The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There is professional woman diver in
Gravesend, England. who often makes as
much as $50 day in her strange calling.
Charles Lecocq, the composer of La File
de Madame Angot" and Of "Girofe Girofa,"
has written new comic opera called
"Cyrano.''
Paderewskfs invalid son is said to be an
unusually brilliant boy, despite his hope
less condition. He is much further adj
vanced in his studies than the average child
OF twelve having mastered four languages.
Dumas. who died the other day. when
asked recently to give his view of death,
said: IT maintain that we should think
often of death II we desire to have at all
times a fairly correct conception Of the
Mr.. and Mrs. Jules Harmon, OF lansing
burg, Mich. celebrated the silver ami
versary of their wedding in a queer way
last week Sixteen years after their mar
riage they were divorced, and last Tuesday.
the twenty-fifth anniversary. they were re-
married. ns me-
London ought to take long breath"
says the Figaro. Lady Henry Somerset,
accompanied by that other wild woman,
Miss Frances willard leaves Brindisi on
Nov. "a for Bombay in the Caledonia. 1t is
to be regretted that Miss Jane Cakebread
could not make one of the party"
Senator Sherman describes the celebrated
Thaddeus Stevens as a cynical old bache>
lor. with a deformed foot and a bitter
Stevens died In harness, but for some time
before his death he was unable to walk up
the marble steps of the Capitol at Washing
ton, and two stout negroes were employed
to carry him up in chair.
Among the flags now preserved in the
War Department at Washington there is
one conspicuous by its absence. That is the
la c,,c n
a Grand Army Of the Republic veteran the
other day. 1T is in good hands. as 1T is the
priced relic of the family of Major General
Anderson. the hero of Fort Sumter. Mrs.
eral. had a special vault built for it in her
house in Washington. whence 1t Is taken
only on special occasions
On leaving Copenhagen for st. Petersburg
the dowager Czaritsa gave her father. King
Christian, diamond ring which was worn
by Alexander III when he was assassinated.
The ring was on the little finger OF tho
right hand. which remained intact when tho
arm and the other fingers were shattered
by the bomb. As the Car was dying he
gave the ring to his son, and on his death.
bed Alexander Ill gave the ring TO his
wife. She probably thinks ii has been con-
nected with too many misfortunes OF the
Romanoffs.
No other painter has home OF such ar
tistic righteousness as Alma-Tadema. Per-
haps its most remarkable feature is the
WALL which is paneicd with tall. slim pic
lures. each of them by different painter.
Leighton. Boughton. Sargent, Caideron and
a full score of the artists friends have
contributed 10 this remarkable embel.ish>
ment. Another feature Is the oak and ivory
piano on the lid OF which, inside, are in
scribed by their own hands the names or
the most celebrated singers and musicians
OF Europe.
A Scotchman with a curious claim to dis
tinction has just died In Edinburgh. His
name was William Cairns. and he had read
through every line of the twenty-four thick
volumes OF the Encyclopedias Britannica"
He was a brother of the late Principal
Cairns. head OF the United Presbyterian
College of Scotland and after devoting the
best years OF his lift to teaching he settled
down In Edinburgh with his brother and
found congenial work in preparing an linden