The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

OO1. OOHN COChE Kill j III u6St pdiu maui
aging editor in the country. He receives $40, 900
a year.
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY will certainly have a
monument in the Monumental City now. The
Maryland Legislature has given SIS. 600 to that
end.
GoUNOD now goes to religious worship from
one to three and four times daily. and his increas-
ing seriousness is frequently mentioned by his
friends.
Mr.. NUDE says that English interest in biog-
raphies is very short-lived. Gordon is forgotten
| already, Froude's Carlyle" is hardly ever want
ed, and Cross's George Eliot is beginning to
fall.
A CRAVING for foreign travel is said to have
| come over the high-caste Hindoos. They espe-
| cially wish to visit the United States. Their
ideas would be greatly broadened by such an ex
| perieDce.
FREDERICK TURNER and William H. Bailey,
of particular note just now as knights, are both
foreign-b born citizens. Turner is from Somer-
setshire, England, and Bailey from Greenwich,
England.
On the facade of the general postofGce, Paris,
has been placed a tablet with the inscription:
"Jean de la Fontaine, born July s, 1924, died
April 16, 1906, at the Hotel d'Hervart, which
stood on this site."
THE San Francisco newspapers indignantly
deny the Eastern report that Gen. Newton
Booth, commander Of the Salvation Army, has
settled in California with a view of permanent
residence in that State.
PRINCE BISMARCK wears constantly the insig-
MIA of the Papal Order of Christ, of which, like
the Emperor Napoleon, he is an honorary mem
Der. The original jewel is very costly, worth, it
is said, $50, 600. BUTT is stated that the one the
Prince wears in public is pinchbeck.
Mr.. WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR has devoted a
considerable share of the royalty paid on the
sale of his novel. "Vaientino," to vellum bound
presentation copies for his friends, while two
copies in ivory boards and silver cases, costing
5000, were designed for the Pope and the King of
Italy.
TIDBITs: How does my wife take my incarcera-
tions" asked a convicted Mormon of a brother.
Susie cries her eyes out; Jennie is sad at times;
Martha doesn't seem to care very much;
| Sophie says she il going back to her parents
in Tennessee, while Eugenia is already engaged
again."
NINE. PATTI is reported in the London World
not to possess a very great fortune. The Welsh
castle and property Is valued at $500, 900. Her
diamonds are worth 5000, 900. Her income is
whatever she earns each year. 1t is reported
she will not appear on the stage during the en-
suing summer.
JUsTICE-oF-PEAcE K-URGANowsKI, of the Prov
ince of Perm, in Russia, while holding court,
was twice interrupted by his wife-once with
the announcement that dinner was ready, and
again that the soup was getting cold-whereupon
he fined her three roubles for disturbing the dig
nifty of his court, and then paid the money from
his own pocket.
The Marquis of Salisbury owns the notorious
Seven Dials region in London. Like the other
titled landlords of London, he persistently re
fuses to sell any part. and relets on ground
rents. These leases are falling in, and the ad-
vances are expected to equal 500 per cent. No
public improvements are possible unless the
| property is contscated.
PARIS letter: Mr.. Healy has just finished a
most delicately executed portrait of Miss
Mitchell, the daughter, if I am not mistaken, of
the recently elected United States Senator from
Oregon, the Hon. John H. Mitchell. Miss Mitchell
is now the beauty Of Paris, and her fame is not
confined to the American colony. / heard a
French Senator'S wife dilating the other day on
the charms of this young girl from the Pacific
| slope, whom she had met at some ball or recep-
ton.
In building his new Baltimore mansion Robert
Garrett selected a plan in which a bay-window
was made to project several inches beyond the
building line fixed by law. Henry James, his next
door neighbor, and a wealthy merchant, ap.
pealed to the courts, claiming that his property
was injured by the projection. and Mr.. Garrett
was ordered to remove the obstruction. He took
the case to the Court of Appeals, which on Fri
day reversed the lower courts decree, and au-
thorized him to proceed.
M. ALFRED ASsoLAUT once tried to lecture on
his experiences in this country. He hired a
small room and got together a few friends. La
dies and gentlemen, y he began, when one thinks
of setting out for America, the most natural
thing to do is to consult the sailing list of the
steamship lines. To get to America you must
ship; a good steamship" Then timidity and EN-.
barrassment overcame him. He gave up the at
tempt at lecturing, and never tried again.
stMIss MARY L. BOOTH says a New York
writer, has edited Harpers Bazaar for more
years than it is polite to talk about. but no one
seeing her on the street would suspect her of
even a remote familiarity with a fashion plate.
She may be seen on Franklin square almost any
evening, about 5 o'clock, in a particularly shabby,
old-fashi9ned sealskin iacket, a nondescript hat
and a 'serviceable' dark cloth skirt, decidedly
the worse for wear. She says that dress to her
savors of the shop alone, and the less she can
think about it when away from business the
happier she is."
THEIR is said to be a well authenticated case
of leprosy in Yadkin county, N. c., the patient
being John Plewman, aged 40 years. Eighteen
months ago he felt a curious numbness of the
left arm. He could stand great heat near that
arm without suffering pain, and later could pass
his hand through the flame of a candle and be
insensible to the heat. White blotches appeared
on the arm, and large scabs formed. These
blotches are now spreading to his body. PhYsi-
clans, including three specialists, pronounce the
disease leprosy.
THE iliustrious musician List is indeed an
able; but why did he enter holy crders4 Be
cause. Galagnani explains, he once paid court to
tive married women and promised each that he
would marry her when she became a widow
Curious fate soon after removed both husbands
simultaneously, and List found himself in a
most embarrassing situation, to get ont of which
he ran away to Rome and, through his friend
J Cardinal Hohealohe, got admitted to holy orders