The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-12
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

M. Puvis de Chavannes, the distinguished
French artist, is to receive $4,000 for
decorating one room in Iale Boston public
library
Dean Hole is the authority for the opin-
ion given in his latest book that for one
silly young woman there are fifty silly
young men
Among the new operas which this season.
as every other, appear in goodly number in
Germany the tragic opera "Attila, COM
posed by ADOLF Gunkel. of Dresden. text
by Carl Dibbern, promises TO gain inter-
national fame. The composer is a violinist
of the royal orchestra and stil young
man. 1t will first be performed in Dresden.
Among the eccentricities that Harriet
Beecher Stowe is said TO have developed in
her old age is a detestation of all refer
ence to her famous book Uncle Toms
Cabin. She can stand no allusion, how
ever yelled, to her noted novel, and her
prevent the mention Of the book in her
presence.
The Queen of Madagascar always dresses
in European fashion She wears purple
costume with a train on great occasions,
and sometimes assumes a golden crown.
She is very vain of her personal beauty, and
has three times refused to accept coin
struck to hen order, because she did not con-
slider her likeness sufficiently handsome for
circulation astd SO ri
For the Berlin Industrial exposition in 1896
The four lenses measure each 10 cent?
metres (about forty-five inches) in diameter,
but the length of the instrument will be
but five and one-nalf metres. The lenses,
shorter, than the Yerles telescope. Stein
he'll, in Munich, will shape the lenses.
Governor Woodbury., OF Vermont, says he
is SO much an advocate of after-dinner
speaking that he started the idea not long
ago at his own home, with every reason to
but at the second attempt, he said, the
small boy of the family arose from the
table and with Cut it short, pa went out
the back door, and the innovation ended
right there.
Queen Victoria is what is called a good
traveller. Of course, she has all the luxu-
ries in travelling that can be obtained. but
when anything beyond the power OF
royalty to prevent occurs to Interrupt .. or
situation calmly. She does not fret or scold,
and the secret of her long and peaceful
reign is to, be found in the calm way in
which she takes the annoyances of travel
S. R. Crockett. the Scotch writer. is an
early riser. Every morning, summer and
winter" he says, tive had my cold tub
and am ready to begin work by half past f.
I should feel I'd missed one of the keenest
pleasures of life in missing the sunrise.
always go out to look at it, no matter how
busy ] may be. I seem to see the world
recreated then, and to share in the sense
of being newly born myself. Perhaps I've
gone to bed discouraged, feeling 1t is not
never can he--in me to do the work would
do. But in the dawn everything seems pos
sible to me. Six hours sleep is all take,
because it's all / need"
She wrote the note a dozen times
Before it pleased her taste.
t"s She worked at IT full half a day,
Then signed 1t. Yours, in haste
Washington Post.
The cluclsing hen with little chicks
Can talk, nor does she care.
Yet when she in Inc garden strays
She teaches man to swear.
Chicago Inter Ocean.