The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Millais once remarked to Val Prinsep:
Every often when I am worried about my
work l go to my wife and nave sood
cry
General Forrest the noted Confederate
cavalry leader, was an uneducated man,
and on one occasion, when asked the secret
of success in battle replied: Cit thar lust
with the moStest men,
NJ lola is to be subjected to new trial.
The Touring Club, which Is the general
French cycling club. is about to consider
the question of removing his name from the
list of its honorary members.
Herbert Spencer, who is now living in
Brighton, England, a sufferer from heart
disease is said to be the only living writer
whose name is included in the long. list OF
authors inscribed on the walls of the new
Congressional library in Washington.
The majority of the people of Sweden
still cling to the use of the good old
fashioned tallow candle, though electricity
has been introduced in the cities. In one
year one Swedish firm manufactures 2l,OOO :
GOO candles of all sizes for use in that coun-
try almost exclusively
Nine. Patti, who is in Paris, writes a
friend in London that she is in good health,
but greatly depressed by the recent loss of
her husband. She has Cancelled her engage
ment at Monte Carlo. She will, in all prob
ability, return to Wales very shortly and
remain there quietly untillate in the spring,
when she VIII resume her professional en-
gagementS.
A writer in an English paper gives this
recipe for preventing rust in carnations,
which he received from a gardener in Ger
many, whose plants We're unusually fine
and in healthy condition. He mixes two
pounds of vitriol and four pounds of freshly
Stacked lime in twenty-seven gallons or
water, and stirs well together until it is
clear not blue, and then he adds two
nf
this he ssyringes his plants once a week W. X.
early in the day. The Swinging should be
done quickly, finely and evenly
The Westminster Gazette says: "An un-
suspected and pathetic romance in the life
of Mr. Charles yilliers Is at the bottom of
the fortune which he has left to the Rev.
Montague Villiers, vicar of st. Pauls,
Knightsbridge. The amount is actually
G15O,OOO, and similar sum has been left
to another son of Bishop Villiers. Mr..
Charles Villiers, it appears, had been in
love with a Miss Mellish. For some reason
they did not marry, but each lived single
for the sake of the other When Miss Mel
fish died she left her money to Mr.. Villiers.
He, having enough for his own simple
needs, did not touch it, but allowed it to
accumulate, and wiled 1t to his knsmen."
Alfred Darbyshire. of Manchester, tells
this story of Sir Henry Irving. Hamlet"
was being played and Mr.. Darbyshire was
Polonius. Il remember he says, "the
weather was very hot and, after being con-
signed TO oblivion, I was sitting on &c table
behind the tapestry, tanning myself, when,
to my establishment, Hamlet drew aside the
tapestry and repeating the well-known
WORDS, Thou rash, intruding fool, / took
thee for my betters,' he gave an agonized
look; and, soto voce, exclaimed, For good
ness sake, get me a pint Of Stout. I'm as
dry rs limekiln!' This from the Prince
of Denmark startled me- and for some little
time 1 failed to take in the situation
All, March! We know thou art
kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and
threats;
And, out of sight, art nursing violets.
Helen Hunt Jackson.