The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-25

piled DR.. Cox, I'VE have no funds" "Tben will put
one in myself said the unknown and he has kept his
word This gentleman resoutely declines to allow his
name to be dvulged All that he wishes to be known
IS that he has profoundove for Shakespeare and that
his daughter has recently gone upon the stage where
it is said, she has met with favorable reception.
SIR HENRY BRAND after all that has been said to
the contrary, has accepted new Viscountcy in which
will be merged, on his brothers death, the ancient
Barony of Dacre which dates from 1921. By so do
ing he takes precedence of all the bishops; but
bishops wives have rank, Lady Hampden, junior
Viseontess, will eventually gain precedence only
Ladies de Ros, Mowbray, Hastings and De Clifford.
The title of twenty third Baron would have seemed to
have been honorable than that of first Viscount.
CHESS is often mentioned as the favorite game of
great generals diplomats and scholars but the simpler
though perhaps not less pleasing game of checkers
must have its innings that score, too. Not only
did Plato use it for philosophical illustration and
Cicero turn to it for mental diversion and Frederick
the Great spend hours over it, but in later days such
leaders of men as Lincoln and Garibald priced it
highly and is said that his namesakes palace in
Ithaca was the of many checkercontests, SO
General Grant used to clean out the boys" at West
Point at it, and indeed ascribes much of his military
success to the training of the sixtyfour squares.
IT is not generally known that Mrs. Fremonts pres
ence of mind once saved her husband from huml-
iatng experience and probably kept California for the
United States After he had started his most
famous Pacific slope expedition enemies in Washing
ton succeeded in getting bill through Congress
calling the authority of the expedition Mrs Fremont
had orders to forward by courier to her husband any
thing of Importance that after he left and shd
could easily have overaken him within three four
days But she quietly suppressed the order, Fremont
was on his way rejoicing, and California saved to
the Union strong effort made to reprimand
Fremont but it slipped the threshold of his exped
ton, and he was lionized instead of rebuked.
Mrs. FRED. DOUGLASS attended every meeting of
the woman suffrage convention, being herself mem
Der of the association. This the first time they
Douglass and his wife had appeared in public since
the marriage and she finched under the gaze turned
upon her. AT least she showed some uneasiness when
they first entered the hall, but it soon wore off APP
parently She would lean toward him and whisper in
most loving and confidential way and when the meet
ing was over leaned down and pulled the Hon. Fred
But its nonsense about her being young pretty.
She is a hard-favored oldmaidishlookng woman OF
the middle class, who is Enthusiastically over fifty.
Curiosity had no previous opportunity for gazing az
her, and a crowd stood on the pavement to see her
enter the Douglass carriage, which had been recog-
nized. Then the intrepid ladys courage seemed to-
fail her, and with flushed face she made rush and
flying leap for tine carriage, with much the air Of
wanting to hide from all those merciless eyes,