The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
ABOUT PEOPLE

IT Is said tnat the death of Mr.. Critchett, the
eminent English oculist. was FASTENED by re-
morse for a grave mistake made by him In an
operation.
A PROMINENT New York politician says that
before the 9TH of March next Mr.. Justice Brad
ley would retire from the Supreme Bench, and
that Secretary Folger would be nominated to NIL
the vacancy. He may be guessing, or he may
know what he is talking about.
DURING her stay in this country Patti sings
altogether thirty times under the management
of Mapleson, for which she will receive, net,
81 SignOr GIcolini, in addition, gets
Sc, 400 "A month, or $500 each time he sings. On
a basis OF thirty times, he will take away with
him $4,000.
WAsHINGToN Special: Tho Marquis of Lorne
has been unanimously pronounced decidedly a
handsome young man, and has also been said by
many to be enough like Mr.. Howard, OF the Brit
ish legation, to DO his brother. Lord Iorne wore
on Friday ut the ball OF the British legation, with
his evening dress, the Scottish order of 1.-The
Thistle"
NEWARK, Nj, woman went to see"Around
the World in Eighty Days the other evening,
and was shocked 10 see her daughter, who had
mysteriously disappeared several weeks before,
among the scantily clothed coryphees. After
taC lCIlO unhnCC bho AhOLAoh EdihCN ohiioSiO
to the green room, and finally prevailed on the
daughter to return home with her.
MISS EMMA WHOM, otherwise Mile. Nevada,
this year receives 81 900 per month for singing
in opera in Paris. Mex year her contract calls
for 81, 100 per month, and in the following year
81, 200 per month. By the expiration of her
present contract she will thus have earned
$39, 600 at the Opera Comique. Then she will
come home to America, to make some more.
A DIRECT descendant of Israel Putnam, and
Mrs. Hayes, u beautiful sister of Margaret Full
Ter, are among the distinguished ladies now in
Washington. The latter is staying at Wormley's,
aud the former is visiting Mrs. John Sherman.
Mrs. Sherman also has as a guest Miss Perkins, a
very pretty young girl from Ohio, a cousin Of
Miss Putnam, though the two first met after
coming here.
NINE. CAMlLLo URso met two little girls. Zoe
ana Josie Reynold, at Tunbridge. VT, a few
days ago. and, as they had a local fame as vio-
liuists, she requested them To play for her. They
played for her, and she was so delighted that
she kissed them rapturously, saying: Twenty
years hence you will take my place, perhaps, il
Won work hard, and 1 shall be an old woman, if
indeed l be alive"
SIR JULIUS BENEDICT, the veteran English mu-
sician. now 70 years of age, is as hale and hearty
as he was when he came to America with Jenny
Linda trip of which he is still fond of talking.
He recently sat up composing music for forty
hours without Il moments sleep or rest, and
when at last the work in hand was finished and
Lady Benedict urged him to go to bed and rest,
he gayly responded: eyes, after I've read the
evening papers"
A SAD incident connected with the French
stage is the sudden insanity of Mile. Dinelli, of
the Palais Royal Theater. In the middle of n
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Cuiet, she turned to the other performers and
said: "Do you hear how they hiss met l cannot
finish the piece" The next day it was found
that she had lost her reason, and, after several
attempts to commit suicide, she was removed to
a maison de sante.
THE latest "honor' proposed in relation to the
Egyptian campaign is the most browning one of
all. The Queen has been pleased to signify her
intention to appoint Field Marshal His Royal
Hignness the Duke OF Cambridge, X. g., &C. b.,
to be n personal aide de-camp TO Her Majesty,
in recognition of the eryices rendered by His
Royal Highness in connection with the Egyptian
war. This ia surety the apotheosis OF military
service and military promotion.
JOHANN STRAUSS, the Walzer-Konig of the
Viennese, having divorced his second wife, is
about to wed a third. She is IA young and beauti-
full Jewish widow, Strauss by name, so that she
VIII not nave TO sucrlnce Il coSuOnon al me altar
of Hymen. Instead, however, she will s%aorifce
her religion. After The honeymoon at Nice the
happy pair will return to Vienna, aud Herr
Johann will realizes the dream Of his life by
becoming manager OF the Karl Theater.
WHILE examining an OLD bureau which he had
bought at a constable's sale. II secondhand
furniture dealer in Augusta, Me, discovered a
secret drawer back Of the mirror, in which was
concealed a bloOd-stained dagger with u white
ivory handle, Inquiry developed the fact that
the bureau had belonged to II French family
named Duprez, residents of Boston some thirty
fvo years ago. Madame Duprez disappeared
very mysteriously, and n great many persons be-
lieved she had been murdered.
CHICAGO Letter.; NJ Thomas C, MCMILLAN,
| city editor of the Inter Ocean, was married yes.
terday 10 Miss Mary GoudIe, daughter of David
Goudie, a wealthy farmer and stock raiser, re-
siding near Oswego. Ill. A tinge of romance is
| attached to the matter In the fact that Mr.. Me-
MILAN, who is q S%ootchman by birth, was In