The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Ladies are requested to remove their
hats far as possible was inscribed on
the cards of admission to q recent enter
tainmcnt in the suburbs of Boston.
Ex-President Cleveland and Lyman J..
Gage, secretary of the treasury, will make
addresses at the opening of the Winona
Presbyterian Assembly, at Warsaw, Ind,
next June
A commemorative tablet has just been
placed on the front of the building in Bos-
ton erected on the birthplace of Rev. S. F..
Smith, ID. D.. author of the words of the
hymn America"
A woman physician died in Washington
the other day who was always addressed
as Mrs. DR.. Susan E. Edison, though she
was spinster. She based her claim to the
title of Mrs. the fact that she was
welded to her profession.
Verdi hates hand organs, and at Mont
calier where he summers, he gets rid of
the district and storing them for the season
in his home. The ninety-five which he sup
pressed last summer cost him $3.50.
The largest known flower in the world is
the "Raffii of Sumatra, the diameter of
which is nine feet. Its size alone would
prevent it from being used as horse show
boutonniere, but it has the additional pro-
lection of Odor compared with which
asafetda is ambrosia.
One of the wealthy DANES at Newport has
a fad for cows. She buys the finest Jerseys
and has them MIXED by maids in Vatican
costumes. The bells on the neckS of the
perfectly groomed herds are from the Harz
district of Germany and of different sizes,
to produce the most harmonious sounds.
Lieutenant Olufsen, a Dane, who returned
last spring from central Asia, will next year
fit out a new expedition to the Pamir re-
gions in order to make geographical and
autographed explorations in the northern
n W1khpn pXnp0itiOn
will be supported by the Danish govern
ment out of the CarIsberg fund.- and will be
absent for two years The party will in
clude two scientific experts.
Sir Henry Irving, at a supper given in his
honor by the Arts Club, of Manchester, re-
Gently said that shortly after Lord Tenny-
son had been elevated to the peerage the
actor remarked: Look here, Tennyson, L
can't call you lord" Said Tennyson: Il
can't help it, only did it for the sake of
rather thought this anecdote would not
be found in the recently published life of
Lord Tennyson."
In her autobiography Nine. Marchesi the
famous singing teacher, tells curious
story of the first appearance in her Paris
studio of the American singer who is known
on the stage as Emma Nevada-taking her
she had never before seen rushed in, en-
braced her and said I'm an orphan; you
The experienced teacher had no difficulty in
divining that her visitor was an American.
Lii Hung Chang has appointed as his fam
lily physician Miss HUI King Eng, who
studied some years ago in an American
medical college. She has practiced for some
time a mission doctor in Foo-Choo, and
has been a Christian since her childhood
1t is believed that her appointment will do
much to overcome the prejudice prevailing
in China against female physicians. Next
year Miss HUI King Eng will represent
China at the London Congress of Medical
Women.
The Academy says that when Rudyard
Kipling was lad he went Oh {. sea voyage
with his father, Lockwood Kipiing, the art
ist ( Jon after the vessel got under way
Lockwood Kipling went below, leaving the
boy on deck. Presently there was d great
commotion overhead, and one of the ships
officers rushed down and banged at Mr..
Kipling's door. MIR. Kipling," he cried,
your boy has crawled out on the yardarm,
and if he lets go he'll drown" Yes, said
Mr.. Kipling, glad to know that nothing Sc
rious was the matter, but he won't let 60"