The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28

she does detectives who are splendid fac-simileG
pany her to and from the house or place she
visits. At home these diamonds are kept in q
safe so built that to rob it one must needs knock
down part of the house.
THE pecuniary affairs of one of the Cars
nearest relatives. who held high military COM
mand In Bulgaria, have become so desperately
involved that his estates have been placed under
administration for the benefit of his creditors;
and in the meanwhile it is said to have been
suggested that he could live with more dignity
abroad on the small income which has been re-
served for his personal use.
MR.. GIL DsroNE, during his idle days in
Cannes, met NJ, Clemenceau, the leader of the
French Radicals. The two statesmen needed no
other Introduction than mutual recognition, and
they chatted pleasantly in French and walked
hours together in the sunshine of the Riviera.
81 find, NJ. Clemenceau," said the English pre-
mier when they parted, shat we think alike
about tea and decentralization"
THE other night at Washington at reception,
the Chinese minister met Mrs. Samuel Bright.
Mrs. Bright is slightly deaf and uses an
trumpet. Mr.. Tsao Ju, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the En-.
pire OF China to the United States, took it into
his head that the ear-trumpet was a new kind of
pipe, to be smoked through the ear. 1t took
four secretaries and an interpreter to convince
him to the contrary, and even then he insisted
in choice Chinese, that he should be allowed to
try iU for himself.
THE recent sale of some of the late Edwin
Forests effects in Philadelphia recalls singu.
lar circumstance concerning his estate. Pend
ing the divorce proceedings between him ami
his wife he decided his property in equal shares
to his three sisters. Soon one of the sisters
died, and her share reverted to the other two
and to Edwin. Then the second sister died. and
her share, with what had been left to her by the
first sister, came TO the third sister and to
Edwin Finally the remaining sister died, and
Edwin Forrest, being the sole heir, again became
possessed OF all the estate he had decided away.
JAY GoULD's marriage was not only happy in
every respect. but it made him the manager OF
his first railroad, his father-in-law owned the
controlling interest in the road, and allowing
Jay to manage that interest gave him the oppor-
tunity to make himself speedily tho owner OF it,
Mrs. Gould not only brought to her husband the
beginning of his torture and his opportunities.
but she has ever since been the only person in
the world in whom he has fully confded, and it
is said he has invariably done so with profit.
Mrs. Gould undoubtedly is in possession of more
great secrets than any woman living. IL Is said
of her that she possesses her secrets, while other
women do not have secrets long enough to get
proper possession.
IT is said that there is boy eight years of age
in Arkansas that has never been known to adj
dress his father either directly indirectly.
The parents highly respected, and are peo-
pie of some refinement. The strategy of the
boy, to avoid speaking to his father, is more than
equal to that of both his parents and the other
members of the family, who have laid all man
of plans to force him into single utterance
of his fathers name. Upon one occasion they
planned not to get him any boots until he asked
for them like the others, but this was failure
also, for he went on through the snow with his
bare feet just as though he were in calfskin to
his knees. BE has profound respect for his
father ana will follow him about the farm for q
whole day at time.