The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

the most distinguished conductors in the
world.
THE present Sultan of Morocco lie de.
scended from an Irish girl who became q
member of the then royal harem more than
q undred years sgo.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. who certainly
ought to know. says hat there is more
money in one month of good newspaper
work than IN q ysar of short-story writing.
QUEEN CHRISTINA. of Spain. believes that
children could be brought up with much
greater ease if each mother were allowed
to punish. not her own, but her neighbors
children.
WHEN the Governor of the Suez canal
was married the other day four thousand
guests were invited to the and
the services Of seventy cooks were engaged
to prepare the dinner.
The ex-Empress Eugenie is said not to
put trust in French medical men. When
she fell Ill of q sore throat in Paris not
long ago. she teiegraphed 20 England for o
physician TO attend her.
JOSHUA PHIPPEN. who recently received
the prize of $500 offered by the National
Conservatory of Music for the best piano.
forte concerto. was boru in Salem, Mass,
and is thirty-five years old.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND owns q fourth in
terest in the Miller and Sands coal and
mineral lands, lying in Wayne county,
West Virginia. which has been leased TO
the Wills Branch Mining Company for de-
~velOpment.
AMONG the four hundred candidates tor
the sixty seats in the Paris Municipality is
Nine. Pauline Mink. the Polish wife of q
French Anarchist. Mime. Pink enters the
list of candidates as woman. mother,
Socialist and Republican"
NINE. VERY, the widow of the Paris res
~taursnt keeper, whose cafe was blown up
by the Anarchists last year. now earns
about so cents a day by selling newspapers
at q news stand. or kiosque. at the corner
of the Faubourg. Montmartre.
A NEwLY-DIsCovERED portrait of Art
emus Ward" will be round in the next
humorist. The portrait 10 from q photo
graph taken in Toledo when be was but
twenty years old. and was about to begin
he wspaper work.
Gen. RUFUS SAXToN, United States
army (retiredb has been awarded q medal
of honor for gallant service against the
coDfederates at Harper's Ferry in May.
1862 General Schoield and General Miles
are the only other general officers who have
received these medals.
THE Rev. Augustus WOODBURY., ID. D., in
DIS 6O0Teb6 DolOTo tnt huOuo lol6uu K1lS-
torical Society on Journalists and Jour-
nalism." cited the fact that the oldest news
paper now running IN this country lie the
Newport Mercury, which was founded In
1858. by James Franklin, q nephew of Ben
isinin Franklin.
LADY ALEXANDER DUFF is nearly two
years old now. but there are always new
stories about her. because she Is the only
Qrandchild of the Prince Of Wales. Her
mother, Princess Louise. runs mp and down
the nursery. carrying her on her back half
the day. They have had their pictures
taken that way.
The family cradle of the Hohenzollerns
was made In 1722. and has rocked every
princess ef the royal house Of Prussia since
that tins. 1t 10 of stout old oak, hand
somelyc carved. and round It's four sides. in
large Latin letters. runs the text. "He hath
given His angels charge over thee. that
they keep thee In all thy ways"
THE natives of the southern parts of
West Virginia have a queer way of con-
veyiDg an idea of distances. The traveller
who asks how far it is to O certain point Is
likely TO be told 1T is "a couple o. looks"
or two looks an q hoot." A look 10 as far
as you can see. and a boot Is the distance q
human voice is supposed t. carry.
Mrs ORMIsToN CHANT occupies o pulpit
every alternate Sunday. She has preached
in the churches of all denominations, with
the exception of the Church of England
and Roman Catholic Church. AS a rule,
her sermons occupy three-quarters of an
hour In delivery. but on one or two ocoa-
sions she has preached for two hours.
AT meeting of the Latter-day Saints,
at the residence of Mrs. West. New
Brighton. Pa. Sunday evening, the virtue
of faith cure was advocated Mrs. West
had been suffering with neuralgia. A
quantity of oil was poured on her head
which ran in streams from her chin. While
1t was being applied religious rites of the
sect were performed. and one who was
there claimed that the pain dropped in
| chunks from the oil.
THERE is q curious and widespread belief
among the Chinese in the existence of q
king" locust wang" as he is called, of
colossal size and quasi su supernatural char
acter. who bovers invisible in the upper
regions of the air, directing and controlling
10 said shat az some places the leading Off.
cials have publicly sacrificed and made
offering s TO the king of the iocusts that he
might be influenced to spare their local.
tiles.
U. s. To IL.
o isle OF the sea.
o isle OF the sea,
thought thou vert mine,
sweet Hawaii.
The time was, 1 know,
You were ready to throw
Your sugary charms
Plump into my arms.
But. alas, oil Is changed,
All plans disarranged
BY my Special Commission
Postponing fruition.
o isle OF the sea.
o isle of the sea.
And thou may'st not be mine,
sweet Hawaii. u. II. w.
PERU, Ind.
Musicians and 'Io " orid's Fair.
The committee on woman's work of the
Indisna worlds fair commission wish tc
notify all musicians who desire to appear
in some of the concerts that Will be rem
dered in Chicago during the months of the
exposition that the expert jury will hear no
one before May ]. and then only those who
can present q diploma or aletter Of recon-.
mendation from some member of the ad'
visory committee or music for this State,
TO whose judgment they have submitted
their powers ~ eilhet vocalists or instru.
mentaiists. The address of the chairman
of the expert Jury is Mrs. Theodore Thomas