The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-24

Fernando, the daughter of Ferdinand
De Lesseps, well known in this coun-
try because of her visit here with her
father, having secured a, divorce about
a year ago from Count De Gontaut BIZ
ron, Spendthrift and prohtgate, is now
about to marry the Count De Mira
mont.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's d.
vOrce has had an unexpected result.
She wishes to have her name changed
to Mrs. Frances HodgsOn, but her pub
fishers are said to object. They say
that the name she desires to assume
has no remarkable value, and that with
it she would have to win fame anew.
British tousists have compelled Hen
rik Isben to give up his 20-year-oId
habit of going to the Grand cafe at
Christiania at a regular time by a reg
ular road and spending his evening
there with his friends. They Waylay
him, stare at him and follow him along
the streets. Recently six gathered around
him, while a seventh took snapshot
of the group. Ibsen lost his temper,
around and went home, missing his
evening at the cafe for the first time in
20 years.
Jules Barber, the veteran playwright
and librettist, has sent in his resigna-
.tion as an officer of the French Legion
of Honor, on account of the recent sus-
pension of Emile lola by the council of
the legion. In his letter he says: Il
feel as much pleasure in returning my
officers rosette as did in receiving it,
Professor Baron of Berne has left all
his property to the city of Berlin for
the establishment of a vegetarian chill
dren'S asylum, and the city authorities
have accepted the legacy. Professor
Barons vegetarianism was limited to
the exclusion of all food derived from
dead animals, so that the products of
living beasts, such as eggs, milk, cheese,
butter and honey, may be used. The
will provides that no physician shall
ever be a trustee of the asylum.
Mrs. General Miles doesn't believe in
letting red tape interfere with the relief
of wounded soldiers. In the storeroom
of the hospital at Fort Myer the other
day she found a great number of boxes
of delicacies sent by friends of the in
jured men, but which remained unopen-
ed for lack of authority from the war
department. She ripped open the boxes,
distributed pyjamas, jelly, tobacco,
ginger ale, deviIled chickens and whole
stockings until the wounded cheered
themselves half we'll. Then she went to
Washington and applied at the war de-
partment for permission to open the
boxes.
Sir Charles Dixie is used to telling a
very amusing and characteristic anec-
dOte which was related to him by Bis
marck. When Bismarck was in London
in 1843 one of the places of interest he
was invited to visit was the famous
brewery of Barclay & Perkins, and his
hosts, having heard Of his reputation
as a beer drinker of great prowess, pre-
scented to him an enormous tankard of
old ale, in the confident expectation
that he would be obliged to admit him
self vanquished by it. Il seized the
tankard," Bismarck told Sir Charles.
land I thought of my country and
drank to Prussia, and tilted it till it
was empty. Then thanked my enter
tainers-cOurteously, 1 hOpe-and sue
ceeded in making my way as far as
London bridge There I sat down in
one of the stone recesses, and for hours
the great bridge went round and round