The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

| Both the Empress Eugene and the Hrln-
cess of Wales have property in France
| which they hold in other names
| During the past year Lady Henry Somer-
| set attended 115 meetings and q conferences,
| Travelled over 5000 miles and spoke in twenty
| counties to about 100000 people.
Susan B. Anthony says that she has not
| slept at home for the past four years.
| Working in the cause of suffrage must be
| the severest form of feminine labor yet
| devised.
Out of 343, 900 young men who drew lots
for the CONSUMPTION last year in France
| 10000 could heather read nor write, and a
further number of 5000 could only just read
and write.
Mr. Marion Crawford has been inter
viewed for McClure's Magazine, and says
that he wrote part of Mr. Isaacs" at
the house of his aunt, Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, in Newport.
Mrs. Eva Wilder Broadhead, known in
literature as Eva Wilder McGlasson. and
who is enjoying a wedding trip on
and about the Mediterranean, is said to be
the youngest established magaznist in the
country.
Lord Burton has recently given $4,000
town hall to Burton-on-Trent. He and
his father, the late Michael Bass, have
already spent over $S50OOO ON buildings for
the town. Lord Burton is the Bass Of
BASES ale.
Rawlinson the famous Babylonan au-
thority cuneiform inscriptions. was not
a graduate of any college or university.
+ His scholastic education was derived from
small institution at Ealing, a small town
in England.
In Paris it is said that France is now gov
erned really by the Presidents daughter,
Mile. Lucie Faure, who has already been
nicknamed Mile. Lucifer. She is clever
ambitious and determined, rules her fam
lily completely, and has published a book
Mr.. A. G. Williams, a wealthy stock
owner and mine operator of Greenbrier
county. West Virginia, who is in Wash
ington, has long white hair and whiskers.
and has frequently been mistaken for Santa
Clause. In his State he is quite a
character, and lives in a dense forest on the
top OF a mountain.
Secretary of State Gresham has accepted
an invitation from the Grant Birthday AS
ISOLATION of Galena to deliver the annual
address on Grant S birthday, April q. A
feature that will lend especial interest to
the anniversary celebration this year will
be the presentation and unwilling of the
large painting of Lees surrender executed
by Thomas Mast.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, it is said. has
very valuable collection of souvenirs of the
Columbian Exposition. She chose, as far
it possible to do so, representa-
tive service of dishes from every foreign
nation exhibiting at the fair. There are
the bone dishes of the Esquimau, the carved
wood of the Swiss, the cloisonne, the china
~.
This collection is of the kind to be of inter-
est to lovers of the rare, the curious the
beautiful.
Henry Labouchere suggests some new
possibilities of hypnotism. MANY who have
to travel, hate travelling; they might in
future he says, ''be hypnotised and laid
in a train like dead meat, with a label on
their backs indicating their destination.
Those, too, who suffer from sea sickness
might be hypnotised, and only awakened
at the end of the voyage. A poor man out
of work, owing to frost some such cause
and finding himself and his family without
food, might have himself and his family
hypnotised until the frost is over
'tTm strictly in it," the merchant cried
Modern methods alone I've tried
Competition is paralyZed,
And all because I've advertised"
Detroit Free Press.
Did you ever stop to think
Just before you took drink,
That the time may some day come
When you'll be blear-eyed bum?
Every Sot who's lost his grip
Once, like you, just took nip"
Kansas City Journal
Trolley-lalla, Lucy,
Trolley-lalla-loo!
Did you see me smash the cab,
And cut that kid in two?
Just step on the crossing,
Wait a nloment-do
Linger longer, Lucy, till I
Put a head on you!
York Press