The Indianapolis journal., 1895-01-14
AnouT PEOPLE AVID THINGS.

Miss Frances e. Willards mother said
of her when she first began her social
reform work: BE quiet, my dear: we are
not born to reign, but to wrestle.
The Rev. DR.. Francis E. Clark, the founder
Of the Christian Endeavor Society. has re-
turned from visit to England and Scot
land, greatly benefited by his trip.
Andrew J. Patterson, of Tennessee, who
has been appointed consul to Demerara, is
a grandson of President Johnson. His
farther was a Senator from Tennessee.
Japanese politeness translates into queer
English. How is your honorable wife?"
one gentleman will ask; II thank you,
honorable sir, my dirty fool OF a wife is
WELL" is the answer.
Over twenty thousand persons have been
set free from Russian prisons or have had
their sentences lightened by the action Of
the new Cars proclamation of last
November and many more will be dealt
with as soon as their cases can be ex-
amined.
All her life the Queen of Denmark has
been troubled with deafness, but this aff1ic-
ton has not prevented her from being a
woman of quick intelligence. keen SYM
pathy and extreme energy. Not only is
she an accomplished musician, but clever
artist, and sincerely devoted to painting.
BY the will of the late Lemuel Coffin,
of Philadelphia, $4,000 was left to the
Church of the Holy Trinity in that city,
$4,000 to Hahnemann Medical College Hos
pl;al; $4,000 to the Protestant Episcopal
Missionary Society of the United States,
and 1880 in smaller sums to various
other institutions in Philadelphia
Thirty-three fatalities have been reported
for the last season in the Alps. which is
less than the average. Four persons met
their deaths by avalanches or falling stones
SIX by exposure to the weather, fourteen
missed their footing and fell down preci-
pices. three were killed by lightning, one
fell into a glacier fissure, one was lost
while seeking idelweiss and four cases are
unexplained.
Senator Turpie has few friends in the
Senate. He spends most of his time sitting
in his seat watching the performance with
the eager and alert eyes of the boy in the
gallery of a sensational theater. Most of
tne time he is chewing at something
Added to the chewing IS a constant in
voluntary and perhaps unconscious shak-
ing or the head, the effect of some ner-
vous strain in the years that have gone.
Max ORell says that the Australians eat
seven times a day. Tea and bread and
butter at I, breakfast at $780, lunch at IL
dinner at 1:30. tea at 9, supper at and
a nightcap at 10. Tea is the standard drink
ana there are few hours in the day when
the teapot is not brought into requisiton
Ihe only people who can compare with
the Australians in drinking tea are the
Irish, who keep the teapot boiling on the
Stove ali day long.
NJ. Barthon is the most sef-made man
OF the group to which the destinies of
France are now intrusted His father kept
a very humble iron monger's shop at
Oloron. the little town at the foot of the
Pyrenees where the statesman was born
less than forty years ago He still car
rles on the business in the Rue de la
Prefecture at Pau and visitors to that win
ter resort may observe the words 'Barthon
Quincailler,' over the window.
He bought his ice at dollar ton,
And when he let it go
AT twenty per-, he smiled and said
It's a cold snap, don't you know"
Detroit Free Press
There's naught so perfect in Iife's plan
But mans crude thought will mar it.
In youth he wants to be man
In age he's sorry for it.
Cleveland Plain Dealer