The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A STREET in Toxic. with the delight
fully ineligible name of "Hunkedory."
Is to be reproduced In detail in the Japan
exhibit st the fair.
MRS. p. L. BARNUM. widow of the famous
Snowman. is at Hot Springs. n. G. Last
spring she was removed from her home in
an ambulance aud placed in q special car
for Hot Springs. Her health has greatly
improved.
MANY people are under the impression
that Queen Victoria delegates her CORE
spondence to an amanuensis. This is quite
q mistake. The Queen is very fond of
writing long and intimate letters to her
friends, and only her official epistles are
written by her secretaries.
WHILE New York is raising statue to
Audubon it is we'll to note that there still
stands In Henderson. KY. the shell of ON
old mill where the great naturalist worked
in HE days of obscurity. Though he was
long resident of Henderson. not q copy
of his great book on birds was ever sold
there.
JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE, the historian.
is tall, keen-eyed, handsome man. of sing
ularly genial manner. with a ruddy, clean
sbaven face. framed in close fitting IRON
gray side whiskers, and locke like decade
younger than his years. which are four and
seventy. He early Tilted the church for
literature, which he has enriched immeas-
urably.
MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE, who sent out
listers, TO be collected In an album for
exhibition at the worlds fair. is much
pleased with the responses elicited. She
has heard from various denominations.
including CongreRationalists. Free Bap-
lists. Unitarians, Universalists and United
Brethren.
THE proprietors of the summer hotels
fear that the worlds fair may hurt them IN
two ways; first. by diminishing their
patronage. and. secondly, By making it
harder to secure coed help. The Name pa
ready gone MP. owing to the fact that so
many workers of all kinds have been en-
gagged to go to Chicago for the summer.
FEW years ago only tha largest of the
dry goods establishments employed q serv-
ant to stand upon the sidewalk. answer
questions. call carriages and perform little
services for the customers. Now every
shop of account in New York, Brooklyn.
Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago keep
public does not see SO much of him. he has
to sweep the walk and help TO wash the
windows. For his various services he re-
ceives 81 aday and livery. Theater man
okcto 0Ao oCkiAhihS ~ ohpiOy
GEORGE KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller.
writing on the Russian extradition treaty
in the May Forum, makes the startling as
sertion, ION the highest authority" that
even now 1.-The Russian secret police az st.
Petersburg open and read the private let
ters of the American minister and the mem.
bers of tho American legation" He adds
sign ieantly. 1t seems to me that q gov
eminent which makes a practice Of open
ing and reading not only the private let
tiers of it's own su bects but the letters Of the
diplomatic representatives of q friendly
state Is not q government upon whose
honor is is safe to rely in . question of ex-
tradition"
SHE frowned on him and called him MIR.
Because in fun he'd merely Kr.,
And then in spite,
The following mite,
This naughty Mr.. kr. ST.
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