The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

President Eliot, of Harvard, isn't afraid
to stand up in public meetings and declare
that he takes wine at dinner, and thinks
it no sin, although he diSapproVeS OF public
bars.
Think of a man at the age of eighty-four
starting out to make complete translation
of the works of Horace. That is what
the cable reports regarding MIR. Gladstone.
More wonderful than ever Is TINS most WON
derful of modern leaders.
Mrs N +. Bronston, of Atchison, Kan.
has been setting type for forty-three years.
She learned her trade in her fathers Of
flee in Newport, KY, beginning when she
was twelve years old. She has Deen part
owner of one or two newspapers In her
day, and has set type in many offices In
Kansas.
1t is thirty-four years since Blondin
aroused the interest of small boys the world
over by walking across Niagara Falls on
a tight rope. That vas a generation ago,
and It is not surprising to learn that ne
will soon be seventy years old. But his skill
in aerial feats has not abated, ana ne Is
now amusing the patrons or Londons Crys-
tai Palace.
BY his marriage with the heiress Of the
Konary family the Khedive has just re-
ceived a magnificent present from his moth
or in the shane of a toilet service of gold,
superbly chased and inclosed in huge
ebony chest. There are about thirty pieces,
each of which bears monogram OF the
Khedive in diamonds, of which stones more
than 100 have been used in adjoining the
service.
The following good story is told of two
men widely known in literature. Charles
Dudley Warner lives in Hartford, next
door to Mark Twain, upon whom he called
one day and invited to walk. The humor-
list was inclined TO refuse the invitation.
whereupon Warner quoted scriptural au-
thority in support of his request, quoting
Matthew W Al: "And whosoevar shall COM
pei thee to go a mile, go with him, Twain"
The death of Professor Tyndall recalls
quaint episode in connection with his
famous Belfast address. An indignant cleric,
resenting the agnostic doctrines therein pro-
muIgated indited letter to a Dublin paper,
and signed * In English letters 'Fou gar
kai genos esmen This the printer con-
verted into ton gar kai geros soner, and
the next day letter appeared in which the
writer alluded to your correspondent, Mr..
T. G.. K. Soner.
Miss Eliza Work. of Henrietta, n. Y, ex-
poets to celebrate her one-hundredth birth
day very soon. Rendered somewhat gar
rulous by this proud event, she has at last
given out the secret of her longevity. She
says that it is because she never drank
tea or coffee and, above all, because she
never got married. Miss work is house
keeper for her nephew, and she scorns TO
keep a servant; she mas done ne, q pig ga gay ~,
poets to do good many more. Her brother
lived to be 101 years old, but Miss Work
thinks he might have lived many years
longer if he had only abstained from tea,
coffee and marriage. s--rs
Before I'd grown to be very big
l thought IL wise to be an old-line Wing;
AS soon as / could call myself a man
l thought it better TO become Republican
And that's where L get my Democracee
And why I am ambassador TO ltalee.
-"Pinafore Revisited" by w. MacV., in
inc