The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

/ at Concord for the summer.
| CHRISTINE NILSSON has received from King Alton
| so of the Order of Benefcence, founded by
| his mother
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSHIPS newtragedy, 'Presi-
dent Cromwell" is in press. Only limited edition
| will be printed.
THERE are twenty persons whose gifts to colleges
aggregate over 500, 900, 600. Three of these rich
| men-Stephen Girard Johns Hopkins and Asa Packer
| gave over $14, 900 900.
| QUEEN VICTORIA has mania for collecting relics
| of engagement in war. Among others she has.
mounted in crystal and silver the musket ball that
| ended the career of Nelson.
N. DE QUATREFAaEs stated recently at q meeting
of the Academic des Sciences that in Senegamba the
incubation of cattle against pleuro pneumonia and
| smallpox had been practced for centuries.
| MoDJEsKA has SON now completing his studies as
civil engineer. He is devoted to his profession and
Modjeska is apparently both proud and fond of her
big boy, who is she says, twenty four years old.
| THE ruins of Fort Sumter but story
high and there are but half dozen guns not of
which is fit for The government pays 5000 per
| month for watchmsn, who keep lights burning for
| the guidance of mariners.
| A SMALL brass calendar that President Garfield
used to turn every morning and that bears the
date Saturday, July g. 1884," having been
mento in the home of r. B. Hayes.
THE venerable Miss Elizabeth Peabody made the
journey from Concord, Mass, expressly to hear Mr.
Ignatius Donnely explain his Bacon-Shakspeare CT
pher. There three people who take full
stock in the discovery-Mss Peabody, Gen. Butler
and Ignatius Donnelly.
THE famous portraits by Franz Halls, of the found
ers of the Hoofje Van Beeresteyn at HARLEM form
ery of the sights of that town. have acquired
by the Louvre for 100 900 francs They comprise
portrait of dated 1929. or when Halls was
forty fve). of a woman, and family party in
garden.
PHOTOGRAPHY is rendered so easy by electricity
that one may be photographed unknown to oneself
The other night at the observatory the President of
| the French Republic not that more than
dozen photographs had been taken of him until the
soiree nearly over, when he given album
containing them.
Dr. EDWARD w. EMERSON, of Concord has at last
found rock of white quartz, with seagreen beryls
embedded in it, to mark his fathers grave. block
of it weighing eight tons has been quarried at South
Acworth n. H., and shipped to Concord. 1t is the
intention to have the inscription placed bronze
plate. which will be set in the quartz.
WHEN Proctor Knott made his fanciful Duluth
speech fifteen the humor of the thing ticed
| the entire continent. No dreamed that Duluth
would ever amount to anything and when Knott
called her 1.-The paragon of cities everybody laughed
Still this town is third in the list of grainreceving
points, beating Milwaukee, Toledo, and st. Louis.
| THE old synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese
Jews in Bevis Marks, London, being pulled down.
bears painted on door panel the name of Benjamin
D'Israe with the date 5577 Jewish era) 1t is be-
ieved that he the grandfather of the late Earl of
Beaconsfeld but if the commonly received date of
b;S daath is
spends with 1917 A. D.
AT Queen Victorias last drawing-room there were
| some splendid Eastern costumes, and Indian lady,
having kissed the Queens hand offered her Majesty
an Oriental salaam she retired to the great
ment of the circle. This lady quaint but very
becoming Asiatic dress of white with overdress rich
ly embroidered with gold and regular Eastern veil
round the head. She blazed with diamonds
AN imprinted letter Of Charles Lambs has come to
light, giving his opinions on the relative value of
| Wordsworth's and Byron's work threads thus: II
| never relished his lordship's mind. Why,
line of Wordsworths is lever to lift the immortal
| spirit. Byrons only move the spleen. He at
best satirist in other way he was mean enough
dare say do him injustice, but 1 cannot love him
nor squeeze a tear to his memory"
| AT the recent royal drawing-room reception in
London black the prevailing color. The Princess
of Wales looked much better in her sombre toilet
(which set off her magnificent diamonds very we'll in
deed) thai. in the white dress which she wore at the
| first drawingroom The Queen was arrayed entirely
in black, having discarded the white veil she has
hitherto for of black tule, and wore only
jet ornaments. Prncess Beatrice was in mauve and
| violet, and displayed many more diamonds than she
| has worn before.
THE latest eccentricity of young and wealthy
bachelor of Philadelphia whose pranks have amused
society for years, is that of going to fashionable
restaurant for late supper and insisting upon pro-
viding his table cloth About three times week
he appears between midnight and 1 o'clock A. M
and of the tables in the mems cafe with
less gorgeous tabe-cloth, generally made of
some fancy shawl of Eastern manufacture On this
he orders spread little supper for OF three ard
| appears to take delight in the sensation caused
when newcomer first the startling CLOTH He
has kept this up for weeks and has not used the
| same cloth twice.
OF Ferry, the lately deposed French Premier cor.
respondent writes He always shook mems hands
with hearty grip; he could laugh loud and long even
when not amused; if conversation tagged he ,.ould
light it up suddenly with few cracking Jokes but he
generally preferred to sit SILENT smoking penny cigars
flor he was not rich) slipping absinthe and taking
| mental notes of what being said around him.
Now and them especially if talker appealed to him.
he would nod approval with grave closing of the
eyes, which is the supreme poiteness in the art of
| listening. He squandered his knowledge in
small talk that his public speeches always took his
most intimate friends aback Gambetta once said to
him: 'You the most secretive of chatterboxes"
the truth being that Ferry used commonplace ideas in
private intercourse just men keep half pence
| for beggars
WHEN she visited Victoria, British Columbia, few
| he ~ tha beI,; &c
taking every morning simply attired walk through
| the city. Often she entered stores and made pur-
chases without being recognized. One morning it is
said, she passing little toy shop she saw two
poorly-clad urchins gazing longingly at the allure
meuts in the show window She stonped and innured