The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

berlln mas female commercial travellers
who go their rounds on tricycles, to which
are attached their boxes of samples.
Gen. E'itzhugh Lee came home from Ha-
vana on the anniversary of the day that he
went home from Apprenticeship 9th day
of April
On her way home from the play not long
ago Miss Ellen Terry was rehearsing the
"Ophelia" mad scenes out loud. when the
cabman looked down and wanted to know
If she were i'll.
Governor Taylor of Tennessee, said in in
Producing James Whitcomb Riley to an au-
dience in Nashville: II would rather go
with Riley to Old Aunt Mary's than to go
to the United States Senate.
Queen Victoria has read and reread the
poems of Scott so often that she knows
most of them by heart and often during
her drives repeats verses descriptive of the
scenery through which she is passing.
A gentleman who recently died in London
at the age of seventy had been smoker
since he was seventeen. During that time
ne Kept a diary in which he recorded that
he had smoked 328.713 cigars, 49, 39 of which
were gifts. Those he paid for cost him
$40, $50
The longevity Of German professors is be-
coming proverbal A few weeks ago Otto
Bohtlingk. the eminent Sanscrit scholar,
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his
promotion to the doctors degree He is
etghty-three years old and in perfect health.
Since 1888 he has been professor at Leipsic.
As Mr.. Gladstone was telling tree near
the road once an old man came up, and,
after looking critically at him for time,
said: "Owd mon, let me have owt of that
AK. 1T was at once handed to him, and
he chopped away for some time and stop
ped, saying: That's the way to use a AK.
I've been used good deal to this sort of a
job, thou knows A few days after he
learned whom he had been speaking to and
FASTENED to apologize for his rudeness.
mo apology is needed" said the amused
statesman.
A correspondent at Mentone states that
Aubrey Beardsley was buried there, the flu
neral being attended by many members of
the English colony. The closing scenes in
thetic.. He suffered great pain, but was in
variably gentle and patient. When very
leave the bright world SO young and his
work so incomplete, but since it was Gods
Will he was ready to 60 He was full of
projects of future work almost within a
few days of his DEATH His end was quite
peaceful.
The Osservatore Romano thus describes
why the Pope does not appear on the streets
of Rome IF the Pope went about in Rome
he would inevitably be made the object of
demonstrations of respectful enthusiasm on
the part of the faithful, and by d natural
reaction these demonstrations would be fol-
lowed by others of a hostile character. The
ana Kissed and surrounded by tumults and
faction fights. The government would rem
der military honors to him, but it could not
long tolerate in the streets of Rome demon
STATIONS in favor of the Pope, who, after
all, is dispossessed sovereign"
Father Barabasz, of Baltimore who WIS.,
tied his countryTan Henry Sienkewicz.
not long ago. says in the Baltimore Sun
that the Polish novelist is very simple in his
manners and is rather silent when in soci-
n n nod
story. He is of medium size, rather dark.
and is inclined to badness, with a hint of
gray over the temples. The name is pro-
nounced Chen-kay-veetch with the accent
on the second syllable and the CHI pro-
nounced as in child. His home is now at
Warsaw; though much of his time is spent
in travelling and in getting material for his
literary work He has been married twice.
The death of his first wife occurred when
he was writing Pan Michael" and its SOM
Der tone is traced back to that event.
If it is true that the girl Queen of Holland
has snubbed that mighty potentate, EN-
peror William of Germany, she has doubt
less incurred his lasting enmity AS the
story goes in London, the Emperor prac-
tically invited himself to the coronation of
Queen Wilhelnlina, in September next, and
went so far as to engage one of the great
est palaces at The Hague for the occasion.
But it was seen at once that if present
he would overshadow everybody else at the
ceremony, and, assuming a paternal role
toward the young Queen would present
himself to the gaze of the world as her pro-
tector, if not as her suzerain. 1t was there
fore necessary to inform him. and all other
European soveregns, that the ceremony is
to be conducted on the most simple scale,
as an exclusively national affair and that
no foreign rulers or special representatives
are expected.
We wandered on the seashore,
We wondered at the sky;
/ told her how l loved her;
She said. She wondered why