The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The late William Is. Astors personal
estate in Great Britain has been returned
with an official valuation of 81, 100000.
Pope liked to write in bed. and would
pass days there In quiet composition.
Whenever an idea occurred to him, no mat
ter at what time of day or night, he always
wrote 1t down at once.
MAHoMET wrote the revelations Of the
Koran on bits of parchment. blocks Of
wood and the shoulder bones of sheep and
threw them pell-mell into q box. where
they were found after mis- death.
Pope LEo's family is very long lived.
With the exception of his brother. the Car
dinal. who died few years ago at the age
of eighty-two, all his immediate relatives
have lived to be more than ninety years
old.
DEACON HIRAM CRAAIP. of Now Haven.
said to be the most prominent survivor of
New England Puritanism. celebrated his
eighty-second birthday by holding prayer
meeting, at which friends from all parts of
New England were present
IT is proposed to set mp the big monolith
ouarried at Prentice. Wis. as q monument
to James g. Blame. 1t is the biggest stone
ever quarried. It's us feet long. ten feet
square at the base and four feet square at
tue top. and Is forty-six feet longer than
Cleopatra's Needle.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL received
almost as much attention as the President
in New York. ME-. Bissell Is taller than MIR.
in weight by several pounds. Mr.. Bisselrs
weight is estimated at 325 pounds. He is
sensitive on the ubject, and has not had
his weight recorded for ten years.
AT an lat home" of Buffalo mans wife
the footman was called upon to do duty as
butler. He was much taken aback by the
extreme thinness of the slices of bread and
butter with which he had to serve the
guests. Finally. as he was passing the
be remarked, IN q very audible whisper,
IF You slap three or four slices together,
mum. may be you can get q bite"
THE late Lucy Larcom was born in 1926,
the daughter of o sea captain. Ten years
she worked in the cotton mills of Lowell,
and from her experience there gained much
literary material. When twenty years old
she wentto Illinois and was for three years
pupil in the Monticello Seminary. Re-
wrote. publishing several volumes of her
poems ana stories, and editing several ool-
lections of poems.
ONE begins to encounter the gourd az q
domestic utensil about one hundred miles
south of Mason and Dixon's line. where the
local pronunciation is something like
goord. The dipper and sosp-d dish made
from the Rourd 60 along with the old we'll
sweep and the plantation dwelling with
separate quarters" skillful negro can
fashion marvelousiy graceful and cOnven-
lent utensils from the gourd. The dlpper
is the simplest OF all. Spoons, of excellent
shape and durability. may be made from
the gourd, as also cream skimmers and the
like.
WOMEN who consider their good looks
as we'll as their comfort says the Phila-
delphia Ledger. always wear shoes q size
larger in summer than in winter. The
feet. in spring weather especially. seem to
respond to the languor of the rest of the
frame; they are less elastic and less firm.
they expand in siz6 because they are re-
Taxed in muscle, and they are the cause of
genuine torture to the saieswoman behind
the counter as we'll as to the finely-6ressed
customer before 1t. Ii is serious mistake,
then. to make your complexion muddy be-
cause of aching and pinched feet.