The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


The Patriarch of Jerusalem is pronounced
the most kingly looking man in the Eastern
world.
Mr.. I.ABoUcHERE is the greast smoker in Par
lament, and wants everybody to smoke every.
where.
NoRRrsTowN Herald: The vital question.
what is sausaee9" is being discussed before a
Nebraska court. 1t is believed the jury will dis
agree.
GAYARRF, sixteen years ago, got 80 cents a
night for singing in a music hall at Madrid.
Now he has made an engagement to sing at the
opera fifty nights for 900.
LoRING PICKERING, of the San Francisco
Call, married his third wife at seventy. and is
the father OF bouncing boy baby. All boy
babies are bouncing however.
AT an afternoon tea given by millionaire s
daughter on Murray Hill last week the menu
consisted only of black tea served in common
blue-stone china and potato cakes on tiny tin
plates.
NJ. PAUL DE CAssAGNAc can fekt or not as he
pleases. An offended felow-editor recently tel
eeraphed to him, II shall have the honor to
send you my seconds tomorrow" and the fire.
eater coolly replied You need not send them,
for will not receive them"
THE Buffalo Courier tells Of clergyman who
is so conscientious that he never commits him
self to any positive statement. One day he Off
cated at funeral. where he had occasion to
allude to the departed. He did so in these
words: "Our dear sister is now dead, most
probably"
Mr.. HOLT, Lincolns Judge advocate general,
still lives at Washington. He is white-haired
and bent with age, but his eyes are as bright
and his mind as active as ever. He lives much
alone, drives out great DEAL and reads the
classics. There is no truth 10 the story that he
is remorseful msanthrope.
A MARBLE bust of General Daumesnil is to be
placed in one of the Versailles galleries. 1t was
he to whom Butcher in letter offered 5000 600
If he would capitulate at Vincennes, II shall not
surrender" replied Daumesnil nor shall re-
turn your letter-it shall be an heirloom to my
children" And it was all he left them.
The Duchess de Mouchy Anna Murat pos
sesses more jewels than any other woman in
Paris. She inherited them from the Noaies
family, and from her grandmother. the Queen of
Naples After her comes the Duchess de Bisac-
cia. Nine. Maurice Ephrussi nee Rothschd
has the finest collection OF rubies and the Prin-
cess de Leon the finest pearls.
THE oldest voter at the late election in Con-
necticut was Levi johnson. of Torrineton. He
is ninety seven years of age. was born a slave in
Connecticut and was made voter in 1865 His
father was slave in Southington. Conn. and
his mother runaway slave from New York. He
is one of only two or three colored people in the
Nutmeg State who were once Connecticut slaves
THE Queen Regent Christina, of Spain, will
60 out of deep mourning on Nov. 81 The ladies
of the Madrid aristocracy asked the Queen to
grant them permission to present her with the
first dress she will wear in the next stage of her
widOwhood. and the favor having been accorded
the dress is now in preparation 1t will be made
Of ivory velvet. with a train of heliotrope MORE
and the body trimmed with chenille of the same
color.
Mr.. WILSON BARRETT, the English actor. says
that the most interesting man he has met in this
country is Gen. Tecumseh Sherman. When
first introduced the General wanted to talk
about thea:ers. He has a fondness for the
drama and dramatic people But Mr. Barrett
skillfully brought him around to the war, and
for an hour or two had the pleasure of listenir 2
to q most charming recital of history. He won
ders why the General doesn't mount the lecture
platform
Mr. EDMUND RUSSELL has just furnished a
room with fur, and horns, and plush, to suit the
taste of Russian nobleman. great lions
skin, chairs Of polished horns, with fur cushions
and rugs, plush curtains. held back BIZ stuffed
money. and couch with deerskin cushions are
the principal tnlngS IN the room. An alcove,
curtained with Indian gauze bordered with white
fox, contains white bearskin. a cast of Diana
aud an ivory cabinet, and is the colorless spot
which deepens the tints elsewhere.
ANOTHER story about the Rev DR.. Phillips
Brooks appears in the Boston Gazette One day
he was observed walking along the street, his
magnificent form towering head and shoulders
above common mortals, closely followed by a
very small mar WHO cazed upward at him with
delighted admiration. Meeting a friend, the
little man stopped to ask earnestly, do you
know who he lsP "Oh. yes; that's Phillips
Brooks well, amt very big myself, but
cIn just admire man like that rhen see him. =
A LONDON correspondent the New York
Times says he has talked, at v. ious times, with
score of people who have met the Car of Rus.
STA, and are fairly qualified to judge what man