The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

eel OF st. Stephens Church, Wilkesbarre, Penn,
in memory of the late Bishop Stevens.
BUFFALO young lady the other day de.
scribed Joan of Arc as one of Noahs seven
daughters This may be called mixed history.
The awful disclosure 10 made by the Paris
Figaro that W. K. Vanderbit's $4,000 cook is
not a cook at all, but simply head-waiter at
Sylvains swell restaurant at Paris.
GRANTING marriage license by telephone is
the latest development in this scientific age.
Bucyrus. o., is the place that deserves the
honor of having just made the experiment
It is expected that Senator Beck is to be mar
ried in the summer to Mrs. Henderson. daueh-
ter of DR. YandelI, of Louisville. The pros
pective bride has fortune estimated at $780,
030
GEORGE Francis Train has contracted for
lecture tour with the provision that twenty
or more minutes of each lecture shall be devoted
to exploiting the history and purposes OF the
citysof Omaha.
LADY WILDE holds reception every Satur-
dad afternoon ct her Chelsea house, and is al
ways sure of great throng of guests Her
rooms are dimly lighted with candles covered
with rose-tinted shades
Lovers of music in New York are discour-
aged over the lack of appreciation in that city
for the American Opera. which last year lost
$500, 900, while the German Opera Company
this year finds itself in debt 1924. 900.
LORD AUGUSTUS LOTUS, at one time Queen
Victorias ambassador in Vienna. now presides
over the bookkeeping departments of the MILL
merry recently opened by Lady Lotus.
They have no other means of support.
ROGER A. PRYoR's young and pretty daughter
10 registered among the notables at Atlantic
City. and correspondent writes that she is as
dainty from top to toe as a French fashion
plate and seldom appears twice in the same
costume.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET's wife, who is becoming
known TO the literary world az .Karl sterne."
is credited with adding much to her husbands
reputation by her taste and good judgment
She Is about thirty, and is we1l-bre but rather
reticent in manner.
LET me be Queen of Prussia for one single
hour and shall die happyl7 This is an excla
nation which is said TO have escaped the pres
ent Empress of Germany twenty-five years ago.
At the time she was already ailing and her days
seemed numbered
LEMON was picked at Los Angeles, Cal.
the other day that weighed 81 pounds, was 81
inches long and inches in diameter. The tree
on which il grew had but half dozen lemons
on its branches, but the weight of the fruit bent
them almost to tho ground.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD, after speaking
in kindly terms of ex-senator Roscoe Conkling,
recently, said II hope he has accumulated
eomething of fortune since he left the Senate
He talked with once, after he had been i'll,
about his financial affairs. He said that while
he was sick he had been oppressed beyond meas
ure with the thought that he had made no pro-
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greatly distressed at the idea, and declared that
at the first opportunity he would quit politics
for law"
SENATOR S1ocKBRIDGE, OF Michigan, is a
lover OF horses, and he likes handsome animals.
Gene raj Alger of Detroit sent for him the other
day TO look horse he thought of buying. II
want something that would beat the other fell
low" was thu Generals sole instruction. Sena-
tor Stockbridge looked the beast over, and when
he reported on it said 1.-The horse speedy
enough. but so homely that after you had passed
the other fellow you would be ashamed ever TO
look him in the face So told them you didn't
want him."
CHARLIE RAPER. an entsrprising newspaper
circuiator and dealer ut Big Rapids, Is enabled
20 carry some enormously long routes through
the aid of . handsome Newfoundland dog.
Garlic covers his route on the dead run, but
doesn't stop at house, his able assistant taking
the papers from his hand and leaving them upon
the proper door-steps It is lively work for the
agent. but good deal livelier for the dog. who
often has to jump fences and gates to keep up
with the procession. and not infrequentIy finds
it necessary to lick some other dog or shake
cat in order TO cover his ground properly and
leave his papers in the right places.
GENERAL BoUI.ANGER liz half an Englishman.
Boulanger psre was a lawyer in Rennes, but
sold his practice and migrated TO Nantes. where
he became insrector to the insurance company
LA Bretagne.o The Generals mother was an
Englishwoman s'of exceptional beauty and the
General is very like her. The BouianRers had
difficulty make both ends meet. and. when
the lad ut the military school of St Cyr. he
was usually rather short of pocket money, and
frequently made his dinner of chaussons--a
cheap little cake-in order TO money 70
purchase for hlmseIf pair of gloves. He
was always brilliant. lively and TO the front in
the games The General is in his fifty
second year. and his two daughters nearly
crown up His handsoms face l. rather spoiled
by the projecting cheek bones.
SIR ANDREW CLARK, who has just been
elected president of the College Of Physicians.
| London. great part OF his success in life
/ to his intimacy with Mr. and Mrs Gladstone
After the epidemic OF cholera IN 1866 Mrs. Glad
| stone established an orphanage and con-
| valescens home 1t Woodford- IL was IN her
Waits 10 thkse institutions that she became ac-
/ onalrtad with DIR. Clark. who WAS profession
/ ally attending them. The acquaintance thus
| formed ripened into friendship. Dir. Gladstone
j placed himself in DR. Oarks hands. aud during
1 The Liberal administration of 1854 the
] Premiere physician became the fashion His