The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

AN Irish paper, the Belfast Examiner, last week
distributed photographic portraits of General Grant to
all of its subscribers.
CLARENCE A. FREEMAN, the checker champion of
America is twenty six years old. He claims direct
descent from the Pequot Indians.
AN observer of small distinctions in speech says
that when you hear a say to another 'Icertanly
am glad to you; certainly am" you may be sure
he is from Virginia.
DIR. H. +. STOCKBRIDGE, son of the expresident of
Amherst College, and cousin by marriage to Secretary
Lamar has gone to Japan be chemist and geologst
to the imperial government.
1T is rumored in the Cumberland Valley that George
Alfred Townsend will purchase the Hagerstown
Herald and Torchlight, and issue Republican daily
in connection with the weekly edition thereof.
MRS. LIvERMoRE. who spoke on Wednesday be-
fore the Harvard Total Abstinence League in Sanders
Theater is the first who has spoken there,
and the first who has publicly addressed Harvard
assembly.
Miss CLEVELAND has taken up the old Shakespeare
Bacon controversy and is devoting much time to in
vestgating it. 1t at her invitation that Mr. Igna
titus Donnelly visited Washingto n expound his the
DRY of it.
THIS is an age for printing correspondence origi-
nally meant for private perusai only Murray, the
London publisher, win publish Immediately collec-
ton of such letters written by Lord Beaconsfeld to
his family.
A SUPERFICIAL examination of the Goethe papers
left by the poets grandson to the Grand Duchess of
Wemar has brought to light two precious treasures
the last manuscript Of Gtz Berlichingen and of
the Roman eegies.
CANON FARRAR has suffered a relapse, and some
alarm is felt as to his condition. He is ffty-four
years of age, appointed Archdeacon of Westmin-
ster in 1888, and is most widely known as the
author of the Life of Christ"
BAR HARBoR belongs to Maine, and, of course, will
not harbor bars but all the Mr.. j. g. Blaine has
leased for the month of July the cottage he
cupied there last summer and in the fall he and Mrs.
Blaine talk of taking trip abroad.
THE Chinese have queer way OF Furnishing per-
sons who venture to commit suicide in the precincts
of that portion of Pekin occupied by the imperial
court The bodies of the offenders are brought to
bridge or some other public place and logged
PRINCESS MATHILDE delighted with NJ de
Lesseps's speech at his reception into the French
Academy that when congratulating the new immortal
she exclaimed: my dear Lesseps, can't help it,
must kiss YOU" DO" simply replied the academ
ician She did.
SUsANNAH NOODLE who died recently at Toronto,
at the age of eightytwo is referred to of the
few Canadian writer's whose books have become known
Candu1an DOfUerS.
ing It in the Bush" Life the Clearings" and two
novels, Flora Lindsey" and mark Hurdle"
MISS CELIA LOGAN claims that she wrote play,
and that she took the usual steps to procure copy
right it about four years ago. her title being 1.-THE
Old Kentucky Home" This title has been taken for
play by Mr. w. T. Price, and Miss Logan. it is under
stood purposes to maintain her first claim to it by an
action at law.
WHEN Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, sue
ceeds to the crown he will drop his first name. and
reign as King Edward VII and Albert Victor Christian
Edward, his sharing in the paternal preference
for name which recalls of the glories and
of the tragedies of English history will in bis time be
known at King Edward Will
THE Baroness Pritcha, who lately figured in
social sensation at Biarritz, is daughter Of an
Engshman and Siamese woman. She was expelled
from Siam by the King, and collected 800 900 dam
ages from him therefor by the aid of English influence.
Having run through with that sum, she sold herself
to the King of Cambodia a slave for $4 900.
ROBERT W. CRIswELI. just appointed cditorn-
chief of the Cincinnati Enquirer is thirtyf five years
DID, and fifteen years ago pumping oil-wel at
Petrola. Entering the newspaper business he be-
came editor of the Oil City Derrick and subsequently
of the Titusve World, making quite reputation as
humorst. He has been on the Enquirer for several
years.
COLONEL ROBERT INGERsoLI, in the opinion Of
critic melancholy example Of the influence of too
much prosperity upon the growth Of ungrateful
heart and captious spirit. Had he only few real
troubles like owing his landlord milkman. he
would not go about abusing his Maker and suggesting
improvements in the motions of the planets and the
wise alotments of human discipline What he needs
is suggests the critic for hour to deeper what
Thomas De Quincy finely calls the hieroglyphcs of
suffering
EX-SENATOR CHAFFEE made this remark about
General Grant: II that scrbbler in the World
says the General cannot write. and that he only
makes memoranda, which General Adam Badeau fills
out for him. This is great mistake Badeau does
nothing Of the Kind Everything General Grant has
prepared has either been with his pen dictated
to stenographer. have read much of it in his
handwriting He can put more in few words than