The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

GOVERNOR CLEVELAND is a second cousin of the
poet Edmund @. Stedman.
SENATOR LAMAE's poor health would, it is said,
cause him to decline position in Mr. Cleveland s
Cabinet were it offered him.
OSCAR WILDE, now that he is married, knows so
much about corsets pull-backs and crinone that he
proposes to abolish all Of them.
DURING his recent northern campaign Gladstone
spoke thirty times Twenty three of his speeches
delivered at railway stations; two at villages and
one at torchlight dance.
Miss GARRETT the richest unmarried lady in the
United States is already the object of numerous offers
of marriage from cranks. Such the fate of Miss
Burdett'Ooutts till she married her youthful Ash
mead.
THE Rev. DIR. Charles F. Deems is remarkable for
his physical endurance He said to his congre-
CATION that he had thanked God ahis life that he
never able to find his pulse Evidently his nerves
never trouble him.
ARTHUR ORION is not coming TO this country to
lecture pleading the previous engagement that his
ticket-of.eave will compel him to report personally
once month to the police authorities at Scotland
Yard for three years to come
THE executors of the late Henry B. Anthony havo
another surprise in finding that the Senator left $780,
600 as the result of twenty years service at
Washington, three times the amount of the gener-
ally estimated value of his estate
Ex-MAYoR SHELLEY of Kansas City. after call on
Governor Cleveland. in Albany, wrote to the Kansas
City Times: II heard it stated that when Cleveland
was assessed $5 900 by the Democratic committee
his nomination for Governor, he was compelled to
borrow 81 900 of 1t. His entire worth is probably
not to exceed sc, 900 to So, 900.
THE next brilliant wedding in England will be that
Of Lady Ermyntrude Russell daughter of the Duke
of Bedford, with Sir Edward Malet, pleasantly re-
membered in New York and Washington society, and
recently appointed ambassador at Berlin, where, as
in London the union is looked forward to with great
interest The Duke gives his daughter the handsome
dot of $3.50, 900. Tho English colony in the German
capital building up great expectations as to the
entertainments that will in due COURSE be given at
the British embassy.
THE late Marquis of Londonderry a valued and
close friend of the Earl of Beaconseld who first
taken up" in high society by Lady Londonderry
The Marquis was the first great coal-owner to abolish
middle men, which he did by starting private feet
of golfers and opening in his name large coal
yard in London. The enterprise proved to be enor-
mously profitable, and was initiated by Lord
Durham and others. His death is nowhere more sin
cerely regretted than among his tenants and miners
to whom he ever kind and generous.
FLORENCE MARRYAT, the novelist, who is now I'M
der the stars and stripes, and delighting the Hub
with her Love Letters is of the brightest Lon
don raconteurs She talks we'll she writes, sings
and recites and is Admirable Criehton on jupon.
1t Is not generally known that Miss Marryats grand
father, Joseph Marryat. NJ. p, married Boston
belle, Charlotte Van Geyer whose was the famous
Captain Marryat both novelists father and daugh
ter are affiliated to the United States, it were
Miss Marryat will spend months in the States
and will lecture many subjects of interest.
WRITING of Carlyle in this weeks Critic, John
Burroughs says His stormy outbursts always leave
the moral atmosphere clear and bracng; he does not
communicate the gloom or dependency he feels, be-
cause he brings constantly and so directly into
contact with the perennial sources of life and hope
And this is one of the most remarkable things about
him; that he should finally be superior to his own
moods and autipathies that back Of such contempt
should be such deep humility and love; that the dark
clouds of his pessmism should always show the blue
sky and the eternal orbs shining through; that out of
such misery and despair should come such helpful
ness and furtherance to all serious souls. He was
probably the most savage and oontemptuous man in
the world in his time, who had anything like his
enormous fund of tenderness and magnanimity."