The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-12

the barometer and hygrometer foretold storm, the
bces remaining quiet. and storm occurred; CT tho
instruments gave no ntmation Of storm, but the
bees for hours before irritable, and the storm
came
THE Baroness Pritcha who lately figured In social
sensation Biarritz, is daughter Of an Engshman
| and a Sianese She was expelled from Siam
by the King and collected 500 900 damages from
him therefor by the aid Of English influence. Having
through with that sum- she sold herself to the
King of Camboda as slave for $1,000.
| IT Is said that when Mr.. Whitney, chief of the
| Bureau of Statistics Of the Treasury, removed
the other day the bureau TO standsti for want
of some capable person TO direct affairs and Mr..
Whitney sent for and asked to return. The new
chief of the Bureau Colonel Swtzler is decidedly too
far advanced in years begin the labor of gaining
| reputation as a statistician.
| VENERABLE KossUTH has emerged from obscurity
long enough to rake the extraordinary and queerly
mixed statement that Bismarck Parne and the
Japanese Mikado the three greatest men of the
| period and while he does not consider Gladstone
great statesman, he comedies his eminent ability
as wood-chopper, lay reader of the lessons In
| church and as dramatic critic.
AT recent entertainment Mrs. Oscar Wildes cos
| tumc consisted of wooden stuff in dull reseda
trimmed with pink, kind Of Kato Greenaway dress,
tied at the waist by dropping pink SASH Round the
neck she wore wide Toby fril of two of fcelle
| lace with varcoored BEADS and large pink bow
fastening bunch of yellow marguerites; her head
small Tom O. Shanter cap of the same greenish.gray
material was the accompaniment to this eccentric
tune.
| HENRY CLEws finds happiness sometimes in talking
Of the old times when Wallstreet panic bumped into
him. "One morning. is the way he tells one story
II down town worth $4,000, 0O0 and that
night went home penniless." "What! penniless?'
asked nearer the other day. Eyes, sir, penniess,
practically penniess; only had about $50 600 left
along with my seat in the Stock Exchange" Friends
say that Mr.. Clews is richer than he be-
| fore the smashing days of 1878.
Mr.. CHARLES VILLIERs member for Woverhamp-
ton, the colleague of Peel and Bright, and Golden in
the anticornaw struggles is now eighty-three years
DID, with snowy hair and whiskers, but hale and vgr
Gus. He has represented Wolverhampton in Para-
ment for half century without break. But he sell
dom is in the House now. except the most i'm
portant occasions and still rarely does he speak
One evening recently he made speech the reform
BILL and it his first after eight years of silence
OF the late Charles Kelly, husband Of Ellen Terry,
the London correspondent Of the Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser feengly writes
frequently, and in English journal once since
his DEATH statements rejecting on tho character and
conduct of Charles Kelly. Those statements were
| lies. He was not drunkard. He was broken man,
| and we know what broke him. To know Charley Kelly
vast love the man. admire the true artist, and es-
teen the thorough gentleman. There was not single
member of the Irving company present at the funeral
but, strange to say, Mrs. Henry Irving and her son
| Henry youth wonderfully like his father, were
among the spectators OF the ceremony"
CoNcERNrNG the current report that he intended to
set up General Grants sons in business, Senator
Leland Stanford said to San Francisco reporter:
have the warmest feeling of regard for General
Grants family, and esteem mis- good, energetic,
noble young men. Iwould do anything that lay in
my power advance their interests and happiness but
such thing you speak of has been limited
I at; and permit to say continued the Senator,
with emphasis II breathed such an idea to any
one, do hink that any of my acquaintance
suggested any such idea 1t must all be mis-
| take arising perhaps from my friendship for the
| Grant family.
PRIVATE letters from Lady Vaudeville to friends in
New York give amusing account of the pangs and
fears endured by herself in common with other ladies
of the Princess of Wales's suite during the royal
progress through ireland. The viscountess frankly
admits that she was frightened almost to DEATH and
suffered untold misery in anticipation Of Fenian
Prince and Princess were full Of pluck" she writes
for they had great end in view, but for insig
nifcant selves we could neither eat nor sleep and
scarcely trusted ourselves outside the doors
less absolutely compelled to do And for the
railway journeys and open carriage expeditions they
were too dreadful for anything"