The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Alexander Dumas, fills, author of Dame
aux Camellias," was married civilly on
Wednesday to Madame Regnier de Ia
Bruyere. Ihe bridegroom is fifty-ive years
of age.
Governor Morton has contributed a pen
to a collection that is being gathered at
the home of Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Bos-
ton. The pens in this collection have all
been used by Governors of States in sign
ing temperance education laws.
Mime. Bernhardt has been asked how it is
that she wears so we'll. The answer that
she gives is that she never thinks. She
plays TO her finger tips. Her life is act
ing. Reflection she leaves to the dream
ers. 1T is thought that wears one OUT
Mr.. Letter. the father of Mrs. George
Curzon, started from the bottom rung of
the social ladder as a window cleaner in
a Chicago ~dry-goods house. where he had
applied for employment. He is now a mer-
chant OF that city, with d fortune esti-
mated at S20,CoO,0Q.
The thousand-franc prize of the Societe
des Artistes Francois has been awarded
this year to Francois Montholon, who has
no hands. out paints with a wooden hand,
which he uses most skillfully. AS long
ago as 1889 he received honorable men,
uon," and in 1890 a medal.
The amount won by the ex-King of Ser
via at the Paris Grand Prix was $40, 600,
enough to pay a quarter of his gambling
debts, at least. There was an element of
superstition in his betting. A mare had
won every eighth Grand Prix race pre-
would win the 1888 race proved to be cor
rect. '"
President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, has accepted the office of chief of
the bureau of awards Of the Atlanta Ex-
position, and has cabled to Paris for Of
ferS OF designs for the medals, and, in
order to avoid the friction with exhibitors
arising from delay, announces that awards
will be delivered to the exposition man.
ayers one month after the exposition
opens.
The Japanese nave a peculiar custom of
eating fruit before it is ripe. The fruit is
mostly the same kind as produce in
America, but Of much poorer quality.
On account of this inferiority there is a
good market in Japan for American canned
fruits. The japanese have made the mis-
take of supposing that the most impor-
tant product OF a fruit tree is its bios
SONS, and as a natural consequence the
fruit Is poor and small.
1t may not be known generally that the
Dowager Empress OF China has had a very
romantic history. She was a child of poor
parents in the suburbs of Canton, and re-
markable for her beauty. AT a time when
her parents did not know whence their
udHy Ditdu was W COlilc size. SuSSeSleu
that they sell her as a slave. This course
was followed, and she became the prop
erty Of a famous general. He was SO
enchanted with her beauty that he adopted
her. When the general next went to Pc
king, so says a correspondent, the gTl-
eral offered his beautiful daughter 20 the
Emperor. and thereby won great favor.
The young girl SO charmed his Majesty
by her looks and intelligence that he soon
made her his wife. When the Emperor
died the former slave became Regent of
the empire, and administered the national
affairs better than almost any of her pred
ecessors. She is justly considered one of
the greatest woman of her time.
She treads again the shifting sands
By the shore OF the sounding sea,
And never a soul believes her not
AS young as she used to be.
Men may come and men may go,
But the summer girl will never
Depart: not only that, but she
Will be twenty-one forever.
-Defroit Tribune