The Indianapolis journal., 1894-04-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t is not generally known that Sarah
Bernhardt, the great actress, was once
dressmakers apprentice.
Two young women in Sedalia, Mo-, are
looking for Capt. John Turner, who gall
lantly promised TO marry them. Both had
trouSSeauS prepared, but the man has
sought other quarters.
In hitherto unpublished lecture by
James Russell Lowell just presented to the
college daily at Harvard, he says: Mere
scholarship is as useless as the collecting
of old postage stamps"
Hon. Levi p. Morton, who went to Paris
last winter to undergo a surgical opera
ton, has so far recovered that ne has left
Paris and is now in England. His foot
gives him no more trouble.
Chaplain Milburn,'' said Tom Reed, when
he was Speaker and the blind chaplain
conducted the devotions of the House, ''can
tell heaven more news in his morning
prayer than any other man l ever heard
Miss Kate Hiliard, in a paper read to
the New York theosophists, speaking of
hypnotism. says that no one while under
its influence has ever been induced TO sur
render a vital secret. Many experiments
have been tried with this intent, but with
out success.
The Comte De Montesquieu rich and
eccentric French nobleman, lives in the
neighborhood of Paris in a show place,
which contains a winter garden. Walking
about among the plants are a great num-
Der of small live Venetian turtles, various
ly enameled, and encrusted with precious
stones.
There are two men living at the present
time who have boards over seven feet in
length. One is an Englishman, Mr.. Rich
ard Latter. of London, who has a beard
ten feet in length and the other is Mr..
Lagland LaroW, of Missouri America,
whose beard is upward of seven feet long.
ca n ha he ftvn hsur
i'll the world.
McLaurin, the new Senator from Missis-
sippi, is a genuine type of the Southern
gentleman. He dresses in broadcloth, as
Senators used to do before the war, with
the waistcoat cut so low as to reveal a
large expanse of shirt-front, and he al
ways carries gold-headed cane. The Sen
ator is man of great personal dignity
and distinguished bearing.
Mr.. Lawson TAFT exonerates the human
race from the imputation of being the only
creatures that naturally take to drink.
Wasps. he says, have the same proclivity.
Mr.. TAFT has watched the wasps eagerly
attacking over ripe fruits, when the sugar
has in some degree been converted into
alcohol. Around such fruits. especially
rotten plumS and grapes, the waSps may be
seen fighting and struggling for precedence
and afterwards, when they are absolutely
drunk with the spirit, they crawl away in
a torpid condition and hide themselves in
the grass till they have slept off the orgie.
A lady who has just returned to New
York from Washington, alluding to the
popular interest in the Breckenridge Pollard
case, remarked I'VE were drinking tea,
half a dozen of us, UP on Connecticut ave-
nue., when the butler brought in the even
ing paper. AS soon the paper came in
our hostess tried hard to hide how badly
she wanted to get rid of She couldn't
read the paper before us but she didn't
want any other member of the family to
get hold of il until she had read it. So
| she deliberately concealed il under a soft
pillow. Then she became so absent-minded
that all went away directly. OF course,
| IL was very ill-bred proceeding, and I've
crossed her off my list"