The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t has been discovered that Princess Emo
of Battenberg, who was born in 1887 is the
only royal child born in Scotland for nearly
three hundred years-that is since the birth
of Charles |, in 1900.
Robinson Crusoe'' was the favorite bow
hood book of many famous men, and among
them are mentioned the Prince of Wales,
Gabriel Rossetti Professor Huxley Mr.
Stanley, John Burns and the late Alphonse
Daudet. 41
1t is said that Ellen Terry is more beauti-
full at fifty-five years of age than she was
at thirty, but Ellen Terry is lowered with
the immortal charm of a graciousness that
viii keep her forever young and forever
beautiful.
Mrs. Gladstone has just celebrated her
eighty-sixth birthday. The elder of the two
daughters of Sir Stephen Blynne, she was
married to Mr. Gladstone on July Is, 1899.
Her sister, Miss Mary Blynne, on the same
Gay, became the wife of Lord Lyttelton
M De Paris, known in private life as M.
Delbler, is the public eXecutioner of France.
He is of retiring disposition, has a great
dread of notoriety, and an intense horror
OF strangers although he has, during his
forty-one years in office. executed 5o3 per-
sons.
Mr.. Alma Tadema has been so commonly
regarded as an English painter that it is
surprise to learn that he has but recently
been naturalized in England He received
letters OF denization from the Queen as long
ago as lSa5, but that does not carry with it
the full rights of an Englishman.
An English paper says that Bishop Eli
colt, of Gloucester, enjoys the privilege of
being allowed to travel on any railroad in
England free of charge. This unusual favor
was conferred upon him in recognition of
his heroic eXertiOnS in administering spirit
ua1 consolation to the dying victims in
standing his own serious injuries This
was while the bishop was still a young man.
Philip James Bailey, the aged author of
'Festus," recently said: II have not read
much of contemporary verse, and much of
what have read does not strike me as very
valuable. 1t seems to me there is an over
1OnQneSS with the poets of to-day to CO.
quette with words and play with phrases
The manner with them is more than rhe
matter There is lack of thought, and no
amount of pleasing VerSifications can make
up for that
Kentucky has a law which DEGREES that
after d man has been missing for seven
years, without having been heard Of he is
dead. An acknowledgment of this curious;
law has just been made in the Supreme
Court at Frankfort, where a life insurance
company PAID into court the amount for
which it had insured James w. Tate who
was treasurer of the State and disappeared
eleven eie years ago, leaving a deficit of about
900. Many of Tate'S friends believe the +
der the law he is dead.
Officialdom in Germany has been COM
PEELED by bicyclist to give deep thought
to the question: when two streets inter-
sect. I'm which street is the point of inter-
sections? AT Breslau bicycles are forbid
zen on certain streets A rider going along
q street where they are allowed followed It
across prohibited street and was arrested
in the middle of the road He asserted that
he was In one street. the policeman that he
was in the other, the lower court that he
was III neither and should not be fined and
the upper court that he was in both. there
fore on the forbidden street, and must pay
b cents.--New York Sun.
There is a celebrated cook in London who
Is said to have an income of over $4,000 a
year. He is attached to no house but in
his own brougham sets out toward evening
for the home of some rich man who is GO
ing TO give d dinner at which every dish
must be above criticism. Here he alights.
and, making for the kitchen, goes through
the process of tasting all the soups, sauces
and made dishes, advising when his palate
suggests a little more salt here a pinch of
herbs there, a dash of sugar III this entree
a suspicion of onion in that salms. etc.
This done, he pockets his fee of SIS and
drives on to the next dinners giving patron
who has hidden him to his feast in this
strange fashion. His nightly list comprises
many houses all through the London sea-