The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The tax collector of Christiania estimates
Isben's income at 1900 crowns and his
property at 100000 crowns.
The heart of the Connie de Paris will
probably be placed in an urn and sent to
France, where his heart, figuratively speak
ing, ever was.
Mrs. Kate Lynch, of Brooklyn, enjoys
the distinction of being the only woman
contractor in that city, and she is doing a
thriving business in that line, besides rum
ming a profitable dairy.
The Paris Temps has printed an article
from the Netherlands in which the fact is
deplored that the French language is being
rapidly displaceu there among the edu-
Gated classes by the German.
The Rev. Mr.. j. Savage, in a letter de-
scribing things seen in Wales. copies this
advertisement: Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn
Jones, having cast off clothing of every
description, invite personal inspection"
An Albany, Ga, dame, who tried to rid
her premises of rats by soaking hominy in
arsenic water. says that the entire tribe
of rodents now inhabiting her place are of
snowy Wilderness, but still alive and frisky.
Isabella II, of Spain, was exiled by her
long-suffering people in 1870. She has since
lived in Paris, and, while in by no means
good repute with respectable people be-
fore, she has been much less careful of
her conduct since her enforced retirement
from the throne.
When Voltaire wrote his "Candide,' in
which occurs the bit of satire about the
eight tramps meeting at an inn, most of
them without money enough to pay for
their dinner. there were, at that time, no
less than eight dethroned monarchs wan
dering about Europe, some of them in great
poverty
In a recent address in Philadelphia DIR. A.
T. Pierson said: I'm 1866. when L was first
in Europe, / could not carry a copy Of the
Bible inside the walls of Rome. Last year
there were twenty-nine Protestant chapels
in the city or Rome, and preaching openly
carried on in them with impunity, the Pope
and cardinals finding it impossible to in
terfere."
Ruskin's habits of life are as regular as
Oliver Wendell Holiness. He told an in
terviewer recently that in two years his
not varied fifteen minutes, and he had reg
ular hours for writing, study, walking and
eye and complexion and thick white hair
and beard.
The death of Baron Mundy, the philan-
t%hropist, of Vienna, has caused great sor-
row to Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, who con-
sidered him one of her best friends. She
never failed to visit Mandy when in or near
Vienna, and declares that he was one of
the noblest men that ever lived. The Baron
spent 0.000 in caring for wounde French
men in 1901.
Pauline Bonaparte was exiled by Napo-
leon himself because of her rudeness to
Maria Louisa. Her Punishment was only
from the court. but she went to Nice. where
she established what was practically a
salon of the ~demi-monde. After Napoleon's
fall, she went to him at Elba and made
many efforts to obtain permission to join
him in St. Helena. 49,
In his article in The October Forum,
President Eliot, of Harvard. draws atten-
fiOn IN the striking fact that the fhrao
nations which AVE given the greatest
proofs of constitutional vigor, namely, Ger
many, England and the United States, are
those which in religious opinions and prac-
tees are very heterogeneous, so that no
concentrated religious fervor can possibly
melt and unite all their people. =
His Superiority.