The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MISS CLEVELAND makes enough, sir" rhyme
with ''sufferer.'
MISS EMILY FAITHFUL has received from
Queen Victoria grant of $500 in recognition of
her services to working women.
THE death is announced of Miss Havelock
daughter of the famous general. Sir Henry
Havelock, the hero of the Sepoy mutiny.
DIR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND expects to go to
Washington to live soon. He left there twenty
five years ago, with the intention of returning
when he had made lots of money!
MUNKAcsY is painting portrait of President
McCosh. The distinguished educators counter
ance has had time, since the narrowing Harvard
incident, to return to it's normal amabilty.
Mrs. LANGTRY will have enough money in the
bank to carry her through the winter in com
fort. She has already nested $50 900 in her New
York engagement, and her season is not half
over.
AN artist is painting portrait of NJ. Pasteur
from photograph and applied to him for further
particulars" NJ. Pasteur's answer was: ''Face,
pale yellowish; eyes, dark gray, grayish beard,
hair scarcely gray
AN almost unanimous chorus of praise goes
up all over England at the appointment of DR..
Percival to he the head master of Rugby He is
declared to stand next to Arnold and Vaughan
on the roll of great pedagogues
One hundred and five mince pies, one for
each prisoner, were given last Thanksgiving to
the convicts in the Jail at Kennebec, Me-. by
woman whose mother and grandmother always
made a like Thanksgiving offering.
On tableterected in the st. Cloud Presbyterian
Church, Orange n. j., is the inscription: 81
have fought the good fight, have finished nv
course, have kept the faith" The tablet is in
memory of the late General Mcclellan. who was
an elder In the church.
FoUR-YEAR-oLD Eddie Ericsson fell into the
water at San Francisco the other day A work
man heard him scream, and looking I'D saw Ed
dies six-year old brother slowly walking along
winding up a top. Whats the matter?n asked
the man. Come and pull my little brother out
of the water, slowly answered the boy. Eddie
was pulled out, but it took vigorous rolling on
barrel to restore him.
CONGRESSMAN LAWYER has been so overrun
with the wives and mothers of office seekers
that he recently gave orders to the doorkeepers
of the House not to send any more cards. Re-
Gently, however, Mrs. Lawler went to see the
statesman from the Second Illinois, and on be-
ing told that she couldn't see him. exclaimed:
Cant see him! Why. I'm his wife" "Oh
come, now" was the heartlesS reply, ''you can't
work that racket here. A hundred women to-
day have told me the same thing" 1t is said
that Mrs LAWYERS face is seen more frequently
in the gallery since that thoughtess remark
was made
THE late Dr. Magoon used to tell this story as
illustrating how the Lord took care of his fol-
lowers: When he was a student he was very
poor. One Saturday he started for Pishon's
Ferry, intending to preach on Sunday, without
a cent in his pocket. He walked as far as the
ferry, but how to get across was problem
1.-THE ferryman was waiting. and to hesitate was
to be lost" said the Doctor. $50 / stepped into
the boat and sat down with apparent uncorcern.
Where are you goingP asked the ferrymar.
'Going across to PREACH | replied As We
touched the other shore / asked how much the
fare was. Nothing was the answer and took
up my bundle and went on my way rejoicing"
In "Glimpses at Gouverneur Morris's Dia-
RES Madame dc Stael is considered as flirt,
as follows: Madame de Stael was equally com
PLEASANT in her invitations to Mr.. Morris to come
to her on Tuesday evenings, when she gathered
her familiar friends round her, and, throwing off
all ceremony, admitted them in morning toilet:
anu N Offering him every opportunity for fiirta-
ton, informed him, he says, with refreshing
naivette calculated to demolish all eeremonious
barriers, that she rather invites than repels
those who incline to be attentive We become
engaged in an animated conversation at table,
and she desires me to speak English. which her
husband does not understand In looking round
the room l observe in him very much emotion.
and toll her that he loves her distractedly,
which she says she knows, and that 1t renders
her miserable After dinner seek converse
ton with the husband. which relieves him. He
inveighs bitterly against the manners OF the