The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A colored pastor in Texas demanding his
salary is reported to have said: "Brudern,
l can't preach heah and boa'd in heb'nv'
Queen Victoria has enriched the English
language with the word 'bikeman.' She
has commissioned the instructor who is
teaching her younger grandchildren TO ride
the wheel "sergeant-bikeman."
The engagement of Miss Florence Pull
man. daughter of the palace car magnate.
Chicago, was announced in that city on
Tuesday. Miss Pullman is twenty-six years
old and worth 100000 in her own right.
Mrs. Margaret Denny. of New York, found
diamond pin in the street ten years ago,
and not until Friday of last week did she
know that the diamonds were real, and that
the pin was worth $1,000. She discovered the
for 50.
Pauline Lucca, the opera singer, who has
dropped out of public notice since her re-
tirement from the stage seven years ago,
now lives in Vienna, and is said to be as
handsome and graceful as ever. There is
no probability that she will ever return to
the stage.
The presidents and professors of about
score of Western colleges have requested
passes Of the railroads running out of Chi
cage, on the ground that they can influence
students to travel over certain railroads in
going to and from college. Their requests
have been refused.
County Commissioner Samuel States, of
Jefferson, Pa. has a son whom he named
United. He wrote letter to this son in
Punxsutawney the other day, naturally adj
dressing it,, United States, Punxsutawney
PENN, and the postmaster advertised it
as held because the address was defective.
The death of Prince Henry of Battenberg
leaves the never too merry wives of Wind
sor mourning company largely composed
of widows. The Queen, her two daughters,
and a daughter-in-law are husbandless, and
under rule of the present court none of
the Princesses may wed again because the
old lady has not done SO.
Robert Burns's great-grandson and name
sake his last descendant in the direct
male line, has just died at Blackhall, near
Edinburgh, aged fifty-two years. He had
served as a soldier and as gardener in
Edinburgh Public Gardens, but for fourteen
years past had been keeper of the powder
magazine at Blackhall. He left no chill
dren.
Just before she sailed for America Sarah
Bernhardt told an interviewer that Ameri-
cans cannot disassociate a woman from her
clothes. and that il she We're the greatest
beauty that ever lived we should think her
unsatisfactory If she were dressed in a way
that did not add to her natural advantages.
Old ladies with us. according to Sarah. dress
as fastidiously as the young, and, however
intellectual they may be, fashions interest
them. Nine. Bernhard adds that the con-
sumptive cough of Marguerite Gautier has
never yet failed to stir an American audi
ence.
Cecil Rhodes" says the London Review,
us strong man, of the kind that is never
finished by single stroke. And he is
strong with the strength Of a coarse, ruth
less greedy egotism, the strokes of whose
piston-rod force the minds and the money
of weaker men into it's reservoir. AS he was
at Oriel twenty years ago, SO he is at Cape
Town to-day-lonely, self-absorbed, irrita-
BILE, and not to be relied upon. He hates
women, whom he regards as unnecessary
impediments in the campaign, and he has
struments to be used and enemies to be
dealt with. Success accentua.ed- his de-
feats to the point of disease, and made
him so irritable, so self-absorbed, and so
insolent that none but parasites could live
him