The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-09-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Bret Harte has in his time been a verita-
bic rolling stone, but unlike the stone he has
gathered much moss, or rather something
a good deal more substantial. He has been
In turn miner. printer. teacher. secretary,
journalist, editor, poet and novelist.
Daniel Defoe was a much less provident
man than was his Robinson Crusoe. and
was frequently put in prison for debt. 1t is
q fact of peculiar interest to students of
heredity that a lineal descendant of the
writer, a helpless man OF seventy, is so
poor that he is supported by the parish in
England, In which he lives.
The Rev. Charles Cook. whom Sturgeon
called 1.-The Howard of the day." is now in
America, with the purpose Of visiting the
prisons of the United States and Canada
and examining their methods. He has done
much work In prisons all over Europe and
in Egypt and Morocco. MIR. Cook has al
ready spoken several times in the Tombs.
The prima donna who is to create the
new role in Gilbert & Sullivan's new opera
Is Miss Nancy Mcintosh, an American girl,
sister of Burr Mcintosh, who is now
playing In "1n Missouri" She has sung
with success at Henschers symphony con-
certs IN London and at the Saturday pop
ular concerts. Besides having a fine voice,
she is said to look like Christine Nilsson in
her youth.
The Car is described as the largest eater
among crowned heads and the Kaiser, comes
next. The latter is stated to nave a mania
for eating at extraordinary times. and, al
though dining copiously before going to the
theater, he generally insists on the dis
patch from the imperial kitchens of a
fully prepared supper, which he devours in
one of the private rooms Of the theater
between the acts.
The senior alumnus Of Harvard Univer-
sity In point of class graduation Is the Rev.
William H. Furness, of Philadelphia, Pa,
of the class of 1920. The four subsequent
classes have each but one surviving men,
Der: 1922. Samuel Ward Chandler, of Pht,a-
delphia; 1873. William G.. Prince. of Del
ham,, brother Of ex-Mayor Prince, of Bos-
ton; 1926, DR.. William l.. Russell. of Barre:
1927, Epos S. Dixwell, of Cambridge, former
master Of the Boston Latin School.
Miss Virginia Fair, who is interesting to
the public because of the fact that she will
some time be one of the richest women in
America. is a nineteen-year-old girl. short,
plump, dark and vivacious. She Is a pious
Roman Catholic, and it is said that a few
years ago she was anxious to join one of
the sisterhoods of that church. BY the
death of her mother she became an heireSS
to 81, $780, 600, to pass into her control when
she is twenty-five, and q monthly income of
S2,5OO. Her father Is one or the Western
multi-millionaireS and she will probably
inherit largely from him also.
Geronimo, the once powerful and cruel
Indian chisftain of the West, is now a
quiet and peaceful prisoner at Mount Ver-
non barracks. an army post upon the Ala
bama river, a short distance above Mobile.
When Thaokeray visited New York he
spent much Of his time at the house Of
Harper Brothers, and one day he asked
James Harper whose name stood foremost
in popularity in book sales in the United
States. Mr.. Harper took down a ponderous
ledger, turned up the leaves at the letter J,
and said: George Payne Rainsford James
heads the list, far ahead of any other au-
thor. He turns out q novel every six
months and the success is always the same
tremendous" But that was forty years
ago.
He loved a young lady from Me-.
Who looked upon him with disde.
What. you for my beau?
L don't think you kneau
Enough TO come out Of the re-"
Buffalo Express.