The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Sophie Christensen is anxious to get work
in Chicago at her trade as a carpenter,
which tends to show that women can do
about the good looks Of other women.
A German journalist who visited Bis
marck recently says that the ex-Chancellor
has aged very much in the last few months.
He eats with difficulty, can hardly hold
himself erect and speaks only in a tone
so low that it Is hard to understand hin.
Western papers comment on Governor
McKinley's clear eyes, freshly shaver face
and delicate hands. They nave found his
manner in private conversation particularly
cordial and pleasing, but they say he does
not know how to shake hands with the
voters, and that he is superstitious about
the number IL.
After a residence of many years in Paris
Henry Mosier. the American artist, is
about to return to his native country, and
will spend the remainder of his days in
New York. He is a chevalier Of the Legion
of Honor, and the French government fur
Their honored him by the purchase of one of
his pictures, THE Visit of the Marquise."
Mecca was visited last year by between
$50. coo and 100000 pilgrims, a much larger
number than usual. as the principal day
of the pilgrimage happened to fall on
Friday; ninety thousand came by sea, of
whom nearly 10000 died of cholera, while
of those who went by land, most OF them
from British India, 1900 persisted. The
mortality was 10 per cent. "a all the pill
grims.
Lee Zanders was taken before a New
Hampshire squire a few days ago. charged
with passing a counterfeit half dollar. He
protested his innocence on the ground that
the date of the coin, 1858, showed that it
could not have been in circulation so many
years without being detected If 1t was
ical defense, and the prisoner was dis
charged. The half dollar was afterwards
melted with the light of a candle.
Although the youthful Khedive of Egypt
does not smoke and is strictly obedient to
the Koran's injunction not to use strong
drink, he finds various ways of amusing
himself. One is in his yachts. of which he
ehas four, the largest being about as big
as an ocean liner. Under his rule woman's
position is fast improving in Egypt and
hsrem life is disappearing. By the Mahom-
etan law an Egyptian Is permitted to nave
four wives, but at present. 1t is considered
bad form for a man to have more than
one helpmate.
The Penny Dreadful is not unknown, as
it seems, in Germany, where it bears the
characteristic title of, "Shudder Romance"
1t is not sold in the shops. but Is carried
about from street to street and village to
village by an army of colporteurs. The
Berlin Tagliche Rundschau asserts that
there are no fewer than $4,000 Shudder-
Romance colporteurs." who earn their
bread by the sale of the weekly numbers
of these novels in Germany anC Austria
1t estimates the regular subs ribers at
about 2O,O0O, 600. These novels of crime and
horror are not complete in one number,
like those in our comparatively innocent
penny novelties. but usually. run to about
$50 weekly numbers and rarely conclude In
less space than one hundred numbers.
The country smiles
For many miles;
Hope is not too beguiling;
But low or high,
And wet or dry,
It's good to keep on smiling!
Atlanta Constitution.
Roger in the corn patch,
Whistling negro songs;
Pussy by the hearthslde
Romping with the tongs;
Chestni;ts In the ashes
Bursting through the rind;
Red leaf and gold leaf
Rustling down the wind;
MothS- 'doin' peaches
All the afternoon
Don't you think that Autumn's
Pleas2nter than June?
IT. b. Aldrich.