The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


THE Princess Louise has recently regained greatly the
youthfulness of appearance which she possessed be-
fore her late visit to Canada.
HENRY NJ. ALDEN, the editor of Harpers Monthly,
and George William Curtis, the editor of the Weekly
are paid $40, 400 year each.
THE divorced wife of Adirondack" Murray will
practice medicine in New Haven, and will start with
some of the first families in the city patients.
The Solid Muldoon relates in the latest number
how Colorado conversion Here the wreteh's
fragment of conscience gets the bulge on his gall and
he week.-mrs."
Miss NINA BACHELOR, of Kentucky, whose red
gold hair and dark eyes have made her prominent as
professional beauty Paris promises also to become
famous painter. Her teacher is NJ. Saintpieyre.
Mrs. ROBERT LINCOLN entertains splenddly at
Washington. She belle in her day, while
Abraham Lincoln was President, and it took all of
Robert Lincolns devotion and generashp to gain her
hand
AN eeven-yearold boy, studying in Germany, writes
to his father his impressions of Liszt whom he sat be-
side at concert the other day; HE had very long
hair and quite number of warts his face andciaps
very slow just like this: 1-2-34"
ONE of the things that adds to the social ferment in
Washington is the presence of young who
has the entree to good houses but who has been cir
rider and otherwise eccentric Of there is
bar sinister between good breeding that goes
ahorseback or afoot but women will talk.
THE archaeological society at Athens has entered
upon curious undertaking. 1t means to search the
shallow bay of Saams to if it cannot find of
the forty Greek and two hundred Persian galleys
which have been lying quietly under the mud since
the famous battle nearly twentyfour hundred years
ago.
AN American critic having charged Mr. Irving with
anachronism in permitting members of his company
to appear in the play of Louis XI" in highheeled
Shoes G. A Sala has been consulting the authorities
the subject and finds the charge to be welfounded
Hgh-heeled shoes did not in until the reign Of
Henry ~, hundred years after Louis XI.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN told Chicago reporter the
following story: Max Strakosch at one time had a
number of big people with him. He had paid every
body. Just before matinee, afternoon he
stricken with paralysis One of his singers heard of
it and immediately refused to sing. But he is very
bad and is paralyzed they told her. What side of
him is paralyzedY she asked. The left side they
said Then he can sign mortgage with his right
hand she replied and he actually had to do it before
she would sing"
GENERAL GRANTS proposed visit to Norfolk, Va.
has been postponed indefinitely. few days ago he
feeling well that he thought he would be able
to start FOR Virginia in few days. On Monday,
however, he had relapse and all day he was scarcely
able to leave his bed. He has not yet been able to
leave his room, and on Tuesday, though he was con
sidered much better than he had been, he was boil
stored up in his big armchair all day, not at
tempting to walk with the aid of his crutches except
from his chair to the bed
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is evidently the
coming among the Tories. He is the favorite
of the young men, who like his crisp bitter nvectves
against Messrs Gladstone, Chamberlain and Bright,
whom they cordially hate. Sir Stafford Northcote is
feeble and faccid and does not know his mind
long enough; Lord Salisbury is too apt to sacrifice
policy to epgram and to exhaust himself in scolding
Gumboils breach of promise has put Lord Cairns
of the running English politics will be very lively
when Chamberlain IS leader of the Liberals and Lord
Randolphi at the head of the Tories Both very
intense young