The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The insect foes of the farmers are to be
experimentally studied in a new department
OF the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
The application for the probate of the
will of Cyrus w. Field, jr.. who died June
IL last. says that his estate is valued at
only 500.
Charles Lease. the son of the famous Mrs.
Lease. has resigned his job of first assist
ant TO his father in the housekeeping line.
and will enter the University of Kansas.
Admiral Ito. the Japanese hero of the
day. who is known among his devoted
sailors as ''the lean admiral" on account
or his extreme thinness, has a daughter
who is one of Japan's very few blonde
beauties.
The earliest known photograph of Sarah
Bernhard was taken In 1867, when she was
playing at the Odeon. Her dress had a
crinoline and her face is innocent and child
ish. Since then one photographer alone has
taken her in 1,007 different attitudes.
They are saying harsh things in Kansas
about Governor Lewelling. The Larned
Eagle Optic, for instance, remarks that
kansas horses are cheap, because street
cars are run by electricity. threshing ma
chimes by steam. and the State by a dom
key"
Miss Lewis and Mrs. Candace Wheeler
have built a handsome block of women's
dwellings In New York. 1t will accommo-
date five hundred women i'm single rooms
or in suits. according to their incomes. For
those who wish TO keep house there viii
to be leased by the year. The management
will he first rate, and there will be no need
less rules.
The Prince of Wales suffers terribly from
varicose veins, which necessitates him talk
ing the utmost care of himself, and there
are periods of the year when his legs are
in such condition that they have to he
bandaged up several times a day. 1t Is ow-
ing to the Princes afflicted extremities
that Knee b~reeches are so far less worn
now at entertainments. where ROYALTY is
present, as was the case up to 1870.
A multitude of grateful American read
ers OF Mrs. ELEPHANTS delightful works of
fiction will feel a pang of sympathy on
hearing that she has lost her last surviy-
ing son: The health of both her sons had
nave enjoyed her stories can never imagine
the motherly anxiety, the anguish of heart.
and the brave resistance to the pressure of
repeated sorrows which accompanied their
production.
John Ange. a planter. who died I'm Sussex
county, Delaware, about l77O. wa reputed
to be 40 years old. He left "a son aged
eighty, who was already . great grand
father when John died. Another old man OF
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
painted at the age of 10a by C. w. Peale.
Hutton was born at New York city In 1854.
His Grandfather Strangeways died sitting
in his chair at Boston, aged 101.
DR.. Paul. Of ST. Cuthbert's, tells an anus
ing story of the first italian music teacher
who visited Edinburgh. He passed the
town church as service was drawing to a
close. What is that horrible no:se?" he
asked, and when told that il was the peo-
pie praising God he rejoined. And do the
people think their God likes TO hear that
horrible noise%' When answered in the
| affirmative the sad foreigner rejoined.
."Then their God must have no ear for
music and s~orrowfully walked away.
Professor Swings congregation Is TO dis
band. There is, 1t is said, mo enthusiasm
among the trustees. nor. so far as can be
learned, among the members for a new So
ciety. The success Of the old one was
| unique. 1t was founded. as IL was led. by
one man. and 1t was only that mans per-
sonality that held 1t together. TIE members
came from oil parts OF the city and from
all classes. united by that bond only. and