The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.


THERE is a new French saying: ga woman is
like army-she is lost if she has no reserve"
A BROTHER of President Buchanan lis an Epis-
copal clergyman, residing quietly in Philadel-
phia.
M. REMAIN says he would like to be buried
under the palm-trees at Byblas, in Syria, beside
his sister.
AS the London dailies don't print any spring
poetry, Mr.. Gladstone reads Homer every morn
ing in bed
AMONG the ladies of Vienna fencing is very
fashionable. The bellies of Paris also indulge in
the exercise.
JOHN BRIGHT thinks oaths and oath-making
have done more than any other thing to impair
and destroy regard for truth.
THE Duchess of Manchester, at an evening re-
ceptlon recently wore plain blue satin dress,
edged with plain blue tulle and covered with
pink roses.
THE heaviest brain ever known was that of
poor bricklayer. 1t is remarkable that man
with so large brain should not have been a good
bricklayer.
THE city of Montreal has rendered Mime. AL
bani the freedom of the city. 1t is proposed
when she alghts there to escort her to her hotel,
and 1000 snow-shoers, With torches and in uni
form, will be the escorting party.
BOULIER, distinguished French savant, is
convinced that dreams throw much light on the
moral character and responsibility of the dream
| er. They fair revelauon of the conscience
and moral character, and he is far from having
a disregard for them.
RosANNA CUTTER, Of Natick, R. l., aged 1Os is
dim of sight and weak of memory, passing the
time IN drinking strong tea and monotonously
knitting all day and unraveling at night, pair
of socks which she began thirteen years ago.
Rosanna should be added to the tariff commits
sion.
LONDON World: 81 understand that 1t is now
settled that the Duke and Duchess of Edinburg
will be the only members of the royal family of
England who will go to Russia in May to the
| coronation of the Emperor of Russia The date
fixed renders it practically impossible for the
Prince and Princess of Wales to be present,
much as they would have wished to attend"
WHENEVER any lady with whom Prince Gort-
| chakof had been flirting left st. Petersburg 1t
was the custom 10 ask the Prince when she would
return, in order to receive the invariable reply:
81 cannot say; she is no longer under the fascin-
atng glance of my eyes," The Prince had
| saucer eyes, as dull as those of O Goldfish, and
these watery Orbs were covered by spectacles.
MRS THOMAS MADDOX, in Lafayette Place,
has one of the best collections of British and
to the pioneers stone mug, probably some thou
sands of pieces. Her husband was native of
the staffordshire pottery district, and began
making collections long ago In blue and pink
ware her specimens go back beyond the Hano-
verian kings
COLONEL KING HARTMAN, the new representa-.
tive of Dublin county, is said TO be the strongest
member of the British House of Commons, and
there many stories in circulation of his
deeds of proves IN the many electoral contests
he has participated in. On one occasion, for ex-
ample he armed himself with huge shillelah
and literally "cleaned OUT the whole high street
of an Irish town.
KARL BLIND has emphasized his well-known
disapprovGl of the plans of his more radical So
cialist brethren by joining the executive com.
mittee of the International Arbitration and
Peace Association of Great Britain and Ireland,
which numbers among its officers and members
the Duke of Westminster the Earl of Derby, the
Earl of shaftesbury, and about forty members
of the House of Commons.
PRINCE GoRTcHAKoFF, who has Just died,
was an able man, but he was singularly vain;
his idea being that no one could write a better
dispatch, and that he possessed the fascinating
power of the serpent over the female sex. He
had two sons, and when they were lads he was
one of these gifts, for he used to explain that
one of them was destined to be the terror OF
diplomatsts and the other of husbands
LONDON special: "Some idle rubbish has been
published here, where people ought to know bet
ter. ana has, presume, been cabled to America,
to the effect that the Queen has been rendered
very nervous through the attack upon Lady
Florence Dixie. Such statement is deserving
of the most utter contempt. The Queen has
more than the ordinary courage of the Guelphs
in fact, she has repeatedly shown that it is no
exaggeration to say of her that she does not
know fear"
CAPTAIN o. Fl. OLDRoYD, of Springfield, H.
offers to give that State his great collection Of
relics of Lincoln, soon the State will pro-
vide suitable building for its reception, and
the Legislature now proposes to purchase Lin
coins former homo in Springfield for that pur
pose. The Odroyd collection consists of more
than 1000 articles, ranging from autograph let
tiers to cooking stoves 1t includes the ''stove.
pipe" hat worn by Lincoln on the day of his first
nomination for the presidency.
Iris considered probable that Queen Victoria
will on the next anniversary of her birthday con-
fer a Field Marshal's baton upon her son-ln-aw.
the Prince Imperial of Germany. Such addition
of u foreign prince to the roll of honorary Brit
ish officers would not be without precedent, for
1916 baton was bestowed upon the late King