The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-22
ABOUT PEOPLE.

GENERAL SCHoFIELD Is a social lion in San
Francisco. Hence his desire not to succeed Gen
eral Sheridan at Chicago.
SENATOR EUGENE HALE recently received a
letter from one of his constituents which was ad-
dressed to "Honorbel Hugh Jane Halle"
1.-THE uncertainty about my going to the
United States" writes MI. Matthew Arnold, sis
ut last removed. 1 have got all the leave 1
wanted, and shall 60 III October"
Mr.. BLAINE's book Will contain q steel engrav-
ing of Roscoe Conkling, and the ex-Secretary is
reported as saying: al intend, so far as it lies
with Inc, to do his career full historical justice"
1T was demonstrated at lie Moyne furnace on
Saturday that it takes an hour longer to burn up
a big man than a little one. The corpse OF
Charles Altman, weighing 275 pounds, was the
subject of experiment.
Mr.. FRoUDE says in the Nineteenth Century
that Mr.. Jeaffreson's work, "The Real Lord
Byron, Indeed m a description of Vesu-
wins written by some one who did not know
that VesuvIus was a volcano.
MR.. {. {. HASKELL, of the Henry Bill Publish
ing Company. has, says the Norwich Bulletin,
received a letter from a gentleman in Calcutta,
India, applying for the agency for Mr.. Blaine's
forthcoming book in that far-away land.
GENERAL GRANT, being asked to accept the
presidency of anew Western improvement COM
pany the other day, is reported to have replied
that he had now more than he could do his duty
by, and could not add to mis- responsibilities.
THE London World savagely criticises Mr.. E. A.
Freeman, the historian. and says that he is bully
ing, dyspeptic, vituperative. Grabbed, harsh,
sour, effeminately hysterical and conceitedly
envious of Mr.. Froude, "the greatest living mas
ter of English prose-"
NO more disastrous failures ever occurred than
fhnaa nf Ham, C11ra o~d - D-.t- nAu
cOvery of both men has been marvellous, and
has been achieved by legitimate methods and a
safe, conservative business policy. Both are
again rich, but Mr.. CIews alone is in active bust
ness at the old stand. He lost $4,000, 900 on a
certain dark day in 1873. He was so poor that
he had to send his wife to her own family for six
months to support. He is worth to.day, it is
said, at least 50, 900, 900.
THE Beresford family seem to be pugnacious
to an extraordinary degree. even for English
men. The following description of them is
given; "Iord Beresford is mail in stature, a
careless, easy-going fellow, with a good face and
bright eyes. He is a brother Of the Marquis of
Waterford, and belongs to d family of fighters.
william, the son selected for the army service,
would sooner scufie than eat. 1t is nothing to
hear that one of the Beresfords has broken a
bone. Charles William de la Poer Beresford, the
naval commander, is a favOrite of the Prince of
Wales, because he is zone of the boys william
Beresford is SAID to like nothing better than to
prOwl about of an evening with some other mill
tary officer, put their caps in their pockets, turn
up their collars, enter a saloon, and engage, nm
recognized, in a rough-and-tumble fight with
privates."
THE following story is told in connection with
the late James Rice, who, with Walter Besant,
is well known as q writer: A friend of his in
London had invented what he supposed to be an
indestructible sleeper for railroad tracks. They
were made of verysihick glass. and were to pos
use, and the inventor already saw, in his minds
eye, the golden harvest he was TO reap from his
skill and ingenuity. He held n grand dinner
party in honor of his invention, which had been
repeatedly tested, to which Mr.. Rice was in
vited. A large glass sleeper lay before the fire
In the receptiOn-rOOm, and on 1t was a big sledge-
hammer with which every guest as he arrived
the newly-invented sleeper, the host standing by
and triumphantly watching the apparent I'M
possibility of it's destruction. When it became
Rice's turn he took up the hammer and smote
the block of glass with such tremendous force
that 1t shivered into fragments. No one of the
party felt worse than Rice did at the unex-
pected result of his experiment., and those who
dinner they ever attended, all attempts at mer-
BILE disappointment which had befallen their
host.