The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-03

cruelty to mothers. The Suns story of the
case has cansed $3.50 to be sent to that paper
for Mrs. Mullens.
ACAIRN, surmounted by o small Ameri-
can flag. has been erected on Pixies Peak in
memory of Lucy Webb Hayes. 1t was sug-
gested and begun by Miss Field, q Topeka
school teacher.
IT is predicted that Miss Wanan aker,
daughter of the Postmaster-general, WILDE
q prominent belle in Washington this win
ter. Her good sense and winning manners
are her charms.
DWIGHT L. MOODY, the evangelist. is
back in Chicago again saving sinners.
With the exception that he has grown a
little grayer and a little stouter he looks
much the same as he did ten years ago.
Miss ELLA BYRON. o niece of the late
John Roach, is a clerk in the Census Office.
She can address $500 envelopes in a day of
seven hours, which is more to her credit.
even, than her relationship with the famous
ship-builder.
GEORGE EBERs, the author of 'Uarda,'
1.-THE Daughter of an Egyptian Princess
and other books. is a hopeless invalid. He
is paralyzed, and seldom moves ont of his
roliing-chair. In spite of his illness, he is
very cheerful, even gay.
DONALD G. MITCHELL. otherwise known
as Tx Marvel" resides In New Haven,
Conn. The author of 1.-THE Reveries of a
Bachelor" is quite an old man, but exceed
lngly well preserved, and he n ex-GOy-
ernor Lounsbury are great chums.
THE Mayor in France who has the small
est constituency is in the m of
Morteau. He is Mayor of twelve inhabi-
tants. and the taxes last year amounted. to
$3.50. But he was invited all the same by
the government to meet his fellow-Mayors
at the Paris BANQUET.
POPE LEO, despite his advanced age. is
an unusually early riser. He is rarely in
bed after $50, and by 6 he may be seen
walking in the gardens of the Vatican at
tended by some members of his household.
Very often he gives audience to his secre-
taries before breakfast.
JAMES PAYN had twenty-six articles re-
jected in one year by various periodicals.
Still he persevered, feeling that he had
something to tell, if he only knew how to
tell 1T and could get an editor to read it.
Payn did finally write something worth
telling and made a successful hit, and has
since written thirty-six novels. all of
which have been more or less popular. s
SOME time ago the Detroit Free Press
offered $1,000 in prizes for the three best
serial stories sent in before July 1. The re-
suit of this competition has been that
dajor Joseph kirkland. Of Chicago, has
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entitled 1.-The Captain of Company K"
The second prize goes to Omaha. and is
taken by Mrs. Eliza w. Peattie. Her story
is entitled The Judge" The third prize
Of $500 was awarded to EIbridge S. Brooks,
of Boston.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CLEVELAND will nave a
round of social honors this week at Lenox,
where they go to witness the wedding of
Mr.. Endlcott to Miss Lulu Theron, daugh-
fer of -JOcpnh Theron nf Now -Y0rk Tho
ceremony will take place at Sam Wards
old residence, on StOckbridge Bowl, OH
Thursday, and will be a sort of reunion of
Fairchlid. Whitney and Lamont expetfins
TO be present.
THE Rev. John Zollinger, of ST. Paul.
who was at one time the tutorof Bismarck's
grandnephews, says that the boys were
very fond of their Uncle Otto.n The
future Iron Chancellor used to a them
out for a romp quite often and was always
kind and indulgent to them. Bismarck in
those days, says Mr.. Zollinger, was a re-
markably nervous man. He smoked a
great deal, ate immoderately and drank q
good portion of wine and beer. He had q
strong liking for English literature and
read frequently from Shakespeare, Shelley,
Byron and Keats.
The two sons of the two leaders of En-
glish political life are both good parish
priests, the one at Hawarden and the other
at Hatfield. Mr.. Stephen E.. Gladstone has
to supervise six or seven district churches,
and has a double daily service at the parish
church. His ecclesiastical training was Oh
tanned in the p~urlieus of the Lambeth pot
teries. while Lord William Gascoyne Cecil,
the rector of Bishops Hatfield. served under
the Vicar of Great Yarmouth. The tall
figure Of the Prime Minister'S son was well
known in the narrow and peculiar courts
where real blOaters receive their final
Hatfield House to perform, and to provide
ILLUSTRATIONS twice a day at the magnifi-
|. cent parish church, while on Sunday, with
the aid of only two ~curates, ne also finds
services at two or three district churches, a
mission church and a cemetery chapel.
Could he know the mighty rumpus
Made about his fair,
Wouldn't Christopher Columbus