The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ALEXANDRA DUMAS, the younger, is now in
his sixty-third year, and his hair is silvery
white.
Boston Herald: Mrs. Langtry Las a new
style sleigh named after her. 1t has very
handsome back
CARLOS FRENCH, elected to Congress from the
New Haven district, used to be mechanic, and
invented the railway spring now in general
use.
THE Princess Elizabeth. Of SAKE. Wemar, is
to marry, they say, for love. the Grand Duke of
Mecklenberg- Schwerin. She has reached the
loving age OF thirty years.
MARCUS JORDAN. of Belefield, Rhensh Prus-
STA, is the oldest man in Germany. Hehas COM
pleted his lc7th year in sound health, and reads
the grabbed German letters without spectacles
AVERY strict clergyman in the western PAL \
of the State recently said good word for clubs.
They were to be commended for one thing, he
said; they saved good many women from bad
husbands
Mr. MANTELL, the actor, says bushel Of
press notices in England would rot raise an ac-
tors salary cent but that in America the COM
meuts of the press are of the first Importance,
because the people read
The latest move in the fight for Liszts body is
made by the maestros exeeutrix, the Princess
Sayn- Wittgenstein, who declares that his tomb
shall be in Rome, where she will live henceforth
Under the law she is owner of the body.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON has for months been
watching at the bedside of her infirm mother in
West Pittston, Pa. Her pecuniary resources are
said to be nearly exhausted, and it is announced
that she will take to the lecture field again.
The ladies-bess emit beats all!
When they are young and squallers,
Their hearts are set upon the doll
When grown, upon the dollars.
It'd Bits
TEE ex-Empress Eugene once paid 5000 900
to Marguerite Bellenger, the notorious demi-
mondane, who has just died, for letter which
that damse once wrote to the late Emperor and
which was found among his effects after the battle
of Sedan.
THE insolent henchman recently sent by the
Gar to incite crime in Bulgaria is responsible
for a new adjective in the German Language
When any one is particularly high handed, un-
principled and insulting, they describe him as
'Kaulbarsch."
CYRUS W. FIELD does not refuse to be seen
when strangers call at his Office in the Field
Building. Said he to an interviewer the other
day: why. young man, l don't get time to
read my Bible and say my prayers l can't say
anything about my life"
SENIOR LUIS MAzzANT1NI, the most famous
bull-fghter OF Spain, who recently received $780,
600 in gold for fourteen performances in Havana
is coming to the United States. He will have no
opportunity to display his proves in this civil
lied country unless he will consent to fight John
L. Sullivan with kid gloved hands or bare
knuckles.
THERE is trouble in the blue blooded "Dickey
Club of Harvard University Recently, while
initiating dozen wealthy high-class sophomores,
the furniture was utterly destroyed, and the
landlady or matron complained to the president,
who dismissed three gentlemen and suspended
several others. OF course there is weeping and
wailing and crashing Of teeth
A WASHINGTON Chestnut" writer has revived
good story about Henry Clay taking dinner
with President Van Buren, and helping to ex
tinguish a fire which suddenly broke out in tho
White House kitchen. Mr.. Clay was scheminp
for the presidency, and embraced the occasion to
say: mr.. President, / am doing everything in
my power to get you ont of this house. but / as
sure you do not want TO see you burned out"
SOME queer comments were made at Wash
ington, when Congress assembled on the free
trade reverses of November OF Speaker Car
Isle gallery god remarked, in a shockincly
loud tone; 'Oh, he just got in by the skin Of