The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-12
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Nor home on Long Island sound THE
Bungalow
Through inheriting $5OOOO,OOO young Og-
den Goelet is said to have become the rich
est youth in the country.
Ex-President Guzman Blanco of Vene-
zuela, is said to be the richest man in the
world, owning 100000 square miles of land,
$500 900 virtual slaves and enjoying an an
nual income of $37,0000O0
Boston is soon to have new boulevard
10 feet wide and about 9,400 feet long, ex-
tending from Franklin Park to Marine
link in Bostons beautiful park system will
be about 81, 0O0, 900.
Miss Lottie Collins, of "Ta-ra-ra- boom
de-aye' fame, is now wishing that she had
not sued a London paper for calling one of
her new songs vulgar" The 800 which
she was awarded will poorly repay her for
the loss of advertising resulting from all
the London papers suddenly ceaSing to
mention her name.
A relic just acquired by the Paris Mill
tary Museum is the wood and iron leg OF
General Daumesnil who lost one of his
own legs at Wagram and replaced it with
a contrivance of timber and iron springs.
When the general at later day was sum-
moned to surrender a fort near Paris his
reply was: Give me back my leg and you
can have Vincennes." The veteran sur
ViVed until 1892
In Connecticut are fifty-six daughters of
revolutionary soldiers, ranging in age from
10S down to fifty-eight years. One of these,
Mrs. Elisha B. Avery, who was born July
16, 1889, is the daughter of Solomon Loring,
who, when nearly fourteen years old, en-
tered the Revolutionary army as aid to
Colonel Best, of Massachusetts. Mrs.
Avery was born when her father was past
seventy, and at the age of sixteen received
minors pension.
Among the pupils at the military acad-
envy of, ST. Cyr, France is a grandson of
ex-Empress Eugene, the son of Prince
Louis Bonaparte who was killed in 1879 by
the Zulus. The future officer of artillery is
now nineteen years old and goes by the
name of Waffle Kelly. His mother was the
daughter of a London tailor and a teacher
by calling. 1t is said that the prince and
Miss Kelly were secretly married, but no
proof of the marriage exists. Miss Kelly is
now the wife of a gardener, and is living
in Australia. The ex-EmpresS placed her
grandson in school and often visits him
there.
Osman Digna, who for years has been
giving the British trouble on the upper
Nile, is according to the Pail Mall Gazette,
really a Scotchman named George Nisbet.
He was born in Rouen of a Glasgow father,
who in 1913 emigrated to Egypt. where he
died. His widow married a Turk named
OSman, who adopted her son and made him
heir to his slave business. George Nisbet
took the name of Osman Ali, and after be-
ing educated at the military academy,
where he was the intimate friend of the
late Arab Pasha, became a slave trader.
The harm done to his business by the Eng
lish and French interference in Egypt and
the fall of Arab Pasha turned him against
his former cOuntrymen. He must be over
sixty years of age now
Prince Bismarck is quoted as saying in a
recent interview: THAT exalted lady, the
Empress Augusta (the grandmother of the
present Emperor), powerfully contributed
to the deterioration of my nerves. She was
of a nervous, changeabe, restless nature
and she Immediately famed up if one would
not or could not acquiesce in her plans
The friction between us began early. In
time there arose at her court cabal which
did not invariably employ unexceptionable
methods to achieve its objects, and it was
so powerful / should have been unable to
carry my plans through unless the old
gentleman Emperor William D--who, by
the way, suffered no less than I from these
things-had always run straight at the de-
cisive moment. l can safely say that this
protracted WomanS war injured my health
more than all the public battles / fought
in Parliament or in the diplomatic serv-
ice"
Said the foreigners valet:
Il understand fully;
Ze ballet is bally-
Zen bullet is bully!'
Chicago Tribune
Ere long the farmer gay will go
With face all free from sorrow
L To make advances to the men
From whom he used to borrow.
Washington Star.
"she could hardly sit up. heard her say,
For the weather had borne her down.
But YOU bet she could stand on her feet all
day
While the dressmal1er fitted her gown
Cleveland Leader.
Hot September weather.
Every one harasSed,
For we all were thinking
Torrid waves had passed.
Mercury goes booming
Up the narrow slot.
Startled passers saying:
'"Thunder Amt it hot"
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph