The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

DR.. John Graham Brooks, of Boston, is
to deliver the address before the American
Academy of Political and Social Science,
at the New Century Club, in Philadelphia,
next Friday evening. His subject will be
Unemployed"
Sam Jones, speaking of Col. Bob Inger
soil, is thus reported in a Southern news
paper: "If you want to see a monkey-feed-
ing time you get old Bob to let me talk
along with him. He amt goin' TO do ii,
though. Not he. He couldn't stand UP be-
fore me, and he knows IT. You see the facts
are against him."
Some of the Daughters of the American
Revolution have been so much pleased by
the portrait of the late Mrs. Benjamin Har-
rison, painted by Daniel Huntington, that
they desire to have a copy of 1t placed on
new postage stamp. If ex-President Har-
risOn gives his assent to this plan the
Daughters will make formal application to
Postmaster-general Bissell.
The son of Count Tolstoi, who is now in
Paris, has been questioned to his faith
er's book on the Franco-Russian fetes,
1t appears that the novelist has seized this
episode OF patriotic ebulltiOn as an excuse
to exploit his ideas on patriotism, which,
with the spirit of Christianity. This is to
be the general theme of the new book.
young woman who is beginning to
bloom out in literature by becoming a spe-
cialist on one subject is Mrs. Clara Sidney
Davidge. daughter of Bishop Potter. Mrs.
,Davidge is a very philanthropic woman and
has made a special study of the working
girls clubs in this city and its vicinity. She
is thoroughly Informed on this subject, and
has, after much persuasion, consented to
write story on 1t Tor pubicaCon, winch
Will shortly appear In print.
A curious Good Friday custom still pre-
walls I'm Spain On that dav the Cpa niSh SOW
ereign pardons a certain number of GRIM
inals condemned to death, and this year
the Queen Regent reprieved seven unfor-
tunate men. Standing with one hand on the
petitions for mercy, Donna Christina placed
the other on cruciix, and said soemnly,
according to formula, IT pardon these men
that God may pardon me-" The news of
the reprieve was then telegrapbed TO the
culprits.
The London Figaro says that the MEM
oers OF the Royal Welsh Ladies' Choir ex-
hibited their extreme loyalty the other day
by some very curious behavior. They were
on board the royal yacht Alberta. Some of
their number found hand basin in which
they were told the Princess of Wales had
Just washed her hands and face. So what
did they all do but one after another per-
form their own additions in the self-same
water which had been used by her Royal
Highness
A very interesting experiment is being
lishment of a church for children 1t is a
unique effort to meet the leakage be-
tween the Sunday school and the church.
1.-The age of admission is between five and
fourteen, and those who give evidence of
stability and religious conviction will be
transferred at the latter age to the main
church. The only conditions of admission
are belief in God, love to Christ and the
acceptance of the Bible the guide of life.
The weekly service is held on Saturday and
the communion is administered monthly"
In Los Angeles there is a dry-goods store
at which all the young men have vowed
to each other a solemn VOW that hence
forth they will never refuse a meal to any
human being whom they know to be hun
CRY. Two of their number We're witnesses
when a stalwart. gentlemanly-l looking fell
low, of some twenty-eight years, rushed
into the middle of the road. revolver in
hand. and shot himself, crying out: II am
starving, starving. What I'm going TO do
| do because | can't stand IL a moment
longer" The VOW was unanimously taken
when the two young men reported the in
cident to their felowworkers.