The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

nal auvOcates dress with seven pockets
1or business women.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is In
much better health this summer than last.
Her physical condition is superior to her
mental.
1T is said that the Princess Louise is not
to have very large or q very elaborate
trousseau, and that, as was the custom
with the Queens daughters, she is to have
many pieces of stuff not madeup.
SOME years ago the Hon. Francis ID. Ker-
nan had an eminent Chinaman for a client,
and won his case. Ever since the latter
has. sent, several times q year. box of
choice tea to his lawyer as q token of re-
membrance.
GERONIMO. the wicked Apache, who has
been prisoner of the government for some
time. has grown SO fat that he looks very
little like an ideal chieftain. He was not
well at Fort Augustine, but at Mount Yer
non barracks. Ala, he has increased In
weight rapidly.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND has become
one of the most daring of the modern ICON
oclasts. He has discovered in his journey
through France that Lafayette was a man
who possessed neither talent nor enterprise.
and that he was vain, lnsincere, and gen.
orally trifler. Down goes another one.
Miss ALBERTA GALLAT1N. granddaugh-
ter of Albert Gallatin, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence, and Miss
Alice King Hamilton, a descendant of Al
exander Hamilton. have been engaged by
Daniel Frohman for the Lyceum Theater,
New York. Both the young women are
actresses OF some years experience. Miss
Gallatin has starred in the South and West.
NORRIS PETERS, the government lith-
ographer who died short time ago, leav-
ing 81 ,0OO0 O0 was famous for his knowl-
edge of all that pertains to good living and
drinking. He is credited with the inven-
ton of several new dishes, and the recipe
OF a sauce is said to be the valued posses
sion of a friend who hopes to introduce it
to the market as q rival of the English
Worcester.
CASTOR CALMETTE says that Millet, the
painter of THE Angelus." was "big and
cOrpulent with wooden shoes, hair brushed
back from frank brow, and clear blue
eyes, the neck and shoulders of bull, and
Calmette contends that the story about
Mlllet dying in comparative poverty is q
myth, which the family of the artist have
been quick to disprOve.
WRITING of Wales to q friend in that
country, Mr.. Ruskin says: my respect for
its ancient and heroic nationality is, in
deed, limitless: and we'll could / wish for
my England's own sake that beyond the
Severn the modes OF life. the language, the
oppressed SO cruelty might remain forever
In forgiveness, as your stones of Aberyst-
with are wrought by the cruel sea to their
fairest cOlOrs."
THE career of Dewitt j. Seligman, the
editor and proprietor of the New York
Epoch. is one which has few parallels in
the annals of literature. When twenty
seven years old he withdrew from Wall
street, after having made fortune of
nearly million dollars. and is now devot-
ing himself to journalism. 1t was after his
marriage that Mr.. Seligman took to study,
entered Columbia College, and graduated
with honOrs.
The Shah's English escort during his stay
couldn't quite understand why his own
suite took such elaborate trouble when
waking him if he happened to be asleep
when approaching his railway destination.
The cause was not the dread of royalty. but
the Persian idea that during sleep the soul
wanders away from the body, and if a
sleeper be so suddenly aroused that the soul
cannot return in time to its accustomed
home, death will be the result.
THE negotiations for the preservation of
the graves of Keats and Severn, in the
Protestant Cemetery at Rome, have result
ed in a convention between the German
embassy and the municipality, whereby
the latter undertakes, at it's own expense, to
provide that the tOmbs of Keats and Sew
ern shall be preserved in their present posi-
ton, large place being rallied off and Orna-
mented with trees; that ali other tomb
stones and remains shall be removed in
such a manner as to avoid Offense to relig-
iOus feeling, and that q considerable en-
largment shall be made of the new Protest
ant cemetery adjoining.
A SWEDISH statesman recently inveighed
most eloquently in Parliament against oleo-
margarine. Next evening he was invited
to dine with the King, who loves joke.
There was only oleomargarine on the roval
table. and the statesman literally partoOk
thereof. At the close of the meal the King
asked him: We'll, sir, how do you, like
| our bhtteri" 1T is excellent" replied the
statesman; 1.-THE contrast between it and
artificial butter is very marked" But,
| The other guests rOared with laughter. but
the .'Old parliamentary hand" returned,
| quick as flash: Your Majesty, if one can
be deceived SO easily, there is all the more
need of strict laws against bogus goods"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia
| Evening Telegraph reports that the Hon.
George H. Pendleton, formerly minister to
Germany. is hopeless invalid. He is now
| travelling with his daughters about the
health resorts of Europe, and hopes to re-
| turn to America this fall. but he will never
| again appear in public life. His friends re-
| luctantly confess that he is threatened with
| softening of the brain. His daughters are
| devOting themselves to him constantly, and
| he has to be watched and cared for by an
| attendant, who Is obliged to be with HIM
| at all times His decline is due to the
| shock given him by the death of his wife,
| who was killed in a runaway accident In
this country while he was abroad.
| THERE are more ways of taking journey
| by water than to swim or employ boat.
Not long ago Mrs. E. Parks, who lives near
Bangor wanted to cross the fume of the
Forbestown Ditch Company, going from
her place to the residence Of her daughter
near by. AS she could not Jump she placed
| board over the ditch and started across.
| On the second step the board broke and
she was precipitated into the water, which
was running very rapidly. She was car
| ried through the ditch and flume down to
| the dump" about three-quarters of mile
| distant Remarkable to relate, she escaped
| without injury and accomplished the er-
rand she had set out to do, before she re-
| turned TO her home.
1 THERE was young girl in a school,
Who frightened her corsets by rule;
| From shOrtness of breath she came 10 her death
And that was the end of a fool.
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