The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


CHAUNCEY DEPEw takes no stock in the
new-fangled theory that marriage is fail
ure. To newly welded friend he writes:
ITO be engaged to the woman you love Is
happiness; to marry her is heaven"
For some reason or other references to
Saul of Tarsus are very popular in the
Massachusetts Legislature, and the Boston
Herald tells how John Quincy Adams once
referred to the great aspostle as the gen.
tleman from Tarsus."
Mr.. Roe, an English member of Parlia-
ment, met with singular accident when
entering the House a few days ago. He
was opening the door with his left hand,
and carrying letter in his right, when the
other half of the door swung against him
and forced the corner of the envelope into
his eye.
REV. CARRIE j. BARTLETT, pastor of ALI
Souls Church at Sioux Falls, South Da-
kota, has accepted call to strong
church at Kalamazoo. Miss Bartlett grad
uated with highest honors at the College of
Carthage ILL.,. in 1879. She has been a re-
porter of the Minneapolis Tribune and city
editor of the Oshkosh Daily Times.
ADMIRAL PORTER manages to keep two
secretaries and his son busy attending to
his correspondence, which is very large,
and helping him in his literary work. His
workshop is large, airy room, the walls of
whi ch are hung with innumerable pictures
and relics while the wainscoting of the
room is a series of low shelves filed with
books. Here he passes the best part of
every day, busily at work.
AT Mr. Clifford's lecture at Princes Hall,
London, on Father Damien and the Leper
Settlement at Molokai," Mr.. Clifford
amused the audience very much by a de-.
scription of a Hawaiian chief who came to
meet some American missionaries with his
nine wives, all being in a state of complete
with on this want of clothing. came the
next day alone wearing straw-hat and
pair of gloves.
Mr. DAVID LAURIE. of Glasgow. has re-
fused $4,000 for the famous "Alard" Strad-
duarius violin, but $12,5OO has now been
offered on behalf of an American. and the
matter is under consideration. The 'Alard"
formerly belonged to j. b. Vuillaume, the
expert, who gave it to his son-in-law NJ.
Dolphin Alard, violin professor at the Paris
ConservatOire, who sold it to Mr.. Laurie.
1t is dated 1715, and the only alteration
since made is a slight lengthening of the
neck.
LEVI G. MCKINNEY and Miss Mary Black,
of Louisville, KY, were engaged to be mar
ried nearly fifty years ago. Soon after
their engagement Mckinney went to the
war with Mexico. When he returned he
had not money to begin housekeeping. AS
the young lady had good home, they
waited. He enlisted in the federal army
at the outbreak of the civil war. but after
the war was over was still unable to sup
port wife. Recently he got back pension
of S1.7O0. He at once hunted up his old
love, who was still waiting for him, and
the pair were married on Wednesday.
DIR. JOHN HALL is now sixty years of age,
hrrf nLo aly I1o cfo Dc - Coo
three inches In his stockings, and is built
in proportion. By birth. the Doctor is Irish,
having come into this world on July 81,
1922 in County Armagh, Ireland. His
parents, however, were Scotch. He has
had charge of the Fifth-avenue Presbyte-
rian Church, New York, since 1867 and
looks after the spiritual welfare of the 2.40O
people who go to make up his congregation.
Among them are men famous in American
history as lawyers, statesmen and men of
affairs.
EX-SENATOR JONES. formerly of Florida,
now of Detroit, writes to the New York
World to say: Il desire especially to re-
mind the cOnspiratOrs who did all they
could to destroy me that 1 am still in De-
tr0it. In the language of that great Irish
man, John Philpot Curran. they may assas-
slnate but they cannot intimidate me- At
the proper time / shall speak to my be-
loved constituency and tell them why /
left their service before the expiration of
my second term of Office in the Senate. The
sufferings and persecution that l have
borne here none but God and few de-
voted friends have any knowlege Of"
SIGNOR VERDI has declined jubilee.
The Mayor of Milan. alive to the advantages
which crowd brings to town sadly in
need of the money tourists leave after them,
had discovered that just fifty years ago
Verdi, then in his twenty-fourth year, had
produced his first opera at Milan. So there
was to be jubilee and great Verdi fete.
But the composer objec ted. He had had
quite enough of glory. He does not care
for these dramatic Ovations. His hairs are
gray and his ambition satisfied. The good
| folk of Milan were horribly put out at the
news. And then they decided that the
| whether Verdi liked it or not. 1t was fact
| that "Oberto" was produced in Milan in the
| year 1889. The great masters dissent cOuld
| not upset that date or prevent his fellow
| tOwnsmen-especially the tradesmen and
hotel-keepers-from celebrating the event.
| But the Jubilee, after all, is not to come off.
| Boito withdrew from it. The great publish
| ing-house of RicOrdi would neither lend its
music nor its name. The composer is to be
| allowed to pass the year peacefully, and
| the public will sympathize with his victory.
| STANDING with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet"
Are the pretty graduates sweet;
In their gowns OF silk and satin,
Getting sheepskins done in Latin.
What dainty beauty show!
And akaS a1iy iyaf hayV nIlph hoy WI