The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND Things.

Senator Palmer has had his coats made by
the same tailor and the same style for the
past forty years.
Admiral Avelan. OF Russia, received while
In Paris ten thousand letters from young
women asking for locks OF his hair He
used up three bearskin overcoats and ten
fur caps In answering the epistles
Mrs Frances Hodgson burnett says that
she does her best literary work when at per-
rect ease. She frequently plans her work
montnS In advance. and then waits until she
reels that she has perfect period OF rest
before attempting TO complete IL.
Several recent interviews and news items
Indicate that some sort of effort is on foot
to open the Tichborne case again Just
what Is hoped is not apparent. An act OF
parliament forbade the reopening of the
case. and Ii is rather late for moral effect
The women who cudgel their brains over
the concocting OF new dainties for the after
noon tea table may get hint from the al
legged practice of the Duchess of Edinburgh
1t Is said that at her villa at Rosenau she
has every day. at O'Clock tea potatoes in
their Jacketsr
Little work is being done on the s., 600 600
house which Mr.. c. Z. Huntington began 10
build on Fifth avenue. New York. about
four years ago, but Mr.. Huntington denies
the truth OF a report that he intends 10 sell
the property and make San Francisco his
permanent residence
The midwfnter exposition at San Fran
cisco is looming up finely on the horizon.
Twenty-Five buildings are already under
way, and editor De Young-now in Chicago
tells the reporters the Pacific coast show
will include the cream of the worlds fair
exhibits. I'VE are going 10 have a bigger
thing out there than we first expected"
says De Young.
Mrs. John Biddulph Martin formerly Vic
toria woodruff is in this country again. but
this time she comes alone. Lady Cook Qor-
merly Tennie c. Clafin) is not with her.
Their sister, Mrs O'Halloran. of New York,
Is quoted as saying that Lady Cooks eyes
have been opened at last: and that she has
gone out of the regeneration-of-Society BUSH
ness.
Ex-senator George G. Wright. of Dcs
Moines, Ia, and his wife, celebrated their
golden wedding last week, and at the same
time their son, Thomas T. Wright, solicitor
of the Rock Island railroad. celebrated, with
his wife. a silver wedding. Judge Wright
served in the United States Senate from 1870
to 1877, and before that. had been for sixteen
years Chief Justice OF the State Supreme
Court.
1t has been ascertained that the greater
part OF the Desert of Sahara. instead Of be-
ing below the level of the ocean, is from
six thousand feet TO eight thousand feet
above that level. The desert is not rainless.
but showers cover Ii with grass for a few
weeks every year, and large fiocks and
herds maintained upon its borders The
GASES are depreSSionS IN Whlcn water can
be collected and stored.
Marshal Martinez Campos, the famous
Spanish general who was so severely
wounded at Barcelona the other day by the
dynamite bomb Of the Anarchist Pallas. 10
little man. slightly over five feet in height
He comes of a bourgeois family. and is so
modest about his performances. which in
clude the restoration or the late King al.
fonso to the throne In 1874 that he would
not accept any of the honors which both
Don Alfonso and his widow, In turn, sought
to bestow upon him. Queen Christina has
had to content herself with making mobiles
OF his two sons, who are cavalry ofiicers:
one being created Duke OF SEQ d'Orgel ana
the other Marquis De Baztan.
This is the kind OF weather
People call the early fall,
And the overcoat Is missing
You left hanging In the hall.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.