The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In Norway, people who are not vaccl-
mated are not allowed to vote at an cleo
ton.
A play entitled Pharaoh" written in
French by Oscar Wilde, is to be produced
in Paris at the Theater de POeuvre during
the winter.
The father of Anthony Hope Hawkins the
popular romantic novelist, who is to lecture
in this country for few weeks is Rev E
I. Hawkins vicar Of st. Brides, Fleet
street, London.
There is special fitness in the appointment
of Lawrence Washington, of Alexandria,
Va, as assistant in the national library, in
charge of the George Washington depart
ment. He is great-grandnephew of the
father of the rest of the country.
clergyman, sorely tried by doing ma
jority of his audience. stopped speaking.
When they all awoke, then he said: MY
friends, this sermon cost me a good deal of
LABOR. and | do not think you have paid it
the attention it deserves; / shall, therefore,
go over it again." And he did.
Edouard de Reszke tells an interviewer
that nothing in America surprised him so
much as the objection to having American
girls marry titled foreigners merely because
the foreigners do not work He fails to see
why there should be any insistence on work
for its own sake when there is plenty of
money without it,
Novelist W. d. Howells, who is now in
Paris homeward bound from a German
tour, said, the other day: II think in Hol-
land you feel the atmosphere of a former
republic. The Dutch seem very free peo-
pie; and, England excepted, 1 think one
feels more at home there than in any other
country in Europe"
Black bears are getting scarce in the
Yellowstone Park, and DR.. w. A. Croffut,
who has just returned from a trip there, has
entered a protest with the Interior Depart
ment against the suggestion of Superin-
tendent Young that the black bear in the
park be diminished in numbers by being
captured and given to museums.
Miss Leonora Jackson, the young Ameri-
can violiniste, who has just won the much
coveted music prize known as the Men
delssohn stipendium, formerly resided in
Chicago. She was sent to Berlin by Mrs.
Grover Cleveland and other ladies then in
Washington in order to study music under
Joachim. This is the first occasion upon
Which the prize, amounting to 1900 marks,
has been won by an American.
Andrew Carnegie came to this country
from Scotland a poor lad. His new Scottish
estate, Skibo contains twenty thousand
acres, with a frontage of fourteen mill
on Dornock firth, fine salmon river be-
sides several smaller streams, one Of the
best grouse moors in Scotland, and a fine
modernized castle, the traditions Of which
run back to the beginnings of the country.
Scotland is a fine land-for rich man to
come back to-
A Philadelphia theatrical manager who
was brought into close relations with Mrs.
Langtry during her first American tour, de-
clares that her husband followed her from
city to city, watching her every movement,
and that every precaution had to be taken
to prevent him from killing at least one
of his wife's many admirers. 1t is under
stood that a sensational tragedy was mar
rowly averted at the hotel at which she
stopped on her first visit to Philadelphia
The manager referred to insists that Mr..
Langtry adored his beautiful wife. and that
the worriment to which he has been sub
jected by the attentions paid to her by 9TH
er admirers has led to his mental aberra-
ton.
Don't go meeting trouble,
Adding to your load,
For it may go Sneaklng
Up some other road.
Greet the present pleasure,
Shun the future woe;
Seek the golden sunshine,
Let the shadows go.
-Pittsburgg Chronicle-Telegraph.
1 admired her beauty rare, praised her pref
ty Titan hair
Spoke in raptures of her eyes so bright
OF her dress so nice and neat, and her
smile so killino sweet,
And assured her that it was no idle
Then her little brother dear sprung a grin
from ear to ear,
And despite her head and finger shaking
Cried aloud: ."Oh, she's all right! She looks
mighty slick tonight,
But great Scot! you'd ought to see her
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