The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is to sing in one hundred
concerts this season, with BrignoH as her tenor.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is living in retirement at
her mothers home in West Pittston, Pennsylvania.
THE town of jug Tavern, Wy, T., has prohibition
club. The public sentiment seems to be rather averse
to the movement.
KwANG-SI, the present Emperor of China, has
distinguished line of ancestors He is the ninth ruler
of the Tartar dynasty of Ta,Sing, ''the Sublimely
Pure" which came into power in 1914.
THE diary of Lieutenant Lockwood one of the vic
tins of the unfortunate Greedy expedition which was
written in shorthand is being written out by his
fancee who is the only that understood his sys
TEN.
Mr.. TILDEN's health is now better than it
some months ago. He however, still talks in whis-
per, and his hearing is rather bad especially when
they around to get him to subscribe to the
campaign fund.
HENRY ALABAsTER the chief adviser and European
secretary of the King of Siam who has just died
distinguished Oriental scholar, and the author of
''The Wheel and the Law, complete exposition of
Siamese Buddhism.
Mr.. CHARLES EMORY SMITH, editor chief Of the
Philadelphia Press still retains that honorable posi-
tom and Mr. Talcott Williams, who won his journal
istic spurs the Springfield Republican, succeeds
Mr. Handy managing editor
''STEPNIAK" the Nihilst. and the author of I'm
derground Russia is about thirty years of age. He
is tall, stout and dark in complexion. He writes
slowly and polshes his sentences with great
Some portions of his book were rewritten six times.
Mr.. CoNINGsBY DIsRAELI Lord Beaconfelds
nephew and heir who has been yachting with Sir
George Elliot, by whom he presented to the
Prince of Wales at Newcastle is about to make his
first appearance in public amateur singer, at
a..
charitable institutions Of the town.
THE Oldest college in the United States with the
exception of Harvard) viz William and Mary College,
Virginia, has been compelled to close its doors, hav
ing but student at the beginning of the present
school year. 1t was founded in 1898, and has had
amongst its eminent alumni Washington, Randolph,
Tyler, Breckenridge and General Scott.
| THE london correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press makes mistake in stating that the original
preston in the famous coupet from Lady Clara We're
de We're, the grand old gardener and his wife was
changed to the gardener Adam and his wife since
the poet became peer. The alteration was made
good while ago. reference to previous editions of
the poems will show.
THE pretty little romance concocted in New York
to the Presidents attraction at the country place
of Secretary Frelnghuysen being the eldest daughter
of the latter Is spoiled by the fact that Miss Title
whose powers of attracting gentlemen and ladies' also
are cordially conceded by all her acquaintance, has
been at Lenox, Mass all the time the President has
been visiting her parents. @r
THE late John w. Garrett was brought into close
personal relations with President Lincoln during the
war Mr.. Lincoln was once appealed to by deputa,
ton of alleged Baltimore Republicans take the road
out of Mr.. CARROTS hands for pseudopotcal rea-
Mr.. Lincolns reply brief and to the point
when any all of you" said he. 'have done half
as much to aid this government as John W. Garrett
may consider your request
THE King and Queen and the Crown Prince and
Crown Princess of Denmark and the King and Queen
of Greece were in the audience of the recent meeting
of the Evangelical Alliance, in Copenhagen, when the
Rrr. Philip Schaff, of the Union Theological Sem
mary read paper the "Discord and Concord of
Chrstendom." After the meeting the members of the
royal family introduced themselves to DR.. Schaff,
congratulatng him on his paper and invited him to
the palace
FRENCH haters Of Theirs have published story
which they think reflects upon his patriotism They
say that Gambetta once told else that Theirs
cared but little about the Alsatians, and when the
question of ceding them up, said: LET them
go; they Germans once, and they will become
Germans again. If we lose province, we can bring
it back some day, with the millards which have
kept But we can hope to get back the FIVE
rnilliards which the Germans ask of us as a war in,
demnity.' s1
FRoUDE, who is a tour in Norway. has nterpo.
lated into an article on that threadbare county
remarks the rejection of the Gladstone fran
chse bill 1.-THE English sovereign" he writes sis in
position not altogether BETTING human being with
an immortal soul" He approves of the action of the
Peers and of House of Lords. which he describes as
an excellent institution political and social but he
adds Zone must draw line somewhere and draw
at dukes 1 think, he says, I'VE could do with
out dukes
THE German Emperor was exhausted as scarcely
to be able cut of his saloon carriage in Skier
nevic and he WAS compelled to witness the army
maneuvres in Germany, the third day, from a car
rage instead of horseback. special carriage for
all such occasions in the future being manufactured
at Berlin with glass top, which will enable him to
see everything without distress The chief reason of
his constant appearance in public is his morbid jeal
ousy of his SON. to whom he grudges the smallest
share in imperial honors.
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