The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MRS. BLOUNT. the ex-ministers wife. says
that som of the native women she met IN
Honolulu were as cultivated ana refined as
any women she ever saw.
ALL of our greatest war heroes died COM
peratively young. The exposures of four
years of waT probably undermined even
the iron constitution OF Grant.
The oldest college graduate in America
is said by tho authorities of the University
of Pennsy lvania to be DR.. James Kitchen,
OF Philadelphia, who was graduated at
that institution in 1878.
A MOSAIC portrait of President Cleve.
land Is on exhibition at Yonkers. N. ".
which contains 800. 600 pieces of Italian
marble of various colors and weighs th rec
hundred pounds. 1t Is the work Of
Marienne Gilbert. an artist at Rome.
ABBOT suggests that. to make
the regular army more attractive. soldiers
discharged after ten years honorable serv-
ice be given by law a preferences for certain
Glasses OF mploy ment in the civil service.
The system has been tried in France and
works well.
THE late Mrs. Margaret A. Capen. of Bos-
ton. left $4,000 in public beqnests. Among
the objects of her benevolenoe were the
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital. the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty TO
Animals and the New England Hospital
for Women and Children.
MANY of the houses in Holland have a
special door which is never opened save on
two occasions. when there is q marriage or
q death in the family. The bride and
groom enter by this door; it is then nailed
or barred up until q death occurs, when 1t
is opened. and the body is removed by this
exit.
BISHOP JOIN F. HURST. of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. who is at the head
of the movement TO establish q great uni.
versity at Washington under the auspices
of that church. reports encouraging sue
cess. Among recent donations. iR one as
large as any that had previously been
made, the name of the donor, however. be-
ing withheld.
SIR WILLIAM GEORGE CCsINs, who re-
signed a few months ago the place of "Mas-
ter Of the .Musick." to Queen Victoria,
after . service of twenty three years. has
just died in the Engsdiue. He appeared as
a pianist when ne was sixteen years old,
and the same ear was appointed orRanist
TO the Queens private chapel. He was con-
ductor of the London Philharmonic So
ciety from 1867 to 1888. and was knighted
last year. In company with Sir Joseph
Barnby and Sir Walter Parrott.
Il AMONG tuo UcIsOus NO nave 0AO gre31
influence in the revolution IN Rio Grande
do Sui 10 a woman-Madame Gabriela de
MatOs. thirty-one years old, with large
blue eyes and blonde hair. AT the begin
ming of the revolt she sold her cattle and
attached herself TO the troops of Yuca
Tigre. whose adjutant she became. She
! accompanied the half wild leader on all
bis expeditions. clad In a uniform which
was a strange combination OF women'sa and
mems attire. across her shoulders she car
ried 8 band OF which were the words:
Long live liberty! Long live Rio Grande
do Sui" Many deeds of courage. as we'll
as kindness. are told of tins unusual wom-
an, who believes that she ia a second Joan
of Arc. called TO lead her country to indie.
pendence.
SHE'S home at last and her heart IA gay.
She opens her wardrobe, alack. alack.
She finds that while she mas been away
The loths have d~evoured her sealskin sacaue.
Boston Courier.