The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Aubrey Beardsley, the painter of grue-
some pictures in black and white, is now in
the last stages of consumption. Still he
works hard every day at his easel. He is
supporting his mother and sister and has
another sister on the stage.
Miss De la Rance, known to fame as
"Ouida," is eccentric in dress. She favors
light colors, quite out of harmony with her
age and appearance generally. Her face is
not innocent of powder, and her hair is ar
ranged in a curly mass with ribbon on it.
j. M. Barries description of himself at
Nottingham in his journalistic days, ten or
twelve years ago, is-'An uncouth stranger
wandering in the dark round the castle, his
appearance unimpressive, book in each
pocket and his thoughts three hundred
miles due north"
Winston Bell, one of the few colored men
practcing law in Baltimore, has been serv-
ing as a waiter during the summer at a
hotel near Boston. He has been practcing
law but short time. and finding it hard to
get clients is compelled to work during the
summer to help pay his expenses. He is a
graduate of the Harvard law school.
No more will Mary call the cattle home
across the sands O. Dee" A big company
has bought the scene of Charles Kingsley s
beautiful poem and are retaining the
waste land. Where "all alone went She
there will be factories and houses, and if
the cattle stray there at all, it will be in
circumscribed fields, for the salt marshes
where Mary met her fate are doomed.
A man in Paris finds profitable business
in collecting bad debts by stopping at a
debtors with wagon, around the top OF
which are these words 'This buggy only
stops in front of the houses of people who
will not pay their debts" Everybody, and
particularly business people, dread this
mans buggy so much that they pay
promptly.
Since Queen Victoria has found it neces-
sary to lean on cane in walking, she has
used stout oak stick originally presented
to Charles II by loyal citizen of Worces-
ter. When the Queen first used II 1t had
only plain gold top but when she required
something to give tirmer grip to sup
port her better there was added a queer
little Indian idol which had formed part OF
the booty of Seringapatam.
Cornhill tells story of an English WON
an of high station who bewailed to a friend
the loss by death of a somewhat ill-bred
but extremely wealthy neighbor who had
charities. Mr.. X. is dead. said she; The
was so good and kind and helpful to me in
all sorts Of ways: he was so vulgar poor,
dear fellow, we could not know him in Lon
don; but we shall meet in heaven
Professor Heydeck, of Konigsberg. has
discovered graves of the seventh and eighth
centuries, evidently of Scandinavian origin
in East Prussia In one he found a silver
pommeled oss-hilted sword. pair OF
stirrups, two lances, one of them with sill
yer ornaments: an iron shield boss, three
spurs. a pair of scissors, a grindstone and
the remnants of an iron pail. In others
were found two oval dishes richly orna-
mented. a third of a form hitherto un-
known, bronze bells like sledge bells and
sundry other articles.
Father Taylor. the famous bethel preach
err loved The Baptists and never forgot that
it was Baptist clergymen who befriended
him in Halifax Jail Rev. DIR. H. Neale was
his intimate friend for a quarter of CEN
fury But when twenty or thirty sailors
converted at Father Taylor's bethel. joined
Rev. Phineas Stoves church by immersion
he was a little annoyed and showed 1t in
his own way 1t was extremely cold
weather and the water in Mr.. Stoves bap-