The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Mary Crosby, a poor seamstress liv-
ing at Springfield, H., has won suit which
entities her to land in North Carolina
worth $4,000.
The birth of son to the Crown Princess
of Roumania makes the heir to that crown
and to the crowns of Germany. Britain.
Greece, Hesse and SaXe-Coburg, all de-
5cendantS of Queen Victoria.
The Princess Eulalia has been made an
honorary Daughter of the American Revo-
luton on the ground that she is the only
living descendant of Carlos III, of SPAIN
who advanced to John Jay $l50000 in 1779
for the use Of General Lafayette in Amer
lea.
The railroad chapel car evangelist, Rev.
Boston Smith, is meeting with great sue
cess in the Northwest. Mr.. Smith was the
first missionary to utilize a railway car as
a chapel. The car he now uses was built
for him by John ID. Rockefeller and other
capitalists, and will seat one hundred per-
sons
The parents of Chang, the dead Chinese
giant, who are still living, are people of
only ordinary size, and there nothing
unusual about that of Chang till he had q
brief illness in his boyhood, when the
growth set in that gave him command
ing eminence as one of the human curioS
of the time.
bust of Mayor Carter Harrison by
Bracciolni was receiving its last touches
when he was assassinated. 1t is exactly the
size of life, has the chin raised. the chest
thrown out and the head slightly bent, as
If listening. 1t is said to be an excellent
likeness, representing the Mayor in a char
acteriStc pose.
When he seventy years old Friend
Isaac Sharp, of London, made a journey
round the world missionary business.
Now, at lightweight, he is his way to
Baltimore to attend the Yearly Meeting of
the Orthodox Friends. which convenes next
week. He started three years ago and has
visited India, Australia, China and Japan
route.
Lady Cles Beresford states that the real
cream of London society, when freely
strained, consists of from thirty to forty
families, and no more. London society, ac-
cording to Lady Beresford, consists in one
part of people who believe they have a
| right to be known as society. people and
are willing to pay for it, while the other
consists of those who are constantly strug'
| Cling to enter the social paradise.
Toole, the great comedian, is invet-
| crate practical joker. Several years ago he
| gave a supper eighty of his friends. but
| beforehand he wrote a note privately tc
| each one asking him if he would be SC
| good as to say grace, as no clergyman
would be present When Toole raped on
| the table as Il signal for. grace. and the
eighty men arose to their feet the faces OF
the company were a study never 10 be for
| gotten.
Mrs. Leland Stanford is one of the bust
| est women on the Pacific coast. Since the
death of her husband with immense wealth
| at her command, and with no one in the
world who is especially near and dear to
| her. she has devoted her time to managing
personally her late husbands vast interests
She is at her desk almost continuously
from in the morning till III the after
| noon. She is siXty-eight years of age, but
| as spry and keen as woman of fifty.
The Japanese Gazette of Yokohama,
| has been run by woman until lately, but
| she has been deposed. She implies that her
| sex was the cause, and writes q poem 10
her Editorial Chair in her last edition.
1t runs:
| 81 leave thee not with vain regret,
Nor yet with TO thee forget;
A man. l might have filed thee yet,
| Ny Editorial Chair!'
Mr. Paderewskis extraordinary popular
| ity in England is shown by the fact that as
| soon as his agent had made arrangements
| in twenty-five cities for tour the tickets
| in some of these cities were sold a month
or more before the date of the concert. TIC
an interviewer Mr.. PaderewSki said that he
| sometimes. when preparing for a concert
tour played fifteen hours 4 day TO keeT
his fingers supple and his memory active
| 1t is fatiguing he admits but he has ar
antidote, which is billiards. IF i walk OF
ride, or merely rest / go on thinking al
the time, and my nerves get no real rest
But when / play billiards | can forget ev-
| erything, and the result is mental rest and
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