The Indianapolis journal., 1883-05-10

horseback as long as old Kaiser Wilhelm, of
Germany, who sits his immense parade charger
with the ease and grace of fve-and-twenty.
M. ToURGENIEFF, the favorite Russian author,
is suffering from an attack of cardiac delirium.
The doctors declare his condition alarming, and
during the attacks he raves dreadfully. NJ.
Tourgenieff believes himself prey to enemies
who are endeavoring to shut him up in mad
house.
THE San Francisco Post is responsible for the
story that during the latter part of the war
David Davis was challenged to fight duel by
fire eating Southern ex-member of Congress.
The former, it is added, very properly declined,
because his antagonist refused to permit him to
stand three ffths behind a stone wall
ANDREW CARNEGIE, owner Of the Union IRON
mills at Pittsburg Pa, and principal owner of
the Edgar Thomson Steel-works, is Liberal
candidate for member of the English Parlia-
ment Carnegie is a resident of New York, and
all his interests in this country. He never
became naturalized, and still holds his citizen
ship in Scotland.
THE newest member of the French Academy,
Monsegneur d'Autun, is ascetic looking. His
cheeks are hollow and cheekbones prominent.
His eyes are small and burning-the eyes of an
observer and an enthusiast who communes with
his own thoughts. They are shaded by we'll
marked brows. The hair is gray and short, and
the nose is long and pointed.
NEW YORK Sun: ''The anxiety of the Supreme
Court to get as far away from Washington as
possible during the summer recess is note
worthy. Chief Justice Waite and Justice Gray
will go to Montana; Justice Miller 60 Puget
Sound; Justice Field to Japan. The other JUS
tices do not seem to have found out yet how far
eho
to find them trying to reach Patagonia or Bonn.
bay.
GENERAL JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN president
of Bowdoin College, is still In Boston, taking
needed rest after the surgical operation in which
DR.. ]. Fl. Warren relieved him of a dangerous
malady. He is able to enjoy the society of his
family, and to do fair amount of reading and
other mental work. The general states that he
feels entirely cured, and in better physical con-
dtiOn than for years. In a few weeks he will be
able to leave Boston.
MIR. A. BRONSON ALCoTT is now too weak to
do any reading, and has entirely given up all
idea of addressing the school of philosophy this
summer although he is much interested in talk
ing about 1t with DR.. Harris and others. He
takes great pleasure iu listening to music es-
pecially that of Walton Ricketson, the sculptor
(son of Alcotts and ThOreau's old friend, Daniel
Ricketson, of New Bedford), who often plays
for him on Thoreau's flute, which was be-
queathed to him. Mr.. Alcott's most alarming
symptoms are those indicating the probability of
an attack of angina pectoris.
RRINCEss PAz, the sister OF the King of Spain.
and the charming bride of whom all Europe is
talking, is in reality very unattractive in ap-
pearance. She is described as ''sallow, her COM
plexion showing very unfavorably in contrast
with her light eyes and pale-brown hair. She is
as thin as a grasshopper, and the royal elbows
display sharpness Of angle that reminds one of
the limbs of that summer insect. She is elegant
iy attired in pale-pink satin, and she wore the
diamond coronet, surmounted with a row of
pear-shaped pearls, which was her royal bride
groom's wedding gift, and also, the superb
necklace of pearls which was the bridal present
OF her mother. This last is of two rows of pearls
merely, but each pearl is as large ordinary
sized cranberry. Her lady-in-waiting, large,
creamy -skined, sleepy-eyed Ravarian, with
superb white shoulders, displayed by q very low
necked corsage, was a complete contrast to the
Princess in all respects"