The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Miss MARY WANAMAKER, eldest daughter
of the Postmaster-general, will next fall
make her first appearance in society at
Washington.
PRINCE EUGENE, of Sweden, and the
Princess Kalakaui. Of the Sandwich ISL
ands, are said to be engaged. The Prince
ilves at Parls, where he studies painting.
APUBLIsHING house in London has offered
William +. Gladstone a large sum if he
will write a political romance. He has
again proved that he is a grand old man by
refusing.
OLIvER Optic sailed for Europe last week.
This makes his twenty-ffth trip. Al
though we'll advanced in years, the popular
author Is still young in heart, and his books
have a steady sale.
MR.. THOMAS HARDY writes his novels in
the old-fashioned way. He has now and
then dictated. but not to a stenographer.
Some years ago he thought of learning
shorthand. but did not. He has never
tried a typewriter.
The clothing worn by the Prince of
Wales is copied so infinitely by his English
admirers that Mr.. Labouchere asserts that
II the Prince were to appear i'll petticOats
the streets of London would soon be filled
with men In the same garments.
HERR Won HoRTIG KRUGER, the Berlin
editor, who obtained and published the
diary of Emperor Frederick, and, in con-
sequence: had to flee the country, after the
New Haven, Conn.,. with his family. He is
now an editor of the Connecticut Repub-
likaner.
DIR. Won BULow was recently asked to
conduct the performance OF an operetta
which he considered worthless. He de-
clined, but went to the show and occupied
a conspicuous seat. What rendered him
more conspicuous was the fact that he was
attired In deepest mourning. THAT stuff"
he said. meaning the Operetta, lis being
buried, and ] am attending its funeral.
PRINCE MURAT, whom Miss Gwendoline
! Caldwell Is to marry in the autumn, is a
well preserved man of ffty-tive. He is
rich, and is also connected by marriage
with some of the best and oldest families
of France. In 1854 he married Princess
Maley de Wagram. He also distinguished
himself by brilliantly conducting the IA
nous RezOnville cavalry charge during the
FrancO-German war.
Mr.. DAVID KIMBALL PEARsONs, of Chi
cago. has given $780, 900 to Beloit College,
$780, 600 to Lake Forest University, $4,000
| to Knox, $4,000 to Chicago Theological
Seminary, $4,000 to the Presbyterian Sem
| mary, 5000 to the Presbyterian hospital,
citation, and $4,000 to the Women's Board
of Foreign Missions. besides $3.50, 600 In
various other ways and in smaller sums.
SAYS Philadelphia newspaper: Daniel
Dougherty, the s~ilver-tongued, made q fly
ing visit from New York to this city yester-
day Wednesday,. He met some old friends
and was entertained by one of them, A. j.
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jaunty as ever. Notwithstanding the rush
and wear of Gotham. He says that there
is no truth in the story published in some
quarters that he intends to abandon the
practice of law in New York and return to
his native city"
CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM, the leader of the
new labor movement in Great Britain, is a
wealthy S~cotchman's son. and has a slender
income and an ancient lineage. He has
been in America, and led the life on the
Texan plains for q time. He says that one
of his ancestors married an Arab, and he
himself looks not unlike an Arab chief. He
often rides IN the Row in London with Par
nell, and astOnishes that somewhat sedate
gentleman by appearing on an odd little
mustang fiery as pepper.
THE birthplace of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning has been at length, says the
American, placed beyond further contro-
versy, Canon Barrett, rector of KellOe, a
small village situated about half way be-
tween West HartlepOOl and Durham, has
discovered in the parish registers of the
place an entry recording the baptism of the
pOetess. 1t appears that she was horn at
KellOe on March 8. 1906. and privately bap-
TIED; she was, however. received into the
church on Feb. 10, 1908, when her brother,
Edward B. Moulton Barrett, was baptized.p
PROF. HUBER HERKoMER is a sort of
Admirable CrichtOn. He is q painter in
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etchings, in dry paint and mezzotint; a
~draughtsman on wood and on paper; a
woOd-carver and an lron-mith; a univer-
sity fine art lecturer, and the founder and
director of a great art school,; a civil en-
gineer, an architect and a director and
furnlsher; a magazine contributor, a play
writer, a musical composer and performer,
a singer. an actor, a scene-painter and a
stage manager. And in all these capacities
he has won great success.
MR.. TENNIEL claims little credit for the
ideas of his punch" cartoons. At the
weekly dinner of the staff on Wednesday
the subject for the coming week is dis
cussed, and if there is one man who alb
stains more than another from Offering sug-
g~estions it is Mr.. Tenniel himself. What
l do" says the artist. lis to see that a sub
ject is not repeated, and that a scene is not
chosen to which / do not think / could do
justice" On Thursday Mr.. Tenniel thinks
over the composition of the picture and
makes one or two sketches of the figures;
and on Friday he goes into his ''den."
Throughout that day he is mot at home"
and by the evening the drawing on wood is
finished and packed off to the %engraver.
IN ARMS.
Not alone in tropical countries
Are dangerous women found;
But they haunt the pathway of culture
And poach on civilized ground.
They go armed In the crowded city
Almost to the teeth, as it were,
And fancy the sidewalk or street-car
No place where steps should demur.
They shun neither light nor surroundings,
And trippingly make their attack;
Their murderOus weapon may strike one
In eye, OF ear, or the back.
For they shoulder nor pike nor halberd,
As smote the valorous Gaul,
Rut a far more treacherOus ally
The elongated parasol.
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