The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Queen Victoria on her way home from the
Riviera will visit Germany to be present at
the wedding of her eldest great-grandchild,
Princess Feodore of SaXe-M einingen, to
Prince Henry XXX of Reuss.
1t costs money to be created a baronet
in England Sir John w. Mcclure, for in
stance, says that he spent $3.50 in replying
to kilograms of congratulations when the
announcement of his elevation was made.
Representative Dingley is not an orator.
His voice is too nasal to be pleasant and is
too weak to be heard, and when he reads a
speech members who wish to hear him are
compelled to crowd around him for that
purpose.
ST Georges Church, Preston, England,
has had only two Wears in one hundred
years the Rev. Robert Harris who was
vicar from Jan. 6, 1885, till 1862, and the Rev.
=. II. WOOD Mr.. HarriS's successor, who
still retains his post.
The last time Queen Victoria opened
Parliament was in 1856, and it is likely to
remain the last time for an elevator would
be necessary in the House of Lords should
she again attend the function, as she is too
feeble to ascend the stairs.
The Emperor William has designed the
chasings on the new German quick firing
guns. They begin close behind the muzzIe.
encircling it with the motto, PRO gloria ct
patria." Nearer the breech are the Prus-
sian eagle and the initials Nv. r." sur
motto.
A man in Binghamton N Y, out of the
kindness of his heart said recently that
he would be q father to the children of
a destitute widow, meaning that he would
help them to the extent of his power But
the widow attached different meaning to
the remark, and has sued him for breach
of promise
Henry James, the novelist, will probably
never return to America to live, as he has
just purchased a country house at Rive.
England, close to the sea. Hitherto he has
occupied quarters in Kensington, London.
but he IS pasionately fond of country life.
Mr. James IS now past fifty, but he looks
youthful and well.
Chauvin was the name of a principal
character in a French comedy which was
played with immense success at the time of
the restoration. He repres, nted a Dragging
veteran OF the empire, who was continually
talking OF his achievements at Austerlitz
and Jena and his determination to take a
brilliant revenge for Waterloo.
A play called "DreyfuS' has been pro-
duced in Amsterdam. 1t is founded upon
the dramatic incidents of the notorious
case, and has had it's ending varied from
day to day in keeping with the news of the
moment IhuS, on some nights when pub
TIC sympathy has gone out to the prisoner
OF Devils island, the curtain has fallen
upon the union of husband and wife after
the long years of enforced separation; at
other times, when the tickle vane of public
opinion was veering round in another di-
recton the final scene has Witnessed the
apotheosiS of Esterhazy
Lord Darlington tells a story of his ex-
periences while Governor of New South
Wales. His first public appearance was at
the mayors dinner at Sydney Having COM
mited a few words to paper, he delivered
them in reply to the toast of his health. and
then SAT- down, feeling very much satisfied
fat man. He was an M p, who had suf-
fered long from the abundant eloquence of
the new Governors predecessor. When
LORD harrington sat down. the fat man
filled his glass to the brim, and said:
THANK the Lord, he can't speak,