The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

TIL original of Little Billee. whom Du
Maurier exploited in 'Trilby,'' is supposed
to be Frederick Walker, the young English
artist, an account of whose life and works
mas just been published.
Thomas jefferson, it is said, spoke like a
professor lecturing to his class. He used
few gestures, and always delivered his
speeches in a moderate tone OF voice, with
little appearance of interest or enthusi-
Charles Couldock, the veteran actor,
whom present-day play goers remember
best as Dunstan Kirke, but whom the elders
remember with admiration as a fine actor
of heroic roles, is about to retire to the
Forrest Home.
When the Empress of Austria announces
her intention of going for a walk her maids
of honor trembie. She is an untiring pedes-
TRAN. and frequently walks twenty miles
at a stretch, and this is at a pace equal TO
that of a mans.
Mademoiselle Paulina, a native of Hol-
land, appears prepared to justify her claim
to being the smallest woman on earth. She
was born eighteen years ago, and caused
much comment concerning her smallness.
Her weight is something under nine pounds.
There is an editor in the far West who
possesses in a large degree the virtue Of
caution. He remarked the other day: cit
is said that a minister named P~arkhurst,
in Gotham, is beginning to be talked about
him and tell our readers what he amounts
to in a month or So
Princess Bismarck, though shrinking from
public gaze, was by no means a weak wom-
an. She. had strong religious feeling, was
of a lively disposition, even witty at times,
fond of music and herself a good piano
player. She had studied medicine some
what, and spent a great deal of time in
visits Of charity among the sick and poor
in the country.
Mrs. Samuel Crawbaugh, OF Cleveland, o.,
is the first woman in Ohio to register as
a qualified voter. She went to the board of
election rooms in Cleveland the other day
and remarked that she desired to register,
as she would be out of the city on the reg
sixty-one years old. Secretary Rowbottom
placed the pen which was used in the safe,
and viii present II to the western He-
serve Historical Society.
At a reading by George w. Cable at Pitts
| burg, the other day, in his conversational
style he asked the audience: Lets see;
when 1 was here before did / tell you the
| story of Solongadou?' Promptly came the
answer, in a wonans voice. from the mid
die of the hall: Yes, sir" The audience
| merriment had subsidized Mr.. Cable said,
! alphabetically: But l want to tell thai
| story again. which he proceeded TO do.
A bee expert says that when the weather
is fine a worker bee can visit from forty to
| eighty flowers in six or ten trips and col
lect a grain of nectar. If it visits two hun
dred or four hundred flowers it will gather
| five grains. Under favorable circumstances
it will take a fortnight to obtain fifteen
| grains. 1t would, therefore, take it several
years to manufacture a pound of honey,
which will fill about three thousand cells.
A hive contains from twenty thousand to
| fifty thousand bees, half of which prepare
the honey. the other half attending to the
! wants of the hive and the family. On a
| fine day sixteen thousand or twenty thou
sand individuals will. in six or ten trips.
| be able to explore from thirty thousand to
one million flowers, say several hundred
| thousand plants.
Few friends my life has made,
And few are they who in my hands
Their hearts have laid;
And these are women. j am old, (
But never have l been betrayed.