The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Grant Allen is a noted naturalist as well
as novelist, and has lately been elected
president of the Microscopic and Natural
History Society of Haslmere. in Surrey.
Mrs. Alexander. the popular novelist, is
known in private life as Mrs. Alexander
Hector. Although ambitious to become a
novelist in early girlhood she abandoned
her literary work on marrying Mr.. Hector
nor did she resume her pen until after his
death.
The Sultan of Turkey is the most
wretched. pinchcd-up little sovereign / ever
saw" writes a correspondent "a most un-
happy-looking man. of dark complexion
with a look of absolute terror in his large
Eastern eyes. People say he is nervous
and no wonder, considering the fate of his
predecessors"
AT the last garden party in Buclxingham
Palace two American ladies were rather
Unexpectedly presented to the Princess of
Wales, who held out her daintily-gloved
hand to them The strangers, probably not
having been duly coached" instead of
making a courtesy and slightly shaking
the extended hand kissed it, much to the
surprise of the Princess.
In the days of his boyhood Edwin Win
ter, who recently purchased the entire line
of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
its bonds, stocks. leased and branch lines
for $3.50 COO. and has just been elected it's
president under the reorganization lived in
Campton Village, n. H., his father being
a native of that town. When Edwin was
in his teens the family moved West. and
there he worked as a clerk in Chicago
grain house.
The Queen of Denmark has just cele-
brated her seventy-ninth birthday. She
has shown plenty Of courage during her
time. The withered hand that she bears
was due 70 Il mauling it received in YOUTH
ful days from a tame tiger which attacked
her in play. Though she was seriously
hurt. she realized the Importance of not
showing fear; and drew the animal with
her to place wherI she could call on the
palace guards to shoot it.
Hector Malot, the French novelist. being
close upon sixty-six, had announced his
intention of retiring from the world of let
tiers. He proposes. however. to publish a
farewell volume which will serve as an
all OF which he declares, are drawn from
the life. This lifting of the mask is likely
to prove interesting enough, and will cause
his books to be read by many who are
strangers to their fascination.
Paul du Chaillu. the traveller, who has
been travelling through the Northwestern
States, says: "A great change has come
over the ideas of the Swedes and Nor
wegians especially the latter. in the
Northwest on the money question They
no longer believe that the election of Bry-
an and the free coinage of silver is going TO
make them all rich in jiffy. One man has
wegianS to their senses than all other
forces put together That man is Senator
knute Nelson, VINO mas Deen working like
beaver among his countrymen ever since
the conventions were over and the cam
raign opened
The smallest tree that grows is the
Greenland birch. 1t lives its whole allotted
number of years drom seventy-five to one
hundred and thirty just as other species
of the great birch family do, although its
height, under the most favora BILE condi-
tions. seldom exceeds ten inches Whole
bluffs of the east and southern coast Of
Greenland are covered with thickets of this
dimiEutive species of woody plant and i'm
many places where the soil is uncommonly
poor and frozen from eight TO ten months
of the year. forest of these trees will
flourish for half a century without growing
to a height exceeding four inches
she droops like a wllted lily.
Her bangs out of curl
She is ready to die. she Is so tired
The end of the century (run) girl
Detroit Tribune.
Are startiiugly immense:
Are startingly immense;
The man who talks so light and flee
OF billions and finance is he
Who borrows twenty cents
Washington Post.