The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. HowELLs writes from Buffalo to Mr.
Nathan Haskell Dole: ''You would be surprised
at the interest in Tolstoi here-something deeper
and more practical than 1 have found at the
East. You meet men who are actually DESTROYS
of modifying their lives by his teachings"
DETAILS regarding the life of John Harvard,
founder of Harvard College, Cambridge, Macs,
are very meagre. Within a few weeks past
however, there has been found at Blackheath
England. the record of the marriage between
John Harvard and Anne Sadler, which was
solemnized the 10Th of April, 1886.
ELLEN TERRY, Monday, celebrated her
fortieth birthday. and delared to reporter: IT
shire, thank God. My father and mother were
both on the stage. They married when both
were under nineteen years of age Miss Terry
says she has now but one wish. ''It is to help
Mr.. Irving in his great and beautiful work. for
it is grand work he is doing"
THE Albany Journal thinks that if Robert
Browning had been asked to write a verse for
the Milton memorial window presented by Geo
". Childs to st. Margarets Church. West
minister he would have perpetrated the follow
ing:
Great poet here inchoate appreciation tame
I1eluscent shows thy indeciduous fame
Defiagra ties occult beauties grown great
And what euchorial was, edulcorate.
CONGRESSMAN HERBERT of Alabama, has a
young daughter in a boarding school in Wash
ington who was entertaining two young lady
friends from her home. Mr.. H. called one day.
so the story goes, and sent up word that he was
waiting to take his daughter land the young
ladies from Alabama" to the matinee. In a
very few minutes thirteen joyful maidens, all
from Alabama focked into the parlor. and the
leader exclaimed: "Oh, how very kind of you,
Mr.. Herbert. TO take as ALL" The Congressman
recovered himself and accepted the situation
gracefully.
FALL RIVER, Mass. points proudly to the
fact that the late Perry Davis 1.-The pain killer"
was carpenter in that city forty years ago or
more. When he found his panacea for all
physical ills he left his bench and took to
peddling medicine in basket. His neighbo
told him that he was foolish to desert his trade
in such manner, but Davis never doubted his
ability to make fortune with his pain killer
He went TO Providence r. l., and became pro.
prietor of what afterwards the largest
patent medicine establishment in the world He
died some years ago. leaving large estate to
his heirs.
MISS GORDON held remarkably close personal
relations with her brother, the Inflated martyr
of Khartoum, being familiar with his ideas on
faith. craftsmanship and politics. She often re-
ceiyed two letters a day from him. most of which
were ESSAYS on all sorts of subjects, but in the
form of letters to his sister. During the early
part of his upper Egyptian campaign General
Gordon kept up his correspon dence and when
he became the popular hero by having been aban-
doned to his death by the English Premier the
the letters became of value. They
be published, and along with them many let
tiers of coincidence the Generals death. one
of them being dated Osborne and aligned by Vic
toria.