The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-10
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A recent fad of Herr Krupp, the German
ironmaster is said to have been the use of
iron as a material for his visiting cards.
The plate was rolled as thin as the most
dainty cardboard.
Anthony Hope, who will soon make a lee
tura tour of this country, is said to be the
best after-dinner speaker in England. 1t is
said that for elegance of style and purity OF
language Mr.. Hope is without a rival any
where.
A distinguished professor of Dublin Uni
versity, DIR. Mahaffy, is reported to have
said the other day that e''doubted whether
as the result of the educational movement
of the last thirty years the people of Eng
land are either happier or better"
Michael Davitt began life in Lancashire
cotton mi when he was a boy of ten. He
lost his rlsnt arm by a machinery accident,
and this threw him out of regular employ
ment He obtained work as a newSboy and
went on fairly well until friend persuaded
him to join the Fenian Brotherhood at the
age of nineteen.
President Harper, of the University of
Chicago asked that graduates of his uni
versity be accepted as eligible, without ex-
animation, to become teachers in the Chi
cago public schools, but the high school
graduates must stand examination just the
same as everybody else.
In an interview with the representative
of South Wales paper, Sir Henry Irving
makes the interesting statement that he
wanted the late Lord Tennyson to make a
play of King Arthur, but the laureate
seemed to think that as he had dealt with
it in the "Idylls of the Kings he had fin
iShed with it, and did not, therefore, like to
make play of it.
The uniform case carried by Gordon
Pasha into lower Egypt has just been re-
covered and restored to his family through
a nephew, Major Gordon, now stationed at
Cairo. 1t is in a fair state of preservation,
but appears to have been used by its Egyp-
tan captors for many purposes, including
the carriage of dates or grain. 1t was found
on board a Dervish barge loaded with the
women of the Khalifa's followers, retreat
ing from Berber.
Lady Henry Somerset has given the town
of Reigate. England, sufficient land for the
erection of ten almshouses. This gift is in
connection with the scheme for the erec-
ton of almShOuSeS at Reigate in cOmmem-
grafton of the diamond jubilee. One of the
conditions of the gift is that on the gov
erning body of the almshouseS there shall
be not less than three women, and in defer
ence to her wish a scheme in which pro-
vision is made for this representation has
been drafted for submission to a town
meeting shortly 10 be convened.
Few women have dropped out of the pub
lie eye and mind more gracefully than the
One-time favorite actress, Lolita. Time was
when Miss Crabtree, with banjo, a clever
song and dance and arch, pretty little
ways, held her audiences spellbound. Re
fined, graceful and, in her line, highly
amusing, she was one of the most success
full performers of the day. She made
fortune invested it carefully, and while
still popular, she quietly retired to enjoy
the results of her work. She has. never
married, but lives with her mother to
whom she has always been the most de-
voted daughter, and she is probably to-day
the richest woman in her profession. She
has recently brought suit to recover over
so, 900 worth of property in Akron, o., on
which she loaned money.
There was a young lady of Cice'ter
Who went to consult her solicitor;
When he asked for his fee,
She said "Ffddle-de-dee,
1 only dropped in as a visitor"
There was a young woman of Ealing
Whose husband was very unfeeling;
When she had scarlet fever
He threatened to leave her
Until she had quite finished peeling.
There was an old man of Calcutta
Who had an unfortunate stutter;
Il should like" he once said,
Some b-b-b-bread
And some b-b-b-b-b-b b. butter"
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