The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

cause she will never die.
UNCLE DICK OGLEsBY is about ~sixty-fve, and his
smooth face is one of the handsomest and kindest that
will be seen in the canvass this fall.
GENERAL GRANT has almost recovered from his
recent lameness. He is stouter and somewhat grayer
than he was when he made the circuit Of the globe,
but does not appear much older.
JOHN RUsKIN, writing recently to a correspond
ent, frankly ~confesses himself a misanthrope, not to
the extent of wishing anybody any harm, but quite
distinctly to the point of wishing most people out of
his way when he is disposed to enjoy himself.
OSCAR WILDE has betaken himself to the slums.
He lectured at Whitechapel on art for schools, and
was very severe on what he termed crimes in Berlin
mothers worked were a powerful means of passing on
bad taste from generation to generation. The lecture
was quite a success.
ONE of the pleasantest points of President McCosh's
western tour was his meeting with President Patter-
son, of the State College of kentucky, at Lexington,
where the two eminent Scotchmen had a struggle of
most puzzling questions in metaphysics for an hour
or two, and then sat down tremendously together over
a heaping dish of oatmeal cakes.
WALT WHITMAN, generally known as the good gray
poet-the good qualifying the gray and not the poet
has been confined by illness to his home in Camden for
the last three weeks. The cause of his indisposition is
attributed to a combination of Affections, including a
severe cold, the death of his young friend Tasker
Lay, and the recent receipt of a letter from Lord Ten
nyson.
TALKING once with General Sherman, the Rev.
James Freeman Clarke said: 'fOh. General, there is
something want TO ask YOU something 1 ought to
know" well, what is it," inquired the General. Il
don't know said the other; Il can't think what it is,
but 1 am sure there is something you know that
don't know and I ouOht mot RI 1et co rood IN nrOO-
tunity of asking it go by unimproved." But it did go
by.
The classmates of young Allan Arthur at Princeton
are not overpleased with the favoritism and leniency
shown him as the Presidents sen. They say that he
passes successfully through all examinations, though
the standard is very high and examinations rigid, and
he is not a good scholar at all. He is said not to aver
age three days a week at Princeton, and is in New
York or Washington and sometimes absent three
weeks at a time.
A LETTER of Won Moltke to the King of Denmark
in 1921 has just been published. He was then a sub.
lieutenant in the Danish army. and asked for leave to
enter the Prussian army, where he would have better
prospects of advancement; and he expressed the hope
that the experience he would gain in the new feldmight
enable him, later in life, to be Of use to Denmark.
The King granted his request, and forty years later
Won Moltke gave Denmark defeat and d~espoiled her
of Schleswig- Holstein.
IT is stated that the late Charles Reade has not left
more than about e2O,O 900. the bulk of which goes to
his godson, Mr.. Charles Liston. To his brother the
~testator leaves the house at Bloomfield villas, Shep-
herd's-bushr and $500 a year; to his nephew, Major
Reade, 81 900; to his nieces $500 each; to the Rev.
Compton Reade (the testator's eldest nephew, 5000;
after the death of the ~testators brother the annuity
of $500 a year left to him reverts to the Rev. Comp
ton Reade and the ~testator's two n~ieces-9100 per
annum each.
REV. w. W. HICKS, pastor of the Tabernacle Con-
gregational Church of Washington, who obtained
some celebrity as the spiritual adviser of the assassin
Guiteau during his last days, is in very feeble health,
and though young in years, and to all appearances a
few months ago one of the most robust of men, it is
now feared that he will never recover sufficiently to
occupy his pulpit again, except occasionally. He
went to Florida a few weeks ago to see if the milder
climate would not help him, but letters from friends
that were with him represented that he is no better.
He has an orange grove there, and will probably re-
main until his health will warrant his return.
WASHINGTON Post: Madame Christine Nilsson is
an authority on fashion as we'll as art. The prima
donna said to an interviewer: In England the Prince
of Wales has led the aristocracy, upon which Italian
opera depended chiefly for support, into a lower kind
of musical taste and theatrical performances far re-
moved from the higher order of music and the CLASH
cal Shakspearian drama. That is, he has been the
protector for some years of English opera bouffe,
French opera bouffe and light burlesque plays, to the
exclusion of more elevated entertainments. This is
the reason Italian opera has declined in England"
Naturally, the chaste Christine thinks Wales a very
improper man.
MR.. HENRY LABoUcHERE has about made up his
mind to take a trip across the Atlantic some time
next autumn, and gives a thoroughly characteristic
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1 was { youngster of three and twenty or so, 1 had
the honor of being an attache of the British en-
bassy at Washington. That was in 1854, when
Pierce was President. and such men as Governor
Marcy, Jefferson Davis and Caleb Gushing were in the
Cabinet. Well, I didn't have much to do with these
big wigs, of course, but did have plenty of social
enjoyment, both in Washington and New York. Now
if 1 am on the shady side of fifty, I feel just as young
as I ever did, and l would really like to revisit the
scenes of my Juvenile frolics of thirty years ago."
AN italian correspondent of the Philadelphia Press,
writing of Ouida, says: 'She composes with extra.
ordinary facility, and, having once arranged her story
in her own mind and decided upon her characters, she
has little trouble in completing her work. 1 have
been told, though 1 do not vouch for it, that when she
has finished her novel and finds it not long enough,
she goes over the pages and adds, whenever she can,
her own opinions on the subject, treated in a very
diffuse style. This appears wholly probable, and
would account for the eternal bursts of rhetoric that
clog and impede her narrative. She finds many OF her
characters in the company she frequents; painting
them not as they are, but as she sees them, which is
usually in very dark colors. To the persons she dis
likes she always gives a preference, and they are,
therefore, conspicuous in her book"
WASHINGTON Post: Perhaps Mr.. Roscoe Conkling
did well to go out of politics. 1t is no evaporation
to estimate his income from law at 800, 900 a year,
and rather apt to be more than less. The Hoyt will
contest, in which he is now engaged, will reward him
very handsomely for even the greatest effort of his
life. The late Jesse Hoyt left an estate valued at
about SO, OOO, 900 or $40, 900, 900. The proceedings |
are brought on behalf of Mary Irene Hoyt, his daugh.
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