The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Oliver Wendell Holmes used to dabble a
little in amateur photogra ply. When he
presented picture to friend he wrote on
the back, Taken by o. w. Holmes q Sun. >"
An English newspaper recently offered a
prize OF 80 for the best reply to the ques-
ton, who makes the best wife?" One of
the replies received was as follows: Dear
Slr-Mine Yours truly, Bertram Boggs"
Thomas Hardy, the novelist, owes much
to his wife, for it was she who persuaded
him to give up architecture for literary
work, VINO copied his first novel and sent it
TO the publisher, and who still attends TO
most or the business part of his writing.
Sir Walter Besant celebrated his sixtieth
birthday on Nov. /. The event calls to mind
that he has never suffered any of the hard
ships which were the lot of so many of his
contemporaries in fiction. From the very
beginning he has found a ready market for
his work.
Francis w. Cushman, of Tacoma, who
has been elected to Congress against ].
Hamilton Lewis is called by his friends the
Abraham Lincoln of the coast" and he is
a breezy and forceful representative of the
Pacific slope, who has been an Outspoken
friend OF the gold standard ever since the
issue was raised.
Admiral Thomas o. Selfridge who was al
most the only man TO escape from the Cum
berland after her battle with the Merrimac,
over TO the navyS retired list, will live in
Washington with his family. Il have been
IN nearly every port in the world he said
recently, land now I'm tired of travelling"
A plainly dressed man was standing in
the lobby of a downtown hotel in New
York the other day and asked the clerk
the shortest way to point across the city.
The clerk thought him stranger from the
interior of the State and gave the required
directions. But mean; can't | get a car
riage near here?" said the stranger Yes,
but it will be a little expensive ''Well,
III try 1t. Whom shall / order the car
riage for" asked the clerk. For Russell
Sage"
r. E. Sherman, of Chicago, has just heard
that his umbrella" will probably be given
a place in the Paris exposition of 1900.
Sherman's umbrella is $50 feet high and 25O
feet across when opened. At the end of
each rib is a car that will hold fifty peo-
pie, and when the umbrella is opened 1t
will whirl slowly round and round. Per-
sons who felt queer, in the Ferris wheel
for getting up IN the air. 1t is All umbrella
that may safely be left about without fear
of theft.
Brooklyn Life tells of bride who was
showing her wedding presents with great
delight, but when her visitor paused before
fine etching of THE Angelus'' her face
fell. How beautiful was the exclama-
ton. Yes the bride responded, "but 1t
is so sad! If it hadn't been given to Henry
by his favorte uncle should propose hav-
in~ it taken out, and something else put into
the frame The frame is lovely! But it
makes me blue every time 1 look at the pic
ture. There that poor young couple have
just buried their little baby--their first
born. likely-oh L can't bear to see it!''
He came to me with pleading eyes,
His face was drawn and white;
His look betrayed the fact that he
Was in a dOeful plight.
j handed out the nickel that
He had to have before
They'd let him take the car for home,
Six miles away, or more.
He left me, as the midnight bells
Began TO loudly ring,
Explaining that he'd bet his all
Upon
dead
thing.
cleveland Leader.