The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Rev DR. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Plym-
outh Church. Brooklyn, sailed for Bremen
on Thursday accompanied by his
Mr. E. D. Smith, d manufacturer in
Menesha, Wis, has given to the town
tract of land worth $4,000 for a public park
and $4,000 additional for public library.
The porter of the Paris Bourse recently
died leaving fortune of $4,000 He had
been employed thirty years at a salary of
$40 year. He evidently got rich on tips
A small civil-list pension has been grant
ed by the English government to the wild
ow of Charles Dickens the younger. Mrs.
Dickens, it is said, is in very straitend cir
cumstances.
During the war "Parson" Brownlow, of
Tennessee, offered a reward for the late
Senator Harris, and gave this description
on the top of his head red face, a little
prOfane and inclined to be dictatorial."
The late Mrs. Margaret ELEPHANTS hus-
band who was a poor artist was once
taken suddenly sick and she was forced to
travel with him and her three children
to Rome, supporting them by her pen. 1t
was under these circumstances that she
wrote a three-volume novel in six weeks.
Mrs Eliza D. Stewart who organized the
first womans temperance union in the
West, celebrated her eighty-first birthday
at Springfield, O., recently. Mother Stew
art as she is called, organized the first
members, in 1873. Since then, up to recent
years she has employed her entire time in
active crusade work.
The genial Chulalongkorn, King of Siam,
at his recent visit TO the Swiss Parliament
I'm Berne, took an album to all the MEM
bers, in which he asked them to draw a
pig with their eyes shut and sign their eff
forts with their autographs. The King,
as have many American youths and maid
ems, gained much amusement from the
regularity with which the statesmen failed
TO connect the tail with the body and put
the eye in the middle of the ham.
This is how friend describes Governor
Taylor, of Tennessee: He is an in
imitable story teller. Eie loves fried chick
en- better that a hound dog loves pot
liquor He drinks his whisky straight and
he pulls off his hat to every lady he meets.
He can play the fiddle, he can ride a horse
the horn blows for breakfast the next
morning. He knows the difference between
q thoroughbred and fetlock stock and he
worshipS a blue-eyed baby with devotion
characteristic of a mountain man"
Brahms anecdotes still come in. Here is
one: While always willing to assist and adj
wise talented musicians, Brahms was less
amiable and willing to be bored by medi
ocrities than Liszt used to be. Whenever
one of these imaginary geniuses called on
Brahms the visitor would begin by showing
the esteemed master some new composition
and beg permission to play it on his piano.
But Brahms was too smart for him. Il
am very sorry" he would say, but my
piano is badly out of tune" "Oh, but that
wouldn't bother me- the visitor would eX-
claim. But it will bother me-" said
Brahms, and that settled the matter
The late DR.. Wherefore, Bishop of Win
chester was a keen sportsman, and on one
occasion, when he was on visit a a ducal
seat, he was persuaded to join a shooting
party. His Grace's head keeper was
ScOtChman and Presbyterian and the
bishop tried to engage him in friendly
chat, but, finding the keepers replies were
short and reserved, he said: Il suppose,
out shoOting?" ''Weel my lord" said the
Scot frankly. I doubt yen find no warrant
for it in the Screeptur. Did We ever read
of the apostles going out shooting?" mo;
true" replied the bishop. "They had no
game IL Palestine in those days; they went
out fishing instead"
If for one day I were let loose
To boss things on this mundane shore,
Watermelcns would have less juice
And bananas would have more.
Chicago Record.
Now wouldn't it be nice
On plunging ship of ice
To sail away where Arctic waters roll?
To fare and fare away
Where it, freezing every day,
And hang our summer straw hats on the
pole?
To present out tickets there
Where the dancing polar bear
Gives the only entertainment - without
price?
To shake his frigid paws
And to give him our applause,
In a comfortable theater of ice?
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