The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Emperor William may be called a royal
spanker He frequently gives his Oldest
boy thoroughly 0ld-fashioned spanking
by way Of. keeping down the youngsters
impression that he, too, is war lord.
A new treatment in pleurisy is to keep
the patient absolutely motionless for sew
eral days. Recent experiments showed rap
Id reduction of fever, while not more than
eight days treatment We're required in any
case.
Joseph Jefferson has been elected presi-
dent Of the Players Club, to succeed Edwin
Booth. The choice Is SO natural and suita-
BILE that it has been anticipated for some
time, and no other candidate seems TO have
been mentioned.
A Chicagoan in Boston Is greatly shocked
to learn that there is a market under Fan
euil Hall. 'Why, If we had that old his
torical Cradle of Liberty" he exclaimed,
wed keep it in a glass case or behind
doors, and charge people to look at it. We
wouldn't rent it out for cucumber stalls.
Marion Harland, the authoress, widely
known In church circles as the wife Of the
Rev. Edward Payson Terhune, pastor Of
the Puritan Congregational Church, on La
fayette avenue, Brooklyn sailed Saturday
for four months tour of Europe and the
Holy Land. Her object is to gather mater
ial for an Oriental novel.
Boston public spirit seems at length to
be aroused. after the expiration of one
hundred years. to the humliating fact that
the grave of John Hancock, in the old
Granary burying ground in that CITY, is
unmarked, save by small cracked and
moss covered stone i Inscribed: No L.
made to raise funds for a suitable monu-
ment-
Algernon Sartoris, Mrs. U. S. Grants
grandson, who is now in Washington with
his mother, said recently that it was his
plan to be graduated at Oxford and then
to study law. after which he intends to
young man, and is said to bear the Grant
features more markedly than either OF
the Generals sons. Mrs. Sartoris. in n
year. is to return to this country to make
her home here.
Senator Perkins Of California, ascribes
his popularity to a simple little method he
has adopted. He says that he has a habit
Of asking every second third man he
meets for the time of day, and immediate
ly setting his own watch according to the
Information given him. Senator Perkins
asserts that the wear and tear on his own
watch and the compliment paid to that or
his constituent are repaid by the latters
vote and his support in different ways.
1t was New York photographer who
solved the difficult problem of taking sue
cessful photographs of colored people. The
difficulty with the ordinary negro photo
bones and the nose do not show for their
true value, but are much too high that
those points of the face seem almost white.
The successful experimenter managed TO
tone down these lights by the application
OF a powder to the face of the sitter; He
cOncealS the nature of the material and the
method of application.
The Empress of Germany had a narrow
escape from a serious injury in Coblentz a
few days ago. She standing in the
park of one Of theSorphan asylums in that
city, talking to the children, when a large
pane of glass from upper story fell to
the ground almost on the spot on which her
Majesty stood. Pieces of the glass, in fact,
The teachers and officials of the institution
were naturally greatly worried. but the
Empress assured them that she had not
been even badly frightened. She expressed
her satisfaction that none of the children
had been injured. One of the inmates of
the institution had broken the glass I'm
leaning against it to see the Empress in the
garden below.
Here is an office. Who wants to buy?
Governments selling it. What do you cry?
Fellers in Wall street have plenty to
How many votes for it? What do 1 hear?
Atlanta Constitution.
Our little Tommy was so sick,
1t gave us quite a shock,
We sent off for the doctor quick,
At half past eight O'Clock.
The doctor came polite and COOL
Felt Tommy's pulse, and then
He said, IF Tommy stayed from school.
He'd be all right by tent
Harry Romano, in Godeys