The Indianapolis journal., 1890-11-06

Twain over $50, 900 in royalties.
IT Is feared in Washington that General
Belknap's estate will prove TO amount to
but very little. He was not thrifty and
was very generous.
Mr.. BULLOCK, of Florida. who has thir-
teen children, has the largest family of any
member in Congress.
No crowned monarch OF Europe is more
difficnlt to get at for an interview than
Arthur Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ire
land.
CARDINAL MANNING will probably be the
next great prelate to CO. Since the death
of Cardinal Newman his health has been
declining.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, the ex-vice-presi-
dent, is constant club man and an invet-
crate rd.player. He is man, too. of fine
social qualities.
has given $4,000 for ward OF wards in the
hospital there to be devoted to the care of
sick and disabled children.
THE Rev. James w. Ford. for more than
half century a missionary in China. says
he has studied the Chinese language for
fifty years and has not yet mastered it.
Miss A. b. CLEGHoRN, a Hawaiian prin-
cess. and in the line of succession to the
u
from Europe on Sunday. She is shortly to
wed a we'll known Englishman.
CHIEF-JUsT CE and Mrs. Fuller will cele-
brate their silver wedding in January, at
their Washington home On that day the
wedding of their daughter, Miss Mildred
Fuller, to Hugo Wallace will take place.
EMPEROR WILLIAM always travels with q
suite of telegraph operators and linemen,
even when in the mountains hunting, and
the first thing he does is to establish tele-
phonic and and telegraphic communication
with Berlin.
IT was given out awhile ago that Henry
NJ Stanley had contributed $4,000 to the
Emin relief expedition fund. Lieutenant
j. Rose ThOrp says Stanley's contribution
was $50, 900 that he hoped to realize from
lecture tour.
MRS. PENsCHOwER, of Cloverdale. Cal,
has raised sunfower this year that breaks
all records. The stalk Is six inches in di-
ameter at the ground. 1t stands twelve
feet high and the flower measures nine feet
around the outer edge.
| MARQUIS TsENG. the late illustrious Chi
nese statesman, has received the highest
posthumous honors which the Celestial
| kingdom can bestow, in a formal decree of
the Emperor that he "fOrgives him all his
| sins and crimes committed during his life"
FRAUIEIN MARIE EssIPoFF has received
as wedding present from her father, g
wealthy Vienncse merchant, q book
which is said to he the costliest volume in
| existence. The binding is of the richest
| fooled morocco, and each of the 100 leaves
| is bond for 600 gulden.
| PAUL DU CHAILLU. the well-known trav-
| eler and author, who Is visiting Philadel-
| phia. praises Stanley warmly and II would
have done just the same he did. He was
sent on mission, and it had to be accomp-
| lished, regardless of bloodshed. If the peo-
ple-I mean the natives-did not want Inc
to pass through their villages, would have
| done so by force"
| THOROUGHLY English characteristic is
Queen Victoria's love for the open air, and
| she spends as much time as is possible in
/ that trying climate with no roof between
| her and the clouds. In the grounds at
| FrOgmOre near Windsor, are favorite spots
| of hers where q tent is erected and a table
set mp. There she sits alone for hours. in
dustrlously working.
| ALL of Emperor Williams Hohenzellern
ancestors born since 1722. as well as himself,
| his brothers and sisters, have been rocked
/ in the same craddle. This ancient family
| couch is q clumsy affair of oak and richly
carved. Around the four sides is cut in
| Roman letters the text: He hath given
His angels charge over thee. and they keep
thee in all thy ways."
JUDGE STEPHEN j. FIELD, who has sat on
the bench of the United States Supreme
Court for more years than any of his fel.
low-iustices now living. was seventy -four
| years old on Tuesday, and feels good deal
younger. Born in Haddam, Conn.,, Nov. f.
| 1916. he was appointed to mis- present place
| by President Lincoln In 1868. Judge Field
belongs to q long-hved family and dis
tinguished one.
MRS. BURNETT is said to stand at the
head of our authors just now in her literary
earnings. The London Daily News says
that she has received for her American
rights on the play of Little Lord Fanntle.
roy" no less than 900 5000, and that
if we were to add her similar profits 10
England on enormous sales" of this novel
the amount earned out of the book would
be quite startling"
THE story is current IN New York. among
the money lenders of Wall street, that Rus
sell Sage has loaned S125.000 to Parson Tai
mage with which to complete his church
| The kindly Mr.. Sage exacted only pei
cent. interest, with security of q life insur