The Indianapolis journal., 1892-12-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has been
elected honory vice-president of the Egyp.
tian explora ton fund-a special honor that
WAS enjoy ed in succession by James Russell
Lowell and George William Curtia
PORE LEO XIII owns pearl left to him
by his predecessor on the throne of 81.
Peter. which is worth 100000. and tho
chain of thirtvtwO pearls owned by the
Empress Frederick is estimated at f55. 900.
Mrs. TALMAGE Is the fortunate Dossessor
of Russian sable cloak which. when
worn, reaches down to her feet. Her hus-
band gained something moro than the mere
friendsbiD OF the Gear by his visit to Rus
sia.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is @ physiogno.
mist. He has great confidence in his abili-
ty to read character through the express
sions of the human face. There is a fas-
cnatlon for him in the Dureuit of his theO-
Tetical science.
one of the new army captains just ap-
pointed by President Harrison foughtiu in the
civil war, and had been first lieu utenant
since 1870. Another had been a first lieu-
tenant since 1916. The American army Ia
the worst IN the world for promo otion.
ONCE while canvassing his State, during
a political season, John Quincy Adams was
approached by q weli-to-do farmer. who IN
troduced himself and said. "Mr. Adams.
Pm glad to meet You; my wife RENE IN bers
you well; she was in your family when you
were boy. and often combed your hair"
WELL" said Mr.. Adams. sharply, Il sup
pose she combs yours nOw."
BERxHARDTs crazy lover Benatre. has
Just died in an asylum. He was minor
official of the municipality of Paris, and
became enomored of the actress from seeing
hnr ha csan nf hus
lmplorinR letters resulted but they did not
affect her. He endured her contempt how
ever. until she married NJ. Damala- He
then had to be taken TO Bicetre and thore
he has died, having never recovered from
his hopeless passion.
HoULvIE RAFINDDIN AHMAD, the pres
ent instructor OF Queen Victoria in Hidu-
stani prints an article in London maya
zine in which he says of his pupil that she
has "a mind so deep that she might have
given the world q great philosophical
work" or "a sensational novel OF high rep
utatIon-" He praises her political talent,
and also declares that the people Of the
Unired States, who worship at no altcr but
that of genius, venerate the Queens name.
SUSAN b. ANTHONY is of the opinion that
we arc on the verge of an era of unmarried
women. Our civilization. she says. is
! changing. Daughters cannot be supported
at home and thero is nothing there to busy
them The women used TO spiu and weave
make carpets and soap. but now all that ~
done for them in the factories. Young men
do not make enough money to support thoir
wives, and there Is such . craze for dissipa-
tion among them that the women would
rather go into store for almost nothing
than TO marry.
THE death of Leopold Morse. of Boston,
recalls tho trap which Major Mckinley set
tor him in q tariff debate in Congress
several years ago. when they were 10th
members of that body. The Buckeye
statesman secretly procured from the lsos-
| yonians own store a $40 suit of clothes
marked ''ail wool" and packed them away
in his desk. He then enticed Mr.. Morse
| into q discussion and led him TO say that
under the tariff an ali-wool suit could not
! be made and sold for any thing like So