The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-21
ABOUT PEOPLE.

to 1880.
NJ. JULES VERNE is said to be seeking election
TO the French Academy the successor Of the
late Jules sandeau.
REV. j. p. DDIMITT announces that Rev. Thorn
as Harrison will conduct a camp-meeting at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, commencing July 20.
WITHIN ten days after the marriage Of the
Duke of Genoa and the Princess Isabella of Ba-
vara the young couple received over 10000
begging letters.
JOHN RUSSELL Young, American minister to
China, is now engaged In collecting material for
work on that country, which he hopes to pub
lish within two years.
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted the offer of the
Countess of Crawford to place at her disposal
the villa Palmeria, in Florence, the scene of
BOceaoO's "Decameron."
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN's complaint is heart dis
ease in an advanced stage. The English bar will
give him complimentary dinner soon, which
will probably aggravate his malady.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is thinking of
writing history OF the Pacific ocean and Its
shores. 1t is reported that he has been collect
ing material for the work for forty years past.
GENERAL FRANCIS Z. SPINNER, whose queer
signature used to adOrn all United States cur
rency, has left his Florida plantation for time,
a nd is visiting friends in Boston and elsewhere
in the North.
SEVERAL Legitimist grandes danes in Fra
have adopted for their correspondence blue pa
per, which is engraved in the corner their
oOat-Of-arms, surmOunted by n royal crown,
yelled by slight cloud, with this motto, in
Greek below: "One gust Of wind will be enough"
A PRAcrIcING female physician occasionally
quotes the following lines addressing them to
the Massachusetts Medical Society:
Behold n stran ger at yOur doorl
She gently knocks, will knock once more.
Has waited long, is waiting still;
You treat no brother man so ill!
Miss LIVINGSTON, who obtained verdict of
$4,000 against Henry Fleming for breach of
promise and seduction, at New York, some time
ago, has consented to compromise with Fleming
for $4,000, and now her lawyers apparently
want the whole of that sum. She is willing to
pay them $4,000.
GENERAL SHERMANs son, Mr. Thomas Sher-
man, who began studying to be priest of the
order of Jesuits five years ago, and who spent
his nOvitiate in England, will soon leave Wood
stock, Md. where he has been for some time,
ana after visit to his mother will go to the
western province to which he belongs, and will
teach there.
PRESIDENT BARNARD has addressed letter TO
the New York Tribune humorously defending
our English spelling. In aludinR to inter-
cnhnR6 OF 5ouuu representatives ne says tnaG II
this were prevalent "aigh paighg oph Ingleish
wood preazent al varied aimed pktewrhesk
APPEARANCE, troughleigh pliezing tou ey kaur-
rekth thaispth,"
MRS. MACKAY serves notice that her daughter
is not engaged to Prince Philippe do Bourbon,
and says: "I mean to give my daughter to an
honest man, not to any of the titled fell
lows who are generally ruined, and think 1t
condescens0n to marry into an untitled fam
ily." Moreover, sin accordance with American
custom, her daughter will receive not penny
of dowry on her marriage"
AMONG the visitors of Charity Commissioners
Nissan, of New York, on Monday, was James
Clarkson, stock raiser of California. 81 have
come on" he said, handing the Commissioner a
cigar, "to find out something about myself 1
was picked up in the streets of BROOKLYN, and
until was twelve years old was a county
charge. Then | was sent to a farmer in Iowa,
and then made my own way. 1 mean to take
some poor boy back with me-"
THE Duchess OF Edinhurg, it is said, 'ls never
known to smile" Unhappily, she is the only
daughter of murdered Car, and the sister OF
another whose head is trembling under the
weight of half a dozen crowns The English do
not like this poor Princess-neither does she
like them-and when history is written in later
years, some strange revelations will doubtless
be made regarding the life and fate of this SOM
bre, naughty daughter of the Romanofrs after
she married her sailor Prince of England.
THE Jewish nose, socalled because SO common
among Isracltes. is by no means peculiar to
that nation alone. Sir G. Wilkinson proves that
the natives represented in Egyptian sculpture
with hawk noses are not always Jews, but Syr-
ians. The ancient Phenioans were Syrans, and
they were the greatest merchants of antiquity.
1t indicates worldly shrewdness, insight into
character and ability to turn that insight to
profitable account. Vespasian, Titus, The odos-
ius the Great, Adam Smith aud Albert Galatin
had this nose.
A PLEASANT recollection of Lady Augusta
Stanley is to be found in Dean Bradley's REQ
collections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley recent
ly published by Scribners Sons. He says theG
Lady Augusta's usual seat at the deanery was
at q table where, after her death, stood her bust
in marble, few feet from where her husband
stood at his desk, plying his daily task of Jew
ish history, or sermon, or lecture, or article, or
letteyet rever ready to turn aside for few mo-
ments conversation rest, and then 10 resume
his work where he had left 1t.
RoUssELoT's recent work on the peoples of tho
Himalayas asserts that poyandry is practced
among many tribes Of Indians throughout Hin
dostan and the Himalayas. Woman is consider
ed the superior being, and each woman has q
number of husbands, who live contentedly to-
gether, bringing to her the results of their labor,
which is her property; she provides the children
with dowries, and II she dies before her husbands
her eldest daughter becomes the head of tho
household. Rousselot continues that the system
has de2lorably demoralizng effect upon the
morals of the community
THE Cassagnacs appear to be family OF
fighters. The George de Cassagnac who fought
the duel with the sergeantmajor Of chasseurs
near Paris, the other day, son of NJ Paul
de Cassacnao, the most accomplished duelist in
France. The latter, according to Paris cor
respondent, mas been q challenger seventeen
times, and at least two of his enemies were