The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. Gladstone, in letter to a friend,
writes: IF any one asks how / am. tell
them L feel like a disestablished church
with bracing breezeS blowing around me-"
The marriage of Miss Hattie Blaine and
Mr.. Truxton Beale will take place on April
80 in Washington. 1t will be a quiet home
wedding. and the young couple. 1t is under
stood. will sail soon after for Europe.
Mrs. Alexander. the novelist, has been
lame for two years from a curious cause.
She suffered serious hurt to the knee. ow-
ing to her cramped position in the dress
circle of a London theater one evening"
and she is now unable to walk without a
stick.
When the French author Paul Bourget
made a tour of the slums of New York, a
few evenings ago, the only thing which
interested him was a slot machine In
which was a pack of playing cards. Into
the slot he dropped forty-eight pennies in
succession before an ace card dropped out,
which entitled him to a cigar.
Sleep has been one of Lord Rosebery's
chief difficulties. Turn on thy noseless
hinges, delicate Sleep has been his unheed-
ed prayer many and many night, and
often, after harassing day at the County
Council or the Foreign Office, when he has
tossed awhile in restlessness, he has got
up. dressed himself and patrolled a London
square in the middle of the night.
Julius Nelson has been a jealous local
preacher in the NJ. E. Church, of New
York, for nineteen years at an annual
salary of $500, and at the end of that
period he finds himself 800 in debt Year
after year he has asked the conference TO
advance him to an eldership His case came
up before the conference in Brooklyn Sat-
urday, and 1t moved him to tears when he
was at last ordained an elder.
Paul Bourget the French novelist, is per-
haps the most remarkable European who
has travelled in this country. He has writ
ten to friends in Paris that he hasn't seen
enough of Americans to crticise them or
their institutions; yet monsieur has been
with us six months and travelled over thou
sands Of miles Of railway Most visitors
from abroad have US sized up within six
weeks after landing in New York
A young woman appeared In Herald
Square, New York. Monday afternoon
wearing a suit that realized the most ed
vanced ideas of the dress reformers She
was plump and shapely, and her black hair
clustered In curls about her head. Her CO.'S
tune was of a delicate gray blue and the
fun boomers were held by leggings of
the same color. She wore a loose Jacket
w snd fanin l5ne ann Gin of masculine
Gus or the attention she attracted as she
pushed her bicycle along.
An amusing description is given of the ap-
pearance of Melba, the great prima donna,
when she first went to Paris to take les
sons OF Marchesl. Her plain wooden dress.
too short In the skirt, looked like the last
years cut of an obscure provincial town.
the combination of colors showed that she
had not the least notion of what taste is
In dress, and her hat looked as if IL had
been made for any one else's head but
hers. That was only a chlysalis stage for
to-day she is noted for being one of the
most suPerbiy dressed women that ever
trOQ the stage