The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE real name of the most distinguished
Dutch novelist OF his time. "Maarte Maar-
tens" Is Van do Poorten Schwarz.
SUCCI, the faster, is insane. and now in On
asylum near Paris. His delusIon has taken
the form of a belief that he is Caesar and
Napoleon In one.
DAVID. the artist. when not painting,
amused himself by scraping an old fiddle,
which he did abominably. He would in.
sisr on playing for every visitor. and often
exclaimed. "Ub. If | had culy been born u
.violinist'
Mrs. CROOK, the widow of the Indian
fighting general. is q very fine looking
woman, with snowy white hair that Is In
striking contrast TO hex youthful and VII
yaclOus spirits.
The most eloquen preacher in Canada
is DR.. George Douglas, who is stone blind
and partly paralyzed; he has entirely lost
the use of his hands and arms. and they fall
helplessly in front of him. When be ia IN
the pulpit he stands perfectly still. and to
a stranger would appear TO be half dead.
The Count of Paris has apparently aban-
doned all his ~politial designs. He is living
Quietly in England, and his only recreation
Is an occasional salmoD-fishing trip TO Scot
land. The COunt Is an eX pert fisherman and
can tell as big stories about his Drowess as
ally VI tlo uullDi6E DIctuIcu VI tuO EOu
and line.
BRET HARTE cannot work except in Sc
~clusion, and when he is busy on o story he
will hide himself away in some suburban
retreat known only to his closest friends.
Here he will rise just after dawn. he ut his
desk several hOnrs before breakfast, and
remain there. with en- interval OF an Hour
for "a walk. the whole day.
The Bank of England note IS not of tho
same thickness all through. The paper is
thicker In the left hand corner, to enable 1t
TO take q better ana sharper impression Of
the vlgnette there. and is also considerably
thicker In the dark shadows of the center
Letters aud under the flgures at the ends.
Counterfeit notes are invariably OF one
thickness.
CONTRARY to the general belief it Is said
that l.. Hung Chang. the viceroy and real
ruler Of China. is most kindly disposed to-
ward the Christians. Two OF his daughters
were eduoated in Massachusetts and both
were converted to Christianity. Subse-
quently one married u FreDcnman and the
other an Englishlnan. Their influence has
made their father very tolerant of their CO.
religioDists.
QUEEN VICTORIA has found il necessary
to build q house at Balmoral for the recep-
tIon of her Indian retinue. Her Males.
" a thoy Gio
called at Windsor, give more trouble to
the officials OF the household than all the
rest of the retainers and visitors put to-
gether. Like some cOlored persons In this
country. they exact more attention than is
paid to white people. ana raise O terrific
howl If they don get il.
President PoLK's tomb has been a SUBJ
ject of judicial proceedings in Tennessee.
and 1t has been finally removed to O plat of
Urnunn xuiSbip tha ohaIouv Oh. Oon,l
at Nashville. The courts decided that Mr..
Folks will leaving his estate Ito the
wcrthiest of his name forever was void.
AS constituting n perpetuity. and the Legls-
lature provided the money for the removal
OF the tomb. as the land on which il stood
became lIablo TO division.
BELvA LOCKWOOD was in q reminiscent
mood during an interview the other day.
and she gave some interesting information
in regard to her early career. She was
born sixty-three years ago on n farm in
New York and her youthful characteristics
included q fondness for walking on the top
of rail fences, u 1earlessness OF snakes and
al utter inability TO keep her face clean.
When che was fourteen she taught sonool
and when she was eighteen she married.
Mrs. VIRGINIA BEVERLY MCLEAN. wild
ow OF the lGte Maj. Walker Mclean, who
died recently at Spilmap. w. Va, at the
ago VI ScNoutJ-nNct Wuo OuTlOusly con-
nected with both the opening and closing
of the war. Her husband owned the farm
at Manassas Junction. where the first bat
tie of Bull Run was fought Hoping TO es-
cape the fury of contending armies he
moved to ~AppomattOK. There. in his house.
Grant and Lee signed the articles of sur
render which ended the war.
SENATOR HILLS distaste for the society
of tho fair sex is SO pronounced that il Is
said be takes his meals privately when at
hotels. lie was driven TO this step by the
request of a lady at the Arlington Hotel In
Washington" according to the New York
Telegram. she asked the head waiter TO
place her at the table at which Senator
Hill was sitting. He heard the whispered
request. saw the lady take seat near him
and then arose and left the dining room
before finishing his meal. He never again
appeared IN the general dining room Of the
Arlington"