The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DU MAURIER, the London caricaturist, has a
little grandson who is the most beautiful young
ster in Great Britain. At least so say artists
who have had the privilege Of looking at his
ideal face crowned with locks of golden hair.
SIR FRANCIS CLARE FORD. who is mentioned
as the probable successor to Lord Sackville at
Washington, has had a long diplomatic career.
Since February. 1878, he has been the British
minister at Madrid. he is a Knight Grand
Cross of ST. Michael and st. George and q Com.
panion Of the Bath.
HERE is q marriage arrangement q little out
Of the common. Miss Susan B. Warren, of
Boston, was married last September. She
passed q honeymoon with her husband and then
returned TO her mothers house. while the young
bridegroom, Mr. John r. c. Wrenshall, of Balti-
more, returned to college to continue his studies
for two years longer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER's sister, Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker. said to q Boston reporter or
Sunday: ri hope to see the day when we shall
see a woman President of the United States.
Then the whole English-speaking world will be
ruled by women. l think we shall
have q woman President Of the United States
before the ballot is given to women. Susan B.
Anthony, for instance, is the equal of any man
living as statesman and politician"
1T is estimated that there are g, 500 women in
the United States who hold diplomas from
medical colleges, either American or foreign.
DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated in 1S4S,
is said to be the first woman doctor. The first
one in Sweden is Karolina Widsrstrom, who has
recently been engaged by the Thule Life Insur-
ance company to examine women who wish to
insure their lives. The physician OF the Mil
waukee County Hospital is Dr.. Anna Neon
nell.
Mrs. OSCAR WILDE has been l~scturing in
T-.Sz p.t>..1 n..z. E. w. N
lecturer is, says tho London Star, very young
and pretty, but as q public speaker she has
much to learn. To begin with, Mrs. Oscar
Wilde is wildly innocent of the demeanor Of q
public speaker. She gieeles at her own with
cisms. innocently twists her sho ulders, bends
her head and explodes in a litter when she reads
what she considers q particularly good thing.
Her lecture was good in tho main, simple, clear,
moderated.
A CORRESPONDENT says that while deer-stalk-
ing with the Emperor of Austria in Syria, the
Prince of Wales missed five stays, at which his
Imperial Majesty. who is q dead shot. nearly
wept. After the Prince had gone to Hungary.
q keeper was sent to him with a set of aptlers
belonging to q stag which the Prince was sup
posed to have shot, but b. X. 81. laughed, and
said good -humoredly: mo; it's OF no use telling
me / shot anything, for l didn't. But I'll keep
the antlers as a souvenir of the Emperor's
prowess." So the story goes.
"THE German DOCTORS" says the st. James
Gazette, profess TO have discovered a new
danger. They assert that the custom of carry
ing portfolios to school has a tendency to dis,ort
the figures of young girls between the ages of
eleven and fourteen. Parents are exhorted to
provide wallets for their young daughters,
which can be carried like knapsacks on the
back. In many parts of Germany this equip
mept is already in use. and to the unaccus-
toned eye of the stranger nothing is more COM
ic than suddenly to come upon q crowd of little
girls t~roopine out OF school, each provided with
a knapsack for the march"
LORE SAcKvILLE has been q faithful and de-
voted father, keeping his three daughters with
him since their emergence from a convent
school. His eldest son, it is said. is q farmer n
Natal. Africa, and his youngest a lad still at
school in England. Their Spanish mother,
whom il is said he took from the stage, was one
of the most beautiful women in Europe. and as
such her picture still adorns the Residenz Gal
lery in Munich. She held 10 thrall the heart of
her hieh-born lover for a long period of years.
long enough TO become the mother OF these five
children; ard the same love led him to conse-
crate their alliance by marriage upon her death
bed in 1872, she receiving the marriage rite,
alike with extreme JUNCTION, at the hands OF her
priest