The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-07
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MORRIS MOORE has sCld his Raphael to the
Louvre for $4,000. 1t Is the picture of Apollo
and Masyas described in the Century som
months ago.
SWEDEN has contributed more than $1,000 for
the memorial of Charles Darwin in England.
This is the largest sum contributed by any
foreign country.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT intends to
improve the shining hours at Lynn, this sum-
mer, by writing that new play for the Madison
Square Theater.
COUNCIL, who is sixty-four, will never write
another opera, but is very hard at work on an
oratorio and requiem, which, he says, will be a
grander work than "Faust."
TUE North American Review has paid George
E. Waring, jr, $1,000 for one of his sanitary
household specialties, which is spoken OF as the
highest price ever paid by any such periodical
for a single article.
DIR. GUAM, an eminent London physician,
writes: "When a man turns his toes out much in
walking, and treads upon the whole base of his
foot, and is always stopping to look back, he is
already old. The saeacious boots at an inn
can tell a mans age by the state of his shoe
leather"
THE wife of Gen. Absalom Baird l. OF the army,
who was buried at Rock Creek cemetery near
Washington, last Saturday, was a niece of
O6rTtIU Omltn, VI NEW IOTh. SOr TWO years
she has been blind. The plate upon her coffin
bore this inscriptions: "Whereas 1 was blind,
now I see."
IT is rumored in London that Cardinal Man
ming, so soon as his health will permit, will at
tend one of the levees to be held on behalf of the
Queen this season by the Prince of Wales.
Should he do so it would be the first instance of
an English Catholic bishop going to court within
some centuries.
ONE day recently MISSIONER called at De-
tallle's house and finding him out, went into the
billiard-room to have some practice. In max
ing a difficult stroke he cut a hole iI the cloth.
and, being unable to repair it, pasted a bit of pa
per over 1t and made thereon an exquisite little
sketch. AL art collector has offered $500 for
the patch, but Detaille will not part with it.
THE Caxton window in st. Margaret's Church.
Westminster, presented by the publishers and
printers OF London, has this inscription by Ten
nyson:
"The prayer was Light-more L~ight-while Time
shall last
Thou sawest IA glory growing on the night,
But not the shadows which that light would cast,
Till shadows vanish in the Light of Light"
These lines are founded on Cations motto, "Fiat
Lux" which appears on the window.
ELIsEE RECLUs, the great French geographer
and social revolutionist, is short is stature,
slight of frame, with no typical French looks
about him. His forehead is massive, and is sur
mounted by a tangled shock OF brown hair
streaked with gray. His full beard and mustache
are of the same color. His deep blue eyes and
all the features of his face express power, SYM
pathy and high intelligence. Like Prince KrapoU-
kline, he has more the air of a man of thought
than of a man of action.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, in the middle of whose
name the Boston Post at this late day inserts an
initial A., retains his aptitude for bright sayings
in his public addresses. At q meeting of free
religious thinkers in Boston the other day, he
was among the speakers. Referring TO the rule
of the occasion which limited the time of
speeches, he said he never made a short speech
that he was satisfied with, and never a long one
that anybody else was satisfied with. 81 came
here" said he, mot to speak but to listen, to
learn, not to teach; in fact" he added, 81 came
here merely to give color to the OCCASION"
MR.. J. GOULD and his son went to Port RIoh-
mond, Philadelphia, last Saturday, to inspect
the Atalanta, Mr.. Gould's new steam yacht.
When they reached the main saloon Of the YES
sci their attention was particularly attracted
by the fine woodwork of the panels In the walls.
Then said the master decorator: "Now, Mr..
Gould, II you desire 1t. I can ornamen those
panels with your family coat-of-arms." The
millionaire Eturned to his son, and. Laughing,