The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Pasadena, Cal, is to have a tournament
Of roses on New Years day.
The parents of Edgar Allen Poe were
professional actors. His mother Eng
lish and his father was a Baltimorean.
The millers of the Northwest are greatly
annoyed by worms which appear in the
flour from time to time and then mysteri-
ously disappear without impairing the value
Of the -four.
A fete at Nice this year will be repro
duction of one given at Dion in the year
400. The imitation will be as close as can
be made after the lapse of nearly five
hundred years.
Minnie Cleghorn, a teacher in a yelling
ton (O) school, is a second cousin OF ex-
Queen Iiliuokalani The relationship comes
about through the marriage of an Ameri-
can missionary in the family of the ances-
tors or the eX-Queen
Miss Lucy Garnett is given a pension of
$500 a year by the British government, in
recognition of her literary merits and to
enable her TO prosecute her researches in
Oriental folklore Miss Margaret Stokes
also receives $500 for her researches into
early Christian art and archaeology in Ire
land, and Mrs. Cashel Hoey $3.50 for her
novels
The question as to which is 1.-The most
fashionable language" has, apparently,
been definitely settled by Professor YAM
berry. who recently lectured on the subject
of Fashionable Languages before the
members of the Buda-Pesth English Club
English he says, may now be called
the most fashionable language in all parts
of the world"
Miss Jane b. Adams recently picked up
on the beach near Jupiter inlet, Florida, a
bottle which contained message written
on board of a federal transport during the
Mexico, near the mouth of the Mississippi
river. The soldier who placed the message
in the bottle was Joseph III. Johnson, who
Is still living in Middletown, n. Y.
A curious book now in preparation at
Paris is dictionary Of the Anarchists of
France. 1t will contain their names and
portraits, and copies will be sent to the
police agents in various parts of France
and other countries The utility of this
book will depend somewhat on the excel
lence of the portraits. If they like some
that appear in the newspapers each one
Will be as good as disguise TO the man
whose name is under it.
The City Council of Atlanta, Ga, has
elected Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown a
member of the city Board of Education.
with the idea that his name shall appear
the roll long he lives. He is in
ill-health and unable TO take active part
in the management of the schools but 1t
was due 10 his efforts mainly that the
public school system was established in
the city, and his election is in grateful ac-
acknowledgement of that fact
Otto Ehlers the famous German traveller,
tells of an easy-going Chinese prince whom
he visited in the Laos States, while on his
way from Siam to Tonquin. The present
ruler leaves the cares of affairs to his wife,
He has had his throne placed in the palace
kitchen so that he can receive visitors and
lob tl1sar IN nf
same time. The subjects seem TO be con-
tent with his manner of administration
and admire the democratic spirit mani
tested in his choice of a throne room The
dynasty, however, promises to become ex-
tinct as the princes son and heir is a
confirmed drunkard and is unmarried.