The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-06

Henry Labouchere is described as care
less and untidy in dress and a smoker OF
poor cigarettes. He is fond Of home life and
devoted TO his wife and daughter.
Senator Depew has an average of fifty
letters to answer a day These come TO him
in his political capacity and the figure
therefore, covers but one side of his corre-
spondence.
The Rev. T. H. James, who has been
preaching In Oakley, Kan. on a $500 salary.
recently inherited a fortune from England.
and intends to use $4,000 of IL TO endow a
college and hospital in Oklahoma.
Senator Depew is said to be still some
what short on his usual fund Of facetious-
ness in a continued attempt to figure out
whether he was buncoed, and IL so how, in
the matter Of his pair with Hanna in the
Quay case.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has just
entered on her eighty-sixth year Since she
became the possessor of her fortune in the
year Of the Queens accession. the baroness
has spent in charity, it has been estimated.
million of money, out Of the El,SOO,0O0 she
then inherited.
Mrs. Capron, widow Of the Rough Rider
captain, who was killed in Cuba. will sail
for the Philippines, in May, TO do Red
Cross work. Since the death of her husband
she has interested herself in the welfare OF
discharged soldiers. securing employment
for many of them.
The next generation will see the Gould
fortune pretty well cut up, there being SO
many heirs. The richest of these will be
Kingdom, George Gould's eldest child. His
father is rated at $7O,ooO0oo. Kingdom;
though a mere child, speaks German ana
French, and has picked up a surprising
knowledge of yachting.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (now Mrs
Townsend and Sarah Orne Jewett were on
the same ocean liner a short time ago. The
latter said of the former: II hope that she
will be spared to carry on her good WORK
and to benefit US with the flower OF ner
genius. She has changed greatly since
saw her ten years ago and seems very
much broken. Probably the loss Of her boy
affected her deeply, for have heard that
she has never been herself since.
The oldest resident of Chicago is Henry
Graves, who has lived there since 1871 HIS
family, with twelve others. came there in
schooner from Ashtabula. o. The only 9TH
er man living who lived in Chicago at tnat
time is Alexander Beaubein, but as ne mas
not lived in Chicago continuously MI
Graves holds the record When he went
there there were only three or four wnits
persons in the village, as the troops sta
toned there were on a campaign
When Mark Twain was before the com
mittee of the House OF Commons when
was considering his plea for perpetual
copyright for authors he was asked whet1-
er he had considered in what way inc
property of a literary man could be taxed
at death he said that he was himself taxed
by the English government some years ago.
They found out how to tax him he was
curious TO know how IL was he had escaped
so long. and he wrote and received an eh-
planation-a number of documents wnicn
showed that nothing had been overlooked.
Everything was taxable except copyrign'
in books. He looked TO see what his htera-
ture was taxed under, and he found II was
taxed as gas works II was literally uue'
and 1t hurt him.
She married in haste
Gle was simply a treasured,
Her friends did not waste
Much regret for her testes
BY their standard OF measure
They said that her haste
Would find sorrow at leisure
That her jewel was paste.
That she'd parted from pleasure.
But they spoke in their haste.
For. from the time that she married thence
forward she never had single my
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