The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

William Waldorf Astor owns 1000 houses
in New York city. and has an income OF
more than 100000 a year.
Mr.. Moody hires fremont Temple. Bos-
ton, on his own account, and takes up a
collection at each meeting to defray the
expense. The collections, however, do not
meet the rent.
Mrs. Susan Winans. of Santa Anna, Cal.
is said 10 be the only known survivor OF
the Fort Dearborn massacre in 1872 The
Chicago Historical Society has asked the
United States government 10 give her a
pension
A Scotch clergyman in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, they say. has arrayed his male Choir
listers in Highland dress, while the women
are attired in the costumes of the Lady
of the Lake The hymns are sung TO the
strains of the bagpipe, and the church Is
crowded.
When pupil happened TO ask Rubinstein
how certain passages should be construed,
he invariably showed them; but IL a pupil
asked: Shall / play this i'm this manner
or that?"-both equally correct-Rubinstein
invariably replied: Play as you feel Is
the day rainy? Play it this way? Is il
sunny? Play II the other way"
An old rail fence that Lincoln Is said
to have built is pointed out TO strangers
on the premises of Marion county, Ken
lucky, distillery. Lincoln's father and the
father OF Jefferson Davis were neighbors in
that region, and are said to have fought
side by side in little brush with Indians
near where the town of Springfield, KY,
now stands.
Miss Pauline Woodward is one of the few
women who has made a success of fiori-
culture. Not many years ago she borrowed
suffi cient money to equip herself for this
purpose. She owns a plot of land near
Poughkeepsie, where she raises violets ex-
clusively for certain New York florist.
Her income from the sale of these flowers
was $500 last year.
The late Sir Henry Parkes was an ar
dent collector of autographs, and his treas
ures have just gone the way Of such things
under the hammer. The lots fetched very
moderate prices, one fine batch, containing
autographs of the Duke of Wellington Tai
leyrand. Victor Hugo. De Quincy. South
ey. Cardinal Wiseman and Lord Lytton be-
ing seer ID for 80 guineas-
Peep. can do graceful things in France
A lady. strictly guarding her anonymity,
learning that there were young men be-
longing to the Ecole des Beaux Arts distin-
guished for their proficiency, but who were
without ms, has had a house furnished
in one most picturesque parts OF
France ere, without cost a certain
numbe artists may spend their summers
and st y.
1t is designed in restoring the old home
of John and Abigail Adams at Quincy.
Mass, to preserve for future generations a
good example of the New England cottage
of the last century. The house is a little
less than 200 years old. and in IL more than
century ago John Adams and mis- bride
began their housekeeping. John Quincy
Adams was born there in 1861. Everything
In the house that was not original has been
removed as far practicable. revealing the
old smoke-browned Joists, or-boarding,
etc.
Quen Victoria's apartments in the new
hotel at Cimiez comprise more than one
hundred and forty rooms. Most OF them
have been sumptuously decorated for royal
occupancy, much of the furniture having
been purchased in London. The Queens
bed, easy chair and footstool were brought
from Windsor Castle. Nictoria's health
is said To be reasonably good, and as for
the talk of her prospective abdication
Henry Labourchere says: The Queen no
more contemplate abdicating than SWIM
ming across the Solent.'
Here lies poor woman who always was
busy;
She lived under pressure that rendered her
dizzy.
She belonged TO ten clubs and read Brown
ing by sight,
Showed at luncheons and teas. and would
vote If she might;
She served on a school board with courage
and zeal;
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on a
wheel;
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen. knew microbes
Approved of Delsarte, was Daughter
and Dame"
Her children went in for the top educa-
ton:
Her husband went seaward for nervous
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free
The shock was too great. and she died in
stantlee,
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