The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-31
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Interest in the career of Pere Hyacinthe
has been renewed by the movement in
England to raise a fund to secure him an
income in his declining days. In a recent
interview the Pere said that the movement
was entirely spontaneous and that he had
not visited London for a long time
Senator Morgan's old school teacher says
that the Alabama 'embassador'' went to
school for but one year. His lack of edu-
cation, however did not prevent him from
studying law at early age and becom-
ing successful practitioner. His literary
requirements. for which he has a reputa-
ton, were gained by reading in later years.
Ontario papers are complaining of the
two-dollar fee demanded for a marriage
license, and their Quebec contemporaries
respond that In that colony young people,
or old ones, if they wish to marry, have TO
pay IS for the Lieutenant Governors per-
nit He was not a paternal statesman,
they say, who devised such an impost as
this.
The magnificent diamond in the Tiffany
exhibit at Chicago, which flashes like an
electric light as 1t goes slowly around on
its revolving pedestal of crimson velvet,
has been bought by Mrs. Charles II. Yerkes
for the sum of 100000 AS to whether Mrs.
Yerkes will be safe in wearing such jew
cl is a matter much discussed by her
friends.
France is soon to adopt an interesting in
novation in the postal-card system. The
cards will be issued in the form of check
books, with stubs. The sender of the postal
card can make memoranda of its contents
the stub. and can have this stamped al
the postofce before the card is detached,
so that verified record of the correspond
cnce can be kept.
Rev A. H. Keigwin, of Wilmington, Del,
refuses to believe that his nephew, John
Verhoeff, met death in Greenland when he
1aff \ III,
ton. He says that he has respect for Lieut..
Peary's opinion. but believes he was mis-
taken in thinking that Verhoef was lost
in the glacier. He himself believes that
Verhoeff, angry with Peary, voluntarily
abandoned the party and started off alone,
intent on discovering the continent be-
lieved to exist about the North pole.
Nine. Tolstoi. wife of Count Tolstoi. re-
ceived a diploma from the Moscow Univer-
sity at the age of seventeen, and was mar
ricd when she was eighteen, her husband
being twenty years older. and she is now.
after thirty-one years of married life, the
mother Of nine living children, and her hus-
bands potent aid in his literary labors.
Harper's Bazaar says she copies and re-
copies her husbands manuscript. task of
which the difficulty Is increased by the
self-invented shorthand in which Count
Tolstoi sets down his compositions.
Mrs. John Armstrong Chanler amelia
Rives) is visiting at her old home in vir-
ginia. She is recovering slowly from an
attack of sciatica- Mrs. Chanler is now
about thirty years old, and her maturity is
said to have heightened the physical beauty
for which she was noted as a girl. Mr..
Chanler is wealthy New York club and
society man. He was one of the heirs of
the late Samuel j. Tilden, who left him n
superb mansion on the Hudson. His wife
still finds great pleasure in her literary
and art work, in which latter she is zeal
OuSy seconded by her husband.
A writer in the Chicago Open Court
makes vigorous protest against the grow
ing custom, which he calls an imposture.
of having papers read in literary gather
ings by other persons than their authors.
owing to the latter's unavoidable alb
sence," especially when the author has
been advertised as positively to be pres
ent and read his paper himself. No sub
stitute reader, this complainer says how
ever graceful an elocutioniSt. can put into
any paper" the magnetic presence OF the
man who wrote it, his meaning. his feel
ing, and that personality which gives to an
essay a special interest of its own.
Though Chicago's a fine place &C visit,
And the fair a sublime spot to roam,
Yet for living and comfort exquisite
There is certainly no place like home
New York Journal
The pup was so good natured
That the tramps all turned him down!
So they put a muZZle on him.
And he terrified the town.
Washington Star.
He knelt at her feet in silence.
But no tender speech did he study;
She looked fair and sweet,
But it wasn't treat
To put on Ter overshoes muddy.
Chicago Inter Ocean