The Indianapolis journal., 1889-01-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

man invalids at San Reno, as memorial to
the Emperor Frederick.
ANTHONY HIGGINS, the new Senator from
Delaware. bears a strong facial resem-
blance to Robert @. IngerSOll.
lola is thinking of quitting novel-writ-
ing He says he is not written out, but is
getting tired of making books, He leans
toward journalism.
: ATTRACTIyEyoungw women were employed
to pass the contribution boxes on a recent
Sunday at ROckland, Me-, and the receipts
proved the experiment well worth perma-
nent adoption.
THERE are 100000 negroes in the United
States. In the South there are 5000 col
ored school teachers. They have colleges.
universities and SeminarieS, and are worth
$2,000,OOO in property.
JOHN MCKEOwN, of Washington, is the
richest oil producer in Pennsylvania He
has a fortune of SS.OOO,0OO. He is an Irish
man, and twenty-four years ago he was
working for 50 day as laborer,
w. ID. WAsHBURN, just elected Senator
from Minnesota, is estimated to be worth
upward of S10,0O0.OOO and owns the second
largest Touring mill in the world, with a
capacity of 10000 barrels day.
Mrs. WILLIAM AsToR, at a reception the
other day, had her house profusely decorat-
ed with Magma Charta roses, which cost 81
each, and Japanese apple blossoms, Tor
which the florist taxed her so aspray.
THE Cyprus exploration fund has given
to the British Museum bronze pin for the
toga thickly coated with gold and orna-
mented with group of doves about to
drink dew from flowers. 1t has a dedica-
tion to Aphrodite. and comes from the site
of the temple to that goddess at PaphOs.
, MR.. ISAAC HOLDEN, member from York
shire, is probably the richest man in the
British House of Commons. He was a poor
schoOlmaster, and invented a machine
which revolutionized the whole system of
wool-carding, and from his patents ne de-
rives an income of about 81 GOO 900 year.
OWING to the point-blank refusal of Mr..
and Mrs Cleveland to favorthe suggestion,
the members of the WOmen's National
Press Association who wished to present
the White House with q portrait of Mrs.
Cleveland, have been obliged to abandon
their project
THE poStmistress of Elizabethtown, KY,
is the widow of Gen. Ben Hardin Helm, who
fell at Chickamauga, and a sister-in-law of
Lincoln, and the local paper is impressed
with an idea that she is going to hold right
on to her place in spite of some statesman
OR other who wants TO prohibit women from
holding offices of any kind.
EVANGELIST MOODY is having singular
snccess in California. At recent meeting
in San Francisco. when at the conclusion of
bis address Mr.. Moody requested 1.-The sim
lners" to go into the inquiry room, crowd
poured in that filled every inch of space.
1t seemed as if full half of the 5000 present
Were endeavoring to get into the small room,
and 1t was some time before it became quiet
enough TO proceed.
II is said that nine-tenths of the teachers
of Ramsay City are women. The public
library of that place is managed by a woman
who employs two ladies as assistants.
Nearly every paper in the city has the work
of women upon it. A young woman in one
I of the large compoSing-roOms sometimes
takes the foreman's place for weeks at q
time. Another Kansas City lady, whose
husband is an editor, writes columns of
matter that are credited to him.
A FRENCH savant, in curious investiga-
ton, has discovered that red has been the
most prominent color in literature from the
time of Lucian to the present day. Writers
show marked tendency to disco yer red
things, for the reason that "blue in nature
is not very conspicuous and yellow,
though more common i'll flowers, has ten
dency to lose it's individuality in whiteness;
but red is so conspicuous because of its con-
trast to green, which is the preponderating
color in nature"
THE Emperor William / was great thea.
ter-gOer and always took lively interest
in the play. On one occasion the villain OF
the piece, having been dissuaded from his
intention to commit suicide, declared, 81
will re-enter the army" The old Emperor
was indignant and shouted from the i'm
perial box, Il won't have him there: won'i
take him into the army again." The next
dav an officer of the Emperors staff called
at the theater and said the Emperor would
be at the play again and requested that
some change should be made in the Villains
declaration of his future. That night the
villain said, Il will become theater man
ager and hope to succeed" There cried
out the Emperor, 'that's a better plan fol
YOU"
FROM jeweled case he took his violin,
And rubbed more rosin Oh the unbended bow
And then his eyes burned with dreamy glow
Like dull red embers in November days,
When sun, and fire, and sky are yelled in haze.
With gesture graceful as a sweep Of light,
He drew the bow across the quivering strings
And peace, and joy and quiet, in alright,
Shrieked wildly as they fed like hunted things
And sobbed. ''Times viii be better when the fid
dlers dead"
a--Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle