The Indianapolis journal., 1889-12-19

Gently refused So. 200 from magazine for a
short Christmas poem.
REV. H. d. WARD and Mrs. Ward. nee
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, have taken q
house at Washington for the winter.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw has been telling
the Vassar girls that the blarney stone has
never yet been kissed. Such bold state
ment contradicts about every traveller one.
meets.
WATTS, the artist, and husband of Ellen
Terry, has decided to give his paintings,
about fifty in number and including por-
traits of some of the most celebrated men
of the time. to the British gallery.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Secretary Tracy
and Senator ingalls, will grace the celebra-
ton of Forefather's day by the New Eng
land society at Philadelphia. Senator In
| gals ought to say something handsome,
being Massachusetts and Williams boy.
Miss BIsLAND, Nellie Bly's rival globe
tourist, is pretty, soft-haired, bright-eyed
| girl, with tall, slender, distinguished
| looking figure. an air of thorough good
breeding, and quiet self-cOnfidence that
never degenerates into boldness She is
the example of that rare thing-a newspa-
| per woman who succeeds without sensa-
| tionalism.
A FRIEND and admirer once said to
| Robert Browning: II have studied long
| upon this passage in your poem, and am
| unable to comprehend it. Pray, tell me,
what is the idea embodied in itY" Mr..
| Browning read the passage over and re-
piled; i Really RI cannot tell h but believe
| studying It."
LORD TENNYsON is expected to write
something upon the death of Browning.
| TennysOn is three years the senior of
h,,% h
much more venerable man. as Browning
| was very sprightly in society, and during a
| recent visit to London was constantly in
demand: There is a feeling in London that
his death was premature.
| ACCORDING to instructions issued by
Chief Fonseca on the 10th of November,
| public tunctionaries will hereafter be
| addressed by the simple "Vos." and
% Sanitation. % ;saude lee fraternidadeS % i thealtS S
and fraternity The French revolutionary
| style of Citizen Fulauo" is~coming into
common use already in Brazil.
WHEN Mr.. Browning's friends first made
known the poets intention of being buried
by his wife,s side, the Florence authorities
stated that it would require an act of Par
| lament to reopen the old cemetery where
Mrs. Browning was buried; but they have
since announced that. out of respect to the
| poets wishes, they are willing to remove
Mrs. Brownings remains and the monument
! over her grave to the new cemetery.
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Times,
the bar-keepers in that quiet town are un-
consciously helping along the total-absti-
| nence cause. Here is what veteran prac-
titioner at the bars there says of these gen.
tlemen: When it comes to the point that a
| man has to ask for glass of beer as if it
were a favor. and submit to critical ex-
animation as to his sobriety by a bar
tender, count me out Cold water is good
| enough for me-"
THE'death of Mr.. Browning has revived
an anecdote of Tennyson. When Brown
ing's ''Sordello" was published Tennyson
tried 20 read it, and, in relating his expert
| ence, said: There were only two lines in
| it that understood. and they were both
lies. One was the opening line:
'Who will may hear Sordello's story told
And the other was the closing line:
! who would has heard SordellO's story told"
WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT, who has some
how been classed by the public as the head of
the Vanderbilt family, though his brother is
more important financial figure, looks al
most like boy. Hemoves about town brisk
| ly and amiably, and his popularity among
| people of all sorts is very great. There Is
none of the ostentation about him that
most very rich men display. He is of me-
1 tU.
| and has an endless fund of good humor
| This characteristic came from the old Com
modore. and not from William III.
SAYS Washington correspondent: "Gen.
Nathaniel p. Banks goes wandering around
the Capitol these days like ghost which
4 can't find its way back. Not that he is
thin and shadewy. He looks as large and
as strong as he did twenty years ago. al
though seventy-fOur winters have made
his thick thatch of hair and his heavy
mustache snowy white. But he seems not
| of this world--withdrawn, abstracted.
His daughter, Miss Maud Banks, who
figured on the stage awhile, is here with
him. acting as his private secretary and
taking care of his correspondence"
WHITTIER's home is besieged by tourists
and large part of his time is taken up by
visitors Strangers generally begin by ap.
plying at the newspaper offices for an IN
PRODUCTION to the poet with all the assur.
ance of people asking a theatrical man
ager for pass Though fond of enter
tainlng visitors, nothing displeases
Whittier more than to be regarded as a
subject of curiosity. Anticipating fresh
onslaught in consequence of his birthday
he charged his barber to burn every hair
cut few days ago from his head. But
should thee wish lock of my hair to re-
member me by. thee is welcome to ir. But
/ charge thee do not allow single hair tC
be taken as a relic of me-"