The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-27
AIOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE late Jules Lebundy, the great Paris
sugar retiner. left fortune equal to S10,-
10000 probably tho largest fortune in
France.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. although
something like eighty years Of age. will
stand twenty feet away from his book
shelf and read the titles of the volumes
thereon.
The favorite tipple of General Weaver.
the presidential nominee of the Peoples
party, is buttermilk sweetened with sugar.
Of which he often drinks TWO gobiets, one
after the other.
FIFTEEN years before the very afternoon
Henry Clay Frick was shot the riots in
Pittsburg were at their height On July
Is. 1e71. in the afternoon. tho Philadelphia
troops. in self-defcnse. fireds into the mob
and killed twenty m-n.
THE Hon. Hugh McCulloch enjoys the
distinction of being the only man who has
twice held the office of Secretary of the
Treasury. His first appointment WAS IN
March. 1865. 10y Presidet Lincoln; the sec
ond In 1885 by President Arthur. MIR. Nc
Culloch Is In his eighty-fourth year.
CHARLES WooD. a druggist of Harleston,
England, has brood of white blaok-birds,
q fact which is vouched for by Land and
Water and by several prominent ornItholo-
gists and naturalIsta Mr.. Wood bought
the yonng birds from Q laborcr who found
them In the nest in hedge in that neigh
borhood. The birds are perfectly white.
with pink ewes and yellow beaks. and are
quite healthy and very lively.
w. ). HOBART died the other day in San
Francisco, worth 81, 0C0.000. In 1879 he was
q carman in the Chollar mine, and received
81 day for pushing an ore car in the lower
levels. Then he made little money in
stocks and put il into teams. with which he
hauled ore to the mills. He prOspered at
this and finally got contract to extract
ore from the ChOllar mine on a certain
ROYALTY. This was the foundation of his
fortune.
THOUGH prophets have ever had beards
for the faithful to swear by il has not al
ways been true of Popes. From ST. Peters
time to 1853 the papal pontiffs wore boards
with one exception. but for the next four
centuries they kept their faces smooth
centuries in which they wore the beard.
but from l7O0 until the present time all
hirsute adjournment Of the face has been out
of favor at the Vatican.
ONE of the early achievements of the
new Secretary of State. John w. Foster.
was the exposure of q professors plagiar-
ism in college. The instructor in question
had way of delivering impressive dis
courses without crediting any one else
with either the idea or diction. Mr.. Foster
discovered q startling similarity between
some of tho utterances and the minor
classics and tried 1.-The deadly parallel" on
the professor with such effect as TO attract
the attention of the press and lead to the
piagiarist's withdrawal from his position.
MINNESOTA rejoices in the possession of q
unique character, Sara Pollard, who is one
of the most successful farmers in Polk
county, where she owns a half section of
land. which shc works herself. with no
help from men except in the harvest sea-
son. She does her own blowing. seeding
and narrowing operates her large farm
with no other counsel than her Own good
Judgment and has added a quarter section
of land to her domain with tue proceeds of
q few years industry. She wears, when
engaged in outdoor work a short skirt.
which falls inst below the knee, and has
knoe brooches to match It.