The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LADY AYLEsFoRD Is about to begin suit to prove
that her is the son of his father.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIss new story, which will
soon be completed is called 1.-The Boston Girl"
MRS. WENDELL PHILLIPS is still living quietly in
the house which her husbands last home in the
southern part of Boston.
GOVERNOR HARRISON, of Connecticut, has received
as gift from citizen of New Haven, cane made of
wood taken from the Benedict Arnold house in that
city.
GLADsroNEs Tory brother long ago predicted that
William will ruin his country and his Queen, and
die mailman" and the prophecy is being recalled in
England now.
Ex-HANGMAN BINNs, of London, deposed for
drunkenness and now among the have beens is sue
ceeded by acting Hangman Berry with whose victims
bury is dead sure thing every time
The "Father Of Freemasonry" has lust died in Eng.
land in the person of William Eliot who attained the
ripe old age of nnety-one years. He was the Oldest
Freenason in Europe, if not in the world.
MAJOR CARMICHAEL, of the English officers
killed in the Soudan lost his wife by death just before
eaving England He had spent 500, 900 in purchasing
his earlier promotion, and his doubly orphaned
child, aged but few months will have an income of
only 800 year.
AS Messonier the artist, was recently passing
street in Paris old beggar gravely bowed to him
by the way of soliciting aims. ~ have no change"
said Meissonier feeling in his pocket and about to
pass on Then, at least return me my bow" re-
piled the old man, which no sooner said than
done.
THE late Comte A. de Liesvi1e was probably the
most successful collector of relics of the first French
Revolution One of the most interesting was an &C.
curae model of the Bastle carved out Of one of the
stones of that edfce. He had 10. 900 books and pa
pers, and coins, medals, pottery arms etc. innumer
able connected with that revolution and with those
Of 1880, 184S and 1870.
VICTOR HUGO is described as living in curious
state of expectancy regarding the Olympus in q fu-
ture fe to which he believes he has already been ad
mtted. His latest poem says correspondent, has
for its burden these words: 'Maintenant, Seigneur
expliquons ensemble" and is apparently adj
dressed to the Deity the occasion of the poets en-
trance into higher sphere of life.
THE last of the prisoners taken during the Franco
German have just left Germany. Some Turccs.
who, during their imprisonment, had killed keeper
by whom they had been badly used and who in con.
sequence, had been condemned to imprisonment in a
fortress, reached Cologne the other day from Wese
They were dressed III uniforms, which had been
sent to them by the French government
PARIS has lost one of its curostes in the person Of
M Bauer who made it his habit every day 20 feed the
sparrows in the gardens of the Tuileries The birds
knew him by sight and as soon as he appeared,
would cluster round him thicky wasps August
round barrel of moist sugar. They would perch
upon him, allow him to catch and handle them, and
would follow him from place TO place. NJ. Bauer is
the only sparrow tanner upon record.
EMORY SPEER. who has just been appointed by the
President United States District Judge for the South
District of Georgia, distinguished himself in his
rst campaign for Congress by killing six horses He
had TO canvass large country diatrict whore railroad