The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-31

cure almost any ailment He says he has
used 1t IN all his sicknesses, and has always
been cured.
EARL DUDLEY, of England. is an invet-
crate gambler. He recently lost $4,000 at
cards in Paris. He will have to look about
for an American heiress some day.
IT is rumored that Chauncey NJ. Depew
has invited Gladstone to visit this country
and to make a trip to Alaska, and that
there is some prospect of his acceptance.
SECRETARY MOBILES house in Washing
ton, the old Tiffany mansion, is one of the
most luxuriously furnished houses IN the
city. 1t contains among other interesting
things, valuable collection of ancient
arfnOr.
The senior European journalist is Sir
Edward Baines. of Leeds. He is over nine
ty years of age, and he represented his
fathers paper at the Peterloo massacre In
1919 and is probably the only survivor of
that tragedy.
NEITHER Bishop Vincent nor Mr.. Miller,
who founded the summer school at Chau-
tauqua, sixteen years ago-and who are
there leading it's college man, singular
as the fact may seem. Mr.. Millers daugh-
ter is the wife of Thomas A. Edison, the
electrician.
The Shah's tact was demonstrated be-
yond question at Birmingham. When he
stepped on the platform the crowd fairly
mobbed him. He took in the situation at
a glance, smiled and readily responded to
the request of scores of men and women to
shake hands with him.
DOW and Henry Fonda are twins living
in Fonda, N. Y. They are, in all probable
ity, the oldest twins in the county. They
I'D 10 oc
Fonda took its name from an ancestor of
these venerable brothers. The Fonda
twins own adjoining farms.
IT is said that the long-standing quarrel
between the two brothers. Imre and BO-
lossy Kiralfy, is at an end, and that after
the coming season they will join forces
again and work together in the production
of spectacular pieces throughout the cOun-
try. The reconciliation is complete.
THE Austrian Archbishops are probably
the most highly paid in the world. The
Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna has only
about $1,000 year. but the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Olmutz has f40, 900, the Cardinal
Archbishop of Eriru has 100000 And the
primate of Hungary. the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Grau, has esq, 600 year.
GEN. VIM. B. FRANKLIN, who is in charge
of the American exhibit at Paris is receiv-
ing much adverse criticism. The fact is
| Franklin never was and never could be q
popular man. He is naughty, unapprOach-
able and cares nothing for public opinion.
In Connecticut he has few warm friends.
| HIS record at Paris will not compare favor
ably with Senator Hawley's management
| of the Philadelphia centennial
THE richest woman in America is resi-
dent of South America. She is not only the
richest woman in the Americas, but she is
| the richest woman in the world. She has
one of the largest fortunes held by either
! sex. This woman is Dona Isadora COnsinO.
| of Chilli. She is the biggest real estate
| owner In Santiago and Valparaiso. South
| American fortunes are hard to estimate,
but many people have put hers above $500, :
! 100000. Money multiplies fast in her hands.
| for her eye Is everywhere.
| Mrs. p. NJ KENDALL, of Cambridge,
Mass. one of Maria MitchelPs sisters, will
| probably write her. biography. Professor
Mitchell has left behind her mass of most
| interesting correspondence from the
Herschels, Humboldt, Hawthorne and
other eminent men and women. Mrs. Liv-
ermOre contributes to this weeks WOman's
] Journal some very interesting reminis-
/ cences of Maria Mitchell She urges that
now. while Professor Mitchelfs memory is
| still fresh in all hearts, her friends should
| collect her letters and note down their
"reminiscences of her, and let them be
woven into her biography.
+ Two weeks ago, while engaged in exam
lining the public archives at the Hague,
Gen. James Grant Wilson met with letter
addressed to the States-general of the
limited Netherlands by p. Schagen, dated
Amsterdam, Nov. z. 1896 announcing the
purchase of the island of Manhattan by the
Dutch West India Company for the sum OF
| S24. Two days later he found the original
deed, which had lain unknown for 26s
years among the papers of an ancient Dutch
| family. General Wilson hopes to be able ia
| purchase the deed. The discovery was
| made in the course OF researches concerning
| Mrs. Wilson's Bayard ancestors, who came
| to America in 1647 with the last of the
Dutch Governors, Peter Stuyvesant.
A CORRESPONDENT who has met BOu.
LANCER in London writes: 1.-THE Generals
| manner is, for a Frenchman, sedate, com.
posed, tranquil; with the self-possession OF
one long used to intercourse with his fell
low-men and with women. AS to the latter
the most skeptical never limited doubt
| Ii is good manner, without being remark.
| able for distinction. Unknown he might
| pass unObserved in drawing-roOm, nor is
| there much in his bearing to suggest the
notion of greatness. A good soldier, a good
war-office administrators, he possesses GER
tain frankness and popularity of address
| an easy command of conventional civilities
and an extremely pliable temper to those
rather adventurous politicians who use his
| name.