The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

WASHINGTON Critic: Song for the farmer
The spring time is coming, oh. hoel oh, hoel
Ex-GovERNoR ALGER. of Michigan. wears
his upper lip, made by rebel rife-bullet at
Gettysburg.
ALEXANDER DUMAss eldest daughter recently
played in her fathers ''Visite de Noces" IN a
theater fitted in her apartments, before a
picked audience of notabllities-
BERNARD r. GREEN, who is to surerintend
the construction of the library building at
Washington. wanted $1,000 a year. but the
library commission has voted him salary of
81 000
PRESIDENT CARTER, of Williams College,
lately received business letter addressed to
The Rev Ebenezer Fitch. President" etc.
DR. Fitch's presidency ended IN 1875 Of course
the letter was from Philadelphia
EMPEROR WILLIAM chivalrous towards
women of all degrees. He kissed the hands of
ladies who were CO his circle when he met them
IN private, and. like Louis XIV he would stand
aside to let house maid go past him.
WASHINGTON society is shocked to learn that
Miss Kate Willard, who has been visiting
Mrs Cleveland for several weeks. is engaged in
giving music lessons for hard cash in a neigh
boring seminary. Washington society is easily
shocked.
A NEW YORK cutftter says clergymeE are
among the most fastidious of his customers.
They always choose the finest material, and
EXPENSIVE silk underwear is favorite thing
with them. Famous wealthy men care least
about dress.
Boston lady says that Kate Greenaway, by
her picturesque drawings in chiidren's books is
responsible for more absurdity and discomfort
in children's clothes than all the rest of the
fashion-setters AID dress makers of the country
put together
RAPID progress is being made on the mansion
of Mrs. Hopkins-Seare. at Great Darlington.
Mass. The great organ is 10, and the furniture
is beginning to arrive from Europe. Mr.. aud
Mrs. Searle will return from Europe in couple
of months, and will occupy the house before the
end OF the summer
BEN BUTLER is an excellent cook. He can
prepare salad dressing that would make Lu-
cullus and Brillat-SavariD wish they had lived
until to-day to taste them. Buffers great tri-
umph in cookery is broiled lobster. He ia kes
live lobster. splits it down the back, and while
1T broils, bastes 1t with drawn butter. He adds
salt and pepper and dose of vinegar. He SAYS
it is dish fit for king
VERY interesting manuscript il alleged TO
have been discovered in the Treyes library. It
is q fragment of an old French poem. the author
of which, according to the notes at the bottom
of the text, other than Richard Coeur de
Lion. The title is ''Sainte Norma ct fills
Saint Dewey" and it was written during the
Kings famous captivity in Germany on his way
from the Holy Land, where the bard Blondel
discovered him.
FEW days before his marriage to Miss
Munck, Prince Oscar. of Sweden. went unrec-
.ognized into London shop to buy photograph
frame. He selected one, and then the shop
keeper asked if he didn't want photograph to
put in it 'Oh," yes" said the Prince II don't
if do take one" Whereupon the other
selected portrait of Miss Munck, and handed
it to him with the remark: This is the most
popular one now. 1t is the girl who is going to
o Swedish
SPEAKING of the intellectual women now
gathered st Washington, a correspondent says:
Sweetest and loveliest of them all is Mrs
Dixie, the delegate from England. She is an
emanciDator, and age has yet no terror for
her. for she confesses to thirty years. She can
well afford this candor. for she does not look a
day over twenty fve She is such slender
frail. baby beauty, with her big. blue eyes,
sweet baby curls clustering about her forehead,
and soft, pleasing little voice, that one wonders
what on earth ever induced her to 90 among the
stern-visaged females of whom the respected
Susan b. Anthony is the prototype"
CARLYLE's thought that there is no human
life. faithfully recorded. but is heroic poem
of its sort rhymed unrhymed," is forcibly
called to mind by the following incident of one
of the recent Dakota billiards.: Mrs. Mary
Chapman, the young wife of settler in the
central part of the Territory, remained at home
while her husband was away looking for his
cattle The storm came suddenly, and it
nearly three days before he able to get
back through the drifts, and when he entered
the cabin he found his wife lying insensible
the bed. There was just food enough left for
meal for her husband, and she had gone without
eating two DAYS rather than touch a crust of it.
When brought back to consciousness the noble
woman cried: 20 JIM thought you might came
home nearly dead with hunger
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT is showing
herself keen controversialist in her case
against the pirate Seebohm. who cribbed her
most charming story for third-rate play. I'm
describing to me-" she says. the enormous sue
cess of his play, and the universal rapture with
which it was received, Mr.. Seebohm writes,
The greatest fault found by captious critics is
that have rendered your conceptions too liter
ally Naturally felt regret realizing that it
was my conceptions alone which had spoiled Mr..
Seebohms play; but the thing l had not
taken into consideration in writing 'Fauntleroy'
was that / must make work worthy of being
proper TO use it, = AS for nv own play
it will be presented as as possible. Who
knows hut that the public, which has already
been kind me, may like it little better than
MIR. Seebohmsl That might simplify matters"
.'GooD-BY,p said the blizzard. ito friends and to
foes
And the which my footsteps have known;
But stop! ere go. let me here introduce
NV successor, Young Mr.. Cyc4one