The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DR. WooLsEY. ex-presideut of Yale, is spend
ing the summer at Cromwell. Conn, as he has
done for the last twenty years.
CHARLES LAMBS grave, at Edmonton. il
marked with . simple slab Of limestone, and is
overgrown with rank grass and weeds.
A BROOKLYN man has entered suit for dam
ages against his family physician because the
doctor Was not where he could be found in time
Of need
CARDINAL MANNINe recently apologized for
being late at . public dinner. ''The only ex-
cuse / have to offer for being late" he said. lis
that was very bvsy. I am always busy. With
me the sun never goes down on the finished
work of q day"
AMELIE RIvEs CHANLER reads but few books.
Shakespeare. George Eliot and Edgar Poe are
among her favorite authors. She reads French
rapidly, and has begun to take an interest in
German. She expects to study English when
she has leisure.
THE Chautauqua Summer School has closed
after a session bringing to it. delightful work
3S4 students, of whom SO have been Presbyter-
ians. A Congreeationalists, 30 Episcopalians
and as many Baptists, 10 only 20 Methodists,
although the original authors of the movement
were Methodista
MRS LIPPINcoTT. better known to The world
as Grace Greenwood, says she never was out
and-out q woman suffraeist, because she was
afraid OF being called upon TO make of-hand
speeches. Then, again." she said the other
day, II had always so many irons in the ire i
burned my fingers with many of them"
In the great town library Of Konigsbure Pro-
fessor Tschakert has discovered a number OF
hitherto unpublished, indeed unknown. sermons
and scholis by Luther. They belong to the i'm
portant period 1922. and are undoubtedly
genuine. The sermons were preached at or
near Wittenburg. and give q clear idea Of the
conflict in which Luther was then engaged.
MONUMENT is to be erected in Cassel TO the
brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Twelve
s~culptors have been invited to compete. among
them Prof. Hassenpaug, OF Csssel. q nephew Of
the Grimms. and q son of the reactionary Hes
sian Minister. Hassenpfue's model 10 now on
exhibition. On one side of the pedestal is
sculpsured the figure OF History. on the oppo.
Beauty" and on the fe nrth side is the figure Of
q female relating fairy tales to two children.
A FEW years ago General Alger, at that time
Governor Of Michigan, gave TO his OLD comrsde
n arms. General Sheridan, $40. 900 in money.
upon condition that il should be invested in q
life-insursnce policy. and that that policy should
be kept mp for the benefit OF his widow. Inc
money was invested ia a life-lnsurance poicy
for $25. 600. and inquiry since the death OF Gen
Sheridan at the Office or the tonnectous .on
'pany was answered by . statement tnas tnere
had been no default in the payment upon the
policy. The original intention cf General Aiger
was, therefore, carried out. and the poiicy re-
mains to the benefit OF the widow.
Mrs. SHERIDAN is partly Of Cherokee blood.
Her father. says the New York Tribune Gen.
Rucker. then Lieutenant Rucker. while sta
rioned at Fort Gibson. Cherokee Nation. mar
ried a Miss Cody. whose mother was a
daughter OF a sister of the Cherokee chief. John
Ross, who ruled over the nation for a period of
forty years. The establishment Of this Cherokes
right by blood. which is required OF all Cherokees
who have severea their connection with the uA.
ton beyond q year. would entitls Mrs Sheridan
to one eighteen thousapdth undivided share N
fourteen million acres Of land and . life sharv
in IS. 900, 900 of funds held IL trust bv the
United States. on which an annual interest Of
sI4o, 600 is paid to the ChsrokseA