The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
BLOOMINGTON, December, 1884.

THE late Tom Thumb acquired a fortune of $780,
600 in the show business but spentt all but lG 900
in gambling and liquor
MGR. CAPEL will remain in this country four
months longer, visiting New Orleans and San Fran.
cisco before his return to England
MARY ANDERSON is credited by the London Truth
with "a matchless manipulation of her draperies"
That settles it. Mary is an actress.
Miss CALIsTA ABBOTT, the daughter of Emma Alb
bolt, is to be married in Washington shortly to
of the secretaries of the French Legation there
JUSTICE WooDs, of the United States Supreme
Court is enthusiastic book collector, his taste
running toward fine editions of historical works.
WORTH the man milner of Paris, is hungry for
more American gold He is coming here to lecture
Dress and doubtless to sell some of his high priced
wares.
POPE LEO XIII will, before the close of the year,
confer the order of the Golden Rose upon French
ladies who have specially distinguished themselves by
charitable works.
GENERAL SWAIN, on trial in Washington, is
of short but straight and strong frame, with dark,
sun-bronzed face which bears no wrinkles of age
yet though his dark hair is beginning to show CLEANS
of gray.
MR.. JOHN ROBERTS, NJ, P, owns about 800
of the land upon which Lverpoolis built containing
at present z 500 houses with population of about
40, 900. No liquor saloons are permitted on the
property.
Mr.. WILLIAM NJ. EvAETs who is having his por
trait painted by Eastman johnson, has encountered
little delay The last time he visited the studio
he said to the artist: you would do well to hurry
up, as going to be for the next four years
JUDsoN w. LYONS is now one of the lions of Au-
gusta, Ga. He is the third negro who has been ad-
mitted to the Georgia bar, and Judge Roney who
admitted Lyons the other day expressed great
pleasure in issuing the order to the worthy appli-
cant.
THE memory of the late Alexander H. Stephens is
held in esteem by the people of this country North
and South, and among the contributors to the memo
rial fund in his honor the Hon. William NJ. Evarts
and Mr.. John Kelly each of whom sat with the Geor
gia statesman in Congress.
PRIVATE letters from Athens, received in Washing
ington, say that Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, the American
minister, recently, while taking walk in the envi
of the Greek capital lost his way and fell into
pit filled with slaked line, from which he was not
extricated until painfully burned.
Mrs. REBECcA n. LEVY, sister of the late Judah
P. Benjamin, died in New Orleans few days ago.
She the first person elected by General Butler in
New Orleans. She refused take the oath of allegi
ance, and turned out of her fine house on st.
Charles avenue to become visitor among friends
within the rebel lines.
EPHRA1M KEYsER has finished at his studio in Rome
the clay model of the statue of De Kalb The model
presents animated martial and vigorous figure the
heroic soldier being in what artists call IAN enthus
astic pose and in the act of leading his troops to
victory his uplfted sword and radiant face indicat
ing onward and forward"
THE body of Joel T. Hart exhumed at Florence at
the expense of the Kentucky Legislature, is on
the way the Atlantic to be buried in the Blue
grass region, where Hart was born. He was one of
the most successful American sculptors and lived in
Italy from 1848 to his death, in 1877. His chief
work, Woman Triumphant" is at Lexington
AN enormous balloon, to be called the Eclipse is
constructing in San Francisco, under direction of
Professor Van Tassel who hopes to eclipse all pre-
vious attitudes with it, as well to eclipse the ex.
perence of many other aercnauts by returning safely
to the earth alive The balloon is 1O5 feet high So
feet in diameter and will hold 49, 900 cubic feet of
gas.
THE completion of century of existence is what
few msrtals among reach, but it has been
complished by Mrs. Jesse Putnam, the wife of the
grand nephew of General Israel Putnam the hero of
Bunker Hill and the "Old Put" of the Revolution.
The old lady is in full possession of all her faculties
with mind clear and perception as keen, almost as
in her younger days.
Mr. ROBERT J. BURDETTE has severed his connec-
ton with the Hawkeye, and taken up a permanent
residence at Ardmore. He says: There is no quar-
rel still speak pass by but have decided to
make my home in Montgomery county The Hawkeye
can't come down here to be edited and won't go to
Burlington to edit it, hence after twelve yeare of har
monious union, we separate amicably and l go out
peaceably."
KAISER WILHELM went the other day to call
1adv Old On taxi ne
leave he said: At age people say goodbye when
they part. am two years older than you, and
you are eighty-fve" "True, your Majesty; but you
appear infinitely younger than do" "But have
had great many fatigues, said tho Emperor
"They hardly count" replied the old lady. ''Where
would you be if you had borne as many children as
haveY" The Emperor went away laughing.
VIcToRIEN SARDoU's mansion, 'Verduron,"
the home of Mile. Blondin, of Louis XIV's
favorites and within is still furnished in the style of
those days. In corner Of the salon is an oldfash
toned harp on which Mile. Blondn used to play, and
by it stands Sedan chair, wherein the 'ro soleil
was in the habit of sitting In the ante-r is a
richly gded Sleigh and by the door four steel cu
verins of the eighteenth century which Sardou
brsvely loaded and fired with his hands in honor
of his parents golden wedding little than two
years ago.
LORD SALISBURY deserves his success for during
his recent campaign in Scotland he appeared rail
way platform and addresseds crowd, clad, from his
wastband upward, in full evening dress, and below in
full Highland costume True, this remarkable attire,
such even Solomon in all his glory not arrAyed
in, the result of fit of Observation-Disclosures, hut
that fact little mtgated the horrors of the situation.
Nor did the mind of Cecil hear much comfort IN the
strident whisper of his valet behind him. my Lordl
you've forgotten e"-brandishing pair of
trousers meanwhile. No. after that ordeal ne deserves
the solace of
Mr.. IsRAEL HART, a Jew. has just been chosen
mayor of Leicester, England The principal general
interest of the fact lies in the circumstance that about
the year 1880 Simon de Monttord. Earl of Leicester
granted a charter to the borough for the total ex.
clusion of the Jews from Leicester and Trey took