The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-30
ABOUT PEOPLE.

GEORGE ELIoT's "Daniel Deronda" is said to
be pretty accurately represented in real life by
nephew of Mr.. Sehgman, the banker.
THERE are 10000 Christian Indians in the
United States, but the Boston Post thinks its
safer to trade horses with Satan than with one
of them.
A YOUNG man in Lowell gave his intended an
engagement ring on the inside of which was en-
graved the Legend "In time of peace prepare
for war"
BOSTON Posi-: "Ruskin says no couple should
marry until they have courted seven years.
This would lead one to think that Ruskin runs
soda fountain.
PRINCESS BEATRICE is understood to have en-
gagged to furnish some pencil sketches to an En-
glsh monthly, and the price for her pictures has
been agreed on.
MRS. ANNIE LOUISE CARY RAYMOND has con-
sented to sing once more in public, this time at
Portland. at a complimentary concert rendered
to her friend, Miss Bryant
MR.. BARNES, the Mountain Evangelist" OF
Kentucky, now in London, is promulgating a
new notion, to wit, that the Englsh-speaking
people descended from the lost tribes of
Israel.
MR.. JEFFERsoN's sister, Cornelia, a favorite
in old times, but long since retired from the
stage, will reappear this season in her brothers
company, playing "Tilly slowboy'' in "The
Cricket on the Hearth"
THE late Montgomery Blair was the originator
of uniform cheap postage, of the carrier delivery
in large Cities and of the postoffice money order
system, while under him the postoffice depart
ment became for the first time paying iustitu-
ton.
GENERAL DANIEL E. SIoKLEs, who has been
fortunately forgotten of late, reappears in pub
lie view the victim of dust from the roof of
clearinghouse keeper, who seems to be perpetu-
ally shaking carpets thereon. The person guilty
of the nuisance, Mrs. Hall, up to date defies
the General, his landady, the health depart
ment, and the courts.
Rev. ROBERT CoLLYER is one of the American
preachers who have occupied London pulpits
this summer Mr.. Collyer, who is an American
by adoption and was a blacksmith in his native
England, preached also in nkley parish this sum-
mer in a church, the gates of which are proudly
pointed out as the work of his own hands when
he was employed in the forge.
WHEN Mr. Irving reaches this country he will
have in his party Clement SCOTT and Joe Hatton,
two well-known London Journalists, to do the
spontaneous literary tribute" business and to
keep off interviewers Mr.. Irving's impressions
of America are to be published simultaneously
in England aud in America in the form of a diary,
and these two journalists are TO dick it into
shape" for him.
A CURRENT report that the late Governor
Swami took an oath of allegiance to the Confed-
eraey, and mayor of Baltimore, invited the
roughts to assault the Union troops passing
through that city, is Indignantly denied by his
friends He was known through the State as an
Incorporating Union man from the first, and,
moreover his term of mayor expired before the
election of Lincoln
CERTAIN scientific journals of Europe have
been giving their attention of late to the history
of Jonah. One of them has pointed out thai if
the ish swallowed the prophet in the Mediter-
ranean and threw him out again near Nineveh,
he must have been carried through the Straits
of Gibraltar. round the Cape of Good Hope, up
the Persian Gulf, and into tho Tigrs. This is
frighJfully prosaic depression.
WITH advancing years Bancroft the historian,
seems to be losing much of that silly social senti-
mentalism which was formerly so characteristic
of the man. He used to be quite beau at the
watering places, and long after his hair turned
white he courted the society of women, particu-
larry debutantes. "Why do you call me Mr..
Bancroft" he is reported to have asked New
port bellies "why don't you call me Georgel"
RECENT visitor to the Office of the Louisville
Courier Journal says that the Hon. Harvey NJ.
watterson-who, by the way, was in Congress
with the late Judge Blacks father-is very proud
of his son Henry, editor of that paper, and re-
lates many anecdotes to show how precocous
the boy was, long years ago, when watermelon
season came and how dexterous he was In climb
ing picket-fences when the farmers let loose the
dogs of war.
THE old manse still stands at Concord, Mass,
a when Hawthorne wrote thirty years ago. 1t
ia old, gray and implanted Inside it is snug,
coy and attractive. On one of the tiny window
frames ia legend in Hawthorne's handwriting,
telling how Una Hawthorne looked out of that
window on that winters day, and seeing the
snow and the trees like snow chandeliers. was
much pleased, though she was only ten months