The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

fifteen, whom he is about to send to Rye, Westchester
county, N. Y, to be educated.
MAINE people are entreating the Hon, Hannibal
Hamlin to write his political "reminiscences. His ex-
periences and observations would make an interesting
book.
THE veteran actor, Joe jefferson, closed his winter
season at Washington on Saturday night last and
started for his Louisiana plantation with a new dog.
He will resume acting after a vacation of seventeen
weeks.
NEXT month Mr.. w. W. Corcorar, of Washington,
will presents fine gold medal, bearing a portrait of
himself, to the student vino has, during this year,
made most improvement in drawing from the casts
in the Corcoran Art Gallery.
A SENSITIVE Ohio girl is i'll from nervous prostra-
ton. She worked in a millinery shop, where great
numbers of little birds were used in trimming bonnets,
and she grieved constantly over the victims of fashion
until her health gave way to the strain.
The Boston Globe says that utter Robert J. Bur
dette, the humorist, had lectured in that city the other
night, one of his fair auditors remarked to her COM
panion, isn't he just cunning? If I could get him
alone somewhere in the dark I'd hug him."
SPRINGFIELD Union: A new disease called bundle
paralysis has broken out and is expected to become
pretty virulent just before Christmas. 1t attacks q
business man whose wife has been downtown shop
ping and has ordered the purchases left at his Office
ia VO CAIectdtlOn Indt ne Will DfllB Intm HOulo ~
night. A word to the wise is sufficient.
THE center of our population has, for a century,
moved westward with remarkable regularity, begin
ming at a point on the eastern shore of Maryland and
reaching one ten miles west of Cincinnati. 1t is cal
culated, however, that progress in that direction has
stopped, in consequence of the rapid growth of many
Atlantic-coast cities and the advancement Of some Of
the Southern States.
A DISTINGUISHED ex-confederate officer, now a res
ident OF Washington, used to drink a great deal in his
wild and gilded youth. He reformed and is now a So
Der business man. He married the other day a promi-
nent society lady who is a devoted Roman
Catholic. The groom in speaking of his marriage said
to one of his club friends: Il have tried Rum and
Rebellion, I am now going in for Romanism."
HAMILTON FISH was Secretary of State for eight
years. In that time it cost him $4,000 a year be-
yond Lis salary to live and entertain. 1t cost Evarts
$4,000 a year more than his salary, while Freling-
huysen is said to be out $4O,O 900 in his four years
under Arthur. What makes it so very expensive for
the Secretary of State is that he has to entertain the
foreign legations frequently, and in a style that is very
expensive.
AN action was brought recently before Mr.. Justice
Hawkins in England, to recover the value of two
casks of herrings furnished in 1854. why such long
delay, asked the Judge. WELL" said the plaintiff,
Il, again and again, whenever I could find him, asked
for payment, until at last he told me TO go to the devil,
upon which 1 thought it was high time to come to
your Lordship." A remark which was received with
roars of laughter in which the Judge joined.
EVERY American visitor to Balmoral has seen old
"Wullie Blair" who was particular TO remind one
that he was the Queens Highland fiddler. The old
man has just died at the age of ninety, and thus an
other character associated with the happy Highland
days of Queen Victoria has passed away. He lived
on the estate from the time of the Queens coming,
and, though not a great musician, his stock of reels
and old Scottish airs was we'll nigh inexhaustible.
The Queen will erect a tablet to his memory
AN English paper gives some of the curiosites Of
medical life. One doctor lunches every day at a cas-
tie where the household is very large, and his chances
for a patient excellent. He meets some of the best
company in England, and charges a guinea for each
attendance. A very wealthy man near a large city
cannot bear to be alone at night. so an eminent city
physician gets $5, 600 a year for lodging in the house.
One young doctor has So, 900 a year for looking after
the health of an old lady. She has to be inspected
three times a day, but is "as strong as q horse, and
SO perverse that he has great trouble with her.
THE Mr.. Salisbury who represents his distin-
guished family and his share of the State of Delaware
in the United States Senate is a gay bachelor of sixty
seven balmy and breezy Junes. just now his col
leagues in the Senate are having lots of fun with Mr..
Salisbury because of a VOW alleged to have been made
by him, in 1880, that not until the election of o Demo-
cratic President would he choose a bride. This fiction
they have circulated far and wide, and the consequence
is, as Senator Salisbury says, that every pretty girl
that he has fIirted with during the last ten years now
looks at him as if she expected him to get on his knees
and declare himself at once. He says he must do
something to protect himself.
THE Earl of Carnarvon, late Colonial Secretary of
| Great Rritain racaD4lv cant fO NVi1iiaun T., Sfooa a
tiny gold slipper that was worn by his ancestress,
Lady Harriet Ackland, while she was with Burgoyne's
army during the American revolution. The note ao-
companying the gift, referring to Mr.. Stones memoir
of Lady Ackland, said: ut is a matter of no uncom-
mon pleasure to me to see my family history thus
preserved and valued on the other side of the Allan
tic. 1t renews a feeling that very often comes across
me that the identity and sympathies of race remain
wholly untouched by a hundred years of separation
perhaps are all the stronger for the nominal differ
ences. Last year when l was in America, I only felt
that I was in another and distant part of England"
REUBEN R. SPRINGER" says the Commercial Ga
Eette of Cincinnati was for many years an eques-
trian on our streets. Many of our readers will re-
member him as he appeared, mounted on his beauti-
full white horse, taking his daily exercise. The horse
bore him faithfully and proudly. and he had a good
seat in the saddle and a splendid carriage as a horse
man. 1t has been frequently remarked that Mr..
Springer looked much Ike William II. Seward, and
also like Samuel J, Tilden. A few years ago Mr..
Springer was forced to abandon this exercise. He
was never seen en- horseback after his severe siege of
two years since, when day after day his life seemed TO
hang in the balance. He occasionally drove out in a
coupe, but oftener walked along the streets when able
to go about"
WRITER in London Truth maintains that there is
not a really clever man among all the crowned heads
in Europe or their families. The King of Spain, he
declares, stopped all his intellectual growth when he
became a king. The Austrian archdukes have elegant
tastes, but no ability. The King of Italy has nothing
beyond occasional spurts of fine feeling. and, in the
royal houses of Saxony, Sweden, Holland, Belgium
and Bavaria, there is nothing above a second.rate
d~lettante. The brother of the Empress Of Austria,