The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

look way while they are walking another and
that strangers have great trouble in lodging around
them.
HAWTHORNE was a dreamy Puritan; Cable is half
creole, half French; Harte is Californian Howells
if anything, is mildly cosmopolitan; but Fawcett is
American to the backbone.
IT is said that the death of Harry E. Packer, the
late president of the Lehgh Valley Railroad Company
leaves his sister Miss Packer with the largest income
of any unmarried lady in America
NJ PHILIPPE DARYL who is writing up for the Paris
market the public of England, is completely car
ried away with John Bright. He pronounces him the
wisest wittiest most learned, most eloquent and al
together the greatest statesmen in Great Bright and
considers Bright the brightest of all living men,
ONE of the euriosities in the United States Supreme
Court is the mammoth bundle of papers refer
ring to the of Mrs Myra Clark Gaines. bottle
of wine and So bill may be had by any who can
lift this package and put it on his back Many have
made the attempt, but failure has been universal
THE Denver News eharacterizes the stories of Sen
ator Bowens poker playing propensities as grand
old lie" 1t says the Senator is neither a high nor
good player. In Denver he is regarded sucker, y
having lost $40 for every dollar he ever won at poker
The Washington sharps, it says, would skin him in
week if he had mania for playing.
LONDON Truth names the following pecularities of
ce(ain British speakers: Mr.. Gladstone generally
scratches the back of his head with his thumb. Sir
Stafford Northcote flaps his hands like talking fish
Lord Randolph Churchill worries his mustache
while many other of public speakers make no
movement but content themselves with worrying
their hearers"
SAYS Ismail Pasba, the dethroned Khedive of
Egypt 1.-The days of the Turk numbered in moral
material and martial power. The great event of
will it be initiated At Mecca. Who will supplant
the Sultan at Constantinople Germany; Austria
Russia will never come again to the Golden
Horn as she did few years ago"
WILLIAM WARREN, the veteran actor who has
forever retired from the Boston stage has just
turned from visit to his relative Joe Jefferson
the Louisiana plantation where Jefferson winters.
He describes Joe as surrounded bya colony of chill
dren and grandchildren and spending his days de-
lightfuy in fishing, hunting and painting Joe Jefer
sons mild pretense to be painter is of his best
pieces of acting.
DIR. MCCosH of Princeton College, is a very hand
some old gentleman, who born seventy-three years
ago. He was pet of Sir William Hamilton the meta
physician, who great opponent of phrenology.
As an old-time metaphysician DIR. MeCosh has hardly
an equal in this country Recently while the Doctor
was being complimented in Pennsylvania railway
train for his ability to dissect Kant the good old gen
teman replied with that little spice of concet which
comes from ones knowledge of ones abilities 1T
perfectly easy to me-"
APRoPos of Matthew Arnod's lecture Emerson
given few days ago before the Royal Institution,
Vanity Fair says: "The lecture was reeled off in
yawning lazy indolent fashion. 1t was only inter
esting because from kind of critical npudence
Mr. Arnold had had the bad taste to deliver it at Bos
ton to those who the memory of the gentle
New England phlosopherpoet The lecture brought
the Sage of Oxford into anything but good repute.
Where not dull, the lecture was tissue of captious
contempt rather of analytical criticism"
A JAPANESE correspondent to the London Daily
News having assumed that the Mikado unpopu
lar because he received no cheers while passing
through the streets in state on his birthday, Jap
anese gentleman writes to explain that cheering
would be regarded there disorderly. He further
explains that the act of young lady who wrapped
up piece of cake and put it in her sleeve at the
Foreign Minister'S reception is quite good form" I"
and is accepted as indication of high satisfaction
which she wished to enable those at home to share.
A. H. SWAN of Cheyenne, W. T., controls more
stock than any other individual the continent.
His present possessions are valued at between So
600 900 and So 900 900, while the amount of
stock of which he has the exclusive control and man
st, ,OOOO 900. He the organizer and is president
and general manager of less than five different stock
organizations in Wyoming. He is a native of Greene
county Pennsylvania which place he left for the West
in 1858, when twenty-five years of age, with 81 900
in his pocket.
GENERAL LOGAN, according to a Washington cor
respondent has lived for twelve years in two modest
rooms at a boarding house in that city and is of
the most happy and fortunate of men, I'm 1855 he
married Miss Mary Cunningham, of Shawneetown.
ILL.,. and she has proved most valuable helpmeet,
being as good politician himself, if not better,
and lady of great refinement as well as intellectual
force. There is woman in public life who possesses
more admirable traits than Mrs Logan and what is
unusual her popularity with her sex is quite as
great as with the other"
THE late Prince Leopold regretted much that his
poor health had prevented him from making more
extended tour and longer stay in this country. On
his return to England he expressed great admiration
for those portions of the United States which he had
seen, and great disappointment at not having been
able to visit New York He was by the way, the
enth of the Queens surviving children but really the
eighth of the family if the late Princess Alice the
third be counted But it is deemed good etiquette by
court chronicers in enumerang the members of royal
families to make no mention of the dead
IiE pfoNerD Uhau sllelce IL Bolueu may Ooo"soidAy
be carried out in too literal sense says London pa
per- certain great lady in Paris aims at converting
her house into sort of Hotel Rambouilet and with
that object gives periodical dinners at which assemble
most of the best known wits and literati of the day
But it is weakness of great takers that they often
insist upon talking all at once and to obvae this
pleasant result the rule of the mansion is that while
one parsonage discourses, interruption whatever
can be permitted. 1t is said that NJ Renan once at
tended one of these dinners and, being in excellent