The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-06
ABOUT PEOPLE.

PROF. GOODWIN SMITH was Lord Coleridge's
"fag" at Eaton.
BOSTON girls now have Matthew Arnold on
the brain, and his books sell like hot cakes
MIR. WALTER BEsANT has written story
called, ga Glorious Fortune" which will form
the Christmas number of All the Year Round
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA says thai he wants to
keep the English language as English as possI-
BILE, and he therefore, objects to the further in
PRODUCTION of foreign words.
AN Arkansas minister prayed for rain, and
that night thev got it and flood that set the
neighDorhood back ten years. A vigilance COM
mlttee has notified him not to do it again.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, In speak
ing of his career in Washington, said recently:
81 was mighty nigh dead to get here, but I'll be
hanged if 1 am not higher dead to get away"
GossIPs are already at work marrying the
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar cid
est daughter of the Prince of Wales, now sixteen
years old. The Duke of Portland is the happy
man selected.
MRS. CORVALLIS WEST, the famous beauty,
and at one time rival of Mrs. Langtry, leaves
Liverpool this week for Washington to assume
the part of hostess for her brother-in-law, the
English minister atNashington.
MR.. WILLARD has stabbed cold Mig" the
horse which drew the first and last loads of rails
for the Northern Pacific road, comfortably in
New York, there to pass the remainder of his
days IN peaceful enjoyment of all the oats he
can eat
SENATOR JOSEPH E. BROWN, of Georgia, who is
eccentric received letter asking for his aNist-
ance in the building of Baptist church. Here
piled that he could not leave the Senate long
enough to be of much service, and that he was
not a good stonemason any way.
HON. JOHN W. STEVENSON is lying very Sc
rously Ill at his home in Covington. He was
compelled to take to his bed while attending the
general convention of the Episcopal Church at
Philadelphia, just concluded, delegate from
his diocese, and is worse since he reached
home
THE celebrated physician of the San Francis
can Chinatown is said to derive most of his
large income from white patients, and although
he knows hing of anatomy as our physicians
understand it, he makes wonderful diagnoses
First he feels the patients pulse, then treats to
a severe course of antidote for quinine if it has
previously been used. He commands total ab-
st1nence from poultry, shell fish uncooked fruit,
eggs, watery vegetables, fried meats, all
liquors and everything sour. He then pre-
scribes wonderful connections of drugs
THE Paris Evenement has the following con-
corning the Comte de Paris at is well known
that the Comte de Paris published during his
exile in London several works socialism.
which have acquired a certain celebrity, but
have greatly displeased his relatives 1t is said
that the Orleans family have bought up and de-
stroyed all the copies of these works that they
could find. 1t is, however, less well known that
the Comte de Paris was once an active member
OF the International, and it is even asserted
that his hardness in openly declaring himself
pretender to the French crown is mainly due to
his fear of falling victim to the avenging arm
OF the revolutionary brotherhood"