The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

luS tuo ulOSrdpuy VI Ills llluStrlOuS mOtucI,
and will publish it before she dies if it is
finished.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD granddaughter of
Prince Bismarck was the belle of a bazaar
held in the Old Palace. She represented a
flower girl. .
JOHN MADISON MORTON, author of Box
and Cox,""Lend Me Five Shillings," and
numerous other farces and comedies, is an
invalid in an English almshouse.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has just had a large
tumor removed from his head, and he will
soon discard the skull cap he has long been
wearing. He recently underwent an opera
ton for hepatic abscess.
HAMILTON DIssTON, the Philadelphia saw
manufacturer. is looked on as a nabob by
the people of Florida, where he own more
land than any other SIX men In the State.
He is now on his way home from a visit to
his Florida possessions.
Mi. A. GOULD. purchasing agent at st.
Louis of the Missouri Pacific railroad, is a
brother of Jay, but a different sort of man.
70 a poor young nan in his employ who re-
Gently got married Mr.. A. Gould sent as a
wedding present an elegant b~ase-burner
DE-. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES complains
of the prosecutions inflicted upon him by
volunteer correspondents. Twenty or
twenty-five letters in his mornings mail is
considered a light delivery, and nearly all
are upon subjects of interest to the writers
alone.
SARAH BERNHARDThad a remarkable run
of luck at the Monte Carlo roulette table
last week, where she won three times in
succession, each time with the chances
thirty-six to one against her. The crowd
broke out into applause at her unusual
success.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT deprecates
the publicity that has followed her an
nounced intention to pay for a monument
over Marion's grave in South Carolina.
from whom she is descended. She had
thought to honor the hero's memory quietly
and without credit to herself, but the press
has frustrated her plans for secrecy in the
matter.
FUNDS are now being raised in this coun-
try for the monumental statue of Bruno,
which is presently to be erected at Rome,
on the very spot where he was burned to
death on Feb. 16, 1900. Col. Robert G. In
gersoll, Mr.. ID. G. Thompson, president of
the Nineteenth Century Club; Mr.. T. B.
Wakeman and Mr.. Thomas Davidson have
charge of the movement here.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, the aged leader of the
Southern Confederacy. is now past eighty
years of age. Although his hair is white
and his voice not so strong as it was In the
prime of life, MI. Davis is, intellectually,
as clear and bright as aver. His step has
lost its tirmness and elasticity somewhat.
yet he stands as erect and moves about as
easily as a much younger man.
DR.. KING, the Bishop of Lincoln. who
has been brought to trial for alleged viola
lions of the ecclesiastical law, is described
by the Pail Mall Gazette as having one of
those spiritual faces which one cannot
lock at without feeling the better for it,
and which positively beam with benevol-
ence. And then, in the next column. the
Pail MalP' prints a portrait of him which
looks like a cross between Fagin and Bill
Sykes.
KRAsZEwsKI, the Polish author and pa
ts;ets who was imprisoned for years in a
German fortress, has just died in Italy. He
left to his family g. 600 rubles, a valuable
collection Of paintings, a library of 1900
volumes and a large number of valuable
manuscripts. The Imperial Library, of st.
with the heirs for the purchase of these
manuscripts, many of which relate to
Russia.
THE boys in Atlanta, Ga. gave Governor
Gordon q severe snOw-balling as he was
going to the Capitol last Thursday morn
ing. The Governor begged hard to be let
OFF, but the boys said no. One boy said to
him: wv can't let you off. Governor. As
you will have to HUSTLE" And the Govern
or hustled, while dozens of balls took him
in the back of the neck.
THE most curious book in the world is
one that is neither written nor printed.
Every letter of the text is cut into the leaf,
and. as the alternate leaves are of blue pa
per, it is as easily read as the best print.
The labor required, and the patience neces-
sary to cut each letter, may be- imagined.
though done BY machinery, but every char
| acter was made by hand. The book is en-
titled, 1.-The Passion of Christ" and is now
in a museum in France.
BALDWIN, the American parachutist who
has been astonishing the L~ondoners, has
now started to astonish the Australians,
but he will be astonished himself when he
lands there. There is now in Melbourne
another American. named Professor Bar
| tholomew, who asoends 5000 feet. and then
| casts himself into space with a parachute
to which q trapeze is attached. On this
trapeze he performs all sorts of gymnastic
| feats as he descends earthwards, and ever
| hangs suspended by his feet.
MAYOR STEWART, of Texas, expresses his
| opinion of the Hub thus: Boston has
more lecture-halls, lyceums, free libraries
and reading-rooms, homes for the dis
| treSSeQ, charitable societies or every char-
acter, more monuments and paintings in
squares, parks and public halls of military
and civic characters, more two-wheeled
public carriages. moro short, narrow and
crooked streets, more rOsy-cheeked and
handsome yet fatigued-lOoking women,
more young men who keep their seats in
the street cars when gray-haired ladies are
standing up, more independent thinkers,
fewer tObacco-chewers, more drinkers and
less drunkards, than any city of its popula-
ton on the globe"
MI. HOUSTON, the young gentleman who
acted as the go-between for Mr.. PiggOtt and
Mr.. Macdonald in the matter of the Times
letters, was some years ago q reporter. Dur
culiar experiences of the methods of law
and order" During the strike of the Dub
lin police the task of keeping the streets
was intrusted to the military, who fire.
quently charged the people. On one oc-
caslon a regiment charged straight Down on
a street where Mr.. Houston, notebook in
hand. was making his impressions of the
situation. Mr.. Houston waved his note
book frsntically and shouted press, but
the soldiers charged on, and one of them
made a pass at Mr.. Houston's flying form.
The bayonet went to its mark, and MI
Houston bears the scar TO this day.
Mr.. r. BELLINGHAM, who has just retired
from engine-driving on the Great Northern
railway (England), after forty years serv-
ice. has had a wonderful career. In 1913 be
was a driver on the railway between Paris
and Rouen. When the revolution broke
out which caused Louis Philippe to fee, ht