The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Prince Bismarck is said 20 earn abon,
$4,000 a year from the various industrial
undertakings in which he Is a participant
The late Robert Louis Stevenson madA
other modern writers whose incomes are az
large. eAs
Charles Dickens said OF Robinson Crusos
that it was "the most popular story IN the
world, and yet one which never drew a smile
or tear
Sardou is now sixiy-four years old
wrinkled and half bald. but in his elastic
step and brilliant eye az youthful as a bav
He is said TO have earned $1,000. 900 from
his plays.
Encircling the throat OF baby left on A
doorstep at. Days Ferry. Me-. was a card
to which was attached an envelope contain
ing $500 in bank notes and these words:
when this is gone there is more Nhers
this came FROM.
The Lee family, of Virginia, has had no
representative in the federal army for more
than thirty-four years. The succession in
this service is now TO De renewed in tia
person of George Mason Lee. the nineteen-
year-old son of General Fitzhugh Lee, the
Confederate cavalry commander.
Mrs. Custer. the widow OF tie general ex-
poets to spend the summer at Onteora, in
the Catskills. Mrs. Custer resents living in
a conventional way. Her plan for the CON-
Ing summer is TO live in stable belonging
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the mountain road from her cottage.
Very few of the enormous number OF let
tiers which reach Mr.. Gladstone pass through
his own hands. They are opened by his
secretary, who only lays before him those
which IL is absolutely necessary he should
read. Letters begging for autographs have
become a real nuisance TO Mr.. Gladstone.
Bismarck is very fond Of plovers eggs. and
his admirers often send him baskets of them.
Once he wrote to a friend: Il have received
for my birthday hundred plover eggs and
a symphony. / do not hesitate 10 declare
tina; i would have been less pleased had I
received a hundred symphonies and one
egg
Ii Hung Chang is a progressive individual
and has adopted certain habits that are no,
strictly Oriental. II is said that he is taking
copious notes during his journey around the
world, and expects 10 return TO China with
an interesting diary of his travels. How he
will manage to escape the agents OF publish
ing houses and syndicates during his jaunt
is hard to say.
The two biggest fire engines in the wori1
are in Liverpool. These magnificent speci-
mems OF workmanship are the most powerful
water minute, and JET 40 feet high. The
force with which the wlter is elected from
them may be estimated from the fact that
the Jet was warranted TO kill n man at $50
feet" Each engine took ten weeks TO build.
the cost being roughly f2,0oo each.
After nearly two years OF work, Ogden
Mills's new $4,000 mansion, at Statsburg.
on the Hudson. is now fully furnished. The
architecture of this house. which is built OF
white pressed brick. is OF Doric style. The
building is 1lo feet long, with depth OF sev-
enty-seven feet. There are also TWO wings,
sixty feet long. The site is that formerly
occupied by the historical Livingstone house,
around which many tender memories OF thu
revolutionary war cluster.
II the Absolute Fool should ask. .Is n hot
Enough for your wf1en him you meet
You should sweetly explain. thereat 10 him.
II is the humidity, not the heat.
Detroit Tribune.
know little girl.
She has little curl
Right down in the middle of her forehead:
And when it's curled it's very, very good
But when it's straight it's horrid
Puck
Slowly behind his heavy tread
The wet Powered grass lifts up its head.
Leaned on this gate he gazes, tears
Are IN his eyes. and In his ears
The murn1ur OF a thousand years.
Before him he sees life unroll
A placid and continuous whole;
That general life which does not cease.
Whose secret is not Joy. but peace;
That life whose dumb wish is not missed.
If birth proceeds, IL things subsist:
The life OF plants and stones and rain
The life he cravesl IL not in vain
Fate gave what chance could not control
His sad lucidity OF soul.
Matthew Arnold