The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The young King of Spain has been pre-
sented by the Military Academy with a
splendid Toledo blade, inlaid with gold,
ana the nit studded with gems. He is now
IN MS ninth year, 5nS-
The poet William Morris is also So
cialist. shopkeeper and cooperative
manufacturer. He is a large, burly man.
with tanned cheeks and mop of curly hair
amp his inyariable attire is plain blue serge.
Frederick Villiers, the English war cor
respondent, who witnessed the fall of Port
Arthur, is now in New York He says the
war is all one-sided, that the Chinese do not
know how to fight and that the end will be
China'B utter defeat.
Florence Nightingale, at the ripe age of
seventy-four. is enjoying excellent health
She is a rich woman, having. besides some
private means. the $4,000 publicly SUBJ
the close of the Crimean war.
The European virtuosos regard a sea
journey with fear Brahms, when told
the other day how universally admired
and beloved he was in America, laugh
iingly agreed to think about it, but added
impressively: "Ah, but that sea!'
The Japanese government has recently
recognized in official way the distin-
guished educational work of an American
DR.. j. ID. Davis. who has for the past nine
teen years served as professor in the Do
shisha University, at Kioto, Japan.
The South Dakota Legislature has re-
pealed the divorce law requiring six months
residence in the State before an action
can be begun, and restored the old law.
which requires only three months residence.
This was brought about by many petitions
some OF the church leaders joining in the
appeal.
The Rev. w. T. d. GLENN, who died in
Baltimore on Monday last, at the age of
eighty, performed in 1S49 the burial service
over the poet Edgar Allen Poe, whose
cousin he was, and to whem he was also
related by marriage. Poe,s wife, Virginia
GLENN, was cousin of the Rev. Mr..
GLENN. sS
Dr. William r.. Harper, president of the
Chicago University, has recently secured
additional endowment for that institu-
ton. DR.. Harper has had a phenomenal
career as a successful teacher and college
president. He is only thirty-nine years of
age, and graduated from Yale at the age
of nineteen.
J. Takasusu, Japanese A. B. of Oxford,
has translated into English a description
of India and the Malay islands. written
twelve hundred years ago by l. Using, a
Chinese Buddhist priest. The book de-
scribes the monastic life observed by the
author in India, and contains a great deal
of information about geography, chron-
ology and literature
Dwight L. Moody. the evangelist, cele-
brated his fifty-eghth birthday recently in
San Antonio, and the same day his mother,
Mrs, Betsy Holton Moody. celebrated her
ninetieth in the house in which she brought
up her children and in which she has lived
sixty-six years, at East Northfield, Mass.
She is in good health and superintendents
the work about the house every day.
Individual plates for table use were I'M
known to the ancients, who held their meat
in their hands or employed the fiat wheaton
cakes then made on which to hold their
victuals. They are first mentioned in A. d.
COO used by the luxurious on the con-
tinent, and in the ninth century they had
come into common use both in En-
were made of wood or some
kind of earthenware, the former material
being preferred because it did not dull the
knives.
The man who bravely seeks the stage
And wants to be a star
RetireS in sadness all because
He hasn't learned to spar.
And he who turns to statesmanship,
If present modes persist,
We find an all-round Congressman
Must be pugilist.
want to be a cuckoo,
And with the cuckoos stand,
To sing aloud when Cleveland
Directs me with his hand.
And when the people f1out me
And send another man.
Why, then I'll get a judgship
Or any job / cam
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