The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. WENDELL PHILLIPS is seriously i'll.
The Rev. Heber Newton, of New York, brings a
glass of milk to his pulpit on Sundays
YAM PHoU LEE, the bright young Chinese student
at Yale is to edit department of Wide Awake, the
children's magazine
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE a great lover Of claret. In
all of his novels he speaks admirngly of glass Of
good caret. He two-bottle man.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL is to give to the world her
impressions of America in a volume entitled Three
Visits to America nearly ready for the press
FoGG said he doesn't believe it pays in tho end to get
your landlord to make extensive repairs. Putting
wood into an old building is like putting
cloth into old raiment. The rent is made
The late Mr.. Hayward who, among other accom-
pshments which he possessed. wrote a notable essay
The Art of Dining, is said to have cut acquaint
because he repeatedly cut his lettuce with a
knife
THE Rev Mr. Savage, of Boston, says that many
think that it is mOnstrous for woman to attend
clinical lectures; and yet think it is perfectly proper
for her to reclne lounge and get the facts of
clinical lecture out of a French novel"
JULIAN HAWTHORNE gets many requests for his
own and his fathers autographs, which he never
wers, though he retains the accompanying stamps
1T stands in from six cents to ten cents day"
he says quite item to a with a large family"
ADELISA PATTI is said to have worked crazy quilt
while her latest American tour 1t is composed Of
plush and velvet is six feet square, and after she has
lined it with swans down it is to be disposed of by
rattle at swell charity fair, Nicolini thinks il should
bring at least 1000 guineas
Mr.. BLAcKMoRE, the novelist, Is an enthusiasts
gardener and prefers to talk about his garden rather
than his books. II tried to talk of novests says
visitor and he spoke of the ravages of bugs
among his strawberries; of literature generally and
he told how be dealt with the marauding blackbrd
among the cherries He does much of his writing late
at night
THE language of the mustache will be popular this
summer. To draw out the right end of the mustache
with the thumb and forefnger II like you to
stroke the mustache downward as If biting il with
the lips signifies desire to become acquainted strok
ing it outward from the center uncertainty,
and covering the whole mustache with the hand ind
Gates 'all right.
ELEVEN American women represented IL the
Paris Salon this year. Nine single and two mar
ried. One, Mrs. Hill, exhibits bit of sculpture the
bust of Minister Morton. The others show paintings
of various kinds. There is an encouraging tendency
among them to get out of mere pretty fowerpaintng
Women will do better in art when they become more
ambitious TO design.
MR.. E. G. STEDMAN and Miss Ellen Hutchinson
Sre jointly engaged upon compendium of specimens
of American literature from the earliest settlements
the present time The work will be in ten vol
umes the first of which is nearly ready The extracts
given in the book will be chosen with special reference
to ther characteristic qualities and will be longer
than is usual in such works.
Mr., CABLE, the novelist, is a real good man. He
had been iii theater until last winter while
Boston he was invited to go Joe Jefferson but
he wouldn't until after he had written to his
family and Sunday school They returned word that
they thought going would not be in any way
pernicious, and might help his work. So he went to
the good chids actor" Joe Jefferson, iu rip
Van Wrinkle"
HERE is the closing section of letter which Walter
SCOTS betrothed sent him two months before their
marriage; Before conclude this famous epistle
will give you little hnt-that is not to put many
musts in your letters. 1t is beginning raer too soon;
and another thing is that take the liberty moi to
mind them much, but L expect you to mind You
must take care of yourself, you must think of me
and believe me yours sincerely, G. c."
Mr.. VANDERBILT did not transfer back the prop.
erty made to him by Genera Grant before sailing
for Europe stated. The deeds still record.
and Mr. Vanderbilts word only says it is a debt of
honor etc. Should he die tomorrow his heirs could
hold the entire property decided to him by General
Grant General Grant drew the S15 900 interest on
tbs trust fund money May l. and that went into the
financial maelstrom and sucked down with all the
rest so that he is literally without dollar.
New YORKER, eighty years of age, has amused
himself at intervals Cor nearly half century by
piling statistics Of the complexion of women. He
finds that the genuine blonde type is gradually fading
away. When ne made his first observation the pure
blondes numbered forty-seven in every ono hun
dred; now they havo dwindled 10 twenty-three, This
decrease he attributes the influx of Jewish stock Of
late years. which however he thinks may be neutral
lied when the increasing Teutoni0 adnixture has
once been absorbed.
Mr. EMORY SToRRs, Of Chicago, was dining recent.
ly in London at Minister Loweps and him sat
the Duke of Argyll who during the conversation
pressed surprise that Chicago should have treated
Oscar Wilde-"a whom we think nothing of, If
we think of him at all--so we'll Its all mistake
your Grace replied Mr.. Storrs 1--WE had nothing to do
with Wilde in Chicago" But certainly read in the
New York and Boston papers long accounts of his
cepbOn in your city" True your Grace, answered
the Chicago lawyer but the recent growth of Chicago
has made it the metropolis of the United States and
all the seabcard cities jealous Of her and say spite
full things about her."
In 1916 Sir Michael Costa had acme differences
with Manager Lumley. then Of Her Msjesty's Opera,