The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND Kings.


Freddie Gebhardt has purchased lot on
Seventy-ninth street near Fifth avenue,
New York, for $780, 600, and will build on it
a 100000 residence.
Little Prince Edward of York will wear
on jubilee day a daisy little shocked coat
of white Irish popln, which is embroidered
on the shoulder collars in each corner with
the royal monogram in gold tinsel cord
Jeanne Deanss' gravestone in Irongray
churchyard is being Clipped away by relic
hunters. The name of the girl. whose story
Sir Walter Scott used in the Heart of
Midlothian" and whose appeal to the Duke
of Argyll procured her sisters pardon, was
Helen Walker. it NgJht
II never expect to ratTrs fron the stage
AS long as the American people want to
see me they can have me- This is Joseph
Jefferson's ultimatum and it ought to dis
pose of the rumors that get started a per-
ceptible intervals concerning the veteran
comedians approaching retirement.
There is a fine display of Populist econo-
my on exhibition in Oklahoma. The jour-
nal of the house has just been completed
and printed, and it is found TO contain 4 ,241
pages, at a total cost of about $500. 1T is
filled with rubbish that can have no prep
er place in such book. For example. the
letters to and from w. ]. bryan, who was
invited to visit the Legislature, are printed
A gentleman who is credited with having
made his escape from the Paris charity
bazaar fire with remarkable vigor and
promptitude was, few evenings back,
pushing aside lady in his attempts to get
before her into a Partisan theater. She
found it hard to keep her place. At last
losing patience she turned around and said
Bear in mind sir, that we are not at a
charity bazaar. He at once collapsed.
IAN Atchson woman says me Globe
recently bemoaned the fact that she had
no flowers to decorate the table for a din
ner party. Her servant girl didn't say any
thing, but when the guests arrived and
were taken out to dinner. che hostess found
the table burdened with -gera1iuJn bios
SONS. She discovered after The guests had
gone that the servant stole them from the
lawn of a neghbor, and that neighbor was
among the guests invited
''You know" says Joseph Jefferson that
for some strange reason all members of the
theatrical profession are fond OF the coun-
try. They love the rural districts not only
for the summer trip, but they turn farmers
whenever they can. If they save any
money, the first thing they Go is to buy a
farm. Edwin Forrest was a farmer. The
celebrated j Ohm Cooper, an English az tor,
with the first money he made in this coun-
try, bought farm, and curiouSly enough
he was the owner of fast trotting horse.
l have a farm in New Jersey and one in
Louisiana-they are both for sale. That is
not meant as an advertisement, but merely
to suggest some little warning.
The Cornhin Private Diarist'' cCnfesses
to liking ''nosense verse" and gives two
literary specimens
There was a young girl called Amanda
Whose novels were thoroughly fin-de
Steele, but l deem
Twas her journal ipuime
That drove her papa 10 Uganda.
The other one was the production of
Bob
There was young native of Delhi
Who could not read Crockett's 'Cleg Kelly,
When they urged, its the fashion,
He replied in Dass in,
81 know, but SOS Marie CorelH."