The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss ANNA L. DAWES, daughter of the Senator,
will, it is said, occupy editorial position Oh
the Evening journal OF Pittsfed, Mass.
GEORGE ELIOT showed the worst possible
| taste in her furniture and hangings, and her
house was not well busted, either, says the Lon
don World.
MIX. MERRICK, one of the government lawyers
in the starroute trial, is described the short,
stout, comfortable-ooKing counselor, with the
| fiorid face and the pleasant SMILE
| MR.. ROBERT DoEG of Scotby, England, a we'll.
known minister of the Society OF Friends. hav
ing refused to pay the war addition to the income
| tax, has just had his goods dlstrained upon for
| the amount.
stated that his father was hand in the factories
in Toad lane, Rochdale, and that he made up his
| mind that he would marry when his wages
| reached guinea a week, that is, about S..
| THE Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto
| has issued address, in which he says: "Mr
| Gladstone has done more than any other Eng
lish statesman to redress the unjust grievances
of Ireland, and would do more if his country men
would sustain him."
MRS. DAVID DAVIS nee Burr, is a distant rela-
| tive of the famous Aaron Burr. When her
mother took the rich old Boston merchant Ell
| lery for second husband, she was running a
| small millinery store in New York, and that is
| how Mrs Davis became rich.
In cubroom in New York city the other
| evening aging actor was saying at does not
require a very, very intellectual man to play the
| part of King Lear" His companion replied,
| "Oh, yes. 1t does when play it, and am the
| only living man who can play it,"
A FRIEND of Dorsey stated that the star-route
cases had cost Dorsey and Brady, up to the pres
| Ja that
was well heeled for funds, and could fight his
way through to the end of his life, be it long
| or short, but he did not know much about
| Brady.
| THE whims of royalty may be a cause OF incon-
| venience During the silver wedding ceremo-
| MES at Berlin, to please the Emperor the Prince
of Wales wore his hussars uniform, with its dol
man, both at the family dinner in the afternoon
and at the ball, but it was 80 hot and heavy that
| on returning to the Crown Princes palace, he
| was nearly fainting with fatigue, and had to re-
| tire at once to bed.
| WHEN Judge Taft last summer left Cincinnati
| for his post in Vienna, he did not understand a
word of German. He now delights his German
| friends in Cincinnati by corresponding with
| them in their own language. Minister Sargent
| also went to Berlin with no great acquaintance
with the language. A literary friend recently
| sent TO MIN IOC u cuupter III u recouuiIe 0eTlnan
| book and received from the minister's own hand
a graceful translation, with comments.
LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN says that the
! French never seem to think it worth their while
to learn English. Even the Professor of Eng
lish in French college puts his objects before
| the verbs, and says loved and wished Some
| times, for pecuniary benefit, they will pretend
| to a greater knowledge of the language than
they actually possess 4 little flower boy: "You
my flowers buyi you give me penny-poor
little Eenlish boy!" AS the dirty little gamin
| and nothing else.
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENs, the eminent musician,
whose opera "Heury VIII" has just been brought
out in Paris is fOrty-eIght years old and has
been member of the institute for two years.
| He is described cold, correct, retiring and
4 almost unamiable in his manner, and therefore
he has few personal friends; and yet his simple
/ apartments are said to be often thronged by
famous people, anxious to see and hear the nan
| of whom Liszt once said: al and Sant-Saens
are the only two left In Europe who know how
to play the piano"
THE Rev. John Jasper, theologian and astron-
omer, is a tall, angular, very black negro. with
all the physical characteristics of his race. He
is now nearly 60 years old, and with advancing
years tightens his grip upon the doctrine that
ode sun do move" His sermon on that subject
has been repeated more than 500 times, and yet
"draws" as well as ever. In delivering it, he is
intensely dramatic in action, and the chant of
which his delivery consists is accompanied with