The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The distinguished dead of the year in
cluded General Butler, James G. Blaine, ex-
President Hayes, Jules Ferry, Marshal Mac
Mahon.
A Milwaukee saloon keeper says free
lunches in that city's bars cost $1,000 a day.
He wants them abolished and the money
given to aid the poor.
Speaker Crisp says that Dismukes Pod)
is a real flesh and blood Georgian with a
good Statehouse record, but he doesn't
know whether Dink Bolts is a reality or
a myth.
A white citizen with a good reputation
for veracity informs the Gainesville (Ga-)
Sun that. the other day and in his neighbor-
hood. an enterrising alligator crept into a
cOlored citizens cabin and stole MS Trunk
1t is claimed for Miss Dorotha Klumpke.
of San Francisco. not only that she is the
first woman to gain the degree of doctor
of mathematics in France, but that she
can sharpen her own lead pencils when she
desires TO engage in computation
George X. Holmes. special agent Of the
United States census, and consequently well
informed in the matter, holds that the
total wealth of the people of the United
words, the average per head is between
$500 and $1,000.
If anything could have added to Paderew-
skis marvellous popularity in England it
would have been the rendering of his six
new songs-English versions by Miss Alma
Tadema-the otner day by Edward Lloyd,
the author himself playing the ~accompani-
ments. Paderewski's profits for the season
just closed are estimated at ego, 900.
Major Graham Dawes, of North Carolina,
is actively interesting himself in a move
ment to save from ruin the old fort of Sir
Walter Raleigh on the eastern coast and
preserve to the State the ground on which
n vynC Apn0tn6 Ha mill all-1-. 49,
of Charlotte on this subject Jan. 5.
Roscoe Howard, of San Diego, Cal, has
presented to the Smithsonian Institution a.
white king eagle from Ecuador, where 1t
was captured in the Andes, and said 20
be the first one of it's species ever brought
TO this country. 1t is a magnificent looking
bird, and, although only six months old
weighs nearly fifty pounds and is about
three feet and six inches in height.
From Militsch. in Silesia, an extraordinary
case of trance is reported. Some delay oc-
CURED in the burial of a lady, owing to the
grave not being ready. She was the wife
OF a major in thet army. On the fourth day
after her supposed death, the maid was
placing fresh flowers round the coffin, when
she was startled at seeing the body move.
FINALLY the supposed corpse assumed an
a state. of coma during these four days.
William E. Gladstone got into the year
of great babies, 1909. only by a scratch. If
he had been born three days later he would
be a child of a year which was not so mem
orable for its births. Among the great
personages who were born in 1909 were
Darwin, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett
Edgar A. Poe, the historian
kinglake, Mendelssohn, Jules Favre, Lin
coin, Hamlin, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
eX-Speaker and ex-senator Robert c. Win
tnrop.
The man who has money
And likes to have fun. he
Can get 1t In Quantum galore:
But the fellow who's busted
| And cannot get trusted
Is apt to find life quite a bore.
| Buffalo Courier.
What a queer combination of cheek and per-
versity,
Insolence, pride, CAB, imprudence, vanity.
Jealousy, hate, Scorn, baseness. INSANITY
Honor, truth, wisdom, virtue, urbanity.
Is that whimsical biped called mani
Who can fathom the depths of his innate
~depravity?
To-day he's all gayety. tomorrow all grav-
ity.
For blowing his own horn he has a pro-
pensity,
Even. under clouds of singular density.
Oh, mythical claybank called mani