The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Hot milk is recommended as a healthful
substitute for beer, whisky or other alc0-
holic stimulants in cases of great fatigue
and o~ver-exertion of body and mind.
Mrs. ALICE SHAW, the famous whistler.
has demonstrated the fact that whistling,
even, is hereditary. She has four daugh-
ters. each one of whom inherits her Pc
culiar talent.
SECRETARY BAYARD'S daughter. the
Countess ~Lewenhaupt, intends to pass tho
fall and possibly the winter in Sweden.
1t is not improbable that she will make
her permanent home in King Oscars king
dom.
AT the ripe old age of eighty-one Senator
Morrill,. of Vermont, plays skittles, and.
gun in hand. roams the hills for small
game, There was no need In the earlier day,
evidently, for q professor of physical cult
ure in the Senate chamber.
WHEREVER Queen Victoria goes on her
travels her mattresses accompany her. In
stead of being stuffed with hair. in &C
cordance with American ideas of comfort,
the royal mattresses are filled with the
softest wool, and must all be Of uniform
weight and thickness.
"OLD JUBAL" EARLY is the least recon-
structed of the surviving confederate gen.
erals. He still affects the confederate gray
In his attire and wears the old slonch hat
of the Virginia trooper. A Northerner who
saw him not long ago says that his scarf
pin represented q confederate nag.
lady JERSEY has offered a prize for the
best essay on the subject, "The Influences
of Women" The essay is to be illustrated
by three chapters taken at the writer's
choice. One must be from the Bible. one
from Shakespeare and the third from either
George Eliot. Thackeray or Tennyson.
In spite of Edward Everett Hale's ad-
vancing years-he is seventy-nine-he
shows no signs of giving up work. He is
editor of q weekly paper and of q magazine.
president of countless societies, the heart
and soul of the Lend q Hand" movement,
and besides his regular business of preach
ing, dabbles more or less in politics.
WALTER WINANs, the American million
aire, whose deer forest in Scotland has SO
often formed the theme of parliamentary
debates, and whose revolver shooting is re-
markable, has made a wonderful record
with his f~avorite weapon. At q distance
of twenty yards, with a disappearing tar
get, he scored forty points out OF q possible
forty-two.
Mrs. EMILY CRAWFORD. the clever En-
glish journalist. was the first foreign news
paper woman to establish herself in Paris,
and it was not until ten years later that
an American woman journalist, Mrs. Lucy
Hooper, followed her example. Now there
are many women of both ~natiOnalities who
make Paris their headquarters of CORE
~spondence for papers In England and
America.
Two remarkable old New England ladies
are Mrs. Hannah Eustis and Miss Sarah
Barr, of Wakefield. They are twin sisters,
born in 1900, and are still bright and in ac-
<;va health Go Uraat ia THAR roaam hlonro
in figure, voice and manner that one Is fire.
quently mistaken for the other. The fact
that one is a spinster and the other married
furnishes a puzzling problem as to the
effect Of marriage and celibacy upon Ion.
gevity.
Mrs. WILLIAM AsToR has o wonderful
snake ring which literally writhes in con-
slant motion on her finger. 1t is con-
structed of 1exible gold wire, each scale
being represented by a loop of wire in which
a ruby, an emerald or an amethist is firmly
set. The highest movement of the fingers
sets the wires quivering, and the ring
scintillates and seems to go round the
finger with a ssrpentine movement that has
something eery in 1T. 1t was made in Egypt.
ETHEL CHASE SPRAGUE, daughter of Kate
Sprague, is said by q correspondent to be
one of the most dashing and fearless horse
women in the country. She rides q big bay
horse named Star, the gift of Senator Fair,
and personally sup.rintends the care of her
favorlte in the stable. Miss Sprague has
been familiar with horses for years, and has
passed n good portion of her life in the sad
die. She learned to ride when only five
years old. when her father made her a pres
emit of a Shetland pony.
JAPANESE ladies have taken to journal
ism, too. An English woman. Mrs. Barnett,
was VISITED while In Kioto by a Japanese
woman, whO wished to interview her. The
visitor introduced herself by saying, "My
husband he makes the paper, and l do the
part O. visiting the outside country to help
forward him." The result of the interview
was a long description of Mrs. Barnett's
appearance. age, character and
interests, which appeared in the local
paper. Mrs. Barnett turned the tables by
sketching her visitor.