The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

Years ago Prince Bismarck used to spell
his name without the &C." The present
spelling does away with the monetary
significance of the name Bismark-twO
marks.
Sir Arthur Sullivan not long ago ex-
pressed desire for libretto. The news
papers printed a reference to it, and three
days later 2SO opera and operetta texts were
lying on his table.
There is a school teacher in Kansas who
writes her county superintendent that she
is seventy-four years of age and wishes
to pass the examinations for a state certi-
ficate, and also to enter for year at the
Normal School to study new methods.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland. fatty re-
fuses to marry Prince Bernhard of Sake
Weimar, whom her mother the Queen Re-
gent Emma, selected the young Queens
husband. The little Queen declares she viii
remain single until 1899 (she was born in
August, $780, and will then select her own
husband
Mathlde Won Humboldt, the last surviv-
ing niece of Alexander Won Humboldt, died
a few weeks ago in Rome. She was born
in 1890. but lived since 1881 in Rome, where
she was the soul of the German colony.
She was in comfortable circumstances and
used her surplus wealth to help along her
countrymen, especially struggling artists.
While bathing at Long Branch recently
youth dved in shallow water and in
advertently buried his head in the soft
sand, his legs sticking up in the air. Had
it not been for his father, who was standing
close by, the youth would nave been
drowned. AS it was, the sand crept into his
ears and burst the drums, making him
stone deaf
Aloise Manhardt of Vienna, who died
at the beginning of the present year. left
to his heirs a number of huge cases filed
with railroad tickets which he had collected
from all parts of the world, and for which
he had spent fortune. When the heirs
caused the value or TINS strange legacy
full. The 400 goo tickets had to be sold to
an English house for 1000 forms, or less
than $1,000.
There was a man in the Yorkville Court
in New York on Saturday charged with
mendcancy who admitted that he had
practiced begging art for more than
thirty years. He told Magistrate Went
worth that he worked" a different avenue
each day in the week., and that by IL
o'clock every morning he had collected
enough to enable him to live in comparative
comfort through the day.
The friends of Miss Mary French Field
have been delighted with the success she
attained in her readings last winter She
acquitted herself most creditably and the
engagement was extended much beyond the
period originally planned. She Is at present
studying her fathers stories, with the idea
of giving readings from them next season.
Her tour last year stimulated enormously
the sale of her fathers books.
The City Council of Zurich, Switzerland,
has ordered that there be posted in every
street car on the municipal lines the fol-
lowing notice: women have the first right
to the seats in the interior of this car"
Heretofore, when man has offered his
|, seat to a woman it has been regarded by
her as an insulting familiarity and 1t is
predicted by the Swiss and German news
DaDerS that the attempt to enforce THIS or
dnance will encounter obstacles from the
women themselves.
Hiram S. Maxim was the first man TO
pay fare for an electric cab when they
began running in London few days ago.
John Fox, jr the author Of THE Ken
tuckians," was formerly New York news
paper man. He was graduated from Har-
ward in 1885, While at college he was well
known as an amateur actor Interpreting
usually women's characters in the enter
tainments of his society, his handsome,
smooth face fitting him well for such parts.
He studied law for time, but was never
admitted to practice. His home is in Paris,
Bourbon county, Kentucky.
When Andree sailed away
They should have told him that
The thing for him to do
Was take along cat;
For pigeons may get weary
Or wander from the track,
But pussy never never
Fails to come
back
Cleveland Leader
There was a girl in our town with cheeks
And OH but she was struck on styie-you
really should have seen heri
She started in upon her name
CWhen she began twas simply Nancy,
And soon Ii grew to May Marie Mae
Marye and Marina.