The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In q recent interview with Madrid
journalist, lola said: Il detost bull fights
/ have very tender SOUL 1t excites my
indignation to see the brutes suffer. To
desire TO see blood one needs phy steal
courage, which 10 not true courage"
Next TO pork" says q physician, "the
banana is the most ndigestible thing per-
son can eat, and if you will notice you will
see them touched very sparinely by people
them however. and don't mind the often.
size Odor, they are very nourishing."
THE late Amella Edwards was i'll receipt
of q penslon OF ESQ a year from the British
civil list. The pension was not necessary
TO her support however. for she was able
to bequeath property bringing In an in
come OF about s. 900 year for the endow-
ment of q professorship of Esyptology.
The late Mrs. w. I. Sherman and Miss
Mary Gwendolen Caldwell have gwen
more money to the Catholic Church than
any other women in America. MISS Cald-
we'll has given the money through her
private purse. Mrs, sherman through sub
ecriptione raised among her friends. Both
women received from the Pope special gold
medals.
Mr.. GLADSTONE recently sent his book
seller an order for twenty volumes, which
included two books upon the history of the
Waldenses. two upon Irish affairs and one
upon the mode of settling parishes in Scot
land; lives OF Aretin and Lord Bacon, books
on solar physics, mvths. rcllRon. political
economy and EliZabethan england; . mar
rative of the Russians on the Amur and q
volume OF EtOn verse.
QUILL pens are still much in use in Great
Britain. A tradition exists in the law
courts there that no document would be
strictly legal If written with any pen other
than a quill A similar tradition used to
obtain in parts of New England. and 1t is
notable that Governor Russell, of Maesa-
chusetts. follows the precedent of his pre-
decessOrs, and signs all legislative bills
with q new Quill pen-used sOnce for that
purpose and never again.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has again shown
his interest IN educational work by pre-
sentiDg Vassar College with $40. geo, the in
come of which 10 to be used to paw the sal
AIRY of q new professor. Mr.. RockefeIler's
interest in Nassar Is due To the fact that
his eldest daughter was graduated there.
and she has al ways regarded Nassar with
an affection second only to that which she
has for her home. Mr.. Rockefeller has re-
work In New York.
The home of Mrs Buffalo Bill Is Scouts
Rest, a long. low building four miles from
North Platte, on the Union Pacific road. Ii
is roomy. hotel-like old house, surround
ed by three thousand acres OF prairie land
and magnificent stables aud pasturage.
where are kept many thousand hne-blood-
ed horses and cattle. Mrs. Cody 10 de-
scribed as an amiable, housekeeping wom-
All, greatly liked by her Western neigh
bors. of whom IN turn and of their customs
and habits she is fond.
IN recent letter Lord Wolseley is
quoted as telling this story about General
Gordon: When the latter left Brussels
for the Soudan. on the expedition from
which he never returned. he Was penniless
and borrowed fl25 from the King to pay
his board bill with. Lord Wolseley hav-
ing elected this fact by questioning he
promised Gordon to raise some money for
him. j went round To the various clu bs
continues the narrator. and 90. $500 in
gold. j gave the money to Colonel Stew
art, who went with him. Gordon wxsn't