The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
ABOUT PEOPLE.

NEW re~ading-where the treasurer is, there
the cash is also. 3
THE Ben Hill monument fund in Georgia
amounts TO only S3, 376.
BARON N-oRDENsKJoLD has arranged for an
Arctic expedition this year. He will explore the
east coast of Greenland.
MR.. AND MRS. W. W. STORY, after a pleasant
farewell at Mr.. Pierpont Morgan's, have started
on their return to their Roman home. aaes
A SOLID gold fish, wrought IN archaic Greek
patterns, has been recently discovered in the
ground at a place on the boundary between Sax
ony and Silesia. ttf
The Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of
Westminster, Lady Mount Temple, the Countess
Brownlow and the Countess of Ellesmere all
wear the temperance blue ribbon.
TIE late Marshall Jewell directed in his will
that fresh flowers shall be sent every Saturday
to his daughter Florence (Mrs. Strong, of De-
trolt), as long as she lives. A sum of money for
that purpose was set aside by the will.
BELL, the telephone inventor, has rented the
house in Washington which was built by Lieu
tenant Brodhead for a niece of N. P. Willis. 1t
has a miniature theater, with orchestral ac-
commodations and chairs for the audience.
CARLYLE to Emerson: ''The good Alcott; with
his long, lean face and figure, with his gray
worn temples and mild radiant eyes; ali bent on
saving the world by a return to acorns and the
golden age; he comes before one like a kind of
venerable Don Quixote, whom nobody can even
laugh at without loving.
MR.. GEORGE II. BUTLER, the New York
artist, who served in the war of the rebellion
and lost bis right arm, lives at Capri in a little
villa on the TiberIan Hill, amidst a garden OF
orange and olive trees, his studio commanding n
view of Vesuvius and the bay, with the mount
aims behind Sorrento acrosa the baV
The world moves. At the recent baccalaureate
examination at Calcutta University, two young
Bengal ladies came forward as candidates, and
passed. This Is the first. appearance of the
'annex" in the native form among the graduates
OF the university. The two young ladies are
named Kadambina Bose and Chandramukhi
Bose.
GOVERNOR ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS spends
his income thrice over in lavish Southern hospi-
tally, aud, although a bad precedent, it is max
ing the invalid Georgian popular. Washburne,
the favorite American Minister at Paris, used to
waste $4,000 on a single entertainment at the
legation, and he left France poorer than when
he went there.
VINCENTIo VELA, the sculptor, is engaged
upon a large group in bronze to commemorate
the violent deaths of some OF the workmen in the
st. Gothard tunnel. 1t consists of six figures
al EOi huh AiCS ACpiCoChVo Nv "OihhOh
carrying out of the mouth of the tunnel the body
OF a companion who had been killed. 1t will be
shown at the coming exhibition in Zurich.
CHICAGO Letter: "IJ is suggested that Mr..
George c.. Minis agnosticism has arisen from
the fact that it is 1 impossible for Mr.. Min to be-
lieve thoroughly in anything save himself. How
ever this may be, it is gradually coming to be
understood that there are not an overwhelming
number of men 80 prominent in public notice as
he who have as thoroughly good reasons for be-
iieving in themselves as has George g. Miln."
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been the recipient of q
beautiful banner, on which was painted an ex-
quisite design OF rare flowers from the White
House. The artist is Mrs. Ellen Potter Nichols,
from New Jersey, daughter of the late ]. A. Pot
ter, of Concord, N. H., and cousin of Governor
Joseph Haydn Potter, late governor of the Sol
diers' Home. A similar design will be sent to the
Marquis OF Lorne, painted from the flowers
used at the dinner of the President in honor of
His Excellency's recent visit to the United
States.