The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-26
ABOUT. PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ing from St Petersburg, says that Tolstoi's first
name is pronounced by himself and his friends.
not Lyof, but Lyef
BISHOP PADDOCK, of Massachusetts, Is losing
health, and expects soon after the general convo-
cation of the Protestant Episcopal Church to
make visit to Europe.
THE American Aericulturist shows that a
very large proportion of animas-horses, milch
cows and swine--have been omitted h eretofore
from the national census.
| AN inventor at Stuttgart is said to have per-
fected a machine for deadening the sound of a
piano. It will not be success. The only sure
way to keep piano quiet is to deaden the pa-
mist.
QUEEN VICTORIA has compelled Prince Henry
os Battenberg to accompany her to the CONT
nent There is a growing impression that Hen
| ~ has about the worst case of mother-in-law on
record
Ex-MAYoR HENRY G.. LEWIS, of Ne W Haven.
Conn. has taken an insurance of $500, 600 on the
life of Wilson Waddineham. This is said to be
| the largest lite-insurance policy ever placed in
| New England.
JOSEPH HATroN is the editor of the London
Sunday Times, which has just been purchased
by Miss Cornwall, of Australia. maiden lady
who is called on account of her enormous
| wealth Princess Midas"
Mr.. j. Y. CILLEY. who has been making an
| official railroad survey of the Argentine Repub-
| lie. and is about to become government engineer
| of Buenos Ayres. was graduated at the Maine
| State College In 1885, and is native of Rock
| land IN that State.
ONCE more there is talk of putting Horace
Greeleys statue somewhere near Franklins, in
| Printing House square, New York. The Grand
! Army Post named after the great editor has de-
| terminei it. and has Greeley statue fund
| committee appointed.
| JOHN A. LOGAN, son of the late Gen. John A.
| Logan. owns four thoroughbred race horses
| This is Mr. Logan's first venture sporting
man, and he has the good will. it is said, of all
! the trainers at Lexington.
| THE wife of United States Senator tells the
| following incident: She said TO the great Alex
| ander H. Stephens: Come and see my canary
bird that has just died" NO" said Governor
! Stephens, II cannot look at a dead bird with
/ any composure; it makes me cry"
ONE of the finest collections of autographs in
| the west is that owned by the Chicago confec-
/ toner. Gunther He has also a valuable museum
of ancient armor, historical bric-a brac and curl
osities in general. which he has spent 800 000
| In the collection is genuine mummy of an
| Egyptian princess.
| ALEXANDRA DUMAS sat down one night not
| long ago, and wrote single-act play bfore he
| quit the work, which lasted from o'clock in the
| evening till lf-past in the morning He
drank eight cups of black coffee while he wrote
and converted twenty nine cigarettes into ashes
PLANS are now completed for the new library
building at Yale College. and the work of erect
ing it will be begun at once. The cost of it is
borne by S. B. Chittenden, of Brooklyn, who
gave $I25, 900 to the college, with the provision
that the new library should be a memorial of
his daughter, Mrs Lusk
GEN ADAM BADEAU is thus photographed:
He is stout man. five feet six inches in height.
with almost as much paunch as height He is
not attractive has large, full face, a good
square head, peevish lower jaw and mouth. and
q
about him. but he is certainly not a handsome
man."
IT is somewhat astonishing fact that Queen
Victoria will occupy in Italy house situated
be tween Florence and Fiesole which was once
the homo of Boccaccio. sixteenth-century
fresco adorns the entrance hall, representing
from the sDecameron." 1t is not re-
markable. therefore, that the Queen will main
tain an incognitia while on the continent.
GOLD watch, chain and charm costing 5000.
were given to managing editor Ed A. HILL of
the Springfield Union, Thursday in recog milton
of his bravery in saving life at the recent fire
which burned the Union building. A special
fund was raised for the purpose by business
men, and about $50 deposited in the bank
to the credit of the EDITORS four year-old son.
COLONEL CODY, otherwise known as Buffalo
Bill" whatever his equestrian feats in the Mex
lean saddle may be- is far from being at home
in English pie-skin. Not long ago he was
given a days x-huntinR and provided with
a mount with ordinary English hunt
ing-saddle The latter too much-or too
littIe-for him, and the scout was thrown at the
first fence.
COUNT ToLsToIs latest eccentr1city for an
aristocrat is to organize and place himself at
the head of a temperance society at Mockar,
called 1.-The Society of the Temperate" The
members pledged not to drink intoxicating
liquors of any sort nor to sell them or offer
them to anybody but to labor to convince 9th
ers ara especially children. of the dangers of
intemperauee.
Col. WILLIAM H. THOMPSON is a wealthy
man of some prominence in Chicago. He has
pretty daughter about eighteen years old, who
was chrstened Nellie She always had dislike to
her name, on the ground that it was horses
name, and the other day appeared in court
while her attorney presented petition that her
name be changed from Nellie to Helen. The
judge took the petition under advisement and
finally granted it.
WHEN woman anxious to make living asks
what to do, the wise answer: what you can do
best" Many women have taken this hint, and
are making money baking cake. canning fruit
making dainty desserts. raising bees, each doing
what she Can do best. 1t is said that
who IN prosperous days had made sstudy of
diamonds and was fine judge, put the advice
TO test and is to-day in of the largest dia-
mond houses of this city. and is most success
full buyer.
THE Hon. ". ". Stickney, of Exeter, N. H.,
whose death is announced. was the last member
but of Dartmouths class of 1923 When
the general catalogue or 1851 was published the
only names starred" were those of the
Rev. Paul Couch. of Mystic Bridge Conn; DIR.
Jonathan w. Dandolo of Greenfield. Mass. and
Judge Stickney. Dr. Dandolo has since passed
away. The oldest class having living represent
atives is that of 1920. whose survivors ara the
Rev. David Goodwie, LII. D., of Vienna. O.,
and the Hon. George w. Nesmith, LII D., of
Franklin. n. II. The next class which has a
living member is that first named above, while
those of 1924 and 1925 have only two survivors
each.
~ n
Newcome, is buried at Ayr, and Mrs. Richie.
Thackerays daughter. has has had memorial
brass with the word ''Adsum" on it erected to |
his memory. AS a result of this controversy |
has arisen in Scotland regarding the extent to |
which Colonel Newcome drawn from life. |