The Indianapolis journal., 1889-09-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DIR. NANsEN, the Arctic explorer is en-
gagged to be married to Miss Eva Sars,
well-known Norwegian singer
HENRY NJ. FLAGLER, the Standard Oil
millionaire. is going to lay out an extensive
winter baseball ground In Florida.
SENATOR INGALLS, is said to be engaged
on a novel of Washington life. 1t is eager
~ looked tor by those who know his keen,
trenchant style.
The eighth edition of Tolstoi's works.
now in press in Moscow, will include $4,000
copies of anna Karenina." $4,000 copies of
War and Peace" and 5000 copies of each
OF several volumes of short stories.
In the royal circles of Europe it has been
discovered that amounting is just as efica-
cious as crowning. and doesn't cost half as
much. But it ls'not considered en- regle to
have the amounting done with c0tt0n-seed
oil.
JOHN H. SURRATT recently had his life
insured Ia Boston. In the application blank
he wrote opposite the question as to the
cause of the death of his mother: 'She was
murdered by the United States govern
ment."
CHARLES DICKENS. the son of the famous
novelist, has long novel in manuscript
which he has never had the courage to pub
lish. He realizes that his work would be
compared with his fathers, and he does not
dare to brave the test.
MRS. LEVI P. MORTON, who has been
abroad all summer with one of her daugk-
ters is expected back in New York about
the end of next week. She will then go to
Ellerslie, Vice-president Morton's country
seat on the Hudson, at Rhinebeck.
WILLIAM L. SCoTT. the Pennsylvania
millionaire was confined to his bed in
New York hotel when his colt Chaos capt
ured the Futurity stakes at Coney island
last Wednesday. 1t is said that Congress
man Scott has never made any wagers on
the horses which he owns.
ISAAC N. BROWN. who died Sept. g. at
Corsicana, Tex, was the commander of the
celebrated confederate steam ram Arkan-
sas, which one day suddenly ran out of the
Yazoo river and did serious damage to the
Union steamers on the Mississippi, between
that point and Vicksburg.
CAPT. L. G. SHEPARD, commander of the
revenue cutter Rush, the great seizer of the
Behring sea, has been in the revenue marine
service since 1866. and has served through
all the grades from third lieutenant to cap
tain. He is a native of Massachusetts,. and
is regarded as a cool and brave officer.
PPINCE BISMARCK is suffering from in
fammation of the veins. This is the out
come of his refusal to obey his physicians.
They forbade him to drink wine or beer or
to smoke cigars. With Montaignes con-
tempt for the advice of doctors. he contin-
ues his usual habits, and the result has
proved disastrous.
"YoUNG Napoleon" Ives was bothered
about the size and shape of his foot, being
very vain of his personal appearance. He
had a peculiar shoe with an excessively
long cloth top. and very high arch made
especially to conceal its ugliness. He wore
the most expensive clothes, and insisted on
his clerks doing the same.
EMILY PAXTON, of Pike county, Missouri,
has permission from the Governor of that
State to wear mans dress anywhere in
Missouri outside Of cities of 10000 inhabi-
tants." She works on farm and her
favorite occupation is breaking horses to
harness. OF these she herself owns three
and has charge of thirteen.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE has been an in
valid ever since her great work in the
Crimea. Contrary to the general impress
sion, Miss Nightingale does not live in q
luxurious house, and does not take drives
with the Queen. She is constantly occu-
pied with work for the hospitals at home,
in the colonies, and abroad, and for the i'm
provement of the condition of the soldiers,
morally and physically. in the barracks and
in the hospital
SAYS writer in the Epoch: ''The present
| GchOAosioh hAVWo bub AtLlO oUOut tuo huS-
sian writer, Nicolas Gabrilovitch Tscher-
nischewski, whom the Gear has lately par
doned. although he has been one of the
most ardent apostles of socialistic ideas in
| Russia, and one of the men who have had
the greatest influence upon the evolution
that has taken place among the younger
Russians He has been called the legiti-
mate father of contemporary nihilism, and
yet he has never been o cOnspirator, in the
active sense of the term. He was, before
his banishment, an indefatigable preacher,
and had a horror of brute force. His writ
ings have always been forbidden in Russia
but the Car now seems to think that the
writer is no longer dangerous"
/ Mr.. GLADSTONE says he we'll remembers
the old Duke of Cumberland, who was
famous for his habit of garnishing other
peoples remarks with his own oaths
When the first bill for the abolition of
church rates came before the House Of
Lords the Duke was asked to express
to the Archbishop of Canterbury the
wish of the. majority. that he should
with this commission: Presently he re-
rather deaf, exclaimed: 1.-THE Archbishop
says he will be devoted to everlasting fire
if he does not work the, rejection, of the
bill" 1t need scarcely be said that the
language which his Grace of Cumberland
professed to quote from his Grace of Can
terbury has been somewhat s0ftened.