The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Mrs. NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs is expected to visit
Washington during the winter.
RURAL subscriber sent the following aconic note
to the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: 81 trusted and
busted. Please discontinue"
THE new Duchess of Westminster, wife of one of
the richest men in Europe married in dress of
white foulard costing rs cents yard.
YOUNG GEORGE GOULD, it is said, has no taste for
Wall street and would greatly prefer be allowed to
make a tour of the world, and then settle down in
some legitimate business.
A WRITER in the Atlantic Monthly holds that
person who unlimited, makes a practice of going
out calling the evening and stays two three hours
at place is generally voted bore.
| DR.. Lucy NJ HALL, the newly-appointed supern-
tendent of the Massachusetts Woman's Reformatory
Prison, has declined the position for the that
she does not wish to abandon her practice.
| JOE BROWN, of Georgia, is the envy of his brother
senator's with overcoat made from sixty Vermont
mink skins, a present from friend who thought a
Georgia senator would need in this climate arctic
clothing.
MGR. CAPEL at recent reception in Washington
most striking costume. The undergarment
of black cloth, tightftting, which thrown
gorgeous crimson vestment, with bands of the
upon the sleeves The robe is full dress of his eccle
siastical position.
| IT is now admitted that Tom Hood wrote ten or a
dozen times too much and that the immortal part of
his works could be easily put into volume of mod
size. In this respect if in other, nearly all
| of our modern humorsts of acknowledged merit re-
semble Tom Hood.
NOVEL sut Cor damages has been brought by
waiter in one of the hotels on the Rhine. He at
tempted sometime ago to hang himself but guest of
the hotel cut .im down in time to save his life. The
migrate brings suit for undue interference and for
damages sustained by the unauthorized cutting of the
| rope, which happened to be a
| AS Edward Herbert of Bay Shore, l.. L. sat at the
breakfast table Friday, he heard a church bell ring
! twice. Thinking it an illusion, he said to his
daughter: "There, I'll bet anything fathers dead"
A few minutes afterward he received telegram in
forming him of his fathers death which occurred sud
denly that morning. The bell had actually rung.
GENERAL SHERMAN says that the only fault he has
find with st. Louis is its want of enterprise and
Drag ga st. Louisian," he says would not attempt
to build house until he had 90 per cent of the neces
sary amount in the bank while the average American
would put up NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. building with
only 81 600 in his pocket and think nothing of the
risk"
Mr.. MAcKEY recently struck new kind of bonanza
fifty nine year-old whisky There were but six
gallons of it, and the millionaire paid the price
demanded He divided it into three parcels. One
parcel sent to President Arthur; Bob Ingersoll
got another. What they did with the ancient critter"
nobody knows, but it is supposed they placing
themselves outside of it, gradually.
Il AM TOLD writes the man about town. in the
| Brooklyn Eagle Sthat it is probable that Thomas
Mast the cartoonis will institute suit against the
Harpers AS the case now stands Mr. Mast is receiv
ing 100000 year from the Harpers on condition
that he VIII draw cartoon for them every week and
work for no other periodical He holds that the
publication of his work is great injury to him.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD is said to have been much
pleased with his visit to Richmond finding society in
the Virginia capital very agreeable Philadelphia too
impressed him as a comfortable and ehrrmng town.
Evidently he prefers the mild quiet climate of inland
regions to that of the Northern seaboard for it said
that he has described Boston as hill covered with
granite powders with bleak wind always bowling
among them-a condition of affairs not pleasing to his
taste.
Mrs. SEPTIMA RANDOLPH MEIKLEHAM. the only
surviving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, is liv
ing in Georgetown dependant upon the pay of her
daughter, "a clerk in the Patent Office subscription
for the old ladys benefit last year only brought her
$420, and she has determined to make appeal to
Congress. She was one of twelve children, five
and daughters and She being the last daughter
named Septima. She married in 1S3S TO
physician All of her brothers and sistere dead
A CORRESPONDENT of the Pail Mall Gazette at
Chester, England, says considerable annoyance has
been caused at Hawarden by absurd statement
telegraphed from Mold that Lord Aberdeen went
into the Premiers stables dressed himself in coach
mans livery and cockade and drove the Premier and
family on a visit to Mr. Scott Bankes, Soughton
Hall. The fact is, Lord Aberdeen, Observing that
Mr. Gladstones coachman had injured his hand and
could scarcely hold the reins, kindly offered TO drive
and did So
Mr.. GLADSTONE was presented recently with serv
ice of china by the pottery workers at Derby In
turning thanks the manysited Premier entered into
learned description of the origin of the manufacture
its introduction into England its slow progress under
the subsidy system its rapid development under free
trade Next he entered into the details of the process
of manufacture and the pottery workers gently
that they he bowed, but the old man knew
about the matter than they did and began to inquire
if he ever had been lone of UNI He raised their po-
litca spirits also by telling them that the Ministry
regarded the franchise extension as the most i'm
portant essential and vital function of the present
Parliament They went away happy and the
grand old man went away happy too.