The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE late John Hoey's flock of ninety
swans will be given TO New York city to be
exhibited in the Central Park lakes
GOVERNOR HoGG. of Texas, rs q man of
good physical proportions. He is only
thiruy-nine years OF age, but he weighs so
pounds.
The home-life OF H. Rider HaRgard is
beautiful in It's simplicity and genuineness.
The day opens with family prayers, which
are read, with gentle reverence. bv the
master of the house, In the large square
entrance hall.
Miss HERREsHoFF, daughter OF the IA
nous blind designer of Y achts. is almost as
we'll posted as her father on everything
pertaining to marine architecture. and it
10 " with her eyes shat MIR. HerreschOff &C.
complishes very important portions or his
work.
REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW IL q noted Wis.,
itor to New York. She ranks first among
the women preachers of America. Some of
her sayings have made her wOrld-famOus
Here is one: "Call not that man or woman
wretched who. whatever ills he or she saf-
ters, has a child to love-"
MRs. JOHN OGILvIE RooRBACH. of Mys-
tic, Conn.,, has q copy of the prayer.bOOk
printed in the Mohawk language for Rev.
OOuL OSilNlc, dootoLuuO uIiiiiotCA VI I'LL
Church. New York. in 1863: Only twenty
copies were printed. Mrs. Roorbach. 1t Is
said, has received an offer of $4,000 for .the
book from the British Museum.
Mrs. SARAH BALCH BRAMAN, who Is in
the seventh generation from John Balch,
who came to this country with Captain
Robert Georges in September. 1923. and set
tied what is now Salem, Mass, will cele-
brate her l02d birthday next Wednesday
at her home in Georgeto~ n, Mass: She Is
said to be in excellent health and spirits.
FROM q recent official return it appears
that there were ninety-three deaths by
suicide in Bombay last year. In proper
ton TO population the Parsees head the list,
followed BIZ Europeans. while the native
Christians arc at the bottom. The female
suicides are mainly among HindOos. and
twenty-five of them were married women
between the ages of twelve and thirty.
THE steamer City of Topeka has just
brought from Alaska one of the greatest
natural curiosities yet discovered IN this
country. 1t Ia the skeleton of a whale
lizard, and il the second of it's kind known
To be in existence. 1t weighs 2.4CO pounds.
The other was found some years ago near
oxford, England, but is much smaller than
this one. 1t is now In the British Museum.
WITHIN q mile or two of DeWittsville.
n. Y. live two old maiden ladies, sisters,
Misses Lucinda and Martha Skinner. re.
epectively seventy-four and seventy-siX
years old. who ave lived together for the
past forty-seven years without speaking TO
each other. The two inherited the house
in which they reside from their father in
1912. and, quarreling a year or two after.
divided households, though remaining un-
der the same roof. Each has done her own
cooking and waits on herself. even In ILL
pess. never entering tho rooms occupied by
the other; in fact. leading as separate lives
as if dwelling IN different counties.
Neither ever speaks to the other, and no
explanation has ever been made as TO the
quarrel that occasiOned this peculiar fam
lily ARRANGEMENT. though the neighbors de-
clare that the cause was a Disagreement
over a ste W pan, worth, perhaps. 50 cents.
Both sisters are worth in their own right
over Sic. 0C0.