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


Cedarcroft, Bayard Taylor's home at
West Chester, Penn, was destroyed by
fire on Dec. y. 90
Justin Mccarthy the Irish parliament
tartan whose novels have been widely
read in this country is in his sixty second
year. but even at this age 1t is no unusual
thing for him to sit up all night over his
typewriter.
The great Alpine climber, Edward Whym-
per, who has just broken bone by tumb-
ling up stairs, had perilous experience
once in scaling the Matterhorn. He fell
in a few bounds eight hundred rect, and
was insensible for hours.
The will of John Efthgow, who died in
Boston year ago, has been disallowed. BY
it's terms his estate worth $4,000, was to
be held until all of his children and their
issue were dead. This might have locked
the property up for 100 years. and the courts
decided that he was of unsound mind.
Prof J. NJ. f. sSnodgrass, of Chicago. has
resigned the superintendency of a Sunday
school in that city Because the church Of
ficials insisted on having some one imper-
senate Santa, Claus at the Sunday school
Christmas celebration. He disapproves of
the-ofd legend about Santa Claus, and says
it tends to superstition.
..Menlo Park" said Mr.. Edison lately to
a reporter for London paper, was the
name of my other place in New Jersey
where / used to live. Pretty place but
too far from civilization. This little wife
of mine wants to be near town. Likes to
see people like to keep away from them,
and could be perfectly happy In primeval
forest
Rumor is constantly eremarrying Mrs. Nell
lie Grant Sartoris.F Last summer the
bridegroom selected by gossip was Gen. H.
K Douglas, of Maryland, but the notion
of that alliance has been dropped by the
ne ysTnongers in favor of one between Mrs.
Sartoris and Frank HI. Jones, OF Illinois,
First Assistant Postmaster General Mrs.
Sartoris, it seems to be accepted, is too at
tractive a woman TO be left in widowhood.
In the little village of Gruchy, near
Cherbourg, where Jean Francois Mii,et was
born and grew up. still swings old black
smiths sign in front of the village smith,
representing horse tied to a door. 1t was
and, ssGleaners,,, had attracted the attention
of the world to him But now the French
government is DESTROYS of securing it.
and have made offers to purchase it that
it may find resting place in the Museum
of the Louvre.
Rev. DIR. James Newton Shaffer, Metho-
dist divine of New York, celebrated his
eighty third birthday the other day. In
speaking of the early days of his church
work the doctor said that he offended one
congregation by using the word .'invulnera-
BILE. On that occasion the church officials
summoned him before them I'VE do not
want, and will not have any Latin or Greek
in our sermons the spokesman explained.
We want plain Methodist preachin' and
no foreign fashions.
Mrs. w. ]. Baird. the famous chess-prob-
lem woman of London, recommends the
game for women on the ground that it is a
useful corrective to the tendency to jump
to conclusions which most of the sex have.
Besides she says, lit is home ac-
compliShment; no woman is compelled to
leave her fireside for the sake of chess,
and, lastly. it produces no flirting and gem
eral fTivolity.'' Mrs Baird is now able to
turn out a chess problem in half an hour.
Her first one, composed six years ago, took
100 hours to accomplish. Her work anpears
in the ableSt London newspapers and in
the chess magazines.