The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DANsKE DAHDRIDeE, the poet. 10 . woman.
THE Empress Eugene viii spend the summer
at Osborne Cottage. placed at her disposal BY
Queen Victoria
SHOE AND LEATHER REPORTER A certain
style Of shoe button 10 called 'sOld Maids We'd
ding, because 1t never comes OF.
DETROIT Free Press: Alberto-Do You love
me, darlingl Claribel-Havs / not had al the
chairs taken from the ROOM except thisl
AMELIE RfvEs can afford TO thank a. well as
pray for the critics who have. - she thinks,
coarsely interpreted her last story. A New
York publisher now offers her $4,000 for her
next novel.
THE Prince of Wales will. fog the one occasion
only, waive his rule never to take the chair
twice for the same object, by presiding on june
at the centenary festival OF the Royal Masonic
Institution for girls.
Miss AMELIA RIvEs, the Virginia novelist
has, says the Atlanta Constitution, been offered
$4,000 by New York publishing house for
novel. This is the largest offer ever received
by an American author.
GOVERNOR BEAVER, Of Pennsylvania, 10 q hard
worker. He spends nine hours daily in his Of
fee. and does not even 60 out to lunch, bus has
q pitcher OF lemonade and some soda biscuits
brought to him at his desk.
o, my. yes! We staid there two months. Ethel
What do you think of the lazzaronii Harriet
%, it's awful. ] tried some the first night /
was there, but 1t doesn't suit my taste at all
PRINCE OSCAR. of Sweden, and his bride
have gone to Carlscrona, their future residence,
in the south of Sweden. They are now known
as the Prince and Princess Bernadotte. Mean
while Prince Alexander of Battenbere, 10 roam
ing about vainly signing for Princess Victoria of
Germany.
WHILE the body of the late Emperor William
of Germany was lying in state his daughter, the
Grand Duchess of Baden, placed an ivory
cruxifx in his hand. Some vandal stole the
crux fix, but no clew to the thief has ever been
found. The story has been kept profound Sc
cret until a few days ago.
PROF. CHAs GROSS. Of Troy. N. Y. who has
accepted the chair of history at Harvard Uni
verssy, received the degree of Phi D. in Ger
many. He il a graduate of Williams College,
Massachusetts He has lived in London of late
years, where he has been engaged in historical
researches which have gained for him high
place among contemporary antiquarians DR..
Gross is still a very young man, and HE success
a scholar is the result OF natural mental
briliancy Joined to an energetic and persevering
nature.
Mr.. r E. Lee, son OF the great Rebel gen.
oral, has the gold spurs which were presented to
his father during the war by . number Of Mary
land copperheads. They wsre." he says.
given me by my mother after my fathers
death. AS remember. she said that my father
intended that should havs them recall that
they were sent TO him through the lines about
the third year of the war. / had always under
stood that they we're sent by the ladies of
Prince Georges county. Maryland but see BY
the inscription. Friends and Admirers.' They
are very handsome. solid gold. medium size. and
Of tho military typo The inscription on the IN
side of each spur is a. folows Stimulus dedit
Virtus. Presented to Gen. Robt e. Lee By His
Friends and Admirers of P. G. CO.. Md The
abbreviations necessary account OF the
space of the spurs. The rowels are of steel and
the feathers good morocco, and the spurs are for
service and not entirely for show. Whether
General Lea ever wore them cannot tell. but
should think not. unless 1t was on some review