The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t costs s2l5,OOO to run the Boston public
library for a year.
Queen Victoria has never suffered from
dyspepsia. She attributes this to her eating
little, but often, and to her taking whisky
at meals. She drinks 1t clear. without
water. 61 49,
Mrs Cornelia Walter Richards, who was
one of the first editors of the Boston Tran
script. celebrated her eightieth birthday last
Friday. Her brother Lynde NJ. Walter, was
the founder of the paper.
By the will Of William Henry Rinehart,
the Baltimore sculptor, there was left
fund to found school of sculpture in con-
nection with the Peabody Institute. The
fund now amounts TO 100000 and is to be
applied to its purpose at once.
DR.. w. l.. Abbott. WHO has been travelling
in central Asia, has forwarded to the Ma
tional Museum. at Washington. a collection
OF the skins OF 22S birds and more than
hundred mammals. The greater number of
these are species new TO science.
Mr.. G.. Holt. of Liverpool. has shown his
good sense by declining with thanks Queen
ground that he is unwilling to pauperlze
seven Of his eight children in order 10
leave his oldest son a sufficient fortune to
sustain a title.
With Alexandra Martin. who has just died
at Creil near Paris, there disappears the
last of the leaders of the French revolu-
ton of 1SiS. He may be described as having
heen the father of the labor movement in
Europe. and under the name of Albert
rOuvrier was the chief organizer of the
early labor associations in France.
Perhaps one Of the most constant patrons
of the pawnshop was, the late King of
Naples. who died SHORT time ago. and
ing the past twenty years. spent much
more time in the vaults Of Messrs. Atten-
borough. in London. than on the table of
the central figure Of Daudet's "Kings in
Exile"
Mr. Wanamaker has increased his life in
surance TO the remarkable aggregate of
10000 600. He is certainly the most heavily
insured man i'm America, and possibly in
the world. John B. Stetson: of Philadelphia.
a5 sson ON fo nrs an1 NJ pe
pew is said to be insured for 100000 And
the man who hustles around TO meet the
premium on his meagre 100000 Is forced to
marvel thereat.
DIR. d. X. Pearsons. of Chicago. has of
fered TO give Mount Hoiyoke College $780,
Coo If II will raise an additional $4,000 in
a year and half. The gifts of DR.. Pear
sons to Western institutions aggregate
about 100000. eight colleges being the
beneficiaries. OF these, Beloit has received
@ s5 KICK no Sg Ch hss Tsceni10 gs
Whitman College, of Walla Walla, Wash,
a similar offer TO that now made to Mount
Holyoke. and Drury College has also been
aided by him. ,-,s
The boy stood on the burning deck.
And said: LAS I'm alive.
This weather makes me think Of June
In 1885, tai.
Washington Star.
Praise June,
Morning and noon.
And when the day closes
Praise her for roses,
The tame and the Wild.
Queen OF the garden, and sweetbriers child.
Praise Junel
Edith NJ. Thomas.
Prize fighting is brutal sport
Few will this truth deny,
! And exhibitions of that sort
Good people all decry;
But all the same. six men In ten
Will read with keen delight
The details in the papers when
They pull off that big fight
Kansas City Journal.