The Indianapolis journal., 1896-11-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A number of Boston club women have
formed a corporation for the purpose of
building "A central clubhouse in Boston for
the use of the various W0menS clubs or
Massachusetts.
a Bismarckian Leipsic paper states that
Prince Bismarck himself has described the
report that the Hamburg disclosures were
due to irritation at the Cars failure to
visit him as pure nonsense and "a nal
lucination of short-sighted friendship"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is granddaughter
of DR.. Arnold. of Rugby. and a niece of
Matthew Arnold Her father. Thomas Ar
mold became Roman Catholic at the time
of Newman's secession. and was for time
a professor in the latter's oratory at Birm-
ingham.
Mixed assemblages of men and women are
forbidden by the social code of China. and
under no circumstances must Il Chinese
husband and wife appear together in pub
lie. 1t would ruin n mans reputation to
be seen riding In the same carriage with
his wife.
The Chungwen gate OF Peking is the gate
at which the octroi of the capital are col
lected and the North China Daily News
says that every time Ii Hung Chang goes
through IL he is obliged TO pay the gateman
about $4,000 in order to he allowed to pass
his baggage and costly presents TO the
court without examination.
The late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson
was probably the most powerful foe alcohol
ever had, and he made its i'll effects on the
human system more manifest by frankly
crediting it with the few virtues it pos
sesses. He did a great biaals certainly more
than any other medical man in England.
for the development of cycling.
Two veteran farmers. while extending
friendly greetings to each other in Pittsfield
the other day, hit upon the subject of carry
ing horse chestnuts in the pockets to ward
Off rheumatism. when one drew forth a
chestnut he had thus carried for fifteen
years and the other a veteran chestnut
which he had thus treasured for twenty
years. "oH
When the Emperor of Austria visited
Bucharest the other day the municipal au-
thorities presented him with a superbly
chased tray. dish and salt cellar of solid
gold which had cost $4,000. This service
was used at his reception at the railway
station, where he was requested to partake
of bread and salt. in accordance with the
ancient Roumanian custom
Sir c. NJ. Palmer, nj. p, started. when
only twcnty-three years of age, as a coke
manufacturer. The business prospered at
| once. From this he went into coal mining
and. being obliged to ship his minerals to
London, got interested in ship building. The
company with which his name Is associa ed
is one of the largest ship-building
firms in the world. and employs twelve
thousand men.
Captain General Weyler. Governor and
| commander-in-cbief of the Island of Cuba
is tormented with other anxieties besides
| those connected with the suppression of the
insurrection, for his wife is lying danger
| ously i'll at Barcelona, his eldest son is in
the last stages of consumption and expect
ed to die at any moment. while his little
children, who are not in Havana. are stay
| ing with various friends and relatives ow-
| ing to there being no one at home to look
after them Under the circumstances, his
| imminent return TO Spain on the plea OF
| family affairs of a pressing character can
| not be regarded as mere pretext.