The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.

BOB BURDETTE has so far recovered from his
recent illness that he proposes to begin his lee
lures again this week.
GENERAL BUFFERS old buckskin horse, which
be rode through the war, is luxuriously cared tor
ct the Generals cOuntry-seat.
1T is currently reported in journalistic circles
in Philadelphia that Alexander Mcclure will
soon sever his connection with the Philadelphia
Times.
FATHER RYAN says free schools were first es-
tablished in Ireland, and then in Italy and
France although New England claimed that
honor.
THE Pusey memorial fund now amounts to
something more than $125.000, and the list OF
contributors includes forty bishops, twelve
deans and thrty-two archdeacons.
PERE HYACINTHE and Nine. Loyson will sail
from Liverpool for New York on Sept. 20
While in New York they will be the guests of
Cyrus W. Field, and in Chicago of Mr.. E. B.
Washburne.
DIR, EVANS, the Paris dentist, is said to have
paid the largest price for west-side property IN
New York In 1872 he bought the block bound
ed by the Boulevard, Ninth avenue and Eighty
ninth and Nineteth streets for $4,000 lot
This was eleven years ago 1t is thought he
could now get Sc, 700 apiece for the Boulevard
lots alone.
ALBERT ALEXIS LEFAIvRE, the French consul
general at New York. has received the title of
minister plenipotentiary from the French gov
ornment. Should NJ. Roustan, the French min
lister at Washington, be recalled-or, as Is posi-
BILE, for a more active field in China-M Lefai-
vre, it is thought by French residents in New
York will succeed him as French minister at
the national capital.
A CORRESPONDENT who has seen King Alfonso
at Hamburg says that he is insipid little
creature, who is given to cigarettes and garlic.
He loves to drive out behind fine horses, and is
evidently under the impression that people are
anxious to see him. AS he drives through the
parks he bows calamity to all the pretty ladies
who favor him with a glance One Of his body
servants reports that the King is exceedingly
fond of brandy late at night.
THIS item from the London Truth may startle
many young ladies who were proud TO dance
with a supposed duke at Long Branch last
season: "Can there be a person going about
America under the alias of the Duke of New
castleP ask the question, for see that some
one claiming this title is the zion of Long
Branch this season. whereas the real Simon
pure was. gather from other newspapers, last
week at Lakeside Hotel, in westmoreland.
THE following incident Is reported by the Bel
CLAN newspapers as having occurred at the re-
cent Ostend horse races. King Leopold, who
was present. at the races, was talking to
gentlemen of his suite, when English gentle
man and lady passed by The lady, pulling her
husbands sleeve, whispered, "The King" and
the EDglishman calmly confronted the Belgian
monarch slowly produced number of coins
from his pocket from which he selected Bel
gian franc piece for the purpose of verifying the
truth of his wfe's statement. After long and
Tninuta eOmOariaOn hatwaAn the m nression on
the coin and the original, the Briton called out,
with evident satisfaction, sob, yes, 1t is the
King!" King Loepold.w had watched the scene,
was highly amused at the process of Identified
ton.
The will of George Barstow, of San Francis
co, dispOsing of an estate valued at $4,000,
was filed for probate recently In 1t he says:
s'Having observed that ostentation and expen-
sive funerals are injurious to the people, often
absorbing money which poverty can't well
spare to vanity and pride, therefore, by way of
example, for which beg pardon of the under
takers, let my coffin be plain redwood box, put
together with plain nails screws without
paint or varnish. and plain iron handles, and all
else about the funeral to correspond with this
plainness. Let there be cheap shroud and no
flowers. What Is a dead man but a handful of
DUST Instead of hearse may just as we'll be
in everyday use, since life is but journey and
the day of death the final rest"
COMMENTING on the report that Captain Scott
Siddons has gone mad and been placed in an
asylum in Australia, the Springfield Republican
says: Captain Thomas Chanter, who changed
his paternal name in order to preserve to his
beautiful wife the advantage of her own distin-
guished name on the stage, Joined with the Sid
dons his mothers family name of Scott. He
was man of handsome person, elegant man.
ners and intelligent mind, but he went hope
!essly wrong, squandered his wife's earnings,
and left her no alternative but to separate from
him, at the cost of bestowing upon him consid-
erable property in Australia. Mrs. Scott-Sddous
lives in England, and it said she had with
drawn permanently from the stage, but there
are now rumors that she is about to star
through Germany. She has adopted as her son.
under act of Parliament, the boy musician
Henry Stephen Walker, who was with the Scott
Siddonses in this country several years ago. and
attracted attention by his remarkably fine piano.
playing. He has since been educated for the
navy at the Woolwoh school, but of late has
shown renewed interest in music and in original
composition"
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.