The Indianapolis journal., 1891-03-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

JOSEPH HOFFMAN. the pretty little boy
pianist. who was the pet of New York Ia
dies three short years ago, has grown tall.
lanky and freckled.
JAMES JACKSON. JR. of L0ckp0rt. who
died the other day, leaves q batch of life
insurance offices mourning his loss to the
amount of S200000 Their grief is some
thing terrible to contemplate.
M. RENAN says that the dead Prince
jerome could have written better history
of the Second Empire than any one else.
and that if he had eschewed politics he
would have made great place for himself
in France.
QUEEN VICTORIA is mortalIy afraid that
tho Shah of Persia will extend his proposed
tour to England. She has lively remem-
brance of his last visit when she had to
stand the expense of q regular hOuse-clean-
ing after the Persian monarch had been
got out of Buckingham Palace.
TIE latest thing is . paper horseshoe,
invented by German. 1t is light, elastic
and said to be durable Moreover, it wears
always rough. For that reAson, it is
claimed that it would be admirably adapt
ed for use on asphalt pavements
MRS. FLETCHER, who died lately in Eng
land. was the collateral descendant of
Shakespeare. being in a direct line from
Joan Hart, the poets. sister. She was the
proud owner of his jug and stick. She car
ried on an unusual trade for a woman
that of gun-maker-and made it prosper
greatly.
COUNT TOLsToI is now slowly finishing
new book called Life" He allows himself
to write but two hours daily, giving the
rest of the time to physical toll. Every
morning he rises at 5, and after hasty
breakfast OF tea and hOme-m made bread and
cheese, he sweeps away the snow from his
garden, and then settles down with his
fellow -colonists to make boots.
The Empress of Austria 10 about to
visit Jerusalem. for the purpose of kneeling
beside the Holy Sepulcher. She does not
favor the preparations making for her
reception in Syria, but Ibrahim Pasha,
the Governor. seems determined to pay
extraordinary honors to her Majesty, who
is the second empress to visit the Holy
Sepulcher The first was che mother of
Constantine the Great.
THE ex-Empress Eugenie journeyed re-
Gently from London to San Reno. and the
train halted for an hour at Paris. Although
she sought to preserve her incognito. tho
Empress was Iecognized and speedily q
bowling mob collected about her railway
carriage. The women were particularly
brutal in their insults, and Eugenie was
overcome by the ferocity of the epithets
which were beaped upon her by the people
who once worshiped her very namo.
ITis interesting to note that Queen Vic
toria openly avows that she Is not "above''
believing in certain omens. as Is shown by
DR.. Krause. who quotes from a passage in
the Weiner Allgemeine Zeitung. By COM
mand of Queen Victoria, Mr.. Martin, di-
rector of the Institute for the Blind. has at
tended to making q cradle for the new
ly-born child of Princess Beatrice of Bat
tenbAg. The cradle is to be made entirely
by blind men and women. The Queen
firmly believes that objects made by blind
people bring luck.
MRS. HoDGsoN BURNETT is DOW at San
Remo where she has been for her health
since the death of Lionel. As soon as she
is sufficiently improved she will go to Paris
and make arrangements for having the
body, now I'D the American chapel in that
city, conveyed to America At present Mrs.
Burnett has with her the physician and
trained nurse who attended her son in his
last illness. The doctor, in great meas
use has been made her business man. and
will probably accompany her upon her re-
turn in June. Miss Gertrude Hall. of Bcs-
ton well known In the literary world, Is
also with Mrs. Burnett having gone to her
at San Reno immediately after receiving
news of LlonePs death. Miss Hall has just
brought out book Of poems in London.
ACCORDING to recent reports from the
Orient, the young favorIte of the Shah of
Persia, who attracted so much attention
during the European travels of his illus
trious master, has fallen victim to con-
sumptlon. His Majesty. in consequence.
has become mOr0se. melancholy and un-
happy, as it has been prophesied that he
will five only so long as the favorite is at
hia side. The Shah's condition, in fact,
causes great alarm in Teheran and his Min
listers have done every thing in their power
to console him. Two Persian physicians,
who spent several weeks this winter in
Berlin In studying the "Koch cure" have
been summoned from Stamboul to the bed
side of the sick boy. They have taken the
Koch lymph with them. and viii use it in
treating him.