The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
THE average age of the twelve English
bishops is seventy-six years.
SENATOR AND MRS. JOHN SHERMAN are
expected home from Europe about Sept. r.
-iWAGNER's only son, Siegfried, now
grown, is studying to be an engineer. He
looks like his father, but shows no marked
musical talent.
THE richest man in the English House of
Commons is said to be Mr.. McEwan. Home
rule member for one of the divisions of
Edinburgh, worth f92, 900 per annum.
Mrs. y. S. GRANT. who accompanied
Minister Fred Grant to Vienna, is home
sick, and she will soon return to this coun-
try and spend the coming winter in Wash
ingtOn.
GENERAL MALONE, of Virginia, is the son
of tavern-keeper. He walked barefOoted
to Richmond to secure the Governors aid
to enter, the Virginia Military Institute
While there he was twitted with being q
poverty pupil"
GEORGE EBERs. the rival of Rider Hag-
gard in Oriental romalcing is fifty-two
years of age. He is a professor of Egypt
olOgy in Leipsic University. and took to
novel writing, so he says, because illness
prevented his doing harder work.
| Mr.. ARKELI, proprietor of Judge. and
Russell Harrison's partner. is described as
| little, chubby man, with round face
| and round head, and a mind that calcu
lates with lightning like rapidity. Though
| so rich and prominent, he is but little
| over thirty.
| The Rev. Father Hanselp Saragian, who
| was sent by the Armenian patriarch of
| Constantinople to look after the spiritual
interests of the Armenians living in this
| country, held his first service in Boston on
Sunday. This is said to be the first use of
tile Armenian ritual by q genuine delegate
OF the Patriarch in America.
| REV. WALDO MEssAROs preached SER
mon to his congregation in New York on
Sunday. in which he stated that Abraham
was the first gentleman on record. For"
said the preacher. abraham remained at
home and was always in harmony with his
/ people. Even when they offered him
| grave for Sarah he insisted on paying for
1t. That was the first real estate transac-
tion."
A sEEDY man asked for q dinner at
farmhouse in Harborcreek, near Erie, sew
eral daysago. The lady snappishly refused
him, but her little daughter pleading for
him. she relented, and after dinner the man
i went on to the next farm, where he wrote a
! letter to the snappish lady, revealing the
j fact that he was her brother, supposed to
have been drowned thirty years ago, and
Enclosing for the child roll of new $40
notes.
If Mrs. Harriet Coe, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, lives until Jan. IL, $780, she will be
103 years old. She was born in Hartford.
i Conn, in 1857. Her father, Alexander Nc
| Neil, was a soldier in the war of 1912, and
her grandfather, General Mcneil, was
| soldier in the war of the revolution. In
her Tooth year she ad a paralytic stroke,
nnd IUn a. OH oorrlA ~
but she did, and now is in fair state of
health.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has but recently hon
Ored himself with any high military rank.
Though as Kaiser he is the WAR Lordn of
the German army. he remained but q brig
adler until q short while ago, when he rose
| to be malOr-generaL Since Queen Vic
toria made him an admiral and the Aus
trian Emperor made him general. MOltke
has urged him to come up to the first rank,
| and he now is a commanding general.
HENRI ROCHEFORT's best points are his
love for his family and his charitable nat
ure. He has long aided Louise Michel aft
er helping her mother, and still pays a
| pension to the three children of Olivier
| Pam, his former secretary who was killed
while fighting for the Mahdi's cause. He
allows $50 a month to the widow of Emile
Endes. O. socialist friend who died year
/ ago. and last year he adopted a poor little
i orphan girl, to whom he intends to give a
d0wry. Altogether he gives away annual
| ly about $4,000.
VICTORIA VOKEs is training pet canary
to perform q part1Of her new play, entitled
1.-THE Doctress." The bird now performs
his part of swOoping down upon the come
dams, piping shrilly and chasing various
characters about the stage with great skill.
The only fear Is that it may suffer from
stage fright when the noise and lights of
the first performance are encountered. To
provide for this two other birds are now in
training by the stage manager of the COM
pany, SO that under studies can be substi-
tuted rapidly.
GOOD story is told of Hon. M. D. Harter,
chairman of the Ohio Democratic conven-
tion. When he Topped over to Democracy
his wife remained in the Republican ranks.
/ Last fall. when the Republicans celebrated
their national victory, they called upon Mr..
Harter for the loan of his fine team, to use
in the parade, which he refused Mrs.
Harter. however, intimated to q friend
l that the horses were hers. and that her
horses would celebrate every Republican
victory. The Harter horses pranccd in the
parade, and the Harter home was magnif-
Gently Illuminated.
The women of illinois are determined
that their sex shall not be ignored in the
coming celebration of the landing of Co
lumbus. So they have Incorporated CON-
pany of women, who will undertake the
work of erecting a statue of Queen Isabella,
of Spain, who made the sailing of the Pinta,
the Nina and the Santa Maria possible, and
who, though woman, was the only person
| in Europe at that time with brains enough
to see the force of Columbuss theory. The
statue is to be unveiled in 1892. and the in
| corpOratOrs are DR.. Julia Holmes Smith,
Catharine V. Waite and DIR. Fanny Dick.
| insOn.
THE Drexel cottage. at Mount McGregor
in which General Grant passed his last
hours. is kept inst as it was when he died
with the exception to the removal of few
personal belongings to the family. The two
big leather-covered easy chairs in which
he passed so many painful days are draped
in black and left in the same position they
were in when he occupied them. The clock
on the mantel has been silent since the mo
ment of his death, when the doctor stopped
| it. and the writing-tablets he used wher
speech was prohibited are in a case on the
wall, together with his pencil and couple
of messages in writing to Mr.. Drexel.