The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


granite pyramid four metres high erected
over the grave of her husband in the GEM
etery of Saint Die Paris.
Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island,
is living in a small cottage near the beach
at Narragansett Pier and discharges the
duties or chief OF police OF Narragansett
Pier.
A new enemy of the watermelon has APP
peared in Kent county, Delaware, where
crows are attacking the melons as they
lie ~ripening in the fields. The largest
melon grower in the county carried from
his field the other day one hundred melons
so badly pecked that they were unfit for
market.
Here is the price of articles at one of
the mining camps in Argentine: Pota-
toes at $3.50 per 100 kilos; good pumpkins.
$50 per 100; hens, 81; chickens, 81, and tur-
per dozen; maize, $3.50 to $3.50 per 100 kilos,
and lucerne C~alfalfa), $50 to $3.50 per ton
of loo kilos.
Besides the woman astronomer Miss
Clarke. London has a woman lawyer and
a woman entomologist, Miss Ormonde,
whose work on the Colorado beetle is
FAMOUS. Missouri, too. has a woman ento-
whose admirable work goes to some one
in the Department of Agriculture.
The recent death of John Quincy Adams,
an old Boston Latin School boy, recalls to
mind the long and illustrious roll of gradu-
ates from this famous institution: Samuel
Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine,
Sumner, Everett, Emerson, Henry Ward
Beecher, Edward Everett Hale and Phil
lips Brooks were among the number.
Mrs. George w. Childs. widow of the
Philadelphia editor, has arranged for the
building of a palatial mansion in Washing
ton. The house will be a decided orna-
ment in that city OF splendid houses and
magnificent t~horoughfares. and it is fair
to suppose that Mrs. Child's hospitality
will be up to the high standard set by
her husband.
DR.. Westbrook Farrer, of Biddleford, Me-,
is said to be a physician in active practice,
though ~ninety-eight years old, and, still
more remarkable, TO be in the habit of
visiting his patients regularly on a BIZ
cycle. He attributes his exceptional
vigor at this advanced age to the use of
,,xlntergreen tea, OF which he is said to
be an ardent advocate.
Boston is uneasy because the superin-
tendent of public buildings has pronounced
Faneuil Hall unsafe. The room used as a
kitchen when public dinners are given is
dangerously exposed TO fires from the
ranges, besides which the public market
in the ground floor of the building has
saturated that part of ii with grease, max
ing it particularly infiammable. The City
Council has been impelled to consider steps
TO make the historic cradle Of liberty"
safe.
A gentleman who has just returned from
Antwerp p%ronounces the exposition a great
Idllure, ana particularly the American sec
ton, which he says is a disgrace to this
country and a humiliation TO every citizen
of the United States who goes there. The
exposition itself is a financial failure. The
attendance has been comparatively small,
and very few of the enterprises have paid
expenses. The Wild West show and all
of the other expensive plants are now in
the hands of receivers. After Belgium,
France has the best and most expensive
exhibit, which is pronounced superior to
that at Chicago. Italy comes second, then
Russia and Germany. TIL English exhibit
is small, but very fine.
l me- him and said he was looking we'll;
He seized me at once by the coat lapel;
The tariff was what he began to say,
But i instantly floored him and got away.
New York Press.
The leaves are weaving fabrics rare.
The brooks with melody are fraught;
The clover scent is in the air,
The trout is waiting to be caught.
With emerafds the sunlight flecks
The messy bank where grasses lave,
While we, poor, miserable wrecks
Must trudge the torrid asphalt pave.
The wave is fain TO kiss the oar,
The lusty wind salutes the sea,
The wooded height beyond the shore
Is fair, but not for you and me.
No small oasis, not a spray
OF grass the faltering eye to save,
Greets him who frets his life away
Upon the desert asphalt pave.
Washington Post.