The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MISS ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND will begin
a story in the January number of Godeys Lady's
Book.
New YORK Graphic President McCosh is so
angry that he feels like spelling himself with a
capital G.
COLONEL SMITH, famous as "Bil Arp" re-
ceived twenty five votes for Governor of Georgia
in the recent State election.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has a rent roll and land in
come of so, 900 year. and is reported to hold
several million dollars worth Of railroad shares
THE brass hall lamps, with their bogus ru-
bies and emeralds, areacalled Oriental, probably
because they are made by the million in New
England.
GAYARRE sixteenyears ago got 80 cents night
for singing in a music hall at Madrid. Now he
has made an engagement to sing at the Opera
fifty nights for $4,000
A NEW absurdity is to put Grape bow or the
collar of pet dog whose owner is in mourning.
This suggests the old lady who painted the cows
horns black when her son was lost at sea.
A ST. LOUIS clergyman devised pretty pres
ent for bride whose marriage service he read
the other day. He wrote out the words of the
ceremony in pretty little volume in which the
marriage certificate was bound, with the auto
graphs of the bridesmaids, the best man and the
ushers.
ABRAHAM LINCoLN's right hand will be up
lifted in the December Century Both of Lin
coins hands, as we'll as his face, were cast from
life by Leonard ". Volk in the year 1860. A life
siza portrait of the right will be shown-and we
shall see something more than a railsplitter s
hand, too.
IT was recently announced that the German
Emperor had been out hunting in the forest Of
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nine wild pigs. This was true But 1t should
be explained that the Emperor stood on plat
form and fired at the game as it was driven past
him along lane, about thirty PAGES distant.
Mr.. CoRcoRAN, the aged Washington million
are, has been presented with a portiere which
consists of squares of silk from every State and
Territory in the Union, and embroidered by
ladies, friends of Mr. Corcorau. The devices on
the squares are mostly alegorical or historical
and the whole was made up in the most elabor-
ate manner by the Decorative Art Society of
Baltimore.
AT Bamian, on the principal road between Ca
bull and Bakh. Afghanistan, there are said to be
two mammoth statues one Of which measures
173 feet This statue is of Buddha and stands
in a niche which has been cut out so as to leave
the figure formed of rock within the niche. If
the measurement of the statue is correct. then
Liberty Enlightening the World can no longer
claim to be the largest statue in the world.
SINCE Robert T. Lincoln left the Office of
Secretary of War, at the close of the Arthur
administration, but little has been heard of
him. He is now suggested as an available Bust
ness Mems candidate for mayor of Chicago.
Mr.. Lincoln had q chance to make himself a
power in national politics. but quiet respectable
ity is not sufficient, although coupled with a
great name, to keep man prominent, if he lacks
qualities of more aggressive nature.
DR.. WILHELM MoEwE, or Moewe- Cable,
whose death is announced. was one of the last
few remaining leaders of the Frankfort Parlia-
ment of 1913 When the rump Of that body was
removed to Stuttgart he acted as its President
until it was dispersed by Prussian bayonets.
He was condemned to penal servitude for life,
but escaped from tho country and came to New
York. where he practiced medicine until 1861,
when the amnesty allowed him to return to
Prussia.
In personal appearance Mr.. Bill Nye is pre-
possessing, not tosay inspiring He is very tall
aud rather slenderly built. He wears no beard,
and his placid, good -humored expression is made
wageish rather than wise by his perennial! spec
tacles. He wears as watch-char a medal
which awarded him at a church fair out
West for being the baldest man in Wyoming
His would be great head for the front row at
burlesque, but since his conversion from dra-
matte criticism Mr.. Nye seldom goes to the thea
ter.