The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Vassar College has recently received two
very handsome and costly vases from the
wife of Count Oyama, of japan, who was
graduated at that institution.
1. Rev. Thomas Mex. Brown, of New York,
is probably the most Roman Protestant
in this country. His church is a vine-cov-
cred building, with a birds nest of a
rectory next door. Fatner Brown wears the
black soutane and cassock which character
lie the Catholic priest, and his service as
far as ceremonials go Is identical with that
OF Catholic churches.
Twenty small statues were recently stolen
from the front of the Rouen Cathedral
and offered for sale to a sculptor in that
city. 1t was only when ne undertook to find
out where they came from that they We're
missed from their places, as they stood
high above the ground The manner of
their taking down is still a. mystery, and
the thieves have not been found
Joseph Bertrand. the French mathema-
tician, who recently celebrated his golden
wedding, rescued his wife from death in the
great railroad accident on the Paris-Ver-
OF Admiral Dunont D'Urviile, who was
killed in the accident. This was the admiral
who brought the Venus of Milo to France,
and who three times circumnavIgated the
earth.
The late Senator Fair was generous to
his poor relations, particularly to his
brothers and sisters, who lived in Iowa.
In his will he left them legacies ranging
from $50,G0 to $4,000, and during his life
time he made them large gifts. They are
nearly all farmers. their land lying near
Ida Grove, "a, and their farms were stocked
by the Senator several years ago. About a
year ago he paid his Iowa relatives a
long visit.
The drainage of the grea. silver mines in
the West is an expensive undertaking at
times, and the drainage tunnels are fire.
uuently driven under conditions as danger
Gus as those which are encountered in
tunneling under rivers. One of the great
O. Df has f1,r ~ IN fhAM mint iE f1af
just completed at the Ontario mine, about
a mile and a; q half south Of Park city, Utah.
grade of three inches in one hundred feet.
The most finished negro scholar in the
world to-day, according to the Boston
Transcript, is Edward Wilmot Blyden. who
represented Liberia at the Court of st.
James. He is a valued contributor to many
English magazines. is a linguist of pro
profound thinker the negro race has yet
produced. He is the author of a work en-
Race which has had two editions in Lon
don. DIR. .Blyden is a pure negro. without
a trace of white blood in his veins.
Little Suzanne is dead. Mile. Suzanne, as
she was called, was Marie Suzanne Antoi-
nettel Leduielac, and she was Gibson's model
in Paris. She was the daughter of re-
spectacle trades people and was one of a
large family of children. She was one OF
Bougereau's favorite models and was we'll
known in all the best Paris studios. In
many famous pictures her face is to be
seem. and in the best of Gibson's latest
drawings She is the original. 1t had been
Suzanne's intention to come over to Amer
lea to pose for Gibson, but a few weeks ago
she died, an easy victim to pneumonia.
Of his half-inished sketches Of Suzanne
Gibson says: II do not think / shall ever
finish them. They shall be put away out
OF respect to the little French girl, who
was their inspiration"
If / should die before 1 wake"
With emphasis this line she said;
She knew the chances she did take
Through sleeping in.a folding bed.
Buffalo Courier.