The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The $50 clergymen OF chicago nave DeeH
asked by the Civic Federation of that city
to preach on municipal patriotism to-day.
81 am nothing and nobody. I am simply
the pen and mouthpiece of my imperial
master" Thus was the late NJ. De Giers
wont to describe himself.
O. H. p Belmont will have his summer
villa at Newport arranged that guests
will drive in on the lower floor and their
horses and carriages will be taken up on
the elevator, just as they are driven IN, so
that persons may alight directly at the pail
room door.
The so-called vanilla bean is not >ean
at ALL as is we'll known, but the fruit of
climbing orchid, Vanilla planifolia, the cap
sule or pod of which is about three-eghths
of an inch in diameter and from six to ten
inches long, and has certain reSem-
blance to the so-called catalpa bean.
Miss Morton, sister of the Secretary OF
Agriculture, is the only person prominently
connected with the administration who is
able to talk French to members of the diplo-
matte corps. She lost her fortune iniors-
ing notes of another brother and was COM
PEELED to open a girls school in Detroit
A physician in Austria has devised
vibrating helmet for the cure of nervous
headache. 1t is constructed of strips of
steel which are caused to vibrate by means
of a small electric motor. The sensation
produces drowsiness, the patient falls
asleep under its influence, and awakes free
from pain.
Gen. John A. McCernand, whose pension
claim recently aroused considerable feeling
in Congress, is living at Springfield, ILL.,, in
Communicative poverty. He is between eighty
and ninety years old,he will not give exact
figures. He was released from command
nv Grant while before Vicksburg for issuing
a vainglorious address.
Hay stoves are coming into satisfactory
use in some parts of the Dakotas. They
|. are said to burn from three to ten hours,
according to the weather, without refilling;
are clearly and economical and are, above
ALL good heaters. Lack, of cheap and good
fuel has been one of the chief drawbacks
to the Northwestern prairie country, and a
stove that will solve the hay and straw
burning problem will be a boon indeed.
singular state of relationship on a
large scale is vouched for by the Louis
vile Courier-Journal, which tells Of a dis
trict school near Mount Olivet, KY, where
ffty-five pupils are enrolled. Each pupil
is related either by consanguinity or mar
riage to every other CHILD in the school.
One or the other of the parents of each of
the fifty-five children was either pupil or
schoolmate with the present teacher.
A woman who knew the late Christina
Rossetti well says that although the poet
| ess lived all her life in London she knew
| very little about the city. Her home was
| in Torrington square, in the Bloomsbury
| district, and only a stones throw from the
bustling Tottenham Court Road. Miss Ros-
| setti devoted herself assiduously to her
mother and the latter's two sisters during
much of her life, and seldom went out. She
| was more clustered than many a nun
| When visitor told her that she lived in
Ealing Miss Rossetti answered: Ealing
| Is 1t Hammersmith way? She once re-
| marked: IT am not sure that have one
| drop of Irish blood in my veins, but If
/ have 1T is a very warm one."
| They say there are microbes in kiss!
| Such stories really age us;
| We've often tried, but never found
] That kisses were contagious.
| Detroit Free Press.
| at was winter such as when birds die
1 In the deep forest; and the fishes lie
| Stiffened in the translucent ice, which
| makes
| Even the mud and slime Of the warm lakes
| wrinkled clod, as hard as brick; anc
| when
| Among their children, comfortable men
| Gather about great fires, and vet feel cold
Alas! then, for the homeless beggar oldr'
! Shelley.