The Indianapolis journal., 1890-01-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT paid the
managers of Sarasate and D'Albert $1,000
to allow the musicians to play for her
guests two hours
PROFESSOR TUCKER, of Andover. is said
to limit the original thinkers of America to
three, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Frank
lin and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
CYRUS W. FIELD is now three score and
ten years old. but still in active business
life. His first employment was as errand
boy for A. L. Stewart, at 50 a week. His
duties required him to open and sweep out
the store.
SENATOR EvARTs is noted for being
courteous gentleman and even in the hustle
Ct a big city crowd he never fails to lift his
hat and bow If by any chance he runs into
any one of the fair pedestrians who thrOng
the thoroughfares.
CLAUS SPRECKELs," says friend of HIS
"lOOks so much like the conventional idea
of Santa Claus. the Christmas saint. that
no one ought to be surprised at his being
named Claus The old sugar king has a
full white beard, rosy cheeks, and lux
uriant, snowy hair"
REV. JOHN w. FARNHAsI, the minister of
the colored Methodist Church at Charlotte.
n, c.. wears boot the size of which is S512.
which necessltates sole 20inches in length
and inches broad The preacher stands
feet 1O inches In his stockings and weighs
4lO pounds when stripped of his impedi-
ments.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES and John
u. Whittier are optimistic old men. The
former in prose and the latter in poetry
have recently given voice to their ideas re-
| gardlng old age. Their cheerfulness is a
| rebuke to aged Europeans of note who seem
| to grow Grabbed as they approach the end
| of life.
Miss ANNIE GULDsIoNE, the daughter of
| the family physician of the Prince of Wales,
| died recently in London, and left in her
| will bequest of f3OO0 to be deposited in
London bank, and its interest applied to
| the purchase of several bottles of the
! best champagne for the use of actors and
actresses on every occasion when the play
calls for wine-drinking upon the stage.
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, like Tenny-
son and Gladstone, is eighty years old. He
is small, slender man. with bright face
| dresses with taste and talks with ease. His
| first verses were written at college and
| published in the college paper. "Old Iron-
Sides was originally published in tho BOs-
ton Advertiser, in 1890. when he was twen-
| ty-one years old. OF his poems, he himself
prizes The Chambered Nautilus"
| THE favorite fad of the hour among lux
urious New York women is have them
selves rubbed all over several times a
week, afterthe bath. with cocoa OIL 1t is un-
doubtedly good for the nerves. nice for the
skin and nOurishing. 1t is a favorite prac-
| 1ce with Mrs. Clevelend, whO by the way,
decidedly refines and improves with time.
| She has now the expression she looked as q
bride, and her hair and complexion not q
bud can beat.
| THE ticket agents on the New York ele-
l fa6
little penny by keeping sharp lookout for
the old and rare coins which they may re-
| ceive and selling these to the old coin col
| lectOrs. Many of the coin collectors have
| certain agents whom they regularly visit
and inquire eagerly for "any finds" Most
OF the money passed in to the ticket agents,
of course. is small change, and some very
rare coins have been picked up in this way.
In speaking of the recent accident to
Emin Pasha. the Stuttgart Tagblatt recalls
the fact that another German-African ex-
plorer had a similar fate. Karl Mauch, hav-
ing spent several years in the interior of
Africa. amid great dangers, returned to
| Germany and secured a position as super
| intendent of q cement factory. One day,
leaning out of window in an upper story,
| he lost his balance and fell to the sidewalk
He died a few days later, whereas Emin
yet survives.
CONCERNING Richard Won Volkmann, the
famous German surgeon. who died on Nov.
os. the Lancet says: His name also stands
high in the imaginative literature of Ger
many. and he will long be remembered in
non-scientifc circles as the author of
'Reveries at French Firesides.' These
pOetical effnsiOns were written In the inter
walls of his hard surgical work in the
intended for his own children, but have
gone through fourteen editions and become
the. common property of the German
nation"
| p. T. BARNUM is not popular with the
patriotic citizens of Canada. There is a
heavy duty on circus posters in the. Domin.
ion, and Mr.. Barnum has been under grea.
expense in taking printed matter across the
border. He planned a Canadian tour fol
1856. and two years before that date he sent
tons of posters to Canada and neglected to
at the custOm-hOuse and was advertised
for auction at last. Barnum sent an agent
to the sale, who bought the bills at q bar
gain. The story leaked out. and now
Phineas L. is on the Dominion blacklist.
A LONDON gossip gives the following
story as illustrative of Lord Tennyson',
peculiar manners in society,"" In his early
days, when he had no greater horror thar
that of being lionized a great lady wished
to introduce to the laureate a musician
who had set some of his songs to music. A
party was given for the occasion. Tn,
laureate appeared. and the musician sans
his songs to him with every power of ex
preston that he knew how to produce. Al
the end of the performance every body
waited the word of the poet. There was
blank silence. The hostess feared the song
had not produced good impression. The
silence became agOniZing. At length, from
the corner where Tennyson sat came
voice, choking with emotion: do you no
see that am weepingW
A woMAN's bureau drawer will hold half ton o
clothes,
A parasol. some bandboxes, and goodness onl,
knows
How many scores of other things within it sh
! may store,
| And yet there's always lots of room for twice a
| many more.
But give q man that self-same drawer and Jus
one pair of socks,
An undershirt, some dirty cuffs, an empty collar
box,
And when he's put them in it. Its capacity hel
| giut,
And iii it up so awful full he'll never get it shu,
Chicago Herald
COMMENT AND OPINION.