The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


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| A DISCRIMINATING exchange remarks that Law
renee Barrett may not be as handsome as Henry Irv
| ing, but his legs mates.
Mr.. JOHN G. Emo took the wooden spoon at Yale
College few years ago-an honor generally accorded
to the most popular man in the class.
THE ex- Rev W. H. H. Murray is now said to be
serving the inner IMAM in a capacity, and is
cused of keeping a second-rate restaurant in Mont
real
MARSHAL IMAGINATION lives now in a very quiet
unobtrusve way in Paris. He goes thence for few
months every summer to his Chateau de Sicily near
Autun, where he has collection of Irish relics
and memorials.
THE London cartoonists and caricaturists including
Punch, always picture John Bright in Quaker broad
brim and costume whereas he dresses in natty STYLE
and is particular that his polished boots shall be
as bright himself
Mr.. GLADSTONE says, concerning the biography
of f. D. Maurice, that ''the picture of him
Christian soul is of the most touching, searching
and complete that have seen in print He is in
deed spiritual splendor to borrow the phrase of
| Dante about st. Dominic"
CONGRESSMAN WIN. D. KELLEY wishes it distinctly
understood that he is not in poor health is the
cancer from which he suffered last returning
and especially he does not wish to be minister to
10 winch country, he complains, some OF MS
friends, of his enemies seem anxious exile
| him.
TILL recently Florence Nightingale has hardly been
heard of for time. She was thirty years
old when she achieved fame the organizer of the
noble corps of nurses in the Crnea. For long
| while past she has been invalid and very weak
but lately she has out very strong for female
suffrage.
WHEN Chinese" Gordon first visited the Seychelles
Islands and the curious grove of PAIN trees there
which grow in pairs and If is down its mate
also dies-he at indicted official dispatch an
nouncng that he had discovered the original Garden
of Eden, in which trees of good and evil were still
| hourishing.
THE brewery of Bass, who has just died in his
eighty-ffth year covers 200 acres of ground, and
8, 900 people employed in it. He was the grand
son of the founder of the brewery, and local
benefactor having built churches constructed baths
and endowed free library. The Basses have always
been Liberals, while the other brewers, the Allsops
have been Tories.
| Mr.. LAWRENCE BARRETT will sail from Eng.
land for America the 3Oth inst. He will not
| play Francesca ds Rimini" during his stay
in London. Mr. Barrett feels that he has
been sighted by the members of his profession in
London. Mr. Irving has not called upon him since
his return from America. He has Wilson Barrett
only once since the evening of the supper at which
| they were introduced.
IT has been stated by Captain Cation in his work on
| Healthy Dwellings, that a new house, containing
100 600 bricks leach brick sucking up from to 10
per cent of its weight of water) contains
able calculation 10000 gallons of water in it, All
this quantity of water has to be removed by evapora
ton and the rapdity of this process will depend on
the tension of the vapor at giyon temperature. The
Of
depends upon their texture and composition.
POPE LEO XIII is in his seventy-ffth year. Mont
who lately has become leading American writer on
papal subjects reports in letter from Rome to the
Baltimore Sun that the physical strength of the Pope
is mot up the usual mark" and then goes on TO
discuss the papal electorate He gives the gossip Of
Rome, showing that neither Cardinal Jaeobini
! Cardinal Howard, both of whom have been much
talked Of could well be chosen. The objection to
Monsignor Rende yet to wear cardinals hat. is his
youth. Ireland, England, Germany, Austria, Spain,
France and Portugal offer candidates. At last the
writer reaches Cardinal Czacky, of whom he says
Not one has, not all of the cardinals have, the
tai force of this pale little Pole. He is the brain
power next to that of Leo Kill in the Vatican. Were
| he not Pole he would be Pope"
"THE late Judge Black" says a writer in the Phila-
delphis Press was Shaksperian critic and autho
a misquotation During the last constitutional
vention of which he member, the county del.
egaes could scarcely make speech without dragging
in poetica excerpt which they usually butch
| cred, and the Judge who never knew whether he
in out of order would interrupt them with his
rectons or would go to the clerks desk and SEQ that
the lines printed right One day there had been
unusual number of mishaps of this kind, and the
Judge had secured leave of absence to go home. Just
| before leaving he walked over to Mr. George W. Bid
dies seat and said: BiddIe, going away, and if
in my absence you allow any injustice be done
| the memory Of William Shakespeare l will hold you
| personally responsible "
| RUBINsTGIN has been telling amusing stories
sit as if asleep when 1 play!' he said in reply
to a question, Il will gladly tell you how that is
Some five years ago gave a concert in London. My
| audience seemed Interested, and l myself was well
| disposed. AS was playing Beethoven's Appassion
ata without thinking, looked around, and there at
the other eId Of the piano l LADY gossiping as
fast as possibol 1t like douche of ice water.
closed my eyes at once and since then have never
dared to even cast glance at audience" Another
douche of different kind Rubinstein received at
Paris. His Ocean Symphony had been played the
composer himself had conducted the orchestra and
received the stormy applause of the public Friends
and strangers alike crowded around him after the per
forrnsnce all delighted. saying it had been an
event in the musical world. and that all Paris full
of it, Well satisfied, Herr Rubinsten went to his
hotel and on his way met of the first French
composers, Who With surprise and pleasure il his