The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The beautifuI WANDA de BoncZa, or the
Coincide Franchise, whom all play-loving
Paris is mourning just now, left a few
debts when she died. One dressmakers bill.
amounts to the pretty sum of 1000 0
Women in various parts of the country,
with headquarters in Washington, are rails
ing money to erect a monument to General
Spinner, the first man to admit women In
the Treasury Department at Washington.
Miss Rose Cleveland, sister Of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland. is a successful farmer. She
now owns one-half of a 7O0-acre island near
Islesboro, Me-, has about 500 chickens. a
large herd of COWS and a big vegetable
garden.
The Duke of Cambridge has lived under
five sovereigns of England. He was born
just in time to see the end of the reign Of
George VIII, was a boy Of eleven when his
uncle, George w, died, and was one of the
princes who carried the coffin Of the last
King to his grave.
Helen Gladstone, daughter Of England's
great prime minister, is devoting her life
to charitable work among the poor Of Lon
don. She is warden of the Women's Uni
versity Settlement in that district Of the
applying to her work among the sick and
suffering there the same sturdy ability that
won her so distinguished a place in Newn-
ham College, Cambridge.
Somebody has discovered that silver is
easily kept bright If 1t is boiled occasion
ally in an aluminium kettle. This latter
vessel must be kept perfectly clean and
bright and filled with hot water when the
household silver is put In IL. Keep the
water boiling for fifteen minutes, then take
out and dry the silver with the ordinary
silver towels, and it will be found that the
forks, spoons, etc., will be beautifully
bright and glittering. The kettle, on the
contrary, will have become furnished.
The friends of Frank Holme. the news
paper and magazine illustrator, who is
stricken with consumption, nave adopted
a novel way Of financing him as an
American institution. They have incor-
porated him. His corporate name is 1.-The
Bandelorg Press" and the corporators are
Kirke La Shelle, George AIDE, Finley Peter
Dunno and Augustus Thomas. The capital
to pay 5 per cent. if the incorporated Holme
survives and retains his earning capacity
in Arizona.
The fact that the widow of the famous
"Parson' Brownlow, Of Tennessee, is still
living at the age Of eighty-nine has been
brought out by the erroneous report OF a
pension having been granted her. "Parson''
Brownlow was one of the characters of the
war for the Union, and his answering 10y
his widow to recognition. When he was
asked to join the rebellion, he replied:
"When L go 10 nell Ill go tnere dlrect.. 1
won't go around by the way of the South
ern Confederacy."
When Ambassador White was minister to
Germany, about twenty years ago, he re-
ceived some queer letters. One was from
an old lady out West, inclosing some small
pieces of linen with this novel commission:
I'VE are going to give a fair in our church
and / ar making an autograph quilt. /
want you to get me the autographs of the
Emperor, Empress. the crown prince and
Bismarck, and tell them to be very careful
not to write too near the edge of the
squares, as a seam has to be allowed for
putting them together"
While the late Bret Harte was editor of
the Overland Monthly in San Francisco
there was a rather severe earthquake shock.
The correspondents Of Eastern papers were
requested to draw 1t mild" for fear of
driving away newcomers. but the notifica-
ton failed to reach Harte, who wrote an
amusing skit by way of editorial in his
when his name afterward came up for cleo
ton to a chair In the State University he
| lost the vote and support of the most iniu-
entail trustee, the banker. William G. Raj
ston.
Mr.. Balfour. according to a writer In an
English weekly. sleeps at least twelve hours
a day-sometimes longer, and though he
does not prepare his speeches word for
word like Sir William Harcourt. or dictate
them to a shorthand writer like Disraeli.
he does what he calls ''think them out
while in bed" and notes the principal head
ings on a sheet OF folded foolscap, which
he holds in his right hand while speaking.
to emphasize a point. He seldom pauses to
find a word. but when he requires time to
think OF the next argument he sips from z
glass OF water.