The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-14
ABOUT PEOPLE.
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SENATOR EDMUNDs has gone with his family to
Aiken, s. C. 1t is one of the pleasantest health
resorts in the country.
WIGGINs is thtrty-seven years OF age and very
sociable in manner. He fills an important po-
siton in the civil service of Ottawa, and, strange
| to say, is highly esteemed at the Capital.
WORK on the Washington monument is to be
begun on April 1. Two hundred and fifteen feet
have yet to be added to the height of the tall
shaft, and two seasons will be required to COM
plete the work.
| COUPLE of years ago a lady in San Francisco
| lost valuable diamond very mysteriously A
few days since rat captured in the bath
room of the house, in whose stomach the lost
| diamond was found
JOHN b. COUGH has already lecuured $3.50
times to 8,500,000 people, and TO reach whom he
has been obliged to travel 448. 900 miles, He is
now sixty five years old, and in the forty-frst of
/ his career a lecturer.
BLIND Tom may not make little angel whose
light wings would hardly ruffie the golden locks
| of the oherubim, says a Southern paper, but
when he stikes his harp or piano there will be
music in heaven. and the saints will listen.
| PROFESSOR NoRDENsKJoLD has sent in a
claim to the reward of %, 900 gulden which was
offered i'll 500 by the Dutch governm emit TO any
one who sholld succeed in reaching the Pacific
ocean by way OF the norththeast passage.
MR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA relates how a
housemad who went away in hurry left be-
hind her in her fight an unfinished letter which
began: 1.-THE Mistrs hear is Tartar, an it's
nothiu. but jOre, jore, jore from mornn till
mite"
| GOVERNOR PArTIsoN has reformed the heating
apparatus in the executive office at Harrisburg.
In hot cellar air, he holds, there is no reform
inspiration, and he has shut it OFF. and crack
ling hickory logs now blaze at the executive
| hearth.
| CABLE the novelist, had never seen collec-
ton of casts from the antique until he came to
Johns Hopkins University and saw the gallery
at the Peabody Institute. The "Faun" of the
Capitol and the "Genius Making an Offering"
Impressed him most strongly.
JAMES WILEY, of East Haven, Conn, wrote
his will with a typewriter. After his death re-
Gently the validity of the will was questioned on
the ground that the document had been printed.
In New Haven on Thursday Judge York decided
that printed will is all right.
| Miss ANNA OLIVER, who resusci,ated and built
up a Methodist church in Brooklyn, N. Y,
mas resigned the passionate thereof, after four
years service, because while she, woman, re-
NAMED In the pastoral office the church could
have standing in the denomination.
| THE domestic scenery in Brooklyn continues
picturesque. Mr.. Schpell having sued his uncle
| for making love to Mrs. Sohnell, Mrs. Schnell
| comes out with the charge that Mr.. Schnell hit
her with a six-pound bag of starch and a plate of
oysters, besides making fierce love to the SER
vant-girl.
| CoNGREssMEN MCCooK and Townsend. both
| bachelors. have pleasant souvenir of their six
years's occupancy of seats at the same dining
room table in Washington, in a cabinet photo
| graph which each carries away with him of the
four-y year old twin sons of their faithful waiter
"Jesup," whom he named for them respectively,
Arson and Amos
| PRESIDENT ARTHUR was deeply moved when
Madame Patti sang "Robin Adair" In Washing
ton. The Presidents late wife was an amateur
vocalist of rare sweetness and power. "Robn
| Adair" was one of her favorite songs, and she
sang it with pathos not to be surpassed 1t is
not, therefore, to be wondered at that Patti
made deeper impression on the President than
| she was aware OF.
| MARSHAL BAzAINE the arstocratic prop of
Maximilian's Mexican government, who had
| sixteen-year-old wife there, spent several years
! in a circus, travelling through many countries,
until az last, tired of his nomadic life, ne went
to Africa and enlisted in the foreign legion
the time of his enlistment he changed his name
| from Regner to Bazaine.
a BILL before the Legislature of Wisconsin
proposes to appropriate $500 for the puulica-
| ton of a work of the life of Matthew Hale Car.
| penter, written under the advice of some of the
most eminent men in the United States, by
| Frank A. Flower" The bill declares that the
| work covers, sin succinct manner, the politi-
cal, war and legal history of Wisconsin, with
| which Mr.. Carpenter was directly or indirectly
| connected from June, 1S48 Uhe date on which
Moses NJ. Strong's book closes, to February,
| 1891"
THE Washington correspondent of the Boston
Traveller, referring to PATHS recent eng cement
in the capital says: "Patti, by the way, is among
the most supeIstitious of mcrtals. She win not
| sign any contract or begin any new undertaking
on Friday. She will not live at a hotel in
room numbering thirteen or any multiple
thereof, She wears numerous charms, and be-
Iieves in every superstition she has ever heard
anything about. 1t is said that when Mr. Maple.
son does not care to pay the sun required Tor