The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Mrs. PICKETT widow of the confederate gen.
eral who led the desperate charge at Gettysburg
has been appointed to clerkship in the Interior
| Department.
| J. D. MILLET, who is to have charge of the art
department of the new Scribner's magazine. is a
brother of Frank Millet, aud has been q news
paper man in Boston
| DR. HAMBLEToN, of Georgia, who acquired
fame about ten years ago by naming his infant
son John Wilkes Booth Hambleton, is an as
| pirant for place the pensions medical board
| THE rose thistle and shamrock interviewer
| form the chief feature of the interior decoration
| OF the new carriage in which Queen Victoria
| Will take her drives about Deeside this autumn.
| Mr.. IRVING, who is back at his theater in Lon
| don made this speech when called out the other
evening: ''You want me to say something
| have nothing to say. Everything L have had to
| say since we parted here has been taken out of
me by the American interviewers, but might
| add that have never been better treated than
| when was across the seas"
| IT is told of Colonel Ethan ALLEN, of Lisbon,
| Conn, that once. going into the dining room of
a New York hotel, and no waiter showing him q
| seat, he walked to the head of table and took
| chair that was turned up there Then waiter
| hurried up and said that the seat was engaged.
TO whomW asked the Colonel ITO gentle
/ man." said the waiter. Hes come" said the
| Colonel and he ate his dinner undisturbed.
AT the recent convention of homeopathic
physicians at Saratoga a doctor from Spring
field, Mass, telling Of his success with diph
| liberia, is reported to have said: ''I have cured
hundreds of cases with sui pho carbolate of soda,
and never lost one, while my neghbor, q high
| dilutionist, has lost every case he had" "Name
| him! Name him!" cried the delegates, and the
doctor did name him. and now there are two
| Springfield physicians that are bitter enemies.
| THE yacht on which the conspirators carried
off Prince Alexander of Bulgaria was named
Alexander l. It is a 700 horse-pow and goes
| twenty-five kilometers an hour It was on board
this yacht that the Crown Prince and Princess
| of Austria travelled, in April, 1884. from Rust
| chuk to >Giurgevo Two months afterwards it
was damaged on a sand-bank opposite Siiistria,
and had not since been repaired, as Prince Aex-
ander refused to authorize the $40, 900 necessary
| for that purpose.
IN 1912 one thousand men formed the Old
Defenders Association. of Baltimore, and on
Sept IL of each year celebrated the battle Of
North Point, fought in 1872 Three years ago
the association expired because the five resident
| members required by the constitution could not
| be present st the meetings. Of those 1000 men
but four are alive: George Boss, aged ninety
cord ninety-one and Nathaniel Watts. who will
| be ninety In November
MARIA HENRIETTA, Queen Of the Belgians re-
ceived letter from the unfortunate Elk Empress
Carlotta few days ago, asking her to come and
see her as soon as possible. The Queen had her
ponies hitched to the caleche which she always
| drives herself, and set out at galiop. Over
| taken by storm her Majesty took refuge in a
barrack. Being mess-hour the officers set
lohN iyor uioioa fho hoc% $hoxy
| for their august visitor but the Queen refused.
saying: "A newly arrived recruit should be con-
| tent with ordinary fare" And she sat down at
| the common table and ate a plate OF cabbage
| soup and ''picked" pigs foot.
THE Queen of Portugal wears the Paris life
savers medal. In 1874 she was bathing with her
| two sons Charles and Alphonso, aged eleven
and nine years, at the watering place of Cascaes.
| A big wave carried off the two children, and the
Queen boldly swan out to their relief. The sea
| was running high and the lady and her boys
| were nearly lost in the surf, when the light.
house keeper. seeing their danger. dashed into
the water and succeeded in bringing all three to
| shore in safety. Her Majesty wears her medal
proudly as the reward of her bravery; but there
is no record of any medal any other reward
having been given to the lighthouse man.
| CARL PLoETz. of Griefswald, Germany the
eminent naturalist, has committed suicide by
taking poison. In letter which he left he
stated as a reason of his desperate act the fact
| that he was threatened with total blindness and
that the certainty of being deprived of sight
within few weeks, and thus becoming unable to
continue his studies, made life no longer desira-
BILE for him. He added that he felt he had
right in his seventy third year, to put an end to
| an existence which was longer of any use to
himself or to his fellow men. Only a week be-
| fore he had sold his magnificent collection of
| butterflies, probably unequaled anywhere.
HIS friends pronounce Vice-president Hoxie,
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, very
sick man. Overexertion during the fight against
the Martin Irons strikers, last spring, is held re-
| sponsibe for having knocked him out. People
| who saw good deal of him at Saratoga lately
| believed that long and absolute rest from bust
| ness cares would be needed TO bring him around
all right again. 1t is said that Mr.. Gould has
urged his energetic lieutenant to take the Alta
| lanta and, with party of companionable friends,
| go for long spin out on the sea- but Mr. Hoxie
| is declared to be so wrapt up in his railroading
| that he has been loath to listen to any talk of o
| protracted vacation
! A Typical ProhibitiOnist.