The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A contract has been closed with Joseph
Jefferson and James B. Pond for a short
lecture tour during the last half Of January
in the large cities.
Rubenstein is said to have refused an
offer of s125OOO for fifty concerts in this
conduct his operas. Moses and Chris
tuS II Abbey will produce them.
The Rev. Sam Jones Is trying to arouse
religious enthusiasm in Memphis He has.
secured an orchestra and a soloist, and
special trains are to be run from suburban
districts during his three weeks labors.
The Emperor of China, European papers
say, became slightly i'll recently and sum-
moned four members of the Imperial
Academy for Physicians to his bedside.
Their diagnosis and treatment were so
displeasing to his Majesty that he decided
to cut their salaries from the civil list for
O. year.
The Belgian manufacturers of paper have
formed ring and threatened to increase
enormously the cost of newspaper material.
The publishers of the largest Belgian jour
mails have resolved to resist the operations
of the ring. They will open negotiations
soon with foreign firms to arrange for pur-
chasing their paper supplies abroad.
The financial burdens of government are
said to be lighter in Alabama than they are
in any other State in the Union. The tax
rate next year will be only five mills for
State purposes; while the counties are pro-
htbited by law from levying tax of more
than five mills, or at the rate of 80 cents
on the hundred dollars. There is special
tax in some of the counties that makes the
rate little higher, but in no case is it
over one and a quarter.
Thomas p. Egan, of Cincinnati, who will
go to Antwerp in May as representative
of the United States at the worlds fair to
be held there, is a millionaire who began
his career in business on salary of 81 a
week. He born in Ireland, educated
in Canada, learned his trade in Ohio, and
married a German clergyman's daughter
in Ravenna- He spends his evenings at
home, where, he says, every man who has
a family should be found. He belongs to no
clubs or secret orders.
Since the advent of Leo XIII to the pom
tifcal throne he has created ninety-two
cardinals, that number having died in the
course of his pontificate The College of
Cardinals. since the nominations at the last
consistory, numbers sixty-three, of whom
thirty-four are Italians and twenty-nine
foreigners. The foreigners are divided as
follows, according to their nationality:
Seven French, five Austro-H hungarian, five
German four Spanish two Portuguese, two
American, one English, one Irish, one Bel
gian and one Australian.
Junius Brutus Booth, as described by
Henry Sedley, who has a vivid recollection
of him, was a man of imposing courage de-
spite the fact that his figure was short and
rather thick set. The torso was large for
his height and he was handy" legged.
The head and face were handsome. The
nose had been broken by a blow from a
bottle, but the head was massive and nobly
sfaped. The general appearance, Mr.. Sed-
ley says, was in harmony with ones ideal
OF the classic JuniuS Brutus. in whose hon
or the player had been named.
He mouths the common speech so we'll
And cracks his jokes so dryly
The people throw their hats alOft
And shout, "Hurrah for Riley"
Chicago Journal.
1t matters not what caused it,
Nor what it Signifies
The way to boom up business is
To freely advertise
Kansas City Journal