The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JOHN G. WHITTIER will be eighry-one on the
18th Of December Of the present year.
HERR TIszA, the Hungarian Prime Minister,
is about sixty years old; stout and swarthy,
with coal-black hair and beard. His manners
are more emphatic than courtiy.
The most expert stenoerapher in the country
is said to be Mrs. Barrows, wife Of the editor Of
the Christian Register. She is able to take"
Carl Schurzs speeches without difficulty.
GENERAL GRANT is said to have left in Ms. q
large number Of humorous anecdotes drawn
from his experience in the army. These will
probably soon be published by G. L. Webster 81
Co.
THE widow of Unser Fritz prefers to be
known as Empress land Queen) Frederick, rather
than Victoria, thus showing that she intends to
live apart from politics and associate her name
forever with that OF her illustrious husband.
Mrs. SECRETARY WHITNEY carries the large
manners of Washington down to Bar Harbor
with her. and instead of lodging newspaper cor
respondents, quickly differentiates the reliable
from the unreliable, AID invites the former to
her entertainments.
The mournful intimation comes from Paris
that d. De Brazza thinks that Mi. Stanley is
that he will not succeed in his present enter
enterprise. He condescends to say, however,
that his opinion Of Mr. Stanley lie a very high
one.
SINCE it has bean made public that James L.
Babcock will inherit $3.50, COO if he marries with
in the next Eve years ne has been overwhelmed
with letters, photographs. circulars from matri.
monial bureaus, locks Of hair, etc. He finds is
unpleasant TO jump into prominence in . leap
year.
MAJOR MCKINLEY allows that Thomas Buchan-
an Read was q iue poet, but he says there isn't
a bit of imagination in his verses on Sheridan's
ride to Winchester. They simply tell tho plain
uuvarnished truth about the terrible fray.
Major Mckinley was there and saw the foam
Oh the black charger.
THE Empress OF Germany has sent to the
Czarina a beautiful fan OF violet wood, which,
when opened, displays the portraits Of the four
the reverse side are Biblical texts in the hand
writing of the Empress, which bid the great
ones of the earth to be united in friendship.
LITTLE girls who dom: like to 60 to school
should live in China: little boys who don't like
to 60 should keep away from the Celestial en-
pire. There the girls do not have to 60 at all,
and the boys begin when they are ak years old.
School begins at daylight, and closes when it is
too dark to read. There are no vacations, no
half holidays. and not much fun of any sort.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL holmes was seventy
Ia ~ III "eNuccQdf. onCS upon q tim6 Ne
wrote: SAT thirty we are all trying to cut our
names in big letters upon the walls of this ten
ement OF life; twenty years later We have
carved it or shut up our jack-knives. Then we
are ready to help others aud care less to hinder
any, because nobody's elbows are in our way"
GIULIA MoRosINI. daughter OF the well-known
banker of New York city, has astonished Sara
toga by her skill as an equestrieune. She mounts
her Kentucky thoroughbred every pleasant after
noon at ., and, ACCOM- panisd by q groom, dashes
along Broadway in a manner that attracts gen.
eral attention. She is q beautiful girl, and her
petite figure looks at its best on horseback. Her
father always stands watching her until she is
out of sight, a smile Of satisfaction playing over
hs handsome face.
ABOUT two years ago Mrs. Benjamin Baughn,
Of Atlanta, Ga. cut the hair from the head of
her little two-year-old child, and saved one
curl about an ince apd a half in length. few
weeks later the child became i'll and died. Yes
terdsy Mrs. Bauehn open ed the box in which
she had laid away the little rinelet. and was as
tonished to find that it had grown TO be two
feet in length. No one had touched the box,
and Mrs. Bsushn is certain that the curl is the
same one she put away two years ago.
LAST year the very strict rule which forbade
the young women students in the Ottawa Nor
NAL School even to recognize the young men
students on the streets was relaxed, and the two
sexes who were being co-educated were per-
United to become friends, and the young men
were allowed to call upon the Young women in
the evening and keep company with them. This
year there has not been a single honor student,
and the authorities think this is owing to their
having yielded to the dictates of sentiment
rather than study.
FROM all the summer resorts tae same wall
| goes up, "Oh for menu The average this sum-
mer has been one male to twensy-eieht females.
At q seaside hop the other evening the band
master introduced q new fgurs into a quadrille
which was danced by girls only. Those who
took the part usually danced by men were dis
tinguished by wearing Tam O'Shantsr caps with
two feathers in front. All the dancers at a Civ
en- signal stood still, and shading their eyes
with their hands seemed to gaze anxiously into
the distance, while the ochessra shouted. SISTER
Anne, Sister Anne, do you see n manl7 The big
trombone answered sadly, Boom boom-bah!n
and the dance went on.
SPEAKIS of Won Moltke. q recent observer
says: Notwithstanding his great age, eighty
eight years, the Marshal carries himself easily
and seems . well-prsserved man. in spite of his
deafness and liver trouble. Tall and lean, he