The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-20

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Prince of Wales is said. to have received
100000 clear from his Duchy Of Cornwall last
year.
THERE are but three silver dollars of the coin
age OF 1904 in existence. They are worth $1,000
each.
Solomon had a thousand wives. but only about
/ seventy.
A sERvANT-GIRI. in St. Louis has obtained .
/ Judgment against her mistress for twenty years
service, amounting to $500.
| EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH. of Austria. re-
Gently received present Of thousand dozens of
various varieties of bottled ales from an English
brewing company
| HARRY COFFEE, the dude skeleton" in Bar
NUNS, keeps an autograph album. Il is filed
with such good wishes as May your shadow
ever grow less
| MATTHEW ARNOLD left and two daueh-
tiers. He had come to Liverpool, where he died.
/ to meet one of his daughters, who married
to Frederick w. Whitridge. of New York.
A READER of the Boston Globe reports that
the word dude" is to be found in the dictionary
| OF the Swahili language spoken by Pzangibas
neeroes-that the plural is "mastuder-and the
+! word itself probably older than the hills
MATTHEW ARNOLD was not a brother of Ed
ward Arnold as has been enormously stated
Edwin Arnold's father was Robert Coles Arnold.
| a magistrate The father of Matthew Arnold
| Rugby.
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON has received some
wonderful offers from the publishers lately.
| According TO report one New York firm offered
him SIS, 900 for a story of $4,000 words and a
| newspaper 500 a week for an article for the
| Sunday edition
THE grave of Charles Lamb, in the old
church yard of Edmonton. is very much neg
| lected. Perhans the English people are waiti2g
| for some Americans chip in and raise enough
money to keep the great humorists grave IN
1 proper condition.
MARY ANDERSON has just finished engage
ment at the Lyceum Tbeater. London. In her
farewell address to the audience she said that
| the play just presented, "A Winters Tale" had
had the longest run since the great master COM
4 pleted it--three hundred years ago.
A GERMAN Workingman's Aid Society has
been established in New York. each member of
! which agrees to be cremated after death in
| der TO save expense Arrangements have been
| made with a cremation society which agrees to
l charge them only $50 for each cremation
MISS FLORA WEST. the British minister's Sec
| ond daughter. who is to marry Mr.. Sslanam. of
| the French legation. is very much liked. She is
| not pretty. as, indeed. neither of Sir Lionel
| Sackvile Vests other daughters are They all
| have saiiow skins and sharp features, bus they
| have very nice manners.
Mrs. MANoELL TALcoTT, the philanthropic
| Chicago lady, who has given away $500, 900 in
| sixty eighth year She used to pick up children
| in the parks, and buy them shoes. There are
| two Talcott day nurseries in the city, and the
| drinking fountain in Garfield Park was given by
| her.
SPEAKING of George Gould. correspondents
| writes to Boston newspaper His voice is
| low. almost soft, and mildly moduated. He
1 wouldn't emeke q cigar for n farm, and the
| drinking he does wouldn't harm kitten. Hs
| widest excess since his marriage has consisted
| in an occasional visit to the theater. He is al
ways accompanied by his wife,"
| SENATOR INGALLS, has had eleven children,
seven of whom survive. The given to
| his offspring have been somewhat peculiar
Ellsworth, Ruth Ethel Ralph. Addison. Con-
| stance Sheffield, Faith, Marian, Muriel Louise.
| Marian, who has reached the mature age of six.
| boldly asserts that she is Democrat and ad-
| mirss Cleveland.
THE disadvantage OF doing business under
| your wife's name has been illustrated at Belle
| willie, Kan, where 1T. Robinson was chosen
| councilman. The voters thought that ST. Rob-
| insonn was their esteemed fellow citizen. Aaron
| T. Robinson. and were horror-struck when
| Aarons wife, Tina, turned mp to be sworn. Tina
| was not allowed TO take the oath, and the At
torney general will be asked to have the election
| set aside.
| OBJECTIONABLE realism has become hobby
| in Partisan society, according to the London
Lancet, which is usually accurate authority.
| It takes the form of parties made up to witness
medical and surgical operations and scenes at
Er9nCn AfL1SbS nave
| with these unpleasant subjects for a number of
| years. and the Salon authorities have had the
| poor taste to admit many of their paintings to
| the exhibitions.
The sixty-sixth birthday Of General Grant
will be observed with appropriate ceremonies
| by the Grant Memorial University. at Athens,
Tenn. on the 9th inst. That institution was
founded in 1867. 1t now has property to the
value of $780, 000 and maintains eight schools,
| containg over i. 100 students. Governor Taylor
0f Tar m n1A Tn TYr1r
| Rea, commander OF the q. A. R., will deliver
| the principal address at the coming celebration
SHAM jewelry is no longer tabooed in fashion
able society. Roman pearls, as thsy are
called, are worn much more than real Ones es-
peeially by debutantes Rhine stones are no
longer the special adornment of servant girls
but ornaments made of them are worn at New
port and other fashionable places by society
women. without any pretense that they ars
other than what they are. The great idea IL to
have something pretty, and where the real
article cannot be had or cannot be worn con-
veDlentiy. people OF acknowledged style
wearing the next best thing obtainable.
MARCUS A. Roor, the first American daeuer
reotyper. died in Philadelphia last Thursday at
the age Of eighty. He was born in Granville.
O.. and moved to the Quaker City in 1885. In
lS43 his attention was called to the daguerreo-
type. He at once gave up all other enterprises
and was soon established as the leading daguer-
reotyper in this country. He had orders from
all over the world. and founded establishments
in New York, Boston St Louis and Washing
ton- The frat daguerreotype he ever took was
taken on solid silver, and was a view from one
of the windows of the Philadelphia mint. Il
was on exhibition At the Centennial. and Is now
In possession of the Philadelphia Press The
portraits OF Henry Clay and Daniel Webster on
the United States currency were taken from da.
guerreofypes made by Dir. Roof
Me-. GEORGE KEENAN, win tell in the May
Century how he came to 60 to Siberia on the
Century expedition. Mr.. KEENAN, had spent
some time in Siberia in connection with the
overland telegraph scheme, and in the summer
of 1884 he made preliminary excursion to ST.
Petersburg and Moscow for the purpose of col
lecting material and ascertaining whether or
not obstacles were likely to be thrown in his
way By the Russian government He retnrbed
in October. fully satisfied that his scheme was
practical one He therefore sailed from New
York for Liverpool in May, 1885. He SAYS "AiI
my prepossessions were favorable to the Russian
governmant and unfavorable 10 the Russian
revoutioniets" He adds that this partly ex-