The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson gave
a very swell dinner and dance at their home
in Samoa on Washington's birthday. All
the dignitaries of the island were present
TO the number of one hundred or more.
A Scottish minister made the following
announcement from the pulpit: "Weel,
friends, the kirk is urgently in need of sill
Ter, and as We have failed to get money
honestly we will have to see what a bazaar
can do for u.s."
A business man in Bad Axe, Mich, want
ed to give his son a lesson in the effects of
the tobacco habit. He offered the youngster
a cigar, took one himself and both began
smoking. The old man had not used the
weed for years, and was the first to so I'M
der the table.
Another woman writer, Miss Olive
Schreiner, has gone over to the married
minority. On April % she became Mrs. Grim
wright. Her husband is a clever, hard-head-
ed young c%olonist, with much force OF char
acter and strong views on South African
politics. He is about thirty.
David Mccoy. a pensioner of the war Of
1872. who recently celebrated his 104th birth
day, at his home In San Bernardino county,
California, fought in the battle Of the
Thames and witnessed the death of Tecum-
sch, the Shawnee chief, who was the ally
OF the British, in October, 1913.
Miss Harriet n. Haskell, principal Of
AlOuIiCcllO OciliiidIys 1lll1OtSs lhdt
some of the girl students were receiving
surreptitious notes and packages left at the
store of John Roberts. She prohibited the
young women from going to that store, and
this boycott is the basis of a suit for 5000
damages brought by Roberts.
Mr.. Leland O.. Howard, who has been ap-
pointed entomologist In the Department of
Agriculture to succeed Prof. C. V. Riley,
resigned, is a graduate of Cornell. of the
class of 1877 He has been coeditor with
Professor Riley of Insect Life, the bulletin
issued by the department. He is now pres.
ident of the international Association OF
i Economic EntomoicSists.
3 Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson's estate in
Samoa includes four hundred acres of forest
land, and is situated at an elevation rang
ing from six hundred to fifteen hundred
feet. Among the products of his plantations
are bread fruit, pineapples, bananas. cocoa,
india rubber. sugar cane. ginger, kava, taro,
grenadillaS, oranges, lines, citrons, cocoa
nuts. manages, vanilla, coffee, cinnamon
and guava.
Though he frequently appears on the
Chicago Board of Trade, "Old Hutch has
ceased to be a factor there. He is a mere
"Reminiscences of his former self, and moves
about without a word to say except in
answer to some inquiry. During the last
two years of his active life on the floor,
which ended two years ago. ne squandered
n selling. His fortune was once $1,000, coo,
and he carried a larger cash balance than
any other man west of New York.
Ex-Postmaster-general Wanamaker, who
is now in London as one of the delegates
to the international jubilee convention Of
Young Mems Christian Associations, has
been the object of a great deal of social
attention, and will receive much more. He
Is very pleasantly situated at one of the
small and cozy, but very exclusive, London
hotels. Beside that he has been rendered
the Inequalities of Lord Kinnerd, the Earl
of Harrowby. Lord Chancellor Herschell
and other distinguished men. He was one
of the first delegates to arrive. The con-
vention will open next month, but a special
reception in Mr.. W~anamaker honor was
given on Tuesday.
Maud Muller, on a summers day,
Seemed to be raking the new-mown hay;
But the close observer, however, could
See that Maud was saving wood.
Detroit Free Press.
See how the twigs meath summers genial
kiss
Blush into blossoms that delight the eye.
Freshness and fairness In armoni bliss
Join to rejuvenate the passer-by.
'Tis 50 throughout the land; the ardent
spring
Left town and country full of hope, and
glad;
Except that city. poor, forsaken thing,
Whose baseball club is yellow, sore and
sad.
Washington Star.