The Indianapolis journal., 1883-02-27
ABOUT PEOPLE.

JOSEPH JEFFERSON has closed his theatrical
season, with over $4,000 profits, aud retired to
his Louisiana plantation.
ROBERT BONNER bought n lot of land on Fifth
avenue, New York, not long ago for $3.50, 900 for
I which he has refused offer of 81, 100000.
81 WILL now ask my esteemed friend, Mr..
William E. Dodge, to preside" said Dr. Zachos,
at the Cooper Institute the other night, forget
ting Mr.. Dodge's recent decease.
Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, who has been seri-
ously i'll for several months, is now GONZALES
cent. His activity in the congressional campaign
! in Maryland was too much for him, and he failed
to get elected
IT is related of Boston man that, seeing a
lady take out six cents with which to pay her
horse-car fare in that city, he profered her five
cent ticket with the remark that che might as
well have the profit as the railroad company"
IRREvERENT outsiders are waiting in unholy
glee to what the members of the "Walt"
Whitman "cult" are going to say about Mr.. EN-
erson's reference TO "Leaves Of Grass" as pos
sibe "auctioneer's inventory of a warehouse"
JUSTICE FIELD and his wife will probably visit
Japan next summer. She certainly will, and he
also, il he can spare the time. They will go to
California in May, after the Supreme Court ad-
journs. Mrs. Field has not been there for several
years.
WHEN Dr. Norvin Green consented to continue
the head of the Western Union Telegraph
Company it with the understanding that he
was TO take long rest. He is preparing to go
to Europe to remain two months and probably
longer.
AN eminent French physician, who has known
Prince Bismarck we'll for nearly a quarter of
century, says that all talk about the Chancel-
lor's health breaking down sheer nonsense.
= Jia md in ad-
mirable condition. and bid fair to remain so for
twenty years to come.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE's original manuscript of
''Home, sweet Home" is said by q local paper at
Athens, Ga, to be owned by woman in that
place. She has several love-letters written by
Payne. There is no record that the original of
the famous song was preserved, and the manu-
script at Athens may be one of the many copies.
THE beautiful glrl presented by Governor
Hampton at the last presidential reception was
not Stonewal Jackson's daughter, as many sup
posed, but Miss Anna Keitt, of South Carolina,
the regning belle and beauty of the Governors
own State. Miss KeItt is a blonde beauty of per-
feet classical type. On the above occasion she
was attired in white satin and point lace, and
cited great admiration.
ONE of the nobest workers of the age is Miss
Leigh, known as the ''Engishwomans good
in that city home for friendless young women;
from this has grown an orphanage, church
and parsonage, a missionary hall. a Young Wo-
mans Christian Association a Young Mems In
stitute free registry, a kindergarten and in
fant school, and a santarium.
LADY BLOOMFIELD, in her "Reminiscences of
Court and Diplomatic Life" tells q curious anec-
dote about her own father, who isolated himself
from the younger members of his family on
count of his dislike to the noise of children. "It
is sad" she WRITES. "that one day my father
was walking in Portland place, when he met
nurse carrying a baby in her arms, and being
struck by the beauty of the infant, he inquired
whose it was. The nurse, much astonshed, an
swered, "Your own, Sir Thomas!'
MRS. GLADSTONE writes London correspond
ent, who is one of the best and kindest women
in the world, has the unhappy knaok of dressing
abominaby On ordinary occasions she is clad
in a rusty black silk, well worn, and with drag
gled look about the petticoat. which barely con-
ceals pair of shaDeless boots. Her gloves
match the boots, and she has been heard to ex-
ult in well-mended pair for the reason that
the money which would have bought new ones
was better applied to the succor of the poor and
needy.
THE following is letter written by Franz
Liszt from Budapest, January %, in reply TO a
request that he would play in Paris for the ben
eft of inundated Alsace-Lorraiue:
'Mr. Drector-In my dispatch of this morn
ing have told you with regret that l can not
take part in your concert. 1t would be pleasant
to play, and l cannot forget what owe to Paris,
where / have passed my earlier days. But sew
entytwo years of age disable me as pianist
For years have not practlced. and cOuld
try my ten fingers in public without suffering
defeat. On this there is no doubt, and III cOnse-
quence of my advanced age, have decided not
to appear as public concert-piayer Iii any
country Receive, ETC., FRANK LIszT."
THE Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph writes Of Dore at is a sim
gular fact that Dore's life was almost wholly
free from feminine influences. Apart from his
mother no woman seems to have filled any
prominent place in his life The greatest defect
in his talent, or rather curious void in it,
his inability to do justice to female beauty His
heroines, as a rule, We're heavy and Rubens-like
of form and commonplace as to features. I
think 1t was for that reason that he rerrained so
long from setting actively TO work upon his
Shakespeare, tho femme element entering so
largely into the works of the great poet"
COLONEL STEWART has sent home to England
a detailed account Of the False Prophet OF the
Soudan, which completely knocks on the head
the pretensions that 10 was q mulatto barber,