The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A DISPATCH from Vichy states that Dom
Pedro. the ex-Emperor Of Brazil. has
suffered q relapse and is again confined to
his bed.
STONEwALL JACKSON was . poor horse
man; indeed, he was reckoned the worst
rider in the Confederate army. Bnt if a
poor rider he certainly was success as
raider.
The Atlanta Constitution processes TO
have information from q most trustworthy
source that Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a suf-
ferer from heartdisease, and has made
preparations for sudden death.
ANDREW LANG is declared to write best
in q rose garden; rolstoi sits on his bed and
puts the inkstand on his rutfled pillow:
Dumas fills uses al ebony desk. while Mary
Anderson NavarrO's is mother of pearl.
LORD WoLsELEY. the famous English
general. Is q small man, with Q slim. 1.-THE
figure. His face is ruddy his eyes blue and
he wears dropping gray mustache. He is
now ffty-elght, and his hair has grown
white.
LEO XIII was baptized by the name of
Vincenzo and Gioacchino. His mother al
ways called him by his first name. which
was used by himself up TO the termination
of his collegiate days, when he began to
use the second name.
MRS. MARSHALL ROBERTS, as she writes
herself since her middle initial o. was
dropped, Is the richest widow in London
this summer. and is described by the En-
gIish press as having dark-b eyes and
hair that hides q golden simmer.
The late Pomare V. the last King of the
Ta5itians. was as jolly a monarch as any
that ever ruled over Borrioboola Cha. He
literally drank himself TO death. Long be-
fore his demise he deserted the kava cup
for the champagne of the French invaders,
and in his later years his entire income
went for wine.
ACCORDING to French divorce statistics
the most unhappy period of marriage is
from the fifth to the tenth year. Only
q per cent. of couples seek divorce between
their tenth and twentieth years of union.
Only ono pair in one hundred seek to cut
the knot after the period of over thirty and
under forty years.
Miss ANTOINErTE KNAGGs. q college ed
ucated young woman of Ohio. owns and
manage q farm of two hundred acres. She
carries on her work according to the theo-
ries of books rather than by ancient tradi-
tons. and. contrary to the usual impress
sion about boOk-farmers. she is making
success of her undertaking.
JOHN c. CALHOUN, grandson of the South
Carolina statesman Of that name, declares
that alternate generations in his family
smoked and eschewed smoking He never
touches a cigar himself, and he says the
great apostle of notification never did
either; but his father and great-grand-
father were in veterate smokers
MRS. EMMA BosTwICK. once known "A
the American Jenny Lind, has probably re-
tanned her voice to . greater age than any
other public singer. She is now seventy.
seven years old. but her voice is still pure
and fresh, and she slngs in admirable time
and tune. She 10 the daughter of an En-
glish violinist named Gillingham, and be-
gan her career on the concert stage when
only twelve years of age. BY the time she
was twenty she was widely and fayorabIy
known. Her voice had o range of three
octaves.
Miss SOPHIA g. HAYDEN 10 tho gifted
young woman whose design for the women's
building at the worlds fair grounds was
,, awarded the premium Of 81, 900. She is still
avery young woman. and 10 declared by
competent Judges to be CLOSELY akin to q
genius ana mistress OF all the details of the
profession" Miss Hayden was born in
| Santiago. Chilli. but was educated in Bos-
| ton. and has been for number of years
. teacher Of mechanical drawing in that