The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-31
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE average pay of women school teachers In
Pennsylvania is 500. Sc per month.
| AN English philanthropist says there are no
fewer than 1000 gypsy children in England. of
whom not more than per cent. able to read
| and write.
| BUsTs and portraits of NJ. Carnot are being
placed in all schcolrooms, military messrooms
| and general and local government Offices
| throughout France.
THE Calcutta National Guardian. trying to
| tumble it's way through the mazes of European
| politics. says that the war between England and
| America lis now Inevitable"
| HARPERs Young People: Harry, you should
not ask Cousin John how much money he is
WORTH that Is not polite" 81 wasn't trying 10
be polite just wanted to know.
THE villa Pameri, whore Queen Victoria
will stay in Florence. is the house which Boccac-
| clio made famous in his romances and the elder
| Dumas made the subject of his charming book
| on Florence.
'NiY DEAR" said a clever woman once, don't
waste your strength and energy, for you will
need it all some day. Save yourself even the
movement of an eyelid or the lifting of finger
whenever you cant"
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, of Wales now TWEEN
ty-four year old, says he does not want an estab-
lishment OF his own until he gets married; an
event which he has not yet even be gun seriously
to contemplate.
DIR. FREUND, Of Vienna proposes to cure
cancerous patients by reducing the quantity of
sugar in their blood, his theory being that can
Ger is caused by the presence of an abnormal
quantity of sugar.
NEW YORK horsemen have adopted the Gus
tom OF putting few folds of paper across tho
chest underneath the overcoat, as we'll as at the
back, protection against cold winds while
driving 1t is very effectual shield
A LADY visitor at the Jacksonville, Fla, sub
tropical exhibition attempted to pat a black
bear. when he sprung at her with growl. and,
getting both paws around her. gave her ire
7nendous hug. The young lady screamed and
rescued.
THE favors at Mrs. Vanderbilts cotillion were
solid silver butterflies, the wings with jewels,
claspine long satin ribbons and a cluster of os-
trich tips; jeweled medals, real silver wands,
great bouquets of and boutonnieres of
white vioets.
MRS ASHTON dixie, of the central commit
tee womans suffrage in London, is to visit
America in March, on the invitation of Mrs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is spending the
winter in England. Mrs. Dixie is brilliant
politics.
A FULL-GRowN horse. only thirty inches high
and weighing seventy pounds. is the latest New
York curiosity. The stranger is native of
Yokohama, Japan, and is the smallest of his
kind IN the world Sometimes he thinks him
self lap-dog and will lie with perfect content
ment in the arms of friend, eating sugar
slipping little milk punch. He is destined for
exhibition purposes.
FRANK r. STOCKTON has another novel nearly
ready. He lately said to a reporter ''Some Of my
stories are very hard taskmasters. One in par
tIcular, and IL was a short one, too, chased me
500 miles and then cudgeled me severely
for trying to get away from it. "Do you ever
escaped" asked the reporter. mot often. /
have tried several ingenious plans, but clever
story can generally outwit me-"
A PENNSYLVANIA lawyer who went West and
settled in Minneapolis does not appear enam-
ored of the climate. He says: SIT must be
confessed that Minnesota winters hard
professional people. For 100 days in
sion there is not sign of thaw even on the
walks. Before spring returns the vitality of
people who are shut up in offices Is nearly
hausted. and they have a dragged, pumped-o ut
appearance that can only be explained as the re-
suit of the severity of the climate"
THE Boston Journal OF Commerce tells how to
cut a bottle: 'Put the bottle on a level founda-
ton and fill up with oil far as you wish the
line of separation to be. Next get a rod of iron
as large as possible, but small enough to go into
the mouth of the bottle Make the iron almost
white hot and dip into the oil. In a very short
time the sound of a crack will be heard, when
the iron can be taken out, and the bottle will be
found as neatly cut as if with diamond.
Should the bottle be very thick and the sound
of the crack not heard IN minute or So q dash
of cold water outside will settle the business.
IN article in a recent Independent called
"Greek as a Fertilizer" Mr. Maurice Thompson
says: 1t is admitted nowadays that may
train himself for the literary profession. Ii any
young man or young woman in America Is just
now going into such training, my advice is. mas
ter the Greek language and read the Greek mas
ters not to initiate them, but to remember
them remem bers the mountains one has
seen. or the seas one has sailed over Simple as
daisy. wide the sky, strong as storm;
Greek poetry is inexhaustibe weii-spring OF
suggestion 10 the fresh and vigorous imagina-
ton. II is the very flower of art
FROM Perugia. Pecci, the present Pope was
sent as nuncio to Brussels. where he won golden
opinions from everybody. He used to attend
the evening parties of Charles Lever, and met
among Others the late Archbishop Whateiy,
with whom" according to MIR. Oldeastie, .'hs
made great friends" Mr.. Oldcastle also gives
an example of the nuncio's ready wit At dim
ner party q nobeman asked him to admire "a