The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

General Miles and General Shafter were
both smoking on the wharf at Tampa last
Tuesday, when Private T. w. Smelling, OF
an Illinois company. doing guard duty, told
them it was forbidden, and they threw their
cigars away.
When the Duke of Edinburgh was a
MILDLY" like most youngsters he had a
habit of running through his allowance. On
such occasions he used to cut the sigma
lures from his royal mothers letters and
put them up at auction
According to an estimate made by John
Wanamaker, the people of the United States
have within the last twenty days expended
over two millions of dollars in the purchase
of national flags, and the demand is still
going on at an increasing rate.
Lord Masham, owner of the patents under
which the power loom is made, has an
nounced that he will give 100000 for the
purpose OF founding in Bradford, England,
a memorial hall in honor of Dr. Cartwright,
original inventor of the power loom.
There was a biographical sketch of Glad
stone published in a Turkish paper in 1876.
1t stated that he was Bulgarian by birth.
but, going to London with some pigs which
his master desired to sell, and desiring TO
become an Engishman, he changed his Bull
garian name, Grozadin for Gladstone.
To a correspondent who recently wrote
to "Ouida" for material out of which to
construct her biography she replied: Il have
not replied to you because l regret to refuse
your request, and ! cannot comply with it,.
What impertinence and what folly are these
so-Called biographies of persons who have
done nothing to deserve such a punish
ment?'
Among the Governors of States Pingree,
of Michigan, has offered to buy shoes for a
regiment out of his own pocket Powers,
of Maine paid the State bounty-$27,0 ,000-of
the Maine volunteers Tyler, of Virginia,
will be responsible for his order for shoes
for all his troops, and Adams of Colorado,
has offered to advance all the money needed
to equip Colorado troops, but several cit
liens are insisting on sharing this honor
with him.
The last account of Munkacsy describes
him being still in the sanitarium where
Robert Schumann died. He is quite incura-
BILE, calm and satisfied but dead to all
thought of his art. When Madame Nun
kacSy tries to persuade him that his works
are more esteemed than ever, he looks at
Eer with indifference and makes no reply.
At times he is quite aware Of his condition.
is haunted by religious ideas and looks for a
miracle to cure him. 1T is only from on
high" said he one day, that the remedy
can come"
The father of Adjutant General Corbin is
still living in the old family homestead in
Ohio Although more than eighty years DID,
he manages tfe farm upon which the gener-
al spent his boyhood and where he stopped
hoeng corn to enlist as private soldier at
the outbreak Of the rebellion. When the old
gentleman heard that his son had been ap-
pointed an adjutant general he was much
pleased and taking pen in his feeble hand
wrote his congratulations: Dear Henry"
he began, its a long ways from hill of
corn to- adjutant general of the United
States"
General Shafter, who leads the army cf
invasion in Cuba, is not graduate of West
Point. He is ''self-made soldier, if there
can be such thing, and comes from the
vast army of farmers boys who made our
soldiers in the civil war what they were. He
was twenty-five years old in 1861 and entered
the Seventh Michigan Infantry as first lieu
tenant in that year. He served with dis
tinction, and was promoted regularly, his
brevet colonel having been received for
gallant and meritoriouS service in the bat
tie of Fair Oaks, Va. General Shafter
weighs 30G pounds, but this does not prevent
him from being a very active man.
The ex-Empress Eugene is seventy-one
years DID, bent in body. and crippled with
rheumatism in it's most acute form She is
devout and imposes upon herself severe
rigors in abstinences which are far from
beneficial to her health She has entirely
lost the interest in dress which formerly
distinguished her. and made her for so
fashionable world. In the winter she lives
at her villa near Mentone, and the rest of
the year. except when travelling, at Chisel-
hurst, where she goes every day to pray
beside the tomb of the Emperor and her son.
1t is expected that on her death Princess
Henry Of Battenburg and her children will
inherit handsome share of her fortune.