The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23

DerNlsh orders IN syria ana Egypt.
CHINESE GORDON is said to be a man of broad
human sy1npathies, generous. manly, and brave. He
has devoted some of the best years of his life to the
anti-slavery movement in the Soudan and other por-
tons of Eastern Africa.
Miss EVA BONANZA MACKEY is at the head of a
fashionable stunning society in Paris, and makes
periodical visits among the poorest of the poor, dis
pensing a good deal of money. The London slum-
mers give more good advice than money.
FRANK HURD, the Ohio free-trade congressman,
was intended for the Catholic priesthood by his p~
rents. but could not be accepted upon account of his
~lameness. The Catholic Church is as particular in en-
listing its priests as is any officer of the army. Cam
didates must be physically perfect. Hurd would have
made an eloquent priest.
SENATOR PHILErus SAWYER. of Michigan, is a
short, thick-set man. having the appearance of a sue
cessful grocer. He always stands with his hands in
his pockets, and his head cooked on one side like a
rooster deliberating which worm he shall eat. Sena-
tor Sawyer is, however, said to be one of the best
hearted men in the Senate.
CONGRESSMAN HoRR, of Michigan, who is regarded
as one of the wittiest speakers in Congress, is short,
fat, and Jolly. He prepares his speeches carefully in
writing and then tears up the manuscript. His
famous sentence that 'the South had better raise
more hogs and less hell" was ready for use two
months before he had the opportunity to use it.
ldikiuE dDput le great uieh II
the age. said: 4 think Grants career exceeds that of
any man | ever knew. Considering how poor he was
at the beginning of the war. how obscure and almost
hopeless, then his extraordinary recovery of fortune
and wide acquaintance with The monarchs and people
of the globe, it seems to me that he leads them all in
romance"
AN Atlanta Constitution correspondent says: The
other night while talking to Senator Brown | noticed
a piece of rabbit-fur protruding above his collar. L
asked him if he wore a rabbits foot about his neck.
No he replied, but l do wear a rabbit-skin on IN
chest. A lady commended it as the best possible pro
lection against cold. | got a fine rabbit-skin. cut OF
his feet, and, tying the two legs together with a ribs
bon, l tied the skin about my neck. 1t has worked
like a charm
sENAToRELEcT BLACKBURN was once stamping
his district in Kentucky with a vesy able opponent.
Blackburn spoke first. and delighted the audience by
the manner rather than the matter of his speech. This
other man began by saying that his predecessor on
the platform reminded him of a swan, that beautiful
bird which glides along, the perfection of grace and
dips and curves in lines of beauty. but only draws
an inch or so of water" This proved an effective
turn for that meeting.
THE new Immortal, " Edouard cameron, can boast
the most varied experience of any living French
dramatist. He has praeticed law, like Francois Vilon.
HIS has been in the army. He has lived a forest life
WIFI nj painters OF EOutalnebIedu' ne hS van
dered in Eastern lands with the artist Beauce. who
painted a portrait of him in Arab costume. He came
to Paris to turn poet undA the guidance of Pierre
Dupont. Then he became a successful dlamatist, and
now he is an academician.
N. CHEvREUIL, the ~ilustrious French chemist, and
director of the Gobelin's mauufactory, lately reached
the age of ninety-eight, when he was put on the re-
tired list. He would not stand such treatment, how
ever. and has been restored to his position. The old
man is constantly at work, ndallows himself but ten
minutes for each of his two daily meals. His break
fast consists of a plate of meat, a single vegetable, and
two glasses of water. He never drank a glass of wine
in his life. His dinner is almost as plain as his break
fast.
AN eyewitness recalls an incident of the national
Democratic convention which assembled in Charles.
ton in the e%ventful spring of 1860. After the So
ceding delegations had withdrawn, amid great exeite-
ment, Francis B. Flournoy, of Arkansas, who had
GS" M o1 ~ a1inI5aAqse Of the eog<entiSn- tsaAs5e
d the Union. Striding back and forth, and waving a.
large red handkerchief like a flag above his head, he
shouted: Don't give up the ship! Don't give up
the ship" Though he afterward became a general in
the confederate army, his heart that day beat true to
the music of the Union"
The Canadians have begun to pick flaws in Lord
Lansdowne, their new encouragement. The first
thing they have found out is that he is not dignifed
enough. On a recent occasion he was sitting in his
carriage in front of the Windsor. at Montreal, waiting
for the Marchioness. When she made her appearance
he thrust his head out of the window and said: Come
along, my dear. Hurry up! hurry up! We haven't any
time to lose" The crowd of people watching the de-
parture were shocked, and said to each other as the
turned away: Imagine the Marquis of Lorne speak.
ing that way in public to H.R. H. the Princess
Louise!"
IT is quite true, writes Mr.. William Black. in
private letter to Harper's, that Mistress Judith
Shakespeare has proved to be a very Troublesome
young woman, but it is h happily not true that the care.
full and difficult work which The writing Of this novel
has involved has put Mr.. Black in 50 deplorable a
condition as a recent cable dispatch suggested. Mr..
Black, and Mr.. Abbey with him. took refuuge for a
short season of salmon-ishing in the remote wilds of
Sutherlandshire, whence they have returned in good
health and spirits. Mr.. Black expects to finish
judith Shakespeare, " now running in Harper's Maya
zine, before returning to North Scotland the latter part
of March, and Mr.. Abbey is hard at work again on the
illustrations.
Now that the proposition to erect a statue of Wen
dali Phillips in Boston has been given mp in Difference
to Mrs. Plillips's request, it is interesting to remem-
Der what the great orator thought of Boston memo.
rial statuary in general and in particular. The City
hall statue of Quincy he termed IA daneing+masteJ
clogged with horse-blanLets.' Greenough's Franklip
was "a dilapidated soul. somewhat weak on his spin
dleshanks." Powers's Webster, at the State house,
he looked upon as "a mass of ugly iron and the
Everett appeared to him to be pointing out the road to
Brighton. with more energy than Everett showed ia
his lifetime" Horace Mann's eaigy, he said, repre-
scented him as having walked mp so suddenly that iu
his hurry he brought half his bed-clothes clinging to
his legs and arms and the Sumner-well, he nevea
fully decided whether it the more resembled &
heavily moulded prizetighter' or AN Irish porter il
his Sunday clothes"
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