The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN will sell his house in
Birmingham and live in London hereafter.
Mr. W. W. WARREN has presented the print.
ing press worked by Benjamin Franklin. at Bos-
ton, to the Bostonian Society. "a
A WOMAN MRS. Broadway has the monopoly
of all the bill -postine done in Chicago. She
covers {, oOO, 600 square feet of bill boards each
week.
DR. LELAND MILLER, of Sheffield, Mass, has
given $40, 600 to Williams College to establish a
char in American history, literature and elo-
quence.
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is feeling much
stronger. Tbs advent of cold weather has been
to her like a toric. She feels confident of living
through the winter.
DURING the recent riots in Madrid the little
King of Spain was unable to take his usual daily
drives. One day he stamped his little foot and
exclaimed: Tell those naughty students that
/ N them TO go out In the country when
they want to make a row."
Mrs. E.. T. BELT, of New York, has In her
possession the commission Of her grandfather,
| William Jones, as lieutenant of the Hanover
militia. granted by Benjamin Harrison. first
Governor Of the State of Virginia, and the great
grandfather of the present Gen. Benjamin Har-
rison. Colonel Jones was the brother of Patrick
Henry's mother.
GEN. WILLIAM SEWARD, the son Of Lincoln's
Secretary of State, lives in the Seward home
| stead at Auburn, \. Y. The house was built by
/, his mothers father in 1916, and is SURROUNDED
by pleasant grounds. The library, which looks
out over a wide sweep OF lawn. is filled with me-
mentoes OF the late statesman, whose son still
sits at the desk upon which his father wrote the
most and probably the best o. his numerous
speeches.
GEORGE PERRY, one of the editors Of The
Home Journal, died in Yew York on Thursday.
He was about s~ixty-one years old, was born in
Western Massachusetts and was educated at
Williams College. He did work under Charles
| A. Dana on Appleton's Cyclop@dia, and also did
some writing for The Home Journal. and in
1867 was invited by Morris Phillips to become
| one Of its editors, which position he held until
his death.
Mrs. MuNsILL, Of Hartford, Conn, who is
one of the bsne6ciaries from the fortune made
by Borden's condensed milk. has q peculiar fad.
She takes a ph,lanthropie interes, in twins.
Whenever twins are born in Hartford she at
once calls upon the mother. whether she knows
her or not, and presents each body with q hand
some silver porringer. Mrs. Munslll has never
had twins herself. but has q WARM admiration
for women who have.
A FINE monument to Adalbert Won Chamisso
has been unveiled in Berlin. Chamisso was q
NIlO pOCb. "A QthO VI ~ oL1O0 luio "
Peter Schlemihl, and was also distinguished as
q botanist and traveller. lie was a native of
France, but Berlin was like a second birthplace
20 him. Friedrich Spielhagen offciatsd at the
dedication, at which were present two sons OF
the poet, and various female relatives. One OF
the sons is said to bear q striking resemblance
to his father.
The Nineteenth Army Corps has prepared and
forwarded to Washington, for presentation tc
Az, Char;dan q ha.utifr,l hnupd alhur
tanning the resolutions of sorrow and eulogy
adopted by the corps on the death of Gen. Z. Fl.
Sheridan. The album was presented to Mrs
Sheridan yesterday afternoon by Col. J. G.
Healv, and was received by her with warm ex.
pressions Of gratitude for the renewed evidence
il afforded of the love and admiration which Lis
soldiers bore the late general.
The Rev. James Raine, the archaologist, who
has just been appointed TO a stall at York Min
ster, was engaged one day in researches in the
Minister library. when two young officers of Tia.
garrison, on a sightseeing expedition. louneeC
In. Mistaking him-and not unreasonably-for
a verger, they accosted him thus: Il say. Ole
fellow, what have you got 10 show usf' The
felt sorry, however, a moment later, when tn,
supposed verger replied: "Sir, 10 gentlemen ",
show the library; to others the door"
SIGNoR CRIsPI, the Italian Prime Minister, ID
short. compAc,ly built. white haired, gray mus
tached, with q round, well balanced head,
firmly set mouth. and a pair of keen. ouicl
eyes. conveying the impression that their owne
has kept them open TO no inconsidersble pur
pose for many q year past. His Is a watchful
earnest. energetic face, the prevailing stern ex
preston OF which is only softened for q secou,
or two nov and anon, when q tension Of its clsa
cut features is relaxed by . peculiarly pleasan
and winning smile.
THE Rochester IN. " Jewish Things cay
that the Jews are not carpenters and in othe
trades because the European guilds did not pei
nit them to become members. 1t adds: ar
true that the Jews have not. in the last few Ger