The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABUUT PEUPLE AMI THlN6O.
WHENEVER Edison appears at the Paris
exposition the band plays Yankee Doodle"
Miss AGNES L~oNGFELLow. a daughter of
the celebrated poet, is q skilled photog-
grapher.
LORD TENNYsoN devotes the pension of
$1,000 agar, which he receives as poet
laureate, to the relief of the literary pro-
fession who are in pecunlary distress.
WHEN Patti sang the Welsh national air
at their ~eisteddfod, such a scene was never
before witnessed in Wales. The audience
were divided between tears and lrrepres-
sible enthusiasm.
CHARLES +. FARRAR, son of Canon Farrar,
the distinguished Church of England man,
came over on the Berlin. and is now at
Lehigh University, where he will study
for a time and then 60 to the Polytechnic
Institute at Troy. 81
ALTHOUGH Commander-in-chief Arch
duke Albrecht is the wealthiest man in
Austria-Hungary, he objects to exorbitant
hotel bills. Recently, while on q tour Of
inspection In Hungary, he spent forty
eight hours in a small provincial town.
The bill presented amounted to $50 forms,
or $3.50. 1t was paid, but the next day the
officers of the garrison received strict or
ders not to set foot in the hotel in question,
and for the next twelve months no military
band will be allowed to play in the town.
STOWE, the famous seat of the late Duke
of Buckingham, in Bucks, has been closed,
and it is to be let for a term of years.
Stowe was certainly the original of the
Beaumanoir of "Coningsby," and it is sup
posed to have inspired Thackeray with the
dreary description of Castle CarabaS In the
Book of SnObs."
The Shah contemplates introducing GER
tain European dishes into the royal Per-
sian menu. and hasconsequently arranged
for one of his cooks, who received instruc-
ton in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace
as to the preparation of certain English
dishes, to go through q years instruction
in cookery at a Partisan restaurant.
THE Canadian weather prophet has a
clever wife. 1t is limited that she writes
his prophecies, and he reads them out. A
bust of Mrs. Virgins was found one morn
ing among the statues of celebrities in the
Ottawa Parliamentary Library. and no one
knew how it got there-except Virgins.
1t staid there, however, and is there now.
THERE was a plaintive little epistie Hn
the Presidents mail this morning. 1t was
from q m in Illinois, and she said:
"When walking with Baby Mckee, Mr..
President. will you kindly pluck one flow.
er or a fern leaf from the hillside and send
it to me with your photograph, L have
specimens from every State in the Union
but Maryland, and / will complete my col
lection with your offering and name."
The city of Paris has offered a prize of
1000 francs for a poem adapted for musical
setting in the form of a ~cantata, with solos
and choruses. The subject may be histor-
be of a national character, and express
sentiments of the highest order Manu-
scripts must be sent by Nov. 10. We shall
| see how great a poetical incentive $500 is.
WHEN Barnum received q telegram, q
| few days since, stating that one of his show
railway trains was wrecked, killing thirty
horses and two camels, and destroying six
cars, he joyously exclaimed: Thank
heaven nobody was killed or injured. We
| shall lose one show day and night in
Montreal, but we have plenty of trained
horses to fill the places of those killed.
The Lord reigns, aud it is all right" And
he went to bed and slept nine hours.
YOUNG man asked a lawyer of Montreal
to find out what was the fortune of a young
woman of that city. The lawyer went to
work and in time reported that the lady
was worth at least 100000 The client
seemed satisfied, promised to pay literally,
soon married the young woman, and sent
the lawyer a check for q rather small
amount. The lawyer sent in a bill, and the
young man wouldn't pay. Then followed a
lawsuit and publicity.
THERE is shown in the Exposition of An
thropological Sciences at Paris the cast of
the two horses heads found in such a posi-
| ton that the men of science are warranted
in placing them at the very beginning of
mems efforts to create works of art. The
originals are carved from bone, but are so
I. fragile with age that they will not bear the
/ light. The power and knowledge of anato-
my shown by the prehistoric cave man
who carved these horses are said to be
most surprising.
A RECENT visitor to Madagascar says
that the Queen is a small. slender woman,
about twenty-three years of age, of very
light color and very sad. Her dresses all
come from Paris. On the day the CORE
spondent saw her she wore a white cash
mere robe with a heavy silk train. a man.
tie of the same, with cut steel buttons, a
hat of white silk, with ostrich feathers and
silver crescent ornaments, q cut-steel
brooch, and earrings and pendants, and
white kid ~fOur-button gloves. with brace
let's OF the national Jewel" red coral.
C~HIEF-JUsTICE CHASE had a low affair
which he never forgot. alth ough he lived
to marry and bury three wives before he
was forty years old. When a poor school
teacher in Washington he had among his
pupils the sons of William Writ, the At
torney- general of the United States. Miss
Wlrt's particular friend was Miss Eliza
beth Cabell, of Richmond. Va, who fire.
quently stayed at the home of the Wirts.
Here Mr.. Chase met her and lost his heart,
but the proud Virginia girl, while pleased
with the attentions of the clever Yankee
youth. would not think of marrying a
school-teacher.
SENATOR INGALLS, IS as sly as Joey Bag
stock. He has been in Washington for
quite,a while, but has so far managed to
keep out of the clutch of bores. A reporter
questioned ingalls, as to the modus oper-
andi: "Oh," said the Kansan. laughing,
''you don't see that, dom youi Well, a
Senator or Representative in Washington
during the summer months stands about as
much chance as a goose in January. You
Sic, they are very scarce. and everybody
who wants something is bound to button
J "ole them. But what is the matter with
wing two roomsf' no continued. IF you
I, nave Headquarters at two places and know
the ropes the devil himself couldn't catch
YOU"
THE Pail Mall Gazette tells q pretty
story, which it got from ar old resident OF
Chelsea, London, of the habit of Thomas
Carlyle of going out along about midnight
every night to the old bridge on the
Thames to stand for an hour. leaning or
the rail, in one of the recesses of the bridge,
l-or.o On fba eide poyt fowu Ha uovay