The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

none of them seems to meet the wants of those
seven Chicago Anarchists.
REV. EDWARD E. HALE who has been in
stalled as pastoral assistant to Rev. DR.. Edward
Everett Hale. of Boston, is not son, nor, in
deed, any relation Of the latter. Dr. Hale has
son bearing the same name who is his editorial
assistant on Lend a Hand; but he is not cler-
gymaD.
HENRY GEORGE has son about twenty years
old who is helping his father in the campaign.
He is Henry George jr., slim, blue eyed and
with hair lighter red than his fathers. Fol
lowing the ancestral example, he s already be-
coming bald fast He acts as his fathers pri-
vate secretary.
GENERAL SHERIDAN said the other day that
Of the brigader-generals there were not more
than four at the outside who could sit in a sad
die for two consecutive days Ever since he
went to Washington he has been urging the
promotion OF the Younger colonels such men,
for instance, as Colonel Merritt of the Fifth
Cavalry
THE present sabject of gossip in Paris is Nine.
Eudoxie Hedouin. She is a patient at the Sal
petriere Hospital and the physicians are puzzled
over her. She is subject to what is known in
medical parlance as sleeping spells" and she
has just walked up after enjoying an eighteen
days sleep. This is not the first nap she has
taken, as during January and February last she
er it is a case of sleep or trance.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has three
physicians always in attendance-Von Lour,
physician inchief of the imperial staff, Leuthold
and Firman. Whenever his Majesty is indis-
postd these three physicians hold a consultation.
The Emperor is fond of fish. but as sea fish is
difficult of digestion, he lives to q large extent
trout. In order to meet the imperial want
in this respect species of trout has recently
been introduced from California in the river on
the land of the Crank Duke of Baden.
A WRITER in the Boston Post who recently
met Nathaniel P. Banks is reminded Of the cir
cumstances under which General Banks entered
public life in 1854 A clergyman named Lyman
Whiting running for Congress on the Know
nothing ticket, but was induced to withdraw,
four days before the election, and give his place
to Banks who elected Mr. Whiting has
dropped completely out of sight When last
heard from he was pastor OF a modest church in
Dubuque, La. Banks is United States marshal
EX-EMpREss EUGENE, Of France. has with
drawn the pensions which she hitherto paid to
the supporters of the Bonaparte dynasty. Sew
eral persons who we're accustomed to call at the
Paris postoffice and draw their money orders on
her Majesty at Chiselhurst are now missed. the
reason alleged for the withdrawal of the allow
is that her Majesty sees that the Napo-
leonic outlook in France is hopeless, and that
there is nothing to be gained by sustaining the
cause of imperialism against the republic.
Mr. WILLIAM T. ADAMS (alias 'Olver OPP
tc"j, will soon leave his almost lifelong home
at Dorchester, and remove permanently to Min
neapolis, where he will engage in business with
his sonin-law. Sol Smith Russell, who, at the
same time will retire from the dramatic stage
Mr. Adams will be sorelv missed at Dorchester
and Boston, where he has for many years been
identified intimately with the best interests of
the public schools. He has quite regane1 his
sight. which, a few years ago, was seriously i'm
paired
NEW York Tribune: John B. Drake the
proprietor of the Grand Pacific Hotel
Chicago, is a millionaire, a director in
the Chicago & Alton railroad, and in
the richest bank in the West. besides being a
stakeholder in several other big corporations
And yet he doesn't think it beneath him to at
tend personally to every little detail in the man
agement of his hotel He walks regularly
through its dining-room, and inspects lis hall
ways and staircases just as carefully as if he
was a manager on a salary. This, by the way,
is probably the reason he isn't o manager on q
salary
SAYS Philadelphia Record writer at Wash
ington: 81 saw Little Eva-'Uncle Toms Lit
tie Eva-here the other day No, not on the
stage--on the street. I have never seen the
Little Eva of the stage. The Little Eva of the
story who was, after all, just little thing, died.
you remember. The Little Eva of real life, on
whom the Little Eva of the story was modelled,
has lived right on. until now her hair is turning
gray. But she is as lovely and as attractive as
ever She was a Miss Letcher. of the famous
Virginia Kentucky family and married General
Kennedy, who of an equally celebrated Vir-
ginia- kentucky family. General Kennedy
owned Louis Clark. the George Harris of the
story, who gave Mrs Stowe the points for most
of her characters. Old General Kennedy a de-
lightful man. became Legree in her hands,
while Mrs Kennedy was Little Eva, ard her
own son was st. Clair. Mrs. Kennedy's rela-
atives, the Letchers, were portrayed as the
Shelbys. Mrs. Kennedy laughs merriy at the
incongruous treatment accorded her good hus-
band and herself in the process of fctionizing
them