The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Ex-PREsIDENT LEGITIME. of Hayti, is .
social lion in Paris.
ONE of Browning's little -ecceAtricities
was a fondness for using 'Americanisms"
In his talk.
BALzAC lived to be fifty, and wrote twen-
.ty-seven books. Night work and strong
coffee killed him..
KING HUMBERT. of Italy, has been re-
duced like Bismarck) from cigars to cam
phor-quill toOthpicks.
FRANKLIN B. GowEN had q marvellous
memory. After reading a long poem
through twice he could repeat it without
the text. word for word.
Mrs. PICKLER, wife of the South Caro-.
lima Representative in Congress. is said to
be an accomplished orator, and will be
much in demand this winter at temperance
ano woman suffrage conventions.
STANLEY was SO utterly cut off from all
communication with the outer world that
when some one mentioned the name
of General B%oulanger, he exclaimed:
".Boulanger. who is he; never heard of him
before"
THE Pail Mall Budget says that Patti be-
fore leaving for America signed an agree
ment with Mr.. Harrison, of Birmingham.
for a term of three years, during which she
Is 10 TtC6lNc ICUV u QlQub Ill lue PROVINCES
and fS00 a night in London
SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont, has served
longer in the United States Senate than
will have been in the Senate without q
single break fortwenty-f0ur years. Mr.. Ed
munds Will be sixty-two in February.
FRANK r. STOCKTON. who stands at the
head of American short-story writer's. is q
thin, Notwithstanding man, with a fas-
cinating smile and q pleasing mode of con-
versatiOD. He Is a typical American in ap-
pearance, Of the highly-strung. nervous
kind.
influenza is identical with the Pittsburg
grip The disease is caused by a heavy.
moist atmosphere. which Is charged with
floating PARTICLES of dust and dirt, int it
usually prevails after q continuous siege of
damp weather"
The death of the Marquis dc Caux will
recall to Madame Patti one of the mistakes
Of her lifetime. The brilliant but rather
! d~issipated son of the Duchess OF Valmy,
perhaps, first attracted PATHS notice by his
musical taste and talent. His sister, the
Countess of Recalot. was a famous singer.
A more ill-assorted marriage has rarely
taken place, and Patti was glad to be re-
leased by the divorce, which, nevertheless,
| seriously injured her popularity in Eng
] land. Since the divorce the Marquis has
| fallen almost completely out of notice.
GILBERT n SULLIVAN are charged with
plagiarism by Octavius Cohen. of Charles
ton, s. c., who says he sent Sir Arthur last
summera synopsis of a comic libretto of his
writing. called "Niatrici," asking if Sir
Arthur would furnish the music for an in
quite sure that the Doge of Venice in "The
"Gondoliers' is a direct steaI' from one of
| his characters. and heisjust going to choke
off 1.-THE Gondoliers in this country. Mr..
| Cohen thus gets his name mentioned in any
number of newspapers.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet. has just
celebrated his eighty-third birthday. Mr..
Whittier said recently: II have never
been robust. From both my parents / in
herited a sensitive, nervous temperament.
and one of my earliest recOllections is of a
pain in the head. from which 1 nave suf-
fered all my life. Lately / lave not been
able to write for more than half an hour at
q ~time-often not so long. But in MANY
ways l feel that l have been blessed far be-
You'd my deserving. i am grateful to the
Divine Providence. and TRANQUILITY await
the close of a life which has been longer.
and, on the whole. happier than I had rea-
son to expect"
THE Princess of Wales is reported to have
been very much astonished at seeing kits
worn by the Messalia shepherds at the ball
given by the King of the Hellenes. kits
are also worn by the Albanians. and when
the Duke of Hamilton was in Albania not
long ago, ne habitually wore his kilt, al
though he is by no means in the habit of
wearing it w hen treading his native heather.
Many tribesmen On the Thibetan border
wear q kilt, and among these, as among the
wild Lushais on the Assam frontier. against
plOm "A British aNnpdIfinn 10 nnw rpovinu
many tribesmen have not only kits. but
bonnets, breeehes, and tartan plaids. Some
of them also have q bagpipe, or an empty
pOuch very similar to it. with the chanter
and the drones.
NINE. PATTI. the famous diva. occupies a
suite of apartments away up on the
fifth floor of the Hotel Richelieu at
Chicago. During her stay she has
been greatly impressed by the appar.
ent affluence and prosperity of the
hotel bell-boys. When they call in response
to her ring they wear diamonds and rare
jewelry. This Is explained by the desire of
rich young bloods to see the fair cantatrice
in her own apartments. When ste rings,
these swells are ready to don a bell-boy's
jacket and answer the call. but they have
neglected to hide their fine apparel and
madame's order. glancing around the while,
and then they 90 downstairs and have this
order filled by the regular bell-boy, whose
insignia they have borrowed. 1t is a Joint
scheme to reach the elbow of the world.
renowned song-bird.
Mr.. HERBERT WARD. who was with Stan
ley at the outset of his expedition, has
many interesting stories to tell about that
remarkable old gentleman. Tippoo Tib.
His real name is Hamid Ben Mohammed
his nom de guerre being a phonetic effort
on the part of the natives. Tippoo has a
pleasing way of going around in the early
morning surprising peaceful villages where
ivory Is reported to be stored and peggine
away with his rifles. The natives used Il
say that the sound of his gnn was like .'tiI
tip, tip hence they call him Tip Tip
which Europeans ave rendered into the
now famous Tippoo Tib. Tippoo is al
wealthy "a he is rapacious. Mr.. Ward Ia,
a photograph, which he tool Of him il