The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Frederick Leighton's peerage was the
shortest lived in the history OF England.
He died on the day following that upon
which the patent of nobility was Issued
and as he left no heir the title died with
him.
his tall, rugged frame suggests many years
more of literary activity. DR.. Hale is now
making a tour of the far West, which ne
wrote about many years ago and OF which
he is likely to write again.
Mrs. Clusters favorite home is secluded
log cabin, near the Pocono river, seven
miles from the Delaware Water Gap and
two and half miles from a door-bell.
Here she finds it possible to do more writ
ing in day than in week of city life.
Ivan Feodorovitch Kouzmin, a Russian
peasant whose baptismal record is in exist
ence, is, according to the authorities. 1SS
years old. His eyesight is perfect, and he
is much more actiye than his son or ninety.
His case is said to have been examined,
and there is no doubt of his identity win
the record.
John Blair of Blairstown, n. j., who is
now in his ninety-fourth year, is the oldest
Republican in the State, and is still en-
thusiast. Though many times millionaire,
he has ever been a man OF the people. and
is still as simple and unaffected as ever. He
has attended every national convention OF
the Republican party but one.
NJ de Rochefort is publishing his memoirs
in one of the Paris newspapers. 1t had
generally been supposed that he would skip
the period of his youth among his aristo-
cratic kinfolk, but he seems to take pleasure
In expatiating on the loftiness of his lineage
and his blood relationship with the ducal
houses of De Montmorency and Rohan.
At this time, when the eyes of the en-
tire world are attracted to Venezuela, Presi-
dent Crespo has naturally come in for no
small amount of attention. He is a we'll
built man; though somewhat heavy and
taller by several inches than the statesmen
with whom he is connected. HIS counte-
nance reveals force and determination, and
there is certain suave courtesy about him
very rare indeed with South American poll
ticians.
The ball which Comte de Monticello, the
French ambassador to Russia is to give in
Moscow promises to be of truly royal mag
nificence. and the supper will be Lucullan,
as indicated by the fact that the French tla-
ton has been asked to pay $4,000 for i, All
the champagne is to be furnished from the
Comics own vintageS, and the bills for
fruits, flowers and spring vegetables which
will be imported from France, are sure to be
enormous.
An English member of Parliament, who
recently resigned his seat, says that when
he was in the House he received and an
oWciCu f,VoV iCtlciS OiC year, pau d
monthly visit to his constituency some hun
dreds of miles from town, was called upon
to put his hand in his pocket for all sorts
of objects in which h0took not the slight
est interest, and, save on Saturdays and
Sundays, never saw his wife and family dur
ing the session.
The editor of the London Sporting Times
has discovered in little old church of East
Sutton, in Kent, an interesting monument
to the second wife of Lawrence Washington,
a forefather of George Washington. The
monument proves Washington's descent
from the founder of Ballot College, at Ok
ford, and the brother of John Baliol King
of Scotland. This little Kentish church is
said to be one of the most ancient and
beautiful in England-"a gem of ecclesiasti-
cal architecture" 80 -, 81
There is considerable concern in Boston
about the future of James Russell Lowells
magnificent old home in Cambridge, at the
gateway of Mount Auburn Cemetery. The
house is the property of the poets daughter
but the land adjoining it is in the hands OF
real estate agents. and the fine estate will
soon be cut up into building lots unless the
property is rescued The house Is an old
ing in excellent condition in Cambridge and
it is an object of great and increasing inter.
est to thousands of visitors from all over
the country 1t would make a most desir-
able museum.