The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-04

A handsome monument will soon be
erected to General Sherman in Lancaster,
O., his native city.
Mrs. Lydia Blackburn, of Chicago, a ne
gress thirty-six years old, is regular at
tendant Of one of the public schools.
The Car of Russia is not a contented
man. He never looked forward with salts
faction to occupying a throne and the cares
and dangers of his present position fret
are the countless annoyances that are con-
nected with his approaching coronation
POSITION but, it is said. he has been grow
ing thin, testy and touchy of late.
The prize old man of England, to whom
Gladstone, who might in years be son,
sends an occasional note of congratulation.
is DR.. William Salmon, of Glamorganshire.
He is 107 and the oldest doctor, as we'll as
to bed at 8. sleeps well, rises at noon and
dimes at 6. He drinks two glasses of port
wine at dinner and sometimes. though very
rarely, smokes couple of cigarettes with
that meal.
Bill Nye's pet story was the one as to
how he was charged 81 for a sandwich in
a village in New Jersey. He told the man
who sold it that 1t was a high price for a
sandwich, and said that ne had frequently
gotten a ten-course dinner with four kinds
ly asked the man why he charged - for a
ham sandwich. "Well, I'll tell you," said
the sandwich man, 1.-The fact is. ~ CAD.
need the money"
M. Zola, in spite of his large earnings.
is poor man. He has no talent for amass-
ing wealth and spends his money as quick
" as he receives it. He has handsome
apartments in Paris and fine chateau at
Medon. The chateau was built piecemeal
so to speak. AS M. lola earned money he
until the architectural crazy quilt was I'M
ally completed. 1t is adorned and furnished
in NJ. Zola's own original way
Professor Koch, whose tuberculin has
been abandoned by physicians in most coun-
tries, is soon going to publish the latest
results of his experiments and practice
with that remedial agent; He has largely
and application in his large private and
public practice. and his forthcoming book
Snc , the Procession ali over tae world to
take the matter up once more.
They are telling in Dublin an old story
revamped on Mr.. Balfour. 1t is said that
an eminent Irish bishop. who was a Home
ruler. once met Mr. Balfour at a dinner,
and in the course Of the talk Mr.. Balfour
said: but. after all. fancy that the news
papers make more noise than the masses.
Do YOU think, now, that the people really
dislike mer' "Ah. Mr.. Balfour." said the
bishop, ''if the Irish hated the devil only
half as much as they DO you my Occupa-
ton would be gone
1t is recalled of the late Arsene Hous-
save. the French critic, that one of his ia
yorite maxims was quotation from Pyth-
agoras, which he had inscribed over the door
of his house: Hold thy peace or say some
thing which is better than silence" Never
theless. he wrote some eighty volumes of
prose and poetry. At Mount Beaujou he
used to entertain with princely magnifi-
cence 1t was one of his kirmesses there
that included in its programme ''the stimuli
taneous popping Of a thousand champagne
corks."
The zephyrs sweep across the sylvan scene
And call the dowret to the Weakening
The chattering birds disturb the morn Sc
And ali is life where sprinstime stands
revealed.
Come forth. oh. man-where reckoning
Come while the youthful year invites the
Where careless pleasure points the BIOS
Come forth-but bring along your over
Washington Star.