The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND receives from
ten to twenty letters day containing rec
ipes for reducing his obesity.
The wealthiest negro woman in the
United States has rust died. Sue was Nrs.
Amanda Dickson Toomsr, of Augusta. Ca.
ard -he inherited nearly $500. 600 from her
fsti er, who was wealthy white farmer
OF Haac COX county IN that Stae.
EDGAR SCOTT. of Philadelphis. son of she
late Thomas Scott will visit Sweden and
Norway this summer in his yacht. On
reaching the age OF twenty.one, IN August
last he came into an income of 81. 000. 900.
and this will be doubled when he - twenty-
i've.
Paris is 60 have an exhibition OF aged peo-
pie of both sexes, from July Is to July a5
Foreigners as well as native born French
men Will be allowed to enter Where are
known to be eighty ceutenarlans In the re-
public. the senior of whom is q M. Rives, of
Iarles. who 10 1913.
MRS. GRANT denies the truth of published
stories to the effect that her granddaugh-
ter. Vivian Sartoris. 10 to study for the
stage. Mrs. Grant says Vivian. w no is tbir-
teen. and lives With Mrs. Sartoris in Lon
don. is very clever and fond of amateur
theatricals. but that Is the only foundation
LOT the allegation that she II TO become an
actress.
Mr.. DoBBINs writes TO the Plttsburg
Dispatch that the very object iona BILE bit Of
slang 'tbe wind blsw through his
whiskers7 is not American at all. In fact,
Dan Chauoer. who wrote the Canterbury
Tales" In the tale of Tho Shipman" co.
ours this remarkable line, "Wltn many q
tempest had his beard been shaken"
ALL the principal actors in the Panama
scandal are confined to their beds. Hertz
is dying at Bornemouth in England,
Ferdinand de Lesseps is mentally and
physically wreck. Charles de Lesseps Is
In the hospital az st. Louis. NJ. Marius IS in
the infrmary OF the Melum prison. and ex-
Minister Baibut 10 in the hospital OF the
prison of Etampes.
MR. STANFORD had wise. prudent IA
ther. and, up to the day of his death. the
Californian recalled with real tenderness
the days when he folio red that honest, pa-
tient, toiling father down the lane and
through the nome pasture into the wood lot
beyond. where there was work to be done.
He could hear the old mans kindly voice
calling to him, aad the picture of the st0op.
ing form. the hOary head and benignant
face of that sturdy, gentle being was en-
sbrtned to the last In the cons memory.
AT Windsor Castle. on a recent evening.
the Queen invested Lord Herschell with
the Grand Cross of the Bath in the draw
ing-rOom after dinner. On these occasions
the Queen Is always very rapid in her
movements. and Lord Herschell. having
sunk on his knee to be invested, received
the honor of knighthood" before any one
could interfere. The Queen mad quite over.
looked the fact that ne had been kniGhtad
in 1850. on his appointment to be solicitor
general. It's probably the fires time dur
ing the present reign that y man has been
twice knighted.
GEN. BRADLEY T. JOHNSON. the Mary
land ex-confederate, thinks that she in
crease of confederate colonies since the
war smacks of the burlesque. 1T is we'll
known" he says, that in Baltimore and
New York there are living now enough
colonies to officer both armies, and the
United Confederate Veterans seems to be q
factory of generals and oolOnels. AS far as
/ my self am concerned, | prefer my title of
colonel ommanding the Mary land line.
am the only man who ever lived who was
ever entitled TO OF won that rank and when
die want that on my tomb. The brlga-
der generalship never took stock in. 1t
came two years after l won it. and 1 only
held onto 1t otter tho war because Ii had q
halter at the other end"