The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


lar to Lucca's, and sang with great success
at Copenhagen lately.
EARLY to bed and early to rise.
Mind your business and tell no lies
Don't get drunk and spoil your eyes,
Pay your debts and advertise.
SpOkee and handles of any size
Made to order or otherwise,
Is the sign over a little manufacturing con-
Germ. among the eastern hills of Hampshire.
LILLI LEHMAN will no longer be debarred
from the German opera-houses for having
broken her contract to accept an engage
ment in America. She sent a petition for
pardon to Emperor Wilhelm, who, being
the head of the Wagner Society. could not
but grant 1T to so eminent an Isolde and
Brunnhilde as Lehman is.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is not a Mason.
Two members of his Cabinet are Masons,
but neither of them is a Knight Templar.
The only secret organization of which the
President is q member is a college frater-
nifty of the Greek letter 0rder," the Phi
Delta Theta. which he joined in 1852 while
a student at Miami University, Ohio.
THE Duke of Sparta is said to be an ideal
lover; he does nothing but talk of his bride.
and can scarcely conceal his impatience for
the arrival of the wedding day. He is
%thirty-one years of age and his bride is
nineteen. The wedding presents are of
enormous value. and there is every indica-
ton that the marriage will be a happy one,
a rare circumstance in the annals of royal
alliances.
THE idea of the Eiffel tower. according
to the Engineering and Building Record,
is acknowledged by NJ. Eifel to have origin
ated in this country at the time of the
Philadelphia centennial, in 1876. The cir
1000 feet high, 80 feet in diameter at the
base, and thirty feet at the top. 1t was
designed by Clark, Reeves & Co.. of Pho-
nixville. Pa, and was expected to cost
81 600, 1000. eT1
WHEN an Arab damsel gets married her
mother gives her the following advice for
securing her future happiness: You are
leaving your nest to live with a man with
whose ways and habits you are unfamiliar.
i advise you to be his slave If you wish to
become the absolute mistress Of your hus-
band. Be satisfied with little, endeavor to
feed him well and watch over his sleep, for
hunger begets anger and sleeplessness
makes a man rOss-grained.
COUNT DORsAY was q Bohemian of the
grand, princely type. For a quarter of a
century he was the glass of fashion of the
London world, although he was so deeply
in debt and SO harrassed by bailiffs that it
was on Sunday only he could stir out of
doors for fear of being arrested. But on
every Sunday he appeared III Hyde Park.
resplendent in person and turnout. for he
was the most accomplished whip among the
fashionable gentlemen of his day.
PETER CARTWRIGHT was an old-fashioned
man, who would be sadly out of place in
the pulpit in these days. He was once
blazing away at pride, vainglory and
hypocrisy" the rich man in hell, and SO
forth. and a brother tapped him on the
elbow and said: Hist, Brother Cartwright,
President Jackson's coming in" Andrew
Jackson!' shouted the backwOOds preacher;
"whO is Andrew Jacksons He'll die and 90
| to hell as quick as any other man, unless he
| repents."
HANS JAEGER. one of the cleverest au-
thors of Norway, has accepted the place of
a common sailor on one of the Scandina-
Wan ships. Although his books are popular
and read by all classes, he has not been
successful financially. Long residence in
the Norwegian capital and close study of
the lower classes of society. which he loves
to write OF in his books. have also under
mined his health, forcing him to adopt an
other profession. 1t is said. however, that
he viii devote his few leisure hours to fin
| lShlng a new novel.
SOUTH AMERICAN millionaires are cut
ting o wide swath in London. Colonel
| North, the nitrate king, has a rival in Mr..
Sanford. who. made a vast fortune in
ny lCCs IiO Has pulCA0oCu IN
old house of the Duke of Leinster. in Carl
ton House terrace. and is converting it into
a palace of the renaissance style. The mar
BILE stairs, mantels and walls will cost enor-
nous sums. A firm of upholsterers has been
authorized to expend 100000. Even a
London plumber has been given carte
blanche.
The butcher who has the contract to
furnish meat at Vassar says that he pro-
| vides 200 pounds everyday for their dinner,
and the cook says that the girls prefer it
considerably underdone. They drink $50
quarts of milk in one day-dividlng ir be-
tween breakfast and supper-and greatly
prefer it to either tea or coffee. Forty
every day. and another favOrlte article of diet
is oatmeal biscuit. Oatmeal, stewed fruit,
and eggs are consumed in a quantity that
leaves no suspicion of the quality of the
students appetites.
Mrs. HI. 3. BURNETT. widow of Gen.
I Ward b. Burnett, died at Garfield Hos
| pital. Washington, Saturday morning after
a short illness. Mrs. Burnett was a we'll
she has long and persistently tried to get a
pension through Congress. For several
| years before her death she was the victim
of a curious hallucination. In her appeals
to the press and TO officials she charged that
General Black had thrown her down stairs
her pension claim. She also imagined at
intervals that her claim had been allowed
and paid. Mrs. Burnett was a woman OF
| fine address, and was always arrayed in the
c~ostliest of silks and satins. She was
known as the Queen of the House lobby"
COMMENT AND OPINION.