The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

New YoRK Graphic: Some acrobats are fresh
and somarsault.
PRoF. SIMON NEwcoaB's daughter enjoys the
distinction of having been the only female stu
dent at Johns Hopkins q University.
MINNIE MORGAN. who began as cattle re-
porter of the New York Times, now gets a sal
airy OF 90. 600 year from that paper
GENERAL SHERIDAN is still able to speak in
the Indian tongue that he learned as lieuten-
ant among the Umphills Of Oregon thirty years
ago
SOME of his old friends In Florida are present.
II going mp to Detroit ~ hunt up ex-senator
Jones. and endeavor to persuade. him to go
home.
IT is significant well as q curious fact that
some of the late Miss.Alcotts earlier stories. in
Guiding the ever-popular Little Women were
written on the reverse OF old manuscript of her
fathers, which never gained any wide popularity.
Dr. MoRELL MACKENZIE is friendly to report
ers, in which res ect well as others he diff
fers from his colleague. DR.. Bergman. who.
when recently approached bv would be inter
viewer, said abruptly, Get out! or I'LL have
You arresetdw 1913
THERE is now special private wire between
the Villa Zirio, at San Reno, and the Imperial
Schloss IN Berlin. that the German Kaiser
received the news that Iracheotomy had been
successfully performed upon his son eleven min
utes after the operation had been finished.
THE present Khedive is monogamist and no
wonder. His wife is twenty-six years old, and
is described having lustrous dark eyes, a
brilliant complexion which owes nothing to art,
pearly teeth and lovely mouth, and beng, in
deed, a very paragon of grace and beauty. ~
THE Rev. j. D. Hammond. of tie First Metho-
dist Church Of st. Louis. is regarded as a lead
ing candidate for the CHARACTERISTIC of the
University of Georgia. He is a brother of ex-
Representative Hammond. of Georgia, who has
also been named In connection with the place.
WONDERFUL landscape on exhibition ii Par
is is executed in European and foreign insects
Every desired tone is supplied by 40. 600 coleop-
terra ia the foreground and 1000 varieties of the
insect tribe for the remainder of the picture.
The work required four years of the. artists
time.
Mrs. LANGTRY has travelling with her in her
luxuriart coach a sweet and pretty little GIRL
to whom the trip through the country is reve-
lation. She is Jeanette LIE Breton. her neice.
the daughter of her brother Jeanette is the
Lilys pet and everything she desire is
showered on her. #~3asS
IN his early years Mr.. A. Bronson Alcott was
a sort of transcendental Anarchist. opposed to
government. Taxes be especially disbelieved in,
and for time persistensly refused to pay any.
He was once imprisoned for non-payment of
taxes. and owed his release TO Mr.. Samuel HoaF.
father OF the present Senator. VINO paid them
for him.
Mr.. BJoRNsTJERNE BJoRNsoN mas been or
ganizing in Norway popular crusade against
the Mormon emssaries VINO seeking their
prey there He is an uncompromisHe foe of
Russian tyranny, and thinks that America.
England and Scandinavia ought to form fsder-
alton to protect the civilized world from the en-
croachinR waves of Russian barbarism.
WoLcoTT. Conn, the birthplace of the late A.
Bronson Alcott. is a deserted village high up In
the mountains, between Meriden. Waterbury
and Bristol. In the days o. the Revolutionary
war it was a place of some importance, aud Was
at one time visited by General Washington as
the guest of Gov ernor Wolcott whose name ehe
town bears. Now" SAYS a writer ''the town
is inhabited only by hawks crows and a white
haired rustic poet, named Amos M. Johnson
THE late David Hunter Strother. hes. knowa
rs Porte Crayon," was venerable looking
man, with huge white whiskers and mustache
covering all the lower part of his face and quiet,
almost dreamy, eyes looking out from under q
noble forehead. His disposition genial but
modest and retiring A year and a half ago,
when he celebrated his seventeen birthdAy. he
summer toggery, walk my five miles without
fatigue, and am not conscious of any pains,
aches or discomforts whatsoever. / have
complished the three-score years and ten. but
labor and sorrow have not yet come upon me,
for my days pass in cheerful tranquility" Gen.
eral Slrother fought through the late war with
distinction on the loyal side, though nearly all
his kInsmen were re eis