The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT is reported that Allen Arthur, the of Presi-
dent Arthur, will marry Miss Katie Beach, the daugh
ter of General Beach.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says that besides Uncle
Toms Cabin. the only one of the numerous books
written by his sister. Mr.. Stowe, he read was
THE Minister'S Wooingn
LORD SHAFTEsBURY remarked in a recent speech
that much of the improved demeanor of London was
due to the larger employment of women in works of
charity and public service
Mrs. CARIdsLE's social exactons said to be
more onerous than the duties of the Speaker himself.
She has returned already $50 calls this and
has several hundred more to pay
ARCHIBALD FORBES the correspondent, has
persstenty refused to the decorations
he has received for his work on the batte-feld not
long ago however he had them made into a necklace,
which he has since given to his daughter.
AsHMEAD BARTLETT, who has added the of
Coutts, and who is chiefly distinguished the hus
band of somebody, to-wt, the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is coming over this to revive his
American memories and astonish his American
cousins
Rosa BoNHEUR is now at her country place, Bye,
where she keeps considerable menagere, including
tigars wolves lions, dogs horses and all the sub
iects she needs for her sketches from life Her pic
lures always are sold in advance long before they
painted and she has sufficiently recovered her health
to do deal of work.
A MAN named Chenworth who lives in the village
Of Cowboy Kan, owns horse which he sends to
store three miles distant for provisions. note tied
to the horses name has list of the articles wanted
They are strapped IN bag to his back. The animal
never stops to nbble grass, but goes the whole dis
lance at brisk trot.
In digging grave on Burial Hill Plymouth for in.
IF +ba of Ju6S of he
famous missionary, the workmen came upon the
foundations of the old Pilgrim watch erected in
1913 and several of the bricks quickly appro-
piaed as souvenirs All the foundations of the tower
remain even to the hearthstone.
A WASHINGTON special says Gen. Grant took
eral walks about his room on Tuesday, without
crutches This is the first time he has been able to do
so since his fall in December. The General has been
under the treatment Of Prof Nssen for the past two
weeks, who has been applying the Swedish movement
and cure with the above decided results.
GEORGE PETIT of Paris, tells new story about
famous picture now in New York He says that Mes-
soner painted his Charge of the Curassiersn to the
order of Sir Richard Wallace, who paid in advance
$50 900 for it. Before it finished the artist
wanted $40 900 for it and it leaked that the late
A. T. Stewart had offered 500 600 at which price he
secured it.
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proprietor and editor is the Marquis de Mores son of
the Due de Vallombrosa who is well known in France
as the leader of the social world Cannes The Cow
boy evidently means business says its introduce
DRY that it intends be the leading cattle paper of the
Northwest and adds that it is not published for fun
but for So year.
THE late Rev. Henry Morgan of Boston, spent his
boyhood in the midst of abiect poverty, and when he
first went to school at the age of fifteen, his poor
clothes and awkward manners made him a laughing
stock A year later he began teaching school the
munificent salary of dollar week and he stuck to
the peagogues desk for years when he took to
preaching and lecturing
WHEN George Warrell of Rapid City, MINI, went
to be married he found his progress mpeded by river
swollen by the spring foods With "a rope around his
body-one end held by friends on the bank-he
the stream and then, improvsed raft, towed
over his clothes and two saddles of them his we'd
ding present to the bride Then the horses were
guided and the wedding was celebrated.
Mrs. MAcKEY could scarcely have criticised her
unfortunate portrait by Meissoner in terms forci
BILE as those which the great Carlyle did not hesitate
to employ when he describes his own portrait by
Lawrence as being almost terrible to behold 1t has
the look Of jotun, of a Scandinavian demon, GRIM
sad as the angel of DEATH and the coorng brick
ISL the DnShlB 30 codrSe IL you NlIuh oL
hayed horses head"
CHARLES CRtsT, nephew of Charles. Delrnonico,
who now conducts the. Delnonico restaurants, has
just passed through the legal for1naties attending
the change of his name to Charles Crst Delmonico
The plan which was suggested after Mr.. Del
monco 5 death Of putting the business in the hands
of a stock company, has been rejected, and the
taurants will remain under single controlling head
1t estimated that the combined profits of the var
Gus houses will not be far below quarter Of mill