The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IT is stated that Bill Nye, the famous humor-
ist, will cross the Atlantic next summer to
write up the old world for the New York World.
T. II. GARRETT, the banker, and brother of
Robert Garrett, has had a six-hundred- foot
toboegan slide built at his country place near
Baltimore.
HENRY FIELDING DICKENS, son Of the late
Charles Dickens. the novelist, is a lawyer who
has high reputation for wit and eoquence in
the London courts.
IsNAIL PAcHA. the ex-Khedive, left Naples
and went to Constantinople to live because he
was unable to keep the young men of Naples
from making love to the odallsques Of his
harem.
THERE has been presented to Mr.. Gladstone
picture measuring fifteen feet by four, repre-
senting him in the act of handing over the re-
stored Market Cross of Edinburg to the city au-
thorities.
MISS MARY A. SMITH has obtained from the
Virginia LEGISLATURE the singular privilege of
having the seal of the State engraved on the
monument of her father, William Smith,
formally Governor.
M. GREW, ex- President of the French repub-
lic lives very quietly in his new home. Occa-
sionally he takes a short walk in the Trocadero
gardens. When he rides out il is in a carriage
hired at livery stable. Mme Grevy seldom
leaves the house.
Fl. RIDER HAGGARD who is now iu London
the mountains of Greece. His brother is an at
tache of the British legation at Athens, and is
said to have convinced Haggard that his next
work ought to be located in that country.
NEW York Graphic: Mrs Cleveland kisses
her husband goodbye in the railroad station
when she comes shopping from Washington to
New York. She puts her left arm upon his
ample shoulder-she can't get it around his neck
and with the right draws his face down to
hers, kissing it, as it were, in transit,
GEORGE w. RosURE known as the cowboy
evangelist" is said by an Arkanaas newspaper
to be worth 100000 which yields him an in
come of $3.50 day. His fortune was made in
He is just forty years old, and in his youth was
reported to be of tho most lawless Of the
desperadoes of the plains.
A wELL-KNowN lady of Atlanta is described
in the society column of the Atlanta Evening
Journal as having been zone of the most beauti-
full women seen on New Years evening"" She
is said to have worn "a delicately tinted rose
morie" to have had ivory skin .1aneuous eyes
and golden hair" and to have seemed a perfect
Pryche she moved among the admiring
throng" No wonder that the society Jenkins
was startled by such an appartion.
Ho SHEN CHEZ is Of the brightest mem
bers of the Chinese legation at Washington. He
says that in China young men are taught to
box. but that the country has no professional
pugilists. The best fighters in China never ex-
hibit themselves in public. IL prize-lght
ours it takes place in q private room and only a
few friends of the contestants are present And
vet Denis kearney says that the Chinese
sunk in the lowest depth of degradation.
MILLARD FILLMORE BROWN, of Lynn. Mass,
was born on Dec. II, 1887, and has already at
tanned fame. His claim to notoriety lies in the
fact that when born he weighed only ono pound
and four ounces, and in the month which has
elapsed since his birth has added only three
ounces to his weight The little chap is healthy
and good -narured and is likely to grow to man
hood. He is only eleven inches tall. and small
fnger-riEg will go around his forearm
bracelet. IL is believed that he is the smallest
baby IN the world to-day.
JUSTICE LAMAR, is we'll known, is very
absent minded man. few days ago he boarded
s'bob-tail" street car in Washington in COM
pany with his friend. Senator Cockrell, of Mis-
sissippi The ex-Secretary walked dreanly up
10 the box and dropped quarter through the
slit. why, Lamar" exclaimed the Senator
.'what are You doinel You put quarter in the
box" "Why, so l did," replied Mr. Lamar.
and knew the fare only five cents" And
thereupon he slipped a nickel into the box thus
paying thirty cents for his ride.
FRANK r. STOCKTON writes with a stub pen.
Edgar Fawcett writes with lead pencil and an
eraser His best work is done with the eraser
Charles Egbert Craddock writes with he feather