The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-29
ABOUT PEOPLE.

THE largest single holder Of French rentes Is
Madame Heine Furtado of Rocquenfort, who
draws $4,000 quarterly.
GEN. GRANT has headed with 81, 900 a sub
scrption for Gen. Fremont, who is old and poor,
but served his generation long and well.
HARTLEY CoLBRIDGE once being asked which
of wordsworth's productions he considered the
prettiest, very promptly replied, "His daughter
Dora"
The Nestor of all living musicians is Hilf, the
city musician of Bath Elster. who celebrated his
| Tooth birthday Nov. 10. He is still active
enough to play occasionally in the concerts
given by his son.
EPITAPH copied IN q French cemetery:
| 81 AWAIT MY HUSBAND,
| doth October, 1920"
'HERE AMI oo.
| ''7th February, 1880"
WILLIAM D. HowELLs, Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
! Edwin P. Whippe, John Boyle O'Reilly and
! Oliver Wendell Holmes have united in card
commencing George W. Cables series of read
ings from his Creole sketches to the Boston pub
| lie.
MoNsIGNoR vANNUTELLI, the new Nnncio for
Lisbon. is one of the tallest men in the world.
Plus TX used to call him the one-and-a-nalf
priest, on account OF his extreme height. He is
also described as a man of great genius and
learning.
SENATOR CAMERON expects to return to this
country early next spring, before the adjourn
meDt of Congress. His physician warns him
that an earlier return would counterfeit disas-
trously the beneficial effects of his travels and
rest.
| WENDELL PHILLIPS always remembers
tain organ-grinder who appears before his resi-
dence regularly every day. If Mr.. Phillips goes
away in the morning, Mrs Phillips always says:
wendell don't forget the six cents for the or
gan man."
LEWIS WINGFIELD's new novel OF the
| time of the Prince Regent, sty led ''Abiga1l
Rowe" has given her Majesty much annoyance.
| Written from private information, it gives de-
tails more piquanJ than pleasant respecting the
| Queens female ancestors.
! MARRIAGE engagements which had been an
nounced of two Washin gton ladies have been de-
clared off, in both instances because of the ill
health of the groom-eect One was that of Gen
eral EmOry's daughter and General Augur's
son, and the other that of General Meigs's
daughter and MI. Archibald Forbes. of England.
Two charitable Boston women tried on a small
scale Octavia Hill's London experiment of fur
nishing healthy tenement-houses to the poor.
They hired house four years ago, had the hall
ways scrubbed twice week, insisted on their
| tenants Keeping their rooms clean, put their
! Iouls loWB anu yeO nave D6eu dUl6 10 keep bu6lr
building in repair and lay up little money for
| emergencies.
THEY men of sentiment in the New York
Cotton Exchange. For two years one of them,
l.. L. Robbins by name, has supplied the
change with flowers, and, touched by this de-
| lightful habit of his, the rest OF the members
| have just given him thirty-seven volumes con-
| corning the civil war ana Hungarian faience
lamp TO read them by. Those flowers were
| really quite an Investment.
SPEAKING of the origin Of SEINE names in Ore
| gon, the Oregnuian says of Grants Pass: "When
Grant was O lieutenant he was camped there
with party of soldiers, and they got to playing
| euchre for 81 on the corner. The game stood
three to three. Grant picked up the cards. and
had the right bower, ace and king. He concluded
to pass, thinking he could euchre his opponent,
a burly miner. The result that he lost his
dollar, and the place was called Grants Pass"
AT recent temperance meeting in Boston a
| thrifty old lady observed that she knew some
thing of the evils of rum. al have buried three
| husbands, and ali were hard drinkers. But am
/ glad to say" she continued, chat didn't fight
| with them. AS soon as found they would
drink got them 10 insure their lives heavily
| and let them go ahead. All, noe! each one of
| them died from the effects of liquor. but thanks
| be to a kind Providence, each death netted me
clear $4,000"
| THE Oldest university student In Berlin, and
probably in the world, is sixty years of age.
After passing his examination in theology in his
youth he went to South Africa missionary,
and there married the daughter of a rich Dutch
! farmer who Inherited her fathers property.
Having lost his wife and children several years
| ago, hs returned to Germany, and is now about
to graduate in medicine from the University Of
| Berlin, As soon as he has sacured hIs dinlomo
he will return to the Transvaal.
THE Rev. Charles T. Stout pastor of St.
! Georges Episcopal Church. LeadvIlle, the Lead
| Vile Tribune says, is an absent-minded man.
Returning from Grand Rapids, Mich, where he
had taken Miss Harriet NJ. Strong to be his
wife, he went to the st. James Hotel in Denver
and registered as "Charles 7. Stout" Mrs Stout
was In the dressing room, and the clerk knew
it. Pardon me- sir" he said, "buJ is anyone
accompanying you2" The preacher, suddenly
recolecting his better half, turned and inscribed
on the register land wife"
WHEN HlndOO a Burmese swears he mpli-
Gates not only himself but all his kindred up to
the seventh degree, all his personal acquaint-
ances ana all his posterty. If through lapse of
memory he happens to perjure himself. all these
are condemned to "ten kinds of punishment and
five attacks of enemies" Should the perjury he
of rather more deliberate sort, the earth will
open and swallow them all up. II the witness
knowingly makes false oath, his friends and
acquaintance will be lowered into eighty great
heis and 100 small ones.-Justice in Asia.
MRS. TES> YsoN, the mother of the poet, was
SO kind-hearted that it has passed into prcyerb,
and the wicked inhabitants of a neighborng
village used to bring their dogs to her windows
and beat them order to be bribed to leave off
by the gentle lady. or to make advantageous
bargains by selling her the worthless ours. She
was intensely, fervenJly religious, as q poets
IN other should be- After her husbands death
(he had added to the rectory and made it suita-
bic for his large family she still lived at