The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

mo flies on him. given as an Amer
icanism, is found in Don Quixote,,' where
it occurs as one of the sayings of Sancho
Panza.
Mrs. M. A. Jackson, the widow of Stone
wall jackson, who now lives at Charlotte,
N. c., has recently undertaken the editor
ship of a monthly magazine published at
ichmond
Endeavors are being made in England to
establish a Sabbatical year, one years rest
in seven for school teachers. The expert
ment has already been tried with success
in at least one American college.
Lord Randolph Churchil1s idea of a
holiday was to go to bed in a quiet room,
stay there all day reading ard doing, dine
in slippers and dressing gown in the even
ing, and as soon as convenient thereafter
go to bed.
Mrs. Clio Hinton Huneker, who is to re-
ceive $4,000 for her Fremont statue, which
she was commissioned to execute by the
Associated Pioneers of California, is said
to be only ~twenty-four years old. She is a
pupil of st. Gaudens.
Mrs. Clara c. II. Stranahan, wife Of j.
S. T.. S~tranahan. known as Brooklyn's
First citizen has given So, coo to the Uni
versity OF Michigan to ESTABLISH scholar
Col. Seth Harrison.
The death of Sir Beaivere, the champion
st. Bernard, will be felt among dog lovers
all over the world. Sir Bedivere was seven
years old and was considered one of the
sold for 81, 500. He was last seen in New
York at the dog show held in Madison
square Garden in February.
Musicians are much stirred up over Max
Nordau's rabid attack on Wagner. who is
classed among the most degenerate" of a
degenerate age. Nordau accuses him of
.'graphomania," that is an incurable itch
for writing; 'megalomania," or in English
swelled head; and a score of other manias,
CJnh as a SaTttp6. conviction that he was
the object of organized persecution.
The Patent Office is at present issuing
car fender patents at the rate of seven a
week. One of the latest is in the form of
a horizontal circular brush made to re-
volve rapidly when the car is in motion by
means of gearing from the axle. The brush
is a trihe greater in diameter than the
width of the track, and is supposed to
brush the victim out of the way of the
wheels.
The theft of the Countess of Warwick's
So0-guinea cloak rev from her an inter
esting expression on the use of wealth. In
a communication which Lady Warwick has
authorized the public are informed that the
cloak was a wedding present. Her lady
ship" the communication ADDS, would
nave considered it a sin to have spent so
large a sum upon one garment when there
is so much poverty and suffering in the
President Cleveland is coming to consider
writing official documents by hand a bur-
den. 1t is said he is slowly but success
fully cultivating the art of debating to a
stenographer, thus relieving himself from
much physical labor and saving himself
much time. Nearly all his official docu-
ments are now prepared with the assist
ance of a stenographer instead of being
written by his own hand, as was the case
until recently.
While beef and pork are out of sight,
the prices are so steep,
For sausage we've no appetite,
Although it is dog cheap.
kansas City Journal.
"One swallow does not make a summer"
A long-forgotten poet sings;
But / have seen a small grasshopper
a half a dozen springs.
University Courier.