The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Inc Luxembourg has acquired a picture
by young American negro. Mr.. Tanner.
VINO mas also a picture in the Paris salon.
Governor Hogg, who is very much OPP
posed to extravaganza in dress, recently
gave a reception in the invitations to which
ne requested guests to come dressed simpiy
| and cheaply He himself wore a $3.50 suit
Adelaide RistOri, Notwithstanding her age
and intrmity, recently made the trip to
Turin. where she recited the fifth canto of
Dante's inferno at the Carignano The
alter. Though her voice was weak the dra-
matte genius which made her world-famous
still animated her delivery and elected
great applause.
The real author of "a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight which has been de-
scribed since the Santiago fight as the new
national anthem is. according to dispatch
from Denver, an old negro woman. named
Amanda Green. who sang 1t for years until
II was finally picked up by travelling actor,
who got the tune and fixed up the words to
suit himself, retaining, however, the title
and the main idea.
The Brooklyn Eagle tells this story of the
late Admiral Kirkland who died recently.
He owned a hunting dog which had a bad
habit of chewing a bird before fetching
it. and who always howed when the band
played the 'Star-spangled Banner" The
admiral once asked orderly what he
thought of the dog. "A magnificent ami
NAL answered the orderly You're a id
liar" replied the admiral.
In a Pontiac. Mich Sunday school a little
girl told the story of Solomon and the dis
putting mothers in this wise: Solomon was
very wise man. One day two women went
to him, quarreling about a baby. One
woman said This is my child. and the
other woman said, No. faint; it's mine
But solomon spoke up and said: No, no,
ladies': don't quarrel. Give me my sword
and I'll make twins of him, so you can both
have one -
Alexander Baudot the bugler of the
First Zouave Regiment. who sounded the
charge for the assault of the Malakoff by
order of MacMahon in September, 1855, has
made a present of his historic instrument
to the Musee des Invalides Paris The bueIe
is broken and battered. like it's late pos
SCISSOR. who has kept ii all these years in his
little dwelling at scissors. 1t is to hang in
the Musee by the side of the sword used by
MacMahon in directing the attack on the
Russian fort. Baudot. the veteran bugler,
can boast of twenty-four campaigns and
eight wounds.
Washington society discusses the story
that Miss Evangelina Cisneros, now Mrs
Carbonel, was not the willing bride of
man twenty years her senior although her
husband, a physician of her own race and
now a soldier, helped to rescue her. She
married, ii is said, because of her gratitude
-, ~ WI. lied y, wIo 1dNoreu the Halch, ana
her regard for Mrs. Logan. her guardian,
who also advised it. And now the Detroit
Tribune is ungallant enough to hope that
Mr.. Hearst will not have to send out an
expedition to rescue Mr.. Cisneros."
John Hay born at Salem, Ind. Oct.
8, 1888, being a descendant of John Hay, the
son of a Scotch soldier in the army of the
Elector Palatin. in Germany and who i'm
migrated to America about the middle of
the last century with four sons. One of
these sons. Adam. served with distinction
in the revolutionary war. and was a friend
and associate of Washington Adams son.
John Hay, moved from Kentucky to Illinois
to escape the disgrace of living in a slave
State. taking with him all his family ex-
cept his son Charles, who studied medicine
and settled in Salem, Ind. There his SON
John Hay, the next secretary of state, was
born.
There was a man in our town
Who posed quite wit
And when a question he was asked
lie always answered init"
One day he met his Waterloo
In maiden dressed in pink:
II G asked her if she'd marry him:
She answered, II don't think"
Chicago News.
If your Joad is ard to bear.
Don't you stop and fret about it;
when you see your duty clear,
Set your teeth and get about it,
Doesn't help along to cuss,
Or 10 make vocal fuss
Only makes the matter wuss
Gettin' in a pet about it.
Denver Post