The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
! THE champion fat woman is Hannah Battersby,
and she calls her show weight hundred pounds
JEFFERSON DAVIS has erected fine monument of
American marble to his benefactress Mrs. Sarah A.
Dorsey, at Natchez, Miss.
GEORGE F. BOXER, author of Francesca da Rmi-
nj has sent his thanks to Walt Whitman for his as
sistance in the production" of his play.
In FRANCE nearly all the railroad ticket and signal
| clerks are women, who are paid much
! They are preferred because of their sobriety.
Miss SUSAN Kenmore COOPER, daughter of the
novelist is conducting noble work, in Cooperstown
in educating orphan children in industrial occupations
One hundred children are inmates of the home.
THE late Baron James Rothschild it is said, gener-
ally dined at home upon slice of roast beef NUT
ton, and head of cabbage, well tied up and boiled
gently for seven or eight hours in a pot au feu.
THE manuscript of Wendell PhiTpss famous adj
dress on OConnell the only effort of the kind which
the distinguished orator wrote out fully in the pos
session of Mr.. John Boyle OReilly to whom it was
presented by Mr.. Phillips.
BRUSSELS has found its lola in certain novelist
named Henry Met who has just published novel
which he calls "Bruxeles Rigole" He has attempted
to draw exact picture of the life and manners of
| the idle and gilded youth of the Belgian capital
MAN in Concord N. H.. advertised for boy to
learn the shoe business, and received twenty
swers, the ages of the applicants ranging from thr
teen to sxtytwo. He says he believes in adver
Using but he wishes some of the New Hampshire
| boys were not so old
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, has appointed his son
clerk to his committee on revolutionary pensions
Young Jones will be kept very busy this is of
the hardestworked committees in the Senate 1t has
had one meeting in two years and it is thought there
| will be another before the end of the session.
! WHEN Chinese" Gordon given his orders to
complete arrangements for the evacuation of the Sou
dana policy of which he does not at heart approve
he described his mission as going to cut the dog IS
tail off" but he added grimly: II cannot help its
growing again, and I'll do nothing to prevent it."
Mr. G. W. CABLE says he would rather have night
" engagements and travel all day than remain in
hotel All sorts of people, he says hunt him out
book agents people with pet hobbies which they
ed him to take up and advocate and other varieties of
| the genus bore He was interrupted constantly and
could get little rest
AN intimate friend of Miss Ella Wheeler the poet
ess, in New Orleans, says that young lady is to
be married in the early spring to Mr. Yorke of New
York city Miss Wheeler is twenty-sx years old and
with her pen has earned and paid for lovely little
home, in which she resides with her mother and
younger sister whom she has educated.
| MADAME MoDJEsKA tackled up an order the other
day to the effect that whoever was late to rehearsal
should wear fool's-cap The members of the com
pany all the stage before the time and set the
clock ahead half an hour. When she came she was
twenty-five minutes late but she didn't put the cap on
neither has it been brought out since.
The clergy of England is fast becoming more lib
eral with regard to the stage One clergyman who
had worked very much among the lowest class of Lon
of
that he found the theater mpantng the first ideas of
higher life in the hearts of who attended
church, and costermonger to him because he
had been convinced by play that a Of reckless
vice led to misery.
MR.. BLArNE's book will he issued in English,
French and German William D. Eaton formerly a
Chicago journalist is supervising the translatons of
the work into the foreign languages, force of ten
transators having been placed at his command. Mr..
Blaine gives Mr. Eaton So, 600 for this work, and a
royalty of fifteen cents upon each volume sold in Ger
many and France. Mr.. Eaton goes to Paris next
month to organize agencies for the sale of the book
and before returning home he will visit Berlin for
similar purpose.
LONDON TRUTH has the following neat hit at Mary
Andersons advertising methods Whether Miss
Anderson is agreat actress is question open to dis
cussion No one however, deny that she is an
America informing her fellowcitzens that being we'd
ded to her art she does intend marry the Duke
of Portland could not have been surpassed had she
been daughter of Mr.. Barnum. All the sons of her
Majesty are married or. of course, the name of
of them would have replaced that of the Duke
VICTOR HUGO is in excellent health, but suffers
from ennui His deafness, which he does not like to
show confess, isolates him. The receptions
hardly last twenty minutes, and still held after
dinner. Strangers not welcome visitors, though
courteousy received 1t is necessary to say some
thing to them and so to betray the single infrmity
from which the poet suffers What he appears to en-
JOY most is seeing his friends at dinner At the head
of his table he talk for himself and those around
him. He retres to his bedroom at 8 o'clock and
walks up and down until midnight thinking about
what he is to write next morning.
THERE is story going the rounds to the effect
that Aaron Burr added to his other peculiarties the
embezzlement of valuable estate in the South. Mrs.
Sarah Daisy Burroughs perhaps the oldest resident of
New York, makes the charge. Slfe says she placed in
Burrs hands title deeds, and papers to an estate
left to her by her father John Daisy and after the
duel with Hamilton, Burr disappeared with the pa.
pers and she has since been able to enjoy the
estate. 1t may be remarked parenthetcally that Mrs
Burrough died last Thursday, aged los years. and
was buried the next day in Evergreen cemetery She
retained her eyes ght to the last having 70 use
glasses. Two aged ladies, daughters of Mrs. Bur.
roughs corroborate the story of the defalcation
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