The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOSTER
bears o strong~ resemblance to pictures of the
late General John {. Fremont, the Path
finder.
HAVING found himself unable to raise
money with which to meet a note for 500.
George Sellers. q young man in Boston,
mortRaged his parents graves In Mount
Hope Cemetery.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is as quietly
funny and deliriously happy over the cleo
tion as if he had controlled it. And he
would get as mad as one of the sp8rr0ws be
loves to feed if he were told that he hadn't
done 80.
THE youngest woman who ever came ont.
of the West and won fame In the East Is
proba bly, Mrs. Eva Wilder McGlasson. who
who has written a remarkable story called
IAN Earthly Paragon"
PAsTEUR will be seventy years old on
Dec. q. and on that occasion he is to re-
ceive a costly present from the chief Rus
sian medical men. In his own country the
appeal for subscriptions for q similar gift
has been but feebiy responded To.
NJ. MARlNoNI, who commenced life as q
factory lad. Is now chief owner of LIE Petit
Journal. of Paris. France, circulating nearly
1850, coo copies daily. andproprietor of sew
eral valua BILE patents, including the famous
rotary printing machine that bears his
name.
NINE. MILLET had but partially recov-
cred from the shock of the death of her
husbana t~painter of 1.-The Angelus") when
her youngest daughter Marianne died, and
since then Nine. Millet has 30 completely
given up all desire for life that she 10 slow
ly dying at her home IN BarbizOn.
JULES SIMON thinks that q pretty woman
will make o very dangerous lawyer. He
says that women demanding equality with
men are often asked: How can you de-
mand equality when you are weakp But
1t would be at least only justice to add:
How can you demand equality when you
are prettyi"
GENERAL BUTLER thinks the best ballot
law Massachusetts, ever had was that In
force for two years about forty years ago,
when the citizen placed his vote inside q
small envelope. II TWO votes were found
there they were both rejected. and there
were rarely more envelopes than voters
names on the poll-list.
GEORGE KEENAN, is DESTROYS Of returning
to Russia. but is regarded with such dis.
favor by the authorities of that country
that he does not think 1t wise to do 90.
Even from this distance it Is q ~disadvant-
&Re 10 u CAlkco 10 Wleuoo 10 D6-
friend 20 show them any interest. A letter
to his friends in the Cars dominions is
liable to get them into trouble.
Rev. DR.. FRANCIS L. CLARK. president
of the Society of Christian Endeavor, is
travelling around the world. He has lately
been in Australia, and Is now spending a
month in Japan. The prediction made to
DIR. Clark q year ago. when the society was
very weak in Australia, that by the time of
his visit there would be five hundred
societies In the colonies. has been fulfilled.
A MUCH-TRAvELED woman says OF
Whitelaw Reid as Minister in Paris: "Oi
all the hosts 1 ever saw. he was absolutely
the most perfect. His wife detested the
whole situation, and was at little pains 10
conceal the fact. But Mr.. Reid contrived
TO entertain ell sorts and conditions of his
fellow-countrym men. to set each one at ease
and make each one feel personally vel.
coIue."
MRS. DELAND. who wrote John Ward,
Preacher" has been the celebrity of the
Deland family. Mr.. Lorin Z. Deland
might have been best known generally az
Mrs. Deland's husband, even about Boston,
had be not invented a football trick. The
evolution of the "Iyins WEDGE with a
funnel for the %unner. from a scheme O,
theory into q telling evolution of the
gosied field has made Mr.. Deland's name
famous.
THE late Thomas Hodgkins. of Setauket,
l.. L., left 500. 600 to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition for the diffusion of useful knowl
edge in regard to the properties of atmos
pheric air and its relation 10 the physica
and intellectual welfare of mankind. The
dvcedent was sometimes called n fresh,
air crank" 1t il related of him that " hiis
travelin & in cold weather he usually car
ricd n rubber tube. one end OF wbIch woulc
be held IN his mouth. while the other END
would be thrust out OF the car window. In
thus indulging IN his fad" however, he
display ed a careful consideration of the
comfort Of his fellow-passengers; and the
fact that he lived to the age of ninety
years is q very good evidence that his hobby
had not been injurious to his owl bodily
health.
THERE'S less of snow and less of cold,
And less OF Christmas cheer;
The weary earth Is growing old
And dulier every year.
And yet the children sport and play,
With laughter loud and clear;
Perhaps perhaps I'm growing gray
And duller every year.