The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

P1OUS old lady OF Toronto devOteS the
profits accruing from the sale of all the
eggs. laid by her hens on Sunday to the
missionary cause.
RICHARD E. BURTON, whose poems in
Harper's and the Century have attracted so
much attention, is a young man on the
editorial staff of the Churchman.
1T is not generally known that Mr.. Glad
stone has only three fingers on his left hand.
The index finger was shot off. forty-seven
years ago, by an accident in the hunting
field.
AN English clergyman is reported to have
remarked to a daughter of Bishop Hunting
ton: HAS your father many Mormons in
his diocesei Utah, l think. is In New
York;"
MIR. WHITELAw REID. American minister
to France. now speaks French fluently.
When he went abroad he could read the
language. and had sufficient knowledge of
it's structure to acquire it with marvellous
rapidity.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is very
hearty eater and drinker. He consumes an
enormous amount of meat, beer and wine
every day. and is never troubled with indi-
gestiOn. He prefers pipe to q cigar, and
shows an element of greatness by detesting
cigarettes. tSaef
Miss ALICE DAYTON. of Ellsworth, Wis,
invited her lover to her home. He wa4yA
young minister of st. Paul. Alice's mother
favored another sutton of her daughter, and
expressed her disapproval by emptying a
pail Of sour buttermilk over the young
dominic in his new dress-suit.
YOUNGSTOWN CO., man recently started
for Europe. He reached Buffalo, n. Y,
when he remembered that he had forgotten
to lock his safe. He hurried home and
there found a letter offering him q large
contract in Cincinnati, which he at once
accepted and abandoned his trip.
1--WE are sorry to hear" says the London
Athen@um. that grave fears arc enter
tanned for the safety of Mr. Malcolm Mac
milan, son of Mr.. Alexander Macmillan
the well-known publisher. Mr.. Macmillan,
who has been travelling in the East, under
took the ascent of Mount Olympus, and has
been lost on the mountain"
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, the poet, is build
ing new house at Hull, Mass, on the site
of the one formerly occupied by him. That
was said to be nearly 200 years old, and Mr..
OReilly, who has love of the Old-fash-
Toned, chung to it until it nearly crumbled
built of Quincy granite, with picturesque
tower on the water side. An old cannon.
the relic of a wreck off Hull, is one of the
features of the grounds.
SOMEBODY tells of early San Francisco
days: "At one time woman could hardly
walk through the streets of San Francisco
without having every one pause to gaze on
her. and a child was so rare that once in a
theater. in the same city, where q woman
had taken her infant, when it began to cry,
as the Tsd en to play
let the baby cry. l haven't heard such a
sound for ten years. The audience ap-
plauded this sentiment, the orchestra stop
ped. and the baby continued its perform
ance amid unbOunded enthusiasm"
Mr.. LEWIS MILLER, president of the Lake
Chautauqua Society, says that when the
society was first formed its ground was
worth about $500 an acre, and the cottages,
together with all buildings belonging to
the association. did not amount to more
than $4,000 or 5000. The value of the
100000. and there are yet unsold about
| $4,000 worth of lots, valued at from $3.50 to
$500 each. The. management intends to
erect permanent buildings in the future.
| The first graduating class numbered but
| 100 the next year 1900, and this year it il
| 5000.
Mr.. A. B. RICHMOND. of Meadville, Pa,
testiRes. II have practiced law forty years.
have been engaged in over 1900 criminal
cases, and on mature reflection / am con.
| WINGED that more than 5000 of them origi.
| mated in drunkenness alone. and that a
| great portion of the remainder could he
| traced either directly or Indirectly to this
| source. In seventy-six cases of homicide
| in which either prosecuted or defended
| fifty-nine were the direct and immediate re-
| suits of the maddening influence of intoxi-
eating drink, while In number of the re-
mainder the prlmOrdial cause was this pro.
| life source of misdemeanor and murder"
| i. WRITING from Turin about her brother
| General Louis Kossuth, who is now eighty.
eight years old. Nine Rutkay says: HE il
| enjoying not only good health for one OF
his age. but preserves all the faculties Of
his mind. We live here. close to Turin. in
garden. which he planted himself and cul
| tivated with the greatest care. Natural
| science is one of his favOrite studies
| Botany occupied great deal of his time as
long as he was able to climb the Alps.
| Now he has given 1t up, but has o fine
| collection of plants dried-about 1000
| specimens-which he arranged with the
| greatest care. His sons are we'll situated
| and have ample opportunity to exercise
| their fine talents, improved by generous
| education. Francis is director of the Sui
| phur Mines of Cessna, in Tuscany. Louls
| is chief engineer of the Alta
| Italia railroad line. Neither il
married; their father does not desire
it. perhaps because they hav opportun
| ity to marry Hungarian women"