The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The late Marshal MacAIahon first met his
wife while saving her from a fire at the
risk of his own life.
The Nabob of Rumpur, one of midas
saddle-colored princes, has been in Berlin
recently. He was received with great dis
tinction. and entertained by the highest
people in the city.
When the Cleveland Relief Association,
a day or so ago. refused aid to one woman,
she drew $1,000 from a bank. and, shaking
the mud of the city from her well-shod feet,
started for Germany.
BY next September Bryn NIawr College,
of the leading colleges for young wom-
en- in the country. will have a woman pres
fdent Miss Thomas who will then succeed
DIR. Rhoads president of the college.
St Nicholas was a bishop of Myra, in
Asia Minor in the fourth century, and dur
ing his long and careful life devoted him
self in so eminent a degree to the service
of the young that before ne was gathered
to his fathers his services were invoked
by mothers in behalf OF their offspring.
The task of cataloguing the library Of
the late Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte,
which has occupied Mr.. Victor Collins dur
ing whole year, is now finished. 1t was a
very laborious undertaking, inasmuch as
the books and pamphlets reach a total of
$4,000. necessitatinS $4,000 separate descrip-
tive headings.
The mother OF one Of the kindergarten
children at the College settlement, in New
York city, is a Hungarian woman who has
been in this country for six years. When
she came, she says, she set to work imme-
diately TO learn our language. Only since
her child has been attending the kinder
garten has she learned that the language
of the country is not German.
Capt. Gerry Bassett, Of Hyannis. Mass,
is eighty-four years old and son of a rev.
dictionary pensioner. He remembers back
cha SaI
a cotton-loaded schooner into Hyannis har-
Dor, where the captain ran his vessel
ashore. Some of the townspeople secured
cannon and fired several shots from the
shore which frightened the invaders away
without gaining the coveted prize.
Isobengula, says n gentleman, sometimes
evinces an utter disregard of human life
that is simply devihsh. As an example.
was sitting with him his wagon. one
morning, and ne was sighting a gun which
some trader had presented to him. Just
then a stalwart young kafIir was leisurely
walking from one kraal to another. when
Lobengula deliberately aimed and shot the
unfortunate fellow, the heavy load of buck
shot lodging in his back
Young Mrs. Blaine" as she was once
called. but now the wife of William T.
Bull, has grown stout and handsomer since
her divorce from James G. Blaine. jr., and
her marriage to DR.. Bull. she has been
abroad. and returned with many bewiIder-
ing triumphs of the great Worth. She has
taken a beautiful home in New York, and
has servants. horses and carriages at her
command. Her husband stands near the
head of his profession, with an income OF
$4,000 a year.
In a conversation with 4 visitor from
Boston recently. George ". Childs said
that there was never any jealousy between
Grant and Sherman, though there have
been reports that such jealousy did exist
and related Grants criticism OF Kauf-
mann's painting. the March 10 the Sea-"
which hangs in the hall OF the editors house
at Long Branch. In the picture Sherman
Is represented seated before his tent de-
void OF coat and vest, but clad in fine
white shirt. Grants first remark when he
saw tha painIing Mns: us eXcellent and