess is visiting
England, and is making great sensation. The
Athen9um says: "She was the guest of Profess
sor Max Muller. The extraordinary power of
her memory, and the fluenoy and correctness
with which she speaks SaDskrit and eOmpOses
eXtempore Sanskrit poetry in the most difficult
metres, surprised all who saw her Pundi5
Shyamaji Krshnavarina, Mr.. Vlsvas, Of Calcut-
ia; the Rev. {. Bellairs, lately of Bombay, aud
others, had been invited to meet Ramahhai. She
is probably the first learned Brahmani who has
crossed the ocean. She traces her descent from
the old Vedic family of sandiya."
ALBONI, at the age of nineteen, one day
amused herself by singing, at the top of her
voice, the arlas she had heard some then famous
artists sing. She was all alone in her parOr, and
much enjoyed what she considered her extrava-
CANT 5urlesques of operate Performance, Rue
Franz List was somewhere within earshOt, and
suddenly he burst into the room with his face
aglow. "Who was that sin ging3" 81" "And
who are you2" Marietta Alboni." "Wel, then,
Fraulein Marietta AlbOni, do you know that you
sing Ike great prima donna9" Thirty years
later the two met again in RossIni's salon, and
List reminded her of the incident and of his
comment upon her singing, which had been SO
signally justified.
THE Hon. John G. Carlisle has black hair and
keen blue eyes, is always smooth shaver, and
that fact makes his extraordinary prominent
chin and jaw to one more noticeable. He dresses
in black broadcloth, which makes the extreme
thinness of his legs more apparent. and has q
fashion of crossing his hands over each other in
front of him when he talks. He also has q
fashion of chewing vast quantities Of tobacco.
and the violence and frequency of his expectora-
ton can only be compared with that of Senator
John Logan. He has nervous manner. speaks
in conversation with low, clear voice, easily
and rapidly, andsalthough very earnest and
sOber-faced man, is an agreeable man to talk
with and always leaves pleasant impression.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.