The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MAJ. Nj. I. klSer, the Atlanta merchant
who died recently. left $500 to each of his
clerks and servants who had been in his
employment for five years.
Rufus Thompson, father OF Denman
Thompson, the wel-known actor of 1.-The
Old Homestead died on Tuesday at his
home in West Swanzey, N H. the scene
of his sons popular play. The old gentle
man was within a week of eighty-eight
years old.
Mrs Jennie Atchey, OF Texas, has eight
hundred colonies of bees devoted entirely
to queen rearing. She is the most exten-
sive breeder of queen bees in the world
She is thirty-eight years old and has eight
children. with whose help she does all the
work in her apairy.
John Tyndall is like Huxley in being a
scientist whose writings have a literary
value. Some of his essays describing his
summer tours in the Alps are full of lit
erary flavor, and he wrote a poem on
Alpine scenery which is very fine. The
scientific man who can thus poulariZe his
technical subject Is a rare bird, and liter
ature. as well as science, sustains loss in
TyndalPs death.
Prof. TyndalTs father was shoemaker
in an Irish village, and lived in very hum
bic style. occupying rooms in the rear of
his small shop. But, like many old-time
cobblers, he had more than a share of
learning and was witty and sarcastic in
argument. ftlS son Was sent 10 the local
grammar school, and one of his old chums
there was NJ. -. Hennessey, now a Roch-
ester shoe manufacturer. He says that
young Tyndall was an effemnate boy who
gave little promise of living to be seventy
three years of age.
California's first Governor, Peter H. Bur-
nett. recently celebrated his eighty-sixth
birthday in San Francisco. In speaking of
his career he said: II came from Oregon
to San Francisco about two years before
the discovery of gold in California San
Francisco was a little town of about / 500
inhabitants then, i should Judge. Soon
afterwards / was made an associate Justice
of the Territorial Supreme Court, and
while the constitutional convention was in
session. in 1S49, / became candidate for
Governor of the State"
Clenenceau, who has had ample reason
of late to drop his firm belief that he is
the greatest man in France, once tried
many times to force a man to fight him.
but without success. Finally, seeing his
enemy drinking his coffee after dinner in
the Cafe de a PaiX, he walked up to him
and stirred up his coffee with the ferule
of his walking-stick. The man, quite ig-
noring Clemenceau, called out TO the watt
er: Bring me another cup OF coffee. This
one is dirty" The laugh turned on the ag-
gressor. and there was no duel that time.
Miss NJ. Carey Thomas, of Baltimore,
who has been elected president of Bryn
Mawr College, was born and raised in that
city. Her primary education was received
at the Baltimore Friends School. after
which she attended school at Canandaigua,
y. Y. She entered Cornell and took her
degree of a: b. in 1877. After course of
special studies at Johns Hopkins she at
tended school at Leipsic, Germany. and
afterward obtained the degree of Phi ID.
from the University of Zurich where she
won the highest honor at that institution
She has been identified with Bryn Mawr
College since 1884.
He used to fill "fours," "hushes," and
"threes'' and ''fulls" also:
But that was when he single was, about
five years ago;
He's married now and twins have come
with appetites quite rare
| And it's as much as he can do to fill one
little pair.
Buffalo Courier