The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Prince Bismarck has a very loud, harsh
voice, and generally speaks in a dogmatic,
dictatorial way that admits of no contradic-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone recently gave a
servants ball. The festivities commenced
by Mrs. Gladstone dancing with the butler.
Mrs. Gladstone is eighty-two years old.
The dressmaker, Worth, said that while
he made some gowns that, with expensive
trimmings, cost as high as 10000 francs,
less than 1000 francs, or $500.
The late NJ. De Giers was different from
a good many Russian statesmen. He left
behind him no provision for his family. The
and her children a pension of 1900, 900
roubles.
While the late Snowman w. c. Coup was
connected with Barnum he received a letter
from a sick child at Syracuse regretting
that he could not come to the show and see
elephants march out to the youngsters
home and perform their tricks before his
window.
The New York Sun says it is not gener-
ally known that Cedar Hill, the beautiful
home where Frederick Douglass spent the
last and happiest days of his life, was pur-
chased of an estate whose last white owner
stipulated in his will and testament that
the property should never pass to the own
ership of a person of African descent.
The late Car directed, just before his
death, that $4,000 roubles should be put aside
for the benefit of artists who would lose
their income from the closing of the the
aters during the period OF mourning. The
SO great that if all had been considered,
they would have received only i've roubles
apiece.
Miss Meredith, the English artist, who
has made such a success in India as a por-
trait painter, finds she must use adroit fat
terry to induce the ladies of zenanas to wear
their exquisite native costumes. Their re-
quest is invariably: Paint me fair" A
light complexion is a sign of many genera
tions of indoor seclusion, and. therefore, of
high caste and pedigree.
There has just died in Whitechapel a Mrs.
Todd, who was present at the battle of
Waterloo. She was then only ten years old,
but viyidly remembered to her dying day
many of the scenes of carnage. Her mother
was a woman employed to work for the
army. Her father was a British soldier. and
he was killed near the tent In which the
girl and her mother were.
A Nebraska paper, speaking of the as
sistant secretary of the Senate of that
State, says that in delivering a message
from the Senate to the House the other
day "he brought his marvellous voice with
him." He is then described as tossing his
voice carelessly about from one corner of
the chamber to another, finally winding it
UP in a close coil and replacing it in his
thorax."
Prince Bismarck, although an old man
and a man of the world, has not quite lost
his n~aivette. There is something refreshing
about his statement: "During my diplo-
matte career I tried to stick to the truth.
Now and then i was obliged to deviate a
trif1e from 1t, and that was very painful to
the old man emperor William L. He al
ways blushed, and | could not face him, but
would look quickly away This statement
throws a clear light on both men.
Worth leaves two sons. one of whom,
John, cares nothing for business transac-
tions, but was said to excel his father in
that taste and ingenuity which nave made
the name famous. He is unmarried. but has
the midst of the grounds of the Suresnes
home. The Oldest son, Mr.. Gestone Worth,
lives in one portion of the mansion. He is
q man of affairs in town, and has absolute
charge of all the commercial transactions.
We scarce get rid Of Congress,
With all IT'S doings sad,
When, presto! comes a baseball club
That's really most as bad.
Washington Star.
The bride invites. on nuptial tribute bent,
All her old friends. and those acquired but
And cares not il their presents they present.
So long as they present their presents
Puck.
"Thirteen at tablei'' said the nervous guest,
Thirteen" the hostess murmured. what
For this the problem that her soul pos
To dine thirteen on just enough for six,
Detroit Free Press.