The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A GIEL baby, born in New York during a ter
rible storm, has been named Cyclonia.
SHAKESPEARE refers to America in the Com
edy of Errors" Act g. Scene q to Mexico in the
Merchant of Venice" Act l, Scene g. and to
Bermoothes or Bermudas in the Tempest"
Act /, Scene 2.
The young English authoress, Edna Lyall,
has devoted the profits of her first three novels
to the purchase of three BELLS which have been
added to a fine peal of eight bells, and named
for the heroes of her books.
SUNFLowERs are grown in Wyoming Territory
for fuel. The stalks, when dry, are as hard as
maple wood and make hot fire, and the seed
heads with the seeds in are said to burn better
than the best hard COAL An acre of sunfiowers
will furnish fuel for one stove for year.
Mr.. HENRY LABoUoHERE, in a pleasantly per-
sonal paragraph derisive of decorations gener
worn on the bosom of Lord Fife, and asks
if the noble earl has ever done so much service
to the world as costermonger's jackass.
HOSTESS Sunday morning in Washington)-
Is there are any particular minister you would
like to hear preach. Penelope2 Penelope-(vis-
iting from ton)-Wel if you don't mind.
auntie. think | would like to hear one of the
guages you know.-Harper'S Bazaar
THE youngest poet in Boston is Miss Louise
Imogen Quincy, the daughter of Colonel Quincy,
an Irishman who DISTINGUISHED himself in the
late war; She is twenty five, slender, with deli
cate features and shock of dark hair standing
up from Byronic forehead, and wears eye
glasses. She is said to be an athlete in petit
coats.
WHEN the house of Albert Bierstadt, the art
list, at larry town, partially destroyed by fire
about two years ago. many valuable paintings
were supposed to have been burned. Mr.. Bier
Stadt has now come into possession OF lnforma-
ton which leads him to believe that his house
robbed before being set on fire, and it is pos
sble that many of his paintings will be recov-
cred
A CORRESPONDENT of Tid-Bits sends this cpl
taph from Pittsburg tombstone, vouching for
its authenticity.
BRIDGET McMUII.EN.
Born in Ireland, 1858. Died in Pittsburg 1885.
Bridget likely lass,
Her age twenty
She fooled around with natural gas,
And now she up in heaven.
A WRITER in an English magazine says that
the Queen is an artist whose animals are full of
'sgo" that the Princess Alice had unusual artistic
powers; ditto Beatrice; Louise is a first-rate
landscape painter and statuary; that Wales takes
keen interest in art, and the Crown Princess
has had great and lasting influence upon the
art of Germany. So the family will not be out
of job when the curtain is rung up on Mr..
Carnege's millennium.
SOME aspiring amateurs in New Britain,
Conn.,, ATTEMPTED "Richard IIT' the other even
back king offers his whole kingdom
sight for horse sawhorse
was danged down in front Of the astonished
monarch. Then the king got mad and threw
his sword at the practical joker. He missed his
aim, though, and the weapon cut an ugly cash
under the eye of stage hand.
IT is said that Lord Beaconsfeld was won't to
of womankind. ''Take the example," said he,
''of my wife, / had all the difficulty in the world
to induce her to range herself among the women
of thirty. At length she consented, but no pow
er on earth can, after an interval of twenty
years, induce her to loosen the connection"
Perhaps she remembered the creed of Alfred de
Musset, who declared nothing to be more divine
than the charms of la femme de trente ans.
ACCORDING to French paper the Count De
Lesseps was foretold by an ancient Egyptian
oracle. 1t says: 'Herodotus relates that when
Neco, King of Egypt, undertook the work of
uniting the waters of the Mediterranean and Red
seas. BIZ means of canal, 600 men persisted
in the work. He then caused the work to be
stopped and consulted oracle, receiving the
reply: "A DarOarlan Will UnlSn Cly WORK. Inc
gentleman who alighted upon that bit of history
copied upon a sheet of paper the paragraph from
Herodotus and carried it to De Lesseps who,
having read it, took his pen and appended. The
barbarian prophesied by the oracle F. de Les
seps."
SIR JAMES STEPHEN is proud to possess Car
lyles writing table, and thus relates how it came
to him. ''Mr. Carlyle" he says, asked me to
be his executor. and some little time after | had
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room, to choose one of the articles of furniture
or pictures contained in it, TO keep a memorial
of him. l chose the table-or rather desk-in
question, partly because 1t was of hardly any in
trinsc value-it valued for probate at e.
and partly because it was of rather peculiar
make and had for many years been associated
with him in my mind. He told ME he glad
had chosen it; that it had belonged to his
father -in-law; that it was remarkably solid and
we'll made, and that he had written all his books
upon it, except Schiller He added some other
kind words about me and my writings, and about
his own desire that nothing base or unworthy
should be written on his table"
A NEW movement has been inaugurated in
New York and vicinity which promises i'm
portant results. 1t is called THE Kings Daugh-
ters." The first band organized in January.
Several ladies met and decided to organize sis
terhood of service to consist of various bands of
ten, under the general title of 1.-The Kings
Daughters" Already over one hundred separate
Tens have been formed in New York, and at
least one-quarter of that number in Brooklyn.
These earnest, Jealous women are engaged in
the Masters field caring for and clothing the
needy, modest poor, minstering to the sick,
and endeavorine to find employment for those
out of service. In this manner they reach many
whom the churches fail to unearth, finding
particularly fruitful harvest among their mod
est, shrinking. and quietly suffering sisters.
Mrs. F. Bottome, No. Is Washington place,
New York city, is president of the general So
ciety, which includes all branches.