The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mile Mark Twain is what Figaro Of
Paris calls the daughter of S. L. Clemens,
who is studying music in Vienna, ANNOUNCE
ing that the very beautiful voice of this
fascinating young girl of eighteen Will one
day make her as famous Oh the stage as her
father is in letters. "si
A man out in Kansas obtained some pills
at drug store for the cure of insomnia.
That night in the dark he found what he
thought was the pill box, and swallowed as
he supposed, three of the pellets he then
slept soundly. In the morning 1t was d1scov-
cred that he had gulped down three Oh MS
Wife'S shirt waist buttons.
The Reform Bureau, of Washington, D.
c., is ready to supply pastors and other
moral leaders with documents relating to
national hopes and perils, suitable for study
and use in connection with the three red
letter days now at hand, thanksgiving,
Nov. %, worlds temperance sunday, NOV.
2S, and the assembling Of Congress, Lee. o.
The death of Rev. Edward Bradley at
New York recently was remarkable for the
circumstance that he was curate in an
Episcopal Church of which his son, Rev.
Edward A. Bradley, is vicar. The curate
was nearly seyenty-nine years old, ana ala
not enter the ministry until he was ntty.
For the last six years he has been ms son S
assistant at St. Agnes'S Chapel, on Ninety
second street, a mission OF trinity Churcn.
A discovery has just been made among
the archives in the Vatican of collection
of medical prescriptions for diseases of the
eye in the handwriting Of Michael Angelo.
1t may be recalled that this famous artist
was so much troubled with his eyes during
the closing years of his life that he was al
most blind when he died, and ne seems TO
have made record in his own handwriting
of all the remedies, that were prescribed LOT
him.
An anecdote in the biography of Tennyson
~ Pr
Tennyson the lad, was at school at Leuth,
he frequently visited in the house of an
aunt who would weep for hours because
God was infinitely good Has ne not
damned she cried, most OF my Irlenus
But me, me he has picked out for eternal
salvation The Congregationalist thinks
this win become classic among those VINO
hate Calvfnism.
In the book Love Affairs of Some Fam
Gus Men,, the story is recalled Of Dr. John
son and the widow whom he made his wife.
He believed in the exchange of prematri-
monial confidence in regard to disagreeable
matters, so he told her plainly that he was
of humble extraction, that he had no mon
ey, and that one of his uncles nad peeh
hanged. The sensible woman RESPONDED cleV-
erly that she had no more money than he,
and that. though none of her relatives nad
been hanged, she had SeYeral VINO ought 10
be-
Sir Arthur Sullivan says that he wrote his
Lost Chord" while watching at the bed
side of a sick brother. One night the patient
had for a time fallen into peaceful sleep,
and as Sir Arthur was sitting as usual by
the bedside. he CHANGED to come across some
verses of Adelaide Proctor's with which he
had once before been very much impressed.
Now, in the stiffness of the night, he read
thcm over again. and almost as he did so
he conceived their musical equivalent. A
stray sheet Of music paper was at hand.
and he began TO write. Slowly the music
grew and took shape, until, becoming quite
absorbed in II. he determined TO finish the
song. In short time it was complete, and
not long afterwards in the publishers