The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Professor Hadley. Of Yale, is charged
with being Malthusian, because he COM
mends the prudent man who works hard,
invests wisely and does not marry until he
knows he can support family.
NJ. Rouvier, the ex-Premier of France.
began his career a clerk in the counting
room of a Marseilles merchant, a Greek
recently, an old man and a millionaire, and
out of his fortune he left Nj. Rouvier $4,000
las token of esteem.
Elihu vedder, the artist who is visiting
in New York, will run down to Florida be-
fore sailing for Italy. Mr.. Vedder is said
to be a charming conversationalist. His
face is ruddy and hair snowy. He and his
family refer to the Rubafyat of Omer
khayyam, which he illustrated, as .. K.
M. Naundorff, who as Louis de Bourbon
is claimant for the throne of France, ad-
vertises in a Paris paper for "a situation
of any kind and alleges as his fitness
for a position that he speaks French,
Dutch, English, German and Italian, and
has had military experience in Holland
and in Africa.
Henri Houssaye, the new member of the
French Academy, wrote his first book when
he was nineteen. He is a distinguished
Hellenist. His father, Arsene Houssaye,
wrote a satire on the. Forty Immortals,
which entitled the ''Forty-first Seat
and enumerated those who deserved place
in the academy but never got it.
Berlin has now it's ladies' club founded
under the patronage of Empress Frederick
and named for her The Victoria 1t pos
sesses a fine library, a grand piano and
comfortably furnished rooms, but no
cuisine meals, however, being supplied
from a restaurant next door. Early clos
ing is the rule, lights being turned out at
10 p. m.
HI" writes to the London Times as fol-
lows, in connection with the death of r. L.
;l1
San Francisco, obscure journalist. quite
friendless. Stevenson. who knew me slight
ly, came to my bedside and said, L suppose
you are like all OF us; you don't keep your
money. Now, if a little loan, between
one man of letters and another-eh" This
to a lad writing rubbish for vulgar sheet
in California
In Vienna man died recently who had
his heart on the right side, and almost all
his internal organs. milt, liver and intes-
tines, were found to be opposite to their
usual places. Deceased never felt an in
convenience from this arrangement. He
learned of it accidentally several years ago
and offered to sell his body to the British
Museum for the immediate payment of a
good round sum, but the offer was declined.
The cause of death consumption.
This season s crazes in Europe have been
collected by an Italian editor. In England
it is clay modelling, the chief victims being
Mr.. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt
IN Paris III is riddles, IN italy ana southern
France it is jumping beans, painted to rep
resent prominent persons; they jump best
on hot plates. In Belgium they have slow
smoking races; the pipes are filled with
half an ounce of tobacco each, and the Win
ner is he who can hold out longest without
reightng. The record so far is sixty-seven
minutes.
When lovely woman leaves the trolley
Before the trolley stops,
Lovely woman StoopS to folly
And lovely woman f1ops
Philadelphia Inquirer.