The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Marshal Canrobert, at the age of eighty
five, says THE life of soldier is the
finest of all. To become a soldier again,
what a sweet dream!
Senator Stewart is the largest consumer
of coffee in the Senate. When he is under
full Roadway on one of his thirtyday adj
dresses he absorbs three cups an hour,
black as your hat and strong enough to
float an egg.
miniature fortress, which has cost
nearly 100000 marks, has just been erected
in the private grounds in the Neue Palais
at PotSdam for the use Of the German
Crown Prince and his brothers, whose
military education is shortly to be COM
menced.
The French have been surprised at the
great stature of the Russian sailors of the
fleet at Toulon They are for the most part
tall, stout, muscular with blue eyes and
blonde hair and have chiefly been recruited
in Finland. The French seem quite small
beside them.
Verdi, the veteran composer, passed his
eighteth birthday recently. He lives in alb
solute seclusion in his beautiful villa of
Santa Agata, near his Birthplace at Bus
seto. and is still, in spite Of his age, an
early riser, O'Clock being no unusual
hour to see him about the gardens
Among the sufferers from the hard times
in Italy is Ger Menotti Garibaldi. son Of
the Italian hero Although the General,
like the other descendants of Garibaldi,
has a state pension of 10000 lire he lost so
much money recently that he was obliged
to allow his furniture to be sol1 last month
TO pay back taxes. The General is a men,
Der of Parliament
William Dean Howells and Henry George
are upon terms of pleasant friendship, and
Mr.. Howels is occasionally one of the
little circle at Mr.. Georges informal Sun
nj oh n
familiar with the several phases of radical
thought upon political questions to know
that Mr.. Howells has endeavored to make
Mr.. George a convert to socialism.
medallion OF Jenny Lind is to be
placed in Westminster Abbey, near Han
dcPs monument. \ long list of names was
signed TO the requistion for permission to
the Dean of Westminster and included
such distinguished signatures as those of
the tn Duke Of Of. Edinburgh, Prince Christian.
Sir John Stainer and the Marquis Of Sails
bury.
Miss Helen Reed, who was recently or
dained a deaconess by Bishop Nichols, in
ST. Stephens Protestant Episcopal Church.
San Francisco, is the first lady to receive
that order in California. The bishop said
that the elevation of a woman to the order
was merely return of woman TO the place
she occupied when in the upper chamber at
Jerusalem, when the Holy Ghost came
Miss Alice Fletcher, the ethnologist, who
has made a study of the Omahas and other
Indian tribes for the Peabody Museum at
Cambridge. has been paid the highest price
OF any woman employed by the govern
ment. AS a special agent of the Indian
Bureau she drew salary of So day for
her expenses while making the allotment
of lands to the NeZ-Perces and the other
tribes given individual holdings or farms
Here is a bit of geography from the Lon
don Sun, following a report of Sunday
sermon in London: DIR. Amory Bradford
halls from Montclair, New Jersey. one of
the three divisions into which New York
city may be said to be divided the other
two parts being the island of New York
and Brooklyn. New Jersey and Brooklyn
each have about 100000 inhabitants. The
church at Montclair is the largest suburban
place of worship In the vicinity of New
York proper. It has membership of be-
tween 800 and 900 persons"