The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-06
ABOUT. PEOPLE AND THINGS.

has completed her matrimonial n eotiations with
the Earl of Arrsu. and the widow and the noble
man viii be mated this fall Mrs Roberts in
come is e75. 600 year.
IT 10 fumorsd in Russia that proceedings in
lunacy are about TO be begun against Tolstoi.
the novelist If Tolstoi lie crazy he has certainly
made it pay. He has q worldwide fame and q
good income from his books.
The youngest justice OF the Supreme Bench
OF Tennessee is Judge Snodgrass. of Chattanoo.
"a He il thirty-seveu years of age, and was
nominated for the Office when only few months
over thirty-fve. the age at which he became eli
gible.
PRIVATE SECRETARY LAMONT will not take
vacation this summer. His wife and children
have gone to Cortland, n. Y. and will &C
TO the Maine coast for the remainder OF the sea
son. Colonel Lsmonts duties have become IN
usually burdensome since the Chicago conven.
ton adjourned.
LoSGFELLow, the poet. was once a member Of
the old Portland tMe.) Rifles. and is said to
have been greatly perked up over the brilliant
green uniform in which he used to parade. and
which lent to his carriage q certain distinctive
air that never entirely disappeared.
Mr.. HOSEA Il LINCOLN, for forty-two years
principal Of the Lyman school, East Boston. has
just entered the ministry of the Unitarian
Church. He is sixty seven years old, but in
splendid health, and reasonably hopes to per-
form many years service in his new field
The insane asylum forsnegroes at Goldsboro,
N. C., has just been enlarged on account OF the
rapid increase of insanity among the cplored
people. Thirty years ago madness was almost
unknown among the Southern negroes, but now
the number of those affected in North Carolina
alone Is estimated at 900.
EDWARD B. UNDERHILL. a broker. was re-
change. He blamed Goodsell Buckingham. ir,
also q broker, for the black balling After think
ing the matter over for four hours and a half
Mr. Underhill has concluded that he has grounds
for action at law. He has accordingly sued Mr..
Buckingham for 500. 900 damages for Islander.
THE campaign egg for 1888 is a new and clever
toy which will nightly amuse old folks as well
as children. 1t is about the size of turkeys
egg, and 10 finely enameled. Blowing into q
little hole on the side produces the sound like
the Growing or Q rooster, and on touching
spring out flies little brass rooster which
bears the legend, 'I crow for Cleveland an
Thurman OR for Harrison and Morton"
MR- ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. with his wife.
his mother. and Mr.. Lloyd Osborne. have sailed
from San Francisco in DR.. Merritt's Casco, the
largest yacht in those waters. The voyage will
last seven months, and will include visits to the
Marquesas islands, Otaheite, and Honolulu.
Mr. Stevenson will continue his literary work
during the cruise. and will seek new sources of
inspiration in the lands and seas he visits.
GOVERNOR AMEs, of Massachusetts, lies crit
ically i'll with acute bronchitis at his Common
wealth-avenue mansion liz Boston There is
danger Of apoplexy, and his family are deeply
concerned. Already a number of consultations
have been held. Governor Ames attended the
Harvard commencement last week In his off,
cial capacity, and. although he was not feeling
well, he remained throughout the exercises.
The next day he called in ms physician.
PECULIAR use for the phonograph has been
devised by Clara Morris, who. being convinced
that no speaker hears his Own voice exactly as
others hear it. theorized that by speaking into a
photograph and then turning a crank she would
have q correct idea of the effect of her declsma-
tons. Her experiments have not been entirely
successful. as the repeated tones lack the volume
of the original utterances. but there is said to be
a precise mimicry of emphasis, infection and
color.
THE first volume of the Correspondence ~
Peter the Great, which is about to appear will
contain 402 letters and documents referring to
the period OF l6ss-1701, and will consist Of moro
than 1000 pages. There two portraits.
fac-similes of letters. and plans and drawings
made by Peter himself. The work has been
brought out under the supervision of a commit
tee of savants, Of whom Professor Bytchkoff.
director of the Imperial Public Library, is the
chief In 1877, 600 documents had been col
lected.
PRINCE BISMARCK is shaved every day by his
valet. After light breakfast Bismarck sub
mits himself to the razor. He is not very pa
tient under the operation, but has refused to
wear beard His valet who is generally very
reticent regarding ais master, recently made
public q curious fact Bismarck's beard, unlike
that OF most mon, grows more rapidly in winter
than ia summer. just why this Is the case is
hard to explain. The valet is incliped to think
that nature has so ordained il that he may have
an easier time lie not weather.
II Is feather in the EpiscopAlian CAP how
ever. that the Duchess Miss Hammersley,
who professsd that faith, and the Duke OF
Mari borough, who as o church and state man
must have nominally held to it, could get no
clergyman of that faith to "bless Them" and
after Mayor Hewitt's legal performance sought
color of sanctity to their union by calling in
aid of Baptist clergyman. Altogether, indeed,
for an American woman to be made a duchess
At such price is a highly instructive, if not an
eoifying spectacle
GENERAL HARRISON 10 pleasantly remember
by Hartford people as one of the Piscatorius
Club excursion Of 1872 The club was an or
ganization Of Hartford gentlemen who were in
terested in the sport Of fishing, and made an
/ In . chartered vessel. In 1872 General Harri-
son was an invited guest of the club, and was
made an honorary member There were about
aixty persons on board the schooner that year,
and General Harrison. with his son, then four
teen years Of afe. made himself popular with the
party by his genial manner and good fellow.
ship.-Hartford Courant
A NOVEL party was lately given by some Phil.
adelphians at summer resort. Invitations
were issued for ''ghost party and the evening
was devoted to the recitation Of weird and grue
some tales of horror. and TO the recounting OF
personal experiences that were in every way
calculated to make the hair OF the N bled
company stand on end. When the blood of al
the guests was beginning to curde the witchinc
hour of midnight rubg out by the clock
This proved to be the signal for supper, and i'm
medistely lights were brought, and the ghostly
seance was over.
ONE Of the recently organized trusts" has
come to grief Certain varieties Of stamped
envelopes issued by the government had been
for one reason another, Withdrawn from sale
at the postofic and q syndicate, having OBJ
tained possession of all the available supply has
been reaping q rich harvest from siamp-collect
ors Now the Third Assistant Postmaster.
general has ordered the postmaster At New York
to keep On sale, st cont above the face-value o.
the stamp, quantities of all irregular issuesy o.
| stamped envelopes Specimens for which III,
| spectators have been receiving IS each car
hereafter bo bought for cents.
| MANY anecdotes are current of the Prince OF
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