The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t is now said that the Kelly motor will
mote in three or four months.
No japanese is ever guilty Of swearing
for the very good reason that oaths are
to the Japanese language.
Joseph Cook says we want the Hawaiian
Islands, not only as a coaling station, but
as a base Of civilization for the Orient.
Governor Lewelling, of Kansas, is
troubled with weak lungs, n is very much
concerned for fear he will die of consump-
ton.
Eugene Baldwin, an amateur electrician,
OF Montreal. has devised a wind wheel,
which. in connection with a dynamo and
storage batteries, furnishes all the light
he needs in his house.
Marie Janet, the peasant girl who found
ed the Order of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, died recently in Brittany, at the age
of seventy-four. The order has now 253
houses and forty thousand sisters.
Colonel Colville, who has been selected
by the Queen to succeed the late Sir Chris
TOPPER Teesdale as master of the ceremo-
MES, had been for nearly twenty-three
years the treasurer and controller of the
Duke of Edinburgh's household.
President David Starr Jordan, of the
Stanford University, says that there is not
the slightest evidence that sea serpents
exist or ever did exist, and that the stories
of them are largely subjective and som
OF them not free from the suspicion of al
coholic basis.
Berlin's city fathers have just issued a
decree to the effect that the pupils of the
municipal schools of the city are to be
tional course. The ice will be artificially
manufactured and laid in the courtyards
of the schools.
Adelia Louise Stowe, a literary person of
Omaha, Neb., asked the local courts for
permission to change her name to Kohn-
stamm, on the plea that she could better
achieve fame with an name.
The court earned her gratitude by consid-
ering her grounds frivolous and rejecting
her petition.
A new English invention is the Princess
Beatrice tea set. 1t consists of a silver tea
caddy, three inches high, to hold two ounces
of tea, accompanied by a silver tea-making
spoon, which does away with the neces-
sity of a teapot. The spoon, perforated, and
filled with tea, is put into the cup and the
water poured on it. The holes are so small
that the leaves cannot come through
The will of Mrs. Kate Johnson, widow
of r. c. Johnson, of California, bequeaths
one-third of her estate, which is valued at
1000. 000, in trust TO Archbishop Riordan
for the foundation and endowment of a
free hospital in San Francisco. She was
and, by the State law, was enjoined from
bequeathing more than one-third Of her
estate to charity.
Sunday was the anniversary of the birth
of John G. Whittier, who was born in 1907.
1t is interesting to recall the statement of
an intimate friend of the Quaker poet that,
In spite of his great love for New England,
which finds such ample expression in his
writings, he sometimes wished that the pill
grim fathers had drifted down TO the coast
of Virginia instead of landing at Plymouth
Rock. One of Winters peculiarities was
that he classed all sculptures and works
of that kind as craven images" On one
occasion he went to see a bust of Sumner,
and on his return spoke favorably of it,
but" he added, thee knows l am no
judge of craven images"