The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Russian women and Japanese men are
pronounced. by those competent to judge.
the best of the worlds workers with the
needle, as shown in the embroidery exhib-
its in Chicago.
Richard Croker is credited with having
made nearly 100000 through his racers this
year. and is evidently an authority on mat
ters pertaining to the turf. He also knows
a thing or two about dark horses"
Ivan Ottlik, OF the Royal Hungarian
Ministry OF Agriculture, who is now IL,
Washington, thinks our farmers are over
producing wheat, and that in this wheat,
by-and-by. the farmers will find their soil
exhausted.
At an elaborate dinner given him in Lon
don lola maintained his reputation as an
abstemious man by neither eating or drink
Ing during the evening. And yet. accord
ing TO London journal, 1.-The menu was a
real three-volume novel of gastronomy.
Daniel Webster liked to make remarks
OF character intended to puzzle simple
minds. Stopping to dinner one day at
country inn on his way to Marshfeld, he
was asked by the hostess if he usually had
good appetite Madam" answered Web
ster Il sometimes eat more than L do at
other times; but never less"
The Pullman porter has been completely
demoralized this year by the worlds fair.
Two-thirds of the travel to Chicago has
been feminine, and the women who have
carried their lunch baskets expected deal
of waiting on, but tips did not occur nat
urally to them. The Pullman porter did
not expect to feel the hard times, but he
has.
Queen Victoria's will, as may be fancied,
is not an ordinary document by any means.
1t is engrossed in vellurl, quarto size, and
is bound as volume and secured by a pri-
vate lock. The body of the testament was
made in 1876 but on the death of the Prin-
cess Alice in 1873 notifications were nee
eSsary, and in 1854, after the Duke of Al
bany's death, still further revisions were
made.
The late Lucy Stone was the eighth of
nine children, and the night before her
birth her mother MIXED eight cows When
she learned the child's sex she said: "Oh,
dear. I am sorry it's a girl-a. woman's
life is SO hard!' Lucy, even when yet a
child, became indignant at the injustice
done to women by the world and resolved
with infantile spirit to remedy the matter
when she grew up.
One of the most picturesque editors of the
Century Magazine is r. Underwood john
son. His long, silken, fiaxen hair and
whiskers, piercing blue eyes and immense
stature make him resemble the famous old
Vikings that now live only in poetry and
romance. He is considered one of the fore
most poets of the magazine. and as one of
the editors he did much to unravel the
complications of the noted war articles His
gentleness and kindness, it is said, make all
OF his SubordinateS fairly worship him.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, who made adj
dress last week at Skowhegan, Me-, on the
occasion of the first annual convention of
the Maine Federation Of Women's Clubs.
thus appears to a reporter for the Lewis
ton Journal: "As Mrs. Howe slowly de-
Scended the stairs of the hotel leaning on
the arm of her daughter, Mrs. Laura T..
Richards, it was apparent that the feeble
ness of age had come upon her. A loose
wrap thrown over her head, and her
face, framed in its gray hair, was striking
with its strong yet refined lines"
On pianos and organs she lbs
Making strange and mysterious SbS
And the Waterman calls out
To what she's about
err AS he goes on his cold nightly RIBS.
Cincinnati Gazette.
An umbrella for scarecrow
Was in q cornfeld placed,
And with loud caws the sly old crows
Around Ii gravely paced;
When suddenly q shower fell,
And under they went,
And stayed until the rain had ceased,
AS in little tent.
Then they said, as they all trooped out,
THAT mans jolly Teller;
He not only plants the corn for us,
But lends US his uElbreler!"
Detroit Free Press