The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

IhlNCE DlSMAhCk was l0IC pl, ocV lALely Ov tue
will of Warsaw merchant, who wished the
Chancellor to buy keepsake with the money.
DURING the last ten years there has been an
increase of 300 per cent in suicides in Russia.
Intemperanc", higher price of food aud pessim
ism are given as the chief causes.
WE often hear of things that ''go without say
ing" but the most obvious thing of the kind we
have heard of is the WEIGH town of Lianfairpwl-
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PROFESSOR MAURICE BERNARD, who died
April g. at Dresden. has left his whole estate,
valued at So, 900, to Prince George of Prussia.
who was once his pupil. ''Was there ever
prince asks one ''who left his whole fortune to
professors
THE pedestal of the monumental group in
honor of John G. Calhoun. soon to be erected in
the city of Charleston, S. c., will be thirty three
feet high. and thirty feet square at the base.
The figures will be modelled in Rome by Mr.
Harnisch. the sculptor
THE New York State Board of Health is to be
asked to appoint special medical officer to in
spect workmen employed in cigar factories. II
is alleged that many of the foreign cigar makers
recently imported are untitled by disease to han
die tobacco that other men are to smoke.
THEY tell the story in Chicago of rich man
who has concluded that the walls of his large
house looks bare. and has made offer to the
managers of the Exhibition of Western Artists
TO take the whole show at fixed price. Good
and bad chiefiy bad) are to adorn indiscrimi-
patey the walls of this wholesale M8cenas.
WHILE Americans believe that after sixty
four military officer is only fit for retirement,
the Germans are under no such delus;on The
youngest general in the German army is fifty
seven, and Count Blumentha. still in active
service, is seventy-six while the old Kaiser, now
in his ninetieth year, is in fact as in title the
head of the army.
FRANK HATToN says: "Blaine is a candidate
in dead earnest again. His family is announced
as having joined the Catholic Church. That al
ways happens when Blaine wants anything real
bad. 1t gives him chance to come out and ex
plain how he goes TO the congregational Church,
how Walker inclines to Msthodism, and how the
rest of the family mix up their religion. He
uses religious SCOOP net for votes
THE story comes from Wurtsboro'. Sullivan
county, that farmer stopped at the house of
friend, unhitched his team, and visited three
hours, leaving the wagon standing in the barn
yard When he went out to hitch up nothing
remained of the wagon. but the iron work
There had been some straw, two horse blankets
and milk can in the wagon, and the conclusion
vas that the bright milk can had focused the
rays Of the hot sun until they set fire to the
straw.
IT is related that when the first Maine railroad
was started, about forty years ago. w. G. Pit
man, of Bangor was conductor One rainy
morning he started from Watervllle, and, on ar
irving at North Belgrade, a flag station. not see
ing any flag. ran by the station. just as the
train had passed tho red flag was run out for
some passengers to get on Mr.. Pitman stopped
his train and asked Stephen Richardson, the sta
ton agent, why he did not display the flag be-
fore. Mr.. Richardson replied: BE you a-eon
tn frafr in thapq .1xnts
think you would"
ONE warm summer day, the story runs, the
Rev. DIR Peabody, of Cambridge. was coming
into Boston, and, getting off the car at the Re-
we're House. he nearly collided, in turning a
sharp corner, with an elderly gentleman who
was standing with his hat off, wiping the per-
SEPARATION from his forehead; but he held his hat
in such position AS to give the appearance of
begging. Dr. Peabody. seeing only the hat
dropped quarter into it, with his customary
kind remark. DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. who
was holding the hat. put the money in his peck
ct, solemniy thanked the giver and passed on.
THE Popolo Romano fRome) says of the Amer
lean sculptor. Ezekiel '.Of the many portrait
busts in marble and bronze a few of the best
may be mentioned. First of AN, Ezekiel has
two portraits In bronze that in reality do him
honor. The one of List is truly speaking.
Ezekiel Is strong musical dilletante. and this
half figure in bronze is a manifestation of this
cultus, and gives a characteristic record in
imperishable metal of the great musician. Eze-
kie has transfused all his eminent qualities plas-
ticaly; for portrait of Liszt more expressive
than this one we have never seen among the
great many that have been made"
THE management Of the Philadelphia School
of Design, by unanimous vote. have elected
Miss Emily Sartain to be principal Of the insti
tuition. Miss Sartain was not applicant for
the position. She is the daughter of John Sar-
tain. the famous steel enerayer. and is an artist
of recognized ability, well teacher of large
experience. She is forty five years of age aud
has been connected with the profession OF art
for nearly twenty years. She studied for five
years In Paris under Lumanaz. and then at
Palma. Italy, under another famous teacher.
Afterward she travelled through Europe, study
ing the masterpieces of the various galleries.
JOHN BRIGHT, though now seventy -four. 10
still regarded al the greatest orator. the Demos
themes of the House OF Commona His wonder