The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Augustus st. Gaudens is said to nave
nearly finished his statue of Philips
Brooks which is to stand in Boston. Inc
commission was given him In 1873.
OF the five living ex-speakers OF the
House Of Representatives Thomas Is. heeo
is the most prosperous, his income from
his law practice amounting TO apount soo'-
100 a year.
This story about Mark Twain is now
going its second round of the English pa
pers: During Twain's residence in Eng
land he was taxed in what seemed to him
an unjustifable instance. Accordingly he
wrote a friendly protest to the Queen. 1
don't know you," he wrote, but I've met
your son. He was at the head of a process
sion in the Strand and L was on a bus.
While travelling Miss Helen Gould is con-
stantly attended by a man named Tut
who acts as her bodyguard. One OF his
special functions is to keep kodak henos
from taking pictures of Miss Gould. Dur
ing his long service he has been arresteu
several times for smashing cameras, put
Miss Gould, of course. always gets him
out of the trouble. He Is a giant In stature
and weight.
A certain hat manufacturer near New
York has a government contract to make
felt hats for the female Indians on the
reservations. The halter says that the
average squaw is afflicted with big head"
The size for the average white womanfs
hat is ca; the largest generally GA. Inc
size ordered by the government Tor the
Indian women run UP to N Tn greater
number are 6s TO Z.
Lady Henry Somerset, the English tenn
perance reformer, is now ffty-two, but
does not look her years. She has been
since 1890 president of the British
Temperance Association, which is now the
largest association of it's kind In England.
Women's Christian Temperance Union, and
in 1898 held sway over $4,000 women as
president of the international association.
Mime. Melba, returning to Australia after
sixteen years absence, found her father,
David Mitchell, suffering from a paralytic
stroke. He is one Of the oldest citizens
of Melbourne. and was for years one of the
leading contractors and builders. A strict
Presbyterian, he did not altogether ap-
prove of his daughters becoming the prin-
cipal soprano in the choir of the Melbourne
Roman Catholic Cathedral, and when she
developed into a prtma donna he never
crossed the equator to witness her triumph.
An amusing story told by Sousa apropos
Of the rigor Of Sunday observance, appears
in an exchange. A little country girl very
early one Monday morning took a basket
Of freshly-picked. dew-glistening raspber-
ries to her family's minister. He was de-
lighted, and said so; but he added, doubt
fully: Ell hope you didn't pick them
yesterday-the Sabbath-my chiid?'' ''Oh.
no, sir-this morning." she hastily said.
innssly Explained: "But@tHey Was a.xrowin'
all day yesterday"
Miss Eta III. Bolton, of Mobile, Ala, is
one of the six women letter carriers In the
United States. She is the nineteen-year
old daughter Of the former carrier on the
same route, and covers a distance of TWEEN
ty-three miles daily. Sunday excepted. She
was appointed by her father as his substi-
tute and now performs the duties regular
ly. She travels in a specially constructed
wagon, carrying stamps and blanks, and
can perform any duty of a rural postmas-
ter, including the issuing of money orders
and registering of letters.
Undoubtedly the most wonderful old lady
in the peerage at the present time is the
Dowager Duchess of Abercorn, who has
passed her nintieth birthday, and whose
son, the present Duke of Aberoorn, was
sixty-four last week. Six years ago the
dowager duchess had 120 direct descend
ants, and since then the number has in
creased. The dowager duchess had fifty
three years of happy welded life before
her husband, the nrst Duke of Abercorn,
died, in 1885. The venerable peeress pos
sesses the Order of Victoria and Albert.
In order to give her a legal status Nine
Patti, vs. are told, has taken out letters OF
naturalization as a British subject. This
helps to augment the great diva's cosmo'
| politanism. She was born i'm Madrid, hel
father was a native of Sicily and hel
mother a native of Rome. She was brought
up by an American" stepfather in tn
United States. married a Frenchman anC
also ar Italian husband before she set
tied down in Wales. is the wife of a Swed
ish nobleman, Baron Cedarstrom, and 4
now a daughter OF John Bull"
The women of Freeport. ILL.,, nave fnall,
found and will substantially mark the spo
on which took place the famous Lincoln
Douglas debate. There has been an exas
perating delay of over a year concerning
this matter. The old-timers failed to agre
as 10 the exact locality CT this stand from
which the speeches were made. Finally tn
corner of Douglas avenue and Mechani
street was agreed upon, and a COMMITTEE
of the Freeport ONE Club went &
DEVILS Lake, Wis. and secured a hug
bowlder, which will be taken to Freepor
and placed in position with fitting cere
monies.