The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. GLADSTONE makes a modest appearance as n
writer in a little volume entitled Healthy Bedrooms
and Nurseries"
THE Rev. DIR. Terhuno, Marian Harland's husband,
now of Springfield, Mass, has accepted the call re-
Gently given him TO a Brooklyn church.
MAXWELL, the deceased millionaire brewer, of Mil
waukee, left a bequest of $500, 900 for experiments
in aerial navigation. Prof. Ritchel, of Bridgeport,
Conn, is one of the executors,
Mrs. HOPKINS is well known to Washington so
ciety as Princess Winnemucca. whose father is chief
of the Piute tribe of Indians living in Nevada. Her
husband is a Richmond man, and they live in the
East.
The President of the Oregon Pacific Railway re-
joices in the name of Egginton Hogg. He is a very
efficient and popular official, but he is said to have
~summarily sacked several employees who ~nippantly
alluded to him rs Ham and Eggs"
JULES CLARETIE insists that the Parisians do not
know Paris, each one being familiar with only a GER
tain portion of il. "a stranger, " he says, IAN English
man or an American, after a residence of three weeks,
might serve in Paris as a guide to Parisians."
MR.. FRoUDE has been out of health for some time
past, and rs soon as he has completed the revision of
the proof sheets of the concluding volumes of his
Life of Mr.. Carlyle" he will start on a voyage round
the world. He proposes to pass ONE time both N
America and in Australia
MGR. CAPEL boldly tells a friend in Boston that he
never even read Lothian, " in which his portrait is
supposed to be drawn in the character of Catesby.
And yet in the first edition of the novel, the printer,
the proofreader, and Diaraeli himself overlooked a
single page whore the intended name Oatesby was
written and printed CapeL
SoMR oficious but well informed old lady at 2 wed
ding reception in New York the other day discovered
among the weddingpresents a bundle of mining stocks,
from the brides brother, which, the old lady said, is
not worth the paper they are printed on. Now the bride
groom's mother says they all were fools to invite her
TO the house in New York.
A YOUNG man was going home with two young
ladies in Bath, Me- the other evening, and remarked
casually, in the course of the chat on the way, that
one Of his weaknesses was that he couldn't say no.
One Of the girls, Selling upon this cue to his ohsrac-
ter, proposed to him after the other had been left at
her door, and was accepted. ..
A WRITER in the Wheeling Intelligencer Is sorely
puzzled in his inability tc tell why it is that society
allows a man to place lis ,rm around a young lady's
waist and draw her 70 ann as with hooks of steel
during a dance, anu Jet shrieks with the widest hor-
ror and dismay If by chance he is caught in a similar
position when the pair are standing still.
WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON is reported by the
Rev. Horny NJ. Field to have said recently, Shiloh
being the subject Of the conversation: when my
father was shot and fell from his horse he had gained
a great victory; aud if he had not been killed at that
critical moment, In two hours more he would have
captured General Grant and his whole army"
PRESIDENT GRRvY is credited with having recently
beaten Vignaux, the French champion billiard player,
in = match at the Elysee. The President, remarks The