The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| ABuUT PEUPIE AND THlNUS.
THE eldest daughter of Charles Dickens contributes
to the Cornhin Magazine for January article emit
| tied Charles Dickens at Home"
PHILIP ARMOUR, the great pork-dealer, possesses
large and valuable library to which he is constantly
adding with lavish but judicious hand.
r. II. SToDDARD says that Hawthorne
well paid as literary payment is understood now,
even in the fullness of his fame. He remembers the
novelist once showing him offer from publisher
of So per printed page for story.
A CHICAGO socialist having read that the annual
consumption of whisky in the United States amounts
to a gallon and quarter for every human being,
writes to newspaper complain of the rank injustice
which has limited his supply to less than quart.
MARK. LEMON. late editor of Punch, as described
by Mr.. Edmund Yates: HE was made for the part
Corpulent, jovial bright-eyed, with hearty laugh
and air of bonhome, he rolled through life the out
ward impersonaton of iollity and good temper"
| THE suggestive device of Lord Ronald Covers
book-plate-a pair of eompasses suspended from one
arm of balance and far outweighing his coat of
hanging from the other-was originally adopted by his
paternal ancestor, Thomas Cover SERGEANT painter
to Queen Elizabeth
| MIR. E. W. GossE, now on a visit to this country,
has been warmly received. He is the lecturer on
English literature at the University of Cambridge,
and is learned in the languages of northern Europe
besides. being poet and literary critic of note His
wife is a sister of Mrs Alma Tadema.
OsKAMP, Cincinnati ieweler threatens to sue the
police of that city for libel if they do not stop init
mating that his alleged loss of diamonds at fair two
years ago, myth. They were worth $4,000,
he says and clever thief took them from showcase
under the very noses of two watchmen employed es-
pecially to guard them.
REV. Dr. CARROLL, of Saltwater, Mimi, who was
recently called by the Tabernacle Church, in South
Washington, has, in response TO the unanimous and
earnest request of his present congregation and others
in the city, decided to decline the offer. A mass
meeting held in Saltwater adopted strong resolutions,
and these DR.. Carroll apparently could not resist
THE speech from the throne with which Emperor
William recently opened the Reichstag, this time
printed in especially large and legble lettersnstead
of being, therefore,, written for him-owng to the
fact that the aged monarch longer read writing
very Auenty without the of spectacles, to
which he deems out of place when in uniform and
solemn occasions.
GENERAL GRANT is filling two large volumes with
his history of the war After they are finished he
will write another book giving his political expert
from the surrender of Appomattox to the pres
ent time. 1t is said that this last book will be of
the most interesting books historically that has yet
been given to the country, it will an inside
view of Andrew Johnsons administration of which
very little is known
A MINOR incident of Kossuth visit to this country
iii 1851 illustrates the way in which fashions dress
are sometimes originated. The eloquent Hungarian
wore soft felt hat which became fashionable for
young men, being reproduced in the shops under the
name of the Kossuth hat. Until that time felt hats
were almost unknown in this country, and in Europe
Herbert Spencer has pointed out, they were worn
only by few political agitators.
A FEW days ago Justice Manisty, in the course of
the trial of action for wrongful dismissal, said
that he should in that take the that
he adopted in the of Adams Coleridge; that
was that he should leave the facts to the jury and
should afterward take such action with regard to the
law as he might think proper. He should do that
Notwithstanding the terrible criticism which the case
which he had alluded to had excited because he
thought that it would be his duty to do so, and be-
cause, in his opinion it would facilitate the admins
tration of justice.
Miss TILLIE FRELINGHUYsEN, daughter Of the
Secretary of State fell and severely injured her
knee at the Garfield Hospital entertainment last
spring. symptoms of dropsy developed in the knee
recently, and few days ago she visited DR.. Lewis H.
Sayre of New York, and underwent an operation
She returned to Washington and Dr. Lewis H. Sayre
followed and fitted fixture contrved to keep the
joint in position and protect it. Miss Frelnghuysen
presided at reception at the Frelinghuysen house on
Wednesday last limping to the parlor crutches
and sitting during the evening. Dr. Sayre said last
evening that as Miss Frelinghuysen will move around
she cannot fully recover from her injury in less than
three or four months.
THE British crown is not the property of Queen
Victoria but of the nation All the crown Jewels are
kept in the Tower of London. The room in which
they kept is ground-hoor apartment with sombre
stone walls eight feet in thickness 1t is small and
in the center stands huge, iron barred cage obong
in shape and rising nearly to the ceiling. Within this
cage stand, terracetopped, and covered with vel.
vet which was at time white At the extreme top
is the crown made for Victoria. Below it, on one
side is the of the Prince of Wales and on the
other, that of the last of the Stuarts the four
Georges and William ". One crown had served very
well for ali these men, but when, in 1897, the royal
headgear had to be put upon womans head it was
of course much too large, and new one had to be
made. Beside the crowns there in the collection
the royal wand solid gold stick, three feet seven
inches in length the royal communion service three
large fonts all of solid gold out of which the royal
children are baptized, besides other valu-
able presents that have in times past been presented
to the state by friendly sovereigns The entire col
lection is valued at SIS 900 0oO much of which sum
crowns and scepter the famous Kohinoor the second
largest diamond in the world, being of them
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