The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


s. N, has cabed direction from Paris for the pur-
chase of Mr.. Wizards paatia residence on Madison
avenue.
THE album of the Bank of England in which speci
mems of counterfeits preserved has three notes
which passed through the Chicago fire. Though they
are burnt to crisp black ash the paper is scarcely
broken, and the engraving is as clear new.
THE poet Whittier has attempted little literary work
of late. At long intervals he stays for day two
in Boston but spends most of his time quietly in
Danvers He has long been far from strong, and UNI
less he gains strength during the summer he will
cease writing altogether.
GEN. GRANTS old home in Mount Pleasant o.,
has been photographed for the State Historical Society
This is the house in which the General born In
the foreground of this picture is fulllength portrait
of the venerable Dr. J. G. Rogers the family physi-
clan, who was in attendance at the birth of Gen.
Grant
Two daughters of John Bennett of Providence, R.
l., married brothers, Ira and Frank Vale Four
months afterward the two remaining sisters married
two brothers of exactly the name the others
Ira and Frank Vale, but in way related. They
distinguished Nancy's Idas Ira and Fan
MES or Louis Frank.
GEORGE RoCKwooD,a New York photographer, says
that he is convinced that in nineteen out of twenty
the left side gives the most characteristic likeness
while in the degree the right side is most sym
metrical This is to the majority of the people
is the fact that every ones turns either to the
right to the left side of the face.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY visited Elizabeth Cady
Stanton at Johnstown last week. The former will
turn to Johnstown in May and spend several months
in that place They will both devote their time to
literary work in preparing history of the womans
rights movement and their connection with the re-
form which has enoaped ther attantio,
lifetime.
THE Marquis of Lorne walked in Prince Leopolds
funeral procession not among royalty, but after
Prince Francis of Teck That has deeply stirred the
London heart, TO which precedent is very dear and
the protest is both sorrowfu and angry. Surely"
walls one journal, 'the oldest son of the Duke of
Argyll is of higher rank than the son of German
serenity
SENATOR LOGAN has larger correspondence than
any in Congress. 1t is said that there is not an
exsoldiers organization the country that does not
call upon him for something, and he never neglects
soldiers letter. No matter how humble the man who
appeals to Logan, by reason of his services in the
army hisrequest receives prompt attention. Mrs.
Logan conducts the Senator'S soldier correspondence
THE death of Mr.. Augustus NJ Swift. the author of
that bright little book Cupid, NJ D., which occurred
in Rome during the latter part of March was sur.
upon his wedding journey, and he had been in
Rome but short time when attacked by the Roman
fever The story of Cupid, NJ D., it is said, is auto
biographical and readers of the book will understand
the hardship of the life it describes.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH took the potato to England
from Virginia in 1886, but it had been carried to
Spain from Quito years before that and taken from
Spain to Italy where it common article of food
before Raleigh found it in Virginia 1t was sent to
Flanders from Italy, Its in Virginia it is
thought, duo to recent introduction by the
Spaniards. There is proof that it was in cultiva
ton by the aborignes of this country or those of
Mexico.
ANNA DICKINSON from her girlhood had passion
for the theater, and persuaded that she
ought to be an actress. She would have
made the attempt years before she did had not
her friends been opposed They did not tell her so
but they all thought that she had no histrionic ab
ity but they unwilling she should make failure
knowing it would embitter her very much after long
in the other field and that she would not &C
cept the verdict of the public.
THREE Sootchmen-Dr Watson, Mr. John
McClaren and Mr.. Robert Northumberland walking
over the Reichs bridge, which spans the Danube, in
Vienna, at height of seventy feet on March 20
when the two younger leased DR.. Watson saying
that his courage would fail him had he to jump from
the bridge into the river. All at once Dr. Watson
mounted the parapet, and before his friends could
hinder him, jumped into the river which ran seventy
feet below. Despite the GOODNESS of the water and
the current Dr. Watson to the shore, whore
he taken into custody by the police.
THE portrait of President Arthur which Mr. G. P
A. Healey is painting is to be full length and repre-
sents President Arthur in three-quarter view the
head bent slightly down and forward with gracious
and pleasant eXDressOn as if inst 10
most truthful portrait and shows the President
Arthur of to-day a very different looking man from
the full-faced candidate with muttonchop whiskers
paraded in the campaign Of 1880. The flowing whis-
kers have been clipped short the chin is smooth and
the mustache is clipped short His face wears more
serious air now, and the soft arkbrown eyes remain
the finest feature.
DIR. GEORGE NJ BEARD who spent years in collect.
ing data relating to the history of persons noted for
any particular thing, says Howard the great philan-
thropst, who crossed and mountains to relieve
the distressed, brute and tyrant in his own
family. DR.. Winslow says of him: His cruel treat
mont caused the death of his wife He was in the
habit for many years of doing penance before her pic
ture He had only son. whom for the slightest of
Tense he punished with terrible severity. making him
stand for hours in grotto in garden. The son be-
lunatc the result of this brutal treatment
L am strongly inclined to the opinion that even the
extraordinary benevolence of Howard was one of the
symptoms of the disease ofhis brain.
THE city of Lyons has just fallen heir TO the large
fortune of Nine. de Cuzieu, lady eighty nine years
of age who had long been known the most eccentric
inhabitant of that city thirty years she made it
her business to embitter the lives of the various
projects and mayors by ingenious annoyances, the
consequences of which she escaped by her marvellous
knowledge of law. Once in order to spite neighbor
whom she disked. she had high towor erected from
which she watched his every movement, ringing an
immense bell at any hour of the night. On another
occasion she invited number of her acquaintance to
meet N. Ducros the project of Lyons, at her house
When they arrived they led with great ceremony