The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

One of the first women to register in
Wichita, Kan. was Mrs. Harriet McMurray.
a giddy girl of lie. who knew Thomas JEFF
ferson.
Secretary Gresham is said to have an
alyzed his own political self as so per cent.
Democrat and fifty per cent Republican. The
New York Sun insists that this is away off,
and submits this analysis of it's own: Tween
uokalinist and 50 per cent. Populist would
probably be nearer the mark"
Worth had peculiar way of showing his
gratitude to the Empress Eugene. Every
year it was his custom to send her large
bouquet of Parma violets, tied with
broidered in gold. This act was in grateful
memory of her patronage at time when
her merest -whim could make or ruin
Partisan tradesman.
When the cricket wishes to "sing" he
bends the front part of his body downward
little, raises his wings without unfolding
them, and rubbs two odd little files quickly
against each other. The sound which he
two plates, which act like the parchment of
a drum, causing the sound to become louder
and to spread further
Du Maurier is writing another novel, but
he frankly acknowledges that it will not
make tie hit achieved by '.Trilby' Those
who know something in detail about the
work upon which he is now engaged speak
of it as a much more artistic story than
either of his former novels, but fear that
the tremendous popularity of '"Trilby" will
operate to hurt the sale. of the new book.
A tribe of wild dogs exist at the London
docks which have real claim to the title,
since they belong to no one and have passed
through several generations literally upon
their own hook" The dogs are not de-
stroyed as they are useful in killing rats,
and they feed upon what they can find from
the refuse of the ships One popularity Of
this breed is that they can climb with al
mn ocf1 dnvf rif will dnrS nj
the docks are by no means savage; indeed,
they are timid, and seldom show them
selves.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, whom the
late DIR. Holmes called the human dynamo.
the well-Known Boston preacher and author,
celebrated his seventy-third birthday ami
versary the other day in Boston. He had
just returned from visit to the South, but
did not conceal his pessimism on the subject
of the "boom in the South" While he was
there everything seemed as 'wretched as
poverty" He saw no man at work on the
road save conviets and is inclined to doubt
whether the Southern people have as yet
unlearned the sin of lazness.
One of the most wonderful of the many
discoveries in science that have been made
during the last few years is the fact that
ray of light produces sound. beam of
sunlight is caused to pass through a prism,
SO as to produce what is called the solar
spectrum, or rainbow: A disk having Sits
light of the rainbow is made to break
through it. Place the ear to. a vessel con-
tanning silk wool or other colored material.
AS the colored lights of the spectrum fall
upon it sounds will be given by different
parts of the spectrum, and there will be ST.
lence in other parts.
A robins note. spropt of grass.
A bonnet new and dear;
deluge of ten thousand poems,
And spring is here.
Boston Courier.
She sat away down the parquet,
And the hat she had on was quite guet;
But man sat behind her,
Who called it binder,
And went out and demanded his puet.
Washington Star.
The birds carol hymns at Easter-tide,
The bells chime through this old world wide,
The trees put forth their tender buds
And fashion dons her new spring duds.