The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

All the %sculptors in Warsaw have been
compelled to sign a pledge to the city
officials not to make busts or statues Of
Kosciuszko or Powniatowski.
Bishop Thoburn, of the Methodist Church.,
who is stationed In Indias has returned to
this country for a six months visit He
first went to India thirty-hve years ago.
The will of the late Sir James Stephens
is a marvel of shortness and clearness. 1t
runs: This is my last will. / give all my
property to my wife, whom / appoint sole
executrix."
The Rev. DR.. A. T. Pierson has been
asked to supply the pulpit of the Salem
street Congregational Church, Worcester,
Mass. temporarily. and not permanently,
as was reported.
Francis Drexel, the founder Of the Phila-
delphia firm of fnanciers, was killed by a
street car. Since then his friends always
walk to and from their, homes. never riding
on a car. The late George w. Childs, to
please his friend, A. j. Drexel, did likewise.
There is not a spot In the world. says
Prof. Henry Drummond. where pure mis-
sionary work has had a fairer trial or has
made more progress than in the New
Hebrides. / never met with any one In
the East or South who had a single ad-
verse criticism on these missions. the result
was so palpable.
One of the most remarkable men In gov
4 lit CHfPtOy ID oCNOiQ OCI-
master-general j. Lowrie Bell, of Pennsyl-
vania- He has a irmness that makes him
a terror to those who seek concessions.
Being an appointee Of the Harrison admin
~istration, Democratic politicians have
moved heaven and earth to compass his re-
moval. but he is likely to remain as long
as he chooses.
1t is interesting to know that Nellie Grant
S~artoris, according to her own confession,
Is happier now than she has been for years.
She has laid aside her mourning and is
looking very young and pretty. The fact
that her eldest son is now seventeen shows
how fast time slips by. He Is being edu-
Gated in England, and will probably remain
there until he takes a degree at Oxford,
that being the present goal OF his own and
grandfather's ambition.
The Rev. C. A. Bartol. of Boston, a
friend of Emerson, Alcott, Thoreau, and
all the members of the Concord school of
philosophers. celebrated his eighty-hrst
birthday on Friday last. A visitor says
that his step is light, he talks as d.
rectly and his mind is as intelligently Wig
orous as when he used to thrill old Boston
with his pulpit eloquence from the old West
Church. He takes long walks and drives
for exercise, and he told me his health
was excellent"
A Kentucky newspaper, In an extended
account of Mrs. Zerelda Samuels, the moth
er of the notorious James boys, says that
luelT ldtuers LIZ ISdHluciS , HrSt nuSDanu,
was a highly educated clergyman of gentle
nature, and the fact that his wife's sharp
tongue drove him away from home and out
TO California. where he died, indicates that
the sons inherited the devil in them" from
their mother. Mrs. Samuels now lives in
Missouri, and is a vigorous, good-looking
woman of seventy.
One of the most remarkable men in the
pulpit of the United States is DR.. Furness,
of Philadelphia He is now ninety-two
years old, and has been connected with
one church In the pastoral Office for about
seventy years. For fifty years he was the
pastor, and since then has been pastor
emeritus. On last Easter morning he
preached on the resurrection of Jesus to
his former congregation, and the next Sun
day repeated the sermon in Germantown.
He represents the more conservative ele-
ment\ in the Unitarian churches. He has
been especially remarkable for the spiritual
quality of his work, and for the strong
emphasis which he has placed upon the
spiritual life and the doctrine of immor-
atty.
Suppose-sup-p-o-s-e-
Well, just suppose
Some day my mother'd cay,
You needn't go to Schoo,. my dear,
Just stay at home and play.
And here's a box of chocolate creams
cor something quite as good).
Eat all you want.'-oh, just suppose,
Suppose my mother should!
II l. SvlvaSfer in CT Nicholas for Afax-