The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE Sultan of Turkey has attached to his
body-guard q soldier who Is one hundred
and ten years old.
THE British Balloon Society has entered
a sturdy protest against the threatened
choice of Jerusalem as the prime meridian
of the world.
THE income of Lord Revestoke, the head
of the house OF Barring, will not in future
exceed $4,000 a year. 1t was once more than
forty thousand.
On the Duke of Orleans's recent trip he
took four hundred photographs. which, upon
developments, showed $50 blanks and fifty
unacceptable scenes.
MISS S~ANDERsoN. an American i niger. re-
ceived the gold medal of the Danebrog
order from the King of Denmark after her
first appearance in Copenhagen.
CHARLES VILLIERs. the oldest member of
the House of Commons, has been q diner
out for more than sixty years. and has his
stomach with him yet. Grand record.
DURING the forty-nIne years of his life the
Prince of Wales has drawn SIC, 5v0. 900 from
the public treasury of Great Britain, and
his debts, it Is said, now amount to about
$4,000. 900.
THEODORE CALF, of Kansas. has applied
to the Legislature to have the family name
changed. 1t is reported that he is willing
to compromise on veal If the lawmakers
Will do no better.
Don FRANCIS D'AssIsI. Isabella's hus.
band. lives in Epinay. q little old man with
smoothly-shaved cheeks, and dressing so
shabbily that the people have ~nick-named
him lie petit pierre.
A PRINTER put q penny in the slot of .
machine intended to prove q mans striking
0uun 4-l &h>~ ----L- A. A.
receive the blow. The spring didn't work,
his wrist was broken, and the jury rave him
$50.
BEN BUTLER is the president of q south
ern investment company, and expects to
make q trip South next month. While
South he will visit New Orleans, and it is
reported that the citizens of that place
Will give him a very cordial reception.
HENRY CABOT LODGE is not popular with
the majority of Representatives from the
South and West. They regard him as the
dude of Congress. and say mean things of
him behind his back. Yet he is an athlete,
and could probably thrash any two of his
mallgners.
AFTER fifty-nine years of labor Barthel-
envy Saint-Hilaire has finished his ~transla-
ton of Aristotle. q work in thirty-tive vol.
umes. For the last twenty years the trans
tator has also been very active in politics
as secretary to Theirs, Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Senator.
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard Oil
king, is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
and his face shows the heavy lines and
prominent nose that are characteristic of
that ancestry. He is a quiet. retiring man,
wholly u~nassuming in dress and manner,
and always speaks in low, well-modulated
tones. His home life is noted for it's sim
plicity.
LITTLE MARSHALL WILDER, the greatest
monologue entertainer of his day, and a
human sunbeam, who never says a cruel
word or utters an unclean thing, but who
goes through life making it better worth
the living for other people, has so built up
bis business as a private and public amuse-
ment-giver that his contracts for this year
will bring him $4,000.
81 HAvE,n says a Maine pension agent,
what l consider q funny pension case on
hand. Several years ago l secured a pen.
sion for a soldier of a cert ain regiment and
company, and then, after bis death. |
secured a pension for his widow. Now she
comes to me to help her secure another PEN
sion as the widow of another member of the
same regiment. You see that since i
secured her first widows pension she had
married q c0mrade-in-arms of her first hus-
band, and now that he, too, 10 dead, with q
~frugality and econom that Is commendable
and according to Scripture, she is applying
for the second pension. 1 have never known
exactly o similar case"