The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27

who. twenty-five years ago. worked AT n
has a great fondness for flowers. birds and
music. IN which last particular all of his
family are accomplished.
BUFFALO BILL has had n delightful time
in Paris. He has been made 3 social lion
and has played his cards with success. He
has acquired the knack of making small
talk acceptable. and has learned how to-
tlirt. lie entertains handsomely, and is
His Nebraska friends would not recognize
him. All his clothes are made In London.
and he is cultivatlDg a French goatee. As
be strolls along the boulevards it is impos-
sible 10 believe that he was once q scout on
the Western plains.
ROBERT BROWNING is short and stout.
with q rudy face. and he looks like he en-
joyed n good dinner. which he does. for he
is one of the greatest diners-out in London.
He is very agreeable. and to sit next to him
Is q privilege eagerly sought. He is not at
all self-conscious and Is the least affected of
men. having none OF ByIon's misanthropy
and danditied airs. he likes an American
almost as he does a good dinner. and says
our American beauties have completely
captured London. which he calls a mere
suburb of America.
THE deaths0f 0Donoghue terminates a
curious career. Daniel O'Donoghue. The
ODonoghue of the Glens,n was born in
1888. and succeeded. in the same year. to q
large and picturesque. though heavily en-
cumoeged, estate in the County Kerry. He
married young. and spent a good deal of his
time an0 money in Paris, where, in the
early DAYS of the second empire, his fine
horses and liveries of green and gold formed
a conspicuous ornament of the Bots de Bou-
logne, anu were often mistaken for those of
the Emperor himself.
Mr.. PETRIE, the Egyptian explorer. is de-
scribed as of a good height and rather slen-
der bnild. His hair and coloring generally
is ark-so dark that he is mistaken for a
foreigner, which impression is aided by his
singularly Eastern cast of features. But
he is English and of Scotch descent. The
mode of life he prefers is life in a tent with
the sand for carpet. And among many
pleasant characteristics. one of his pleas
ATTEST is his faith in. and affection for, the
Arabs, whose cause he warmly espouses in
conversation. N with whom he lives on
the ~friendliest terms.
NEXT to a lover. the world loves a gener-
Gus man, and such a one Boston has tho
honor of advertising. A few evenings since,
a lady, a poor one, too, saw a shiny object
on the pavement. 1t proved to be a dia-
mond, a stone lost from a ring. and worth
500. The lady refused go from the jew
eler. and set about finding the owner. She
spent the better part of two days in the
a.
ing out ana returning the stone. The gen.
erous gentlernaDly owner asked her the ex-
pense involved, gave her a dollar, and told
her to keep the change.
THE friends Of Lord Tennyson fear that
the publication of his forthcoming volume
of poems may have a deleterious effect upon
his health. He is said to be always angered
at any adverse criticism. and, the assump-
ton being that there will be some hostile
criticism, it is thought that such excite
ment at the present time might iniure the
repose of mind which alone keeps him well
in body. TennysOn is said to remember
every word of disapproval about his poems
that has ever come under his eye. and when
reading to his friends. as he takes great
pleasure In doing. he will stop in the middle
of a verse to berate the critics and disprove
their structures.
A MOST extraordinary literary find has
been the discovery of a correspondence COW
ering seventeen years between a lady, Miss
j., at its inception young and beautiful.
and the Duke of Wellington. Miss J. was
q religious enthusiast. and her object in
opening the correspondence was anxiety
for the salvation of the Dukes soul. Later
on q more worldly interest appears. and she
would seem not to nave been averse to be-
ing made q duchess. She was a young per-
son of somewhat cantankerous disposition.
ingenious in finding cause for offense, and
asserting herself with a shrewish pen. The
letters have been prepared for the press by
Christine Terhune Herrick.
AN interesting anecdote of Berger, the
great French lawyer. recently made public
for the first time: Shortly after the war Of
1870 the Duke of Brunswick, who had fire.
! quently employed Berger in important
cases. sent him a request that he should de-
fend a suit brought against the Duke by
his daughter, whom be had abandoned be-
cause she had adjured Professionalism. Fear
full lest Berger might not like the case, ba
added to the paper a retainer of $4,000
francs. Shortly afterwards he received the
following letter: Monseigneur: IF / de-
Tended your Majesty against the King of
England. and the powerful princes of your
family. it was because you were in the
| right. But l decline to defend your case,
to-day, against the Comtesse de Civey.
| your daughter, because you are a hundred
times in the wrong. Berger" And the
$4,000 francs were returned with the papers.
al PAY as I GO" he exclaimed to the clerk,
With a Vanderbilt hautiness glum;
ANY baggageF' "Er-no." 'Then. sir, eaid the
clerk.