The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ME-. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS 10 in Lon
don looking up his family tree in the arch
ives of the Brush Museum.
MAN in Long Island has discovered o
way OF feeding vanilla beans to his hens SO
that the eggs are distinctly favored with
vanilla.
DIR. ABBOTT created q small sensation in
Boston the other day by announcing in the
course Of his lectures that tho fall Of Adam
Is an entirely unnecessary belief.
PROFESSOR JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE. of
Harvard. who receives 1900 . year. is con-
the new Chicago University, at $1,000.
H. r. H. ALBERT EDWARD. it is interest
ing to learn, wears an eighteen and q half
collar, and has Q f0rtv-fve chest. . thirty.
four arm and . forty-two and q half waist.
MR. SURGEONS great success was due to
his sympathetic disposition, his deep earn
~estness and his wit. His teaching was pos
ttlTe and consistent. and characterized by
q wonderful simplicity. His delivery was
natural and easy. his flow of language re-
markable and his eloquence in,mitable.
1T was an odd coincidence that Cardinals
Manning and Simeon were elevated TO
their highest rank in the church the same
more. the last official letter pennsd by the
English Cardinal was by chance addressed
to his Vatican confrere, the late Protect Of
the Propaganda. Z
STURGEON. like Grant. loved q good
cigar. and he smoked almost 80 many of
them as the General did. The great
preacher was o man of curious physique.
He was short and fat: or OF "portly habit"
asthe doctors say systematically. In attire
che looked more like a country squire than
q famous metropolitan minister.
CHARLES VILILERs, n. F., the Father of
the House of Commons" whose ninetieth
birthday has been ittingly honored, is
neither q teetotaler nor an a~nti-tobacco
man. He is q jolly old gentleman. q per-
ennial diner-out. a lover of good wine and
choice cigars. and has been q man about
town ever since the reform-bill struggle of
1882.
REAR-ADMIRAL BANCROFT GHERARDI Is
a robust built. keen-eyed man of middling
height. With q broad, high forehead and a
tersely-trimmed iror-gray beard. and is
fifty-nine. He is a Louisianian by birth
and entered the navy as midshipman when
only fourteen years old and served for four
years on the frigate Ohio on the Pacific
station.
On the day of Cardinal Manning's conse-
Grafton as an archbishop an Irishwoman in
the attendant throng audibly expressed
d~isspproval after the ceremony. basing her
criticism on the theory that he had one
foot IN the grave already" The p~relate. over
hearing the remark. observed TO some one
beside hun: IL think there are twelve
years work in me yet" hat was twenty
six years ago.
The late Cardinal Manning advocated
temperance without himself being Q teeto-
taller. At q meeting in Exeter Hall he was
taxed with inconsistency and explained
that it was under the advice of his doctor
that he took q little wine. Then why not
change your doctori" a voice inquired from
the hall. True. / did not him of that"
he replied simply. and afterwards, it lie re-
lated. he changed alike bis doctor and his
habits.
LADY BROOKE. the fashionable beauty,
whose name has. during the past year.
been so frequently linked with that of the
Prince of Wales. 10 once moro the subject
of general comment In London society.
She recently advocated the raising of a
fund to relieve the operatives of Essex,
who were suffering severely from influenza,
by distributing 1900 bottles of brandy
among them, to enable them to bear up
against the malady. The British Medical
Journal attacked the project, declaring
that brandy 10 of no benefit In cases of in
~fiuenza. and that. OH the contrary, 1T ia cal
culated to do more harm than the disease.
A CHESS NUT THAT ISN'T A CHESTNUT.
1 put her in check with my knight, and she eyed
Me a moment and muttered. "Poiice."
"Why do you say that" / inquired. She replied,
because you're disturbing the piece"
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