The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

Jorge Isaacs, the celebrated novelist OF the
republic of Colombia. and one of the great
est literary lights of Latin America, Is
dead.
criminologist, is trying to prove that genius
is madness. He began by writing tragedies
at the age of thirteen, but studied medicine
and later became a specialist in mental dis
eases.
The first woman publisher in this country
was Charlotte Fowler Wells. She went into
business in 1S41, and still continues her
calling. She says she is so fond of her work
and so occupied that she has no time to
realize that she is growing old.
The Empress of Germany was SO anxious
that nothing should be left undone to give
Prince Bismarck pleasure on his birthday
that she had all her children write letters
of congratnlation to him, herself guiding
the hands of the younger ones.
1t is a well-known fact that the milk
maids in Switzerland who can sing get bet
ter pay than those who cannot sing. The
reason is that a tuneful maid who sings
at her work coaxes one-fourth more milk
from a COW than a songless mike can ex-
tract.
Miss Mary Vance, who, during the war,
was an assistant nurse to Miss Dorothea
Dix, sister of General Dix, is dying as a
dependent at the home of Mrs. Robert Will
liams, her niece. in Pittsburg. She was one
of the most noted nurses in the Union
service. She is seventy-four years old.
The Queen of Corea thinks a great deal
about her health. She lives in constant
dread of some disease which will prove
fatal. A lady physician is
with a suite of rooms in the royal palace,
and is Obliged to visit the Queen every day.
When her Majesty is in the least indis-
earshot. The doctors salary, however. is
$500.
Mrs. Waite, the widow of Chief Justice
Waite, says she has grave fears that the
Mary Washington Society, of which she is
the head, will not be able to complete the
monument at Fredericksburg proposed in
honor of the wife of the first President.
The ground about the shaft was donated
on the condition that the place be given
an fund sufficient to keep a
custodian, who will see that the ground Is
kept in good order. but as this will re-
may not be able to retain the land.
Bishop John H. Vincent, chancellor of
Chautauqua University. in addressing a
number G" teachers in New York, the other
day, said he was ar old teacher and men
toned among his former pupils the late
James W.. Scott, of the Chicago Times-Her-
aid, and George B. Swift. the new Mayor
of Chicago. He then continued: George b.
Swift, when he sat in my class room. I do
not like to say how many years ago, gave
little promise of attaining the position of
wealth and influence that is now his. 1t
was the same way with Mr.. Scott and with
Ulysses S. Grant, who used to come to my
meetings.. / tell you, We never know what
material we are handling"
In referring to a rumor that Bishop VIII
liam Taylor, in charge of the Methodist
missions in Africa, is of colored origin, the
Christian Advocate says: '"The ancestors of
Bishop Taylor came from County Armagh.
Ireland, to Virginia. His complexion is nat
urally very fair. The first time we sever
saw him., he was almost as white as the
symbolic lily. Frequent travel and long
residence in the tropics have given his feat
ures a darker cast. Probably persons have
COMPOUNDED Bishop William Taylor with the
late Marshall w. Taylor, who was nomi-
Conference of 1884, prior to the whirlwind
of appreciation which swept William Taylor
into that nOsifinn.v