The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ALPHONSE DAUDET is thinking OF making
visit to this country this summer.
Mrs. HARRISON will give the ivy to be
planted during commencement by the sem
iOr class of Princeton.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND will
spend part of the summer at Marion, Mass.
Mrs. Cleveland is already there.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE has made
good impression in Washington. He is al
ways good natured, and is inclined to ad-
mlre America and Americans.
TALK of the marriage of Prince Albert
Victor and Princess Victoria of Teck exer-
cises many tongue in England: The
Queen is said to view the proposed union
with disfavor.
Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND is now taking
lessons on the violin. Her teacher, Miss
Louise Hood. of Newark, says that she is
making rapid progress, and Is already quite
proficient with the bow.
MIR. LABoUCHERE says he has made up
his mind that baseball is game not mere
ly inferior to cricket, but to foot ball, ten
mis-, rackets and other games The trouble
with truthful Henry is that he doesn't
know.
LEPROsY is increasing in Russia. During
the last ten years forty-nine patients were
treated in the st. Petersburg hospital half
of whom were natives OF the city. The
Baltic provinces suffer most from the dis
ease.
JOHN MosT's voice is still heard for dyna-
mite. The only funny thing about Most is
the inexplicable way that the New York
papers have of calling him Herr Most"
Why Herr Most any more than Herr
Schurz, Herr Mast or Herr Kepplerf
SITTING BULL, in the eyes of the Sioux
the hero of the Little Big Horn massacre of
Custer and his men, is said to be dying of
pneumonia at the Rosebud agency, but,
then, he has been dying of something every
year for the last ten. When he succumbs
it will be either from old age or total de-
pravity.
A GOOD deal of fun has been pOked at Col.
Elliott F. Shepard, of New York, for some
of his peculiarities, but his subscription of
$1,000 in behalf of the Pennsylvania suffer
ers will go good way toward atOnlng for
any amount OF strange gSo whIms. w Ths SheR r
Vanderbilt's gift was $1,000.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL HASTINGS. of Penn
sylvania who is in command at j ohnstown,
is one of the handsomest men in the Key
stone State. He is over six feet in height,
symmetrically built, blonde in complex
ion. He is a soldier every inch. His home
is in BellefOnte, where he has a successful
lawpractice. As political orator he is in
great demand.
MRS. MAVERICK. who is charged with
having pOisone her husband at Liverpool,
has been described as a niece of jeff Davis
and daughter of Baron Rogue. She is
neither. Her father was Mr.. Chandler a
rich Mobile banker, and after his death her
mother was married to Baron Rogue. The
late Mr.. Maybrick was brother of the
song writer and baritone singer of the same
name, best known as stephen Adams" the
author of Nancy Lee"
SECRETARY TRACY has transmitted to
William Fooye, the gallant seaman who has
recently returned to Mare Island, Cal.
from the Vandalia, the silver medal pre-
sented to HIM by the Humane Society of
Massachusetts,. The medal bears the fol-
lowing inscription: Honor Virtutis Pr&-
MUM. To William FoOye, seaman, U. S.
N, u. s. s. Vandalia. For brave and heroic
efforts in saving life on the 22d of February
and the 7th of March, 1889, at Apia, SomOan
islands,"
Miss ANNA HowELLs, the aunt of w. ID.
Howells, was a wcman of very strong
character. She had a very intelligent,
beaming cOuntenance. and beautiful but
piercing and brilliant black eyes. She
helped to edit the anti-slavery paper pub
lshed in Wheeling while the Panhandle
portion of Virginia was still under slave
rule. and before the days of Lloyd Garri-
son. Gerrit Smith, the Beechers and all the
anti-slavery societies. AS part Of her in
tellectual equipment she undertook to COM
nit to memory the first Webster's DictiOn-
ary entire. and had half completed her
work when she concluded to give up her
self-impOsed task.
Ex-MINIsTER to France Robert NJ. Nc
Lane is now at his home in Baltimore. He
says that the French people are Repub-
hcans at heart; that Boulanger will remain
popular with them so long as he is Re-
publican, and that he will lose his popu-
larity If he joins forces with the Monarch
lists. He further says that nobody could
undertake to say what the sentence of the
Senate, now trying General Boulanger for
political conspiracy, wOald be- but the gen.
eral impression is that he will be found
guilty. The Minister acknowledges that
dial terms with him when the latter was