The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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| native Floridian living.
Miss TENANT, who is presently to be-
come Mrs. Stanley. is descendant of Crom-
| well.
JAY GOULD is not an ornamental person.
| He wears no jewelry except a small gold
| shirt stud.
| UNLESS he changes his plans. Henry NJ.
| Stanley will Fay his friends in this country
| visit next October.
Mr. AND MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND will
| attend the Harvard commencement as the
| guests of President Eliot.
/ OCTAVE THANET. who is so well known
| as writer of short stories, is TN enthusiast
tic amateur photographer.
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY. Chester county,
Pennsylvania. Presbyterian institution
for coiored youth. has received nearly S60.-
| 600 in beQuests this year.
| JAMES PAYN. whose light, off-had literary
work is SO much better than his heavy
novels. Is said to pass ono-twelfth of his
| time at the whist table.
THE University of North Carolina is now
101 years old. AT their meeting on Wednes-
| day the alumni voted to raise so. 900 for the
endowment of chair OF history.
A PITTsBURGER, being asked by the CEN
sus enumerator for the profession trade
| or occupation Of his wife, as provided in
CONGRESSMAN VAUx is going to do as
they used to do and wear his claw-hammer
| coat in Congress. Antiquity has no busi-
| ness to become candidate for ridicule
THE Prince of Wales recently ordered an
| Administer carpet made in one solid piece.
| with twenty-seven irregular projections
When it went down it fitted like the paper
| on the wall.
GEN. JAMES w. DENVER. after whom the
city of Denver, Col, was named, is still
hale and hearty at seventy years of age.
de is one OF ex-Attorney-generalG Garland's
law partners.
The district attorney of Saratoga, N. Y,
has secured pane of glass recently taken
from house in Ballston, near the old iron
spring where Washington Irving stopped
| In 1902. Upon Tie glass written, with a dia-
mond. is the famous authors signature:
washington Irving, 1902"
AT q recent dinner given by Mrs. Astor
the table-cloth and napery were of ivory
white silk and satin damask. Down the
center of the cloth was foot-wlde panel of
hand-wrought lace. which showed beneath
| it rose pink satin. The famous dinner
service Of solid silver was used.
COLLEGE undergraduates of old school
propensities may learn, through lecture
by Andrew Lang on 1.-The natural history
of society" that relative of Kubla Kahn.
chief whose bad luck brought on him the
sentence of death by his tribe, was tossed
in blanket till he died.
WHEN Fred Grant was o candidate for
Secretary of State in New York he hap
pened to make tins astute remark in one
his brief speeches: 'Tt is easier to handle
a surplus than deficit" Perhaps no ex-
preston is now SO frequently used in bust
| ness circles. Both fortunate and unfortun-
ate have recourse to it.
NOTHING delights the average English
man more than to be member of q society
with long and involved name. In fact,
societies such as ''The Society for the Bet
ter Promotion OF Relaxation from Business
cares ana EnJoyment during Luncheon
Hours in the Municipality of London
grow In strength and influence.
Mr.. PARNELL usually wears loosely-fit-
ting cutaway coat. But on state occasions
he always dresses in frock coat, and, like
Mr.. GladstoDe's. it is garment 80 we'll
worn that 1T is often disagreeaDly shiny.
1t was observable. however, that after wln-
Times he appeared in a magnificent new
suit.
AN eastern paper says w. s. Gilbert, the
composer, is one of the most grabbed and
disagreeable Englishmen who ever touched
these shores. He was here only a few
| weeks. but in that time he succeeded in
antaRonizind nearly every American with
| whom he came In contact. and establish
| ing an unequaled reputation for boorish-
ness.
| A SWISS savant has made discovery
which seems almost to reverse known nat
| ural laws. He reduces milk to q dry pow
der in such manner that by the addition
| of water 1t at once assumes all its natural
| properties. 1t is claimed that milk in this
| form IS much better than canned or con-
1 Ii no an o. r.
in it.
THIS month brings round the seventy
fifth anniversary of the battle of Waterloo
One thing to be observed in connection
with it is that the historical Waterloo ball
room at Brussels is in the hands of the
auctloneer. And one thinks of Napoleon,
who was wont to regard himself as the
imam of destiny" He and his works have
gone. People may stand in awe of his gen.
ius. but they do not love him.
THERE is in Boston an informal club
composed of dozen business men who
dine together daily at one of the hotels.
Their own law is an rnwritten one that
each one shall shake hands with those al
ready seated at table when he comes In at
the usual hour. Once a man came in and
took his place without this little ceremony,
and the others rose gfavely. walked around
the table. shook hands with the returnin 9
member and seriously returned to their
places.
A CONSPICUOUS figure IN the procession
at the unveiling Of the Lee monument at
Richmond was the venerable. Prof. F. N.
Crouch, the composer of Kathleen Ma
vourneen.D He is perhaps nearer ninety
than eighty years of age. yet hale and
| hearty. He was arrayed In full UNIFORM or
! confederate gray, having coming on from
Baltimore to meet probably the last time
his soldier comrades of the old First How
| itzers. His comrades say that no braver
| soldier ever fought with the artillery OF the
, | Army of Northern Virginia
! DE Vrvo. the operatic manager, speaking
of tour he made in 1867. relates this breezy
remlniscence of Clara Louise kellogg:
Miss Kellogg did not make much of sue
cess She was q slender girl. bashful and
, very fond of pies. | remember well on our
first stop for breakfast at the Syracuse de-
| not. Brignoli was vis-a-vis to her, eatin Z
: | chops. eggs beefsteaks, stewed chicken
etc. as he was the greatest eater of all the
3 | singers ever saw. Seeing Miss Kellogg
eating q piece of pie and drinking a glass
of milk he said TO her; Mia cara. you must
eat beefstaks, beefstaks. beefsraks. chops,
, chops, chops and drink buono clarete 9th.
A ervise you will never be able TO sing. You
are too weak. Take my advice land know
very we'll that she did take his adyicel and