The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Neal Dow has come out strongly against
the Chicago platform ard ticket. but ne
has not yet got to the point of saying that
he will vote for Mckinley and Hobart.
The huckleberry crop in the Blue noun
tains of Oregon is enormous this year.
Every bush is loaded and the berries are
so thick Blalock mountain that the cat
tie that range are all stained purple from
walking through and lying down in the
patches.
William A. Clark who is known as the
Silver King of Montana, and who is re-
puted to be worth s20,000.00O, is about to
erect a mausoeum in Woodawn Gene
terry, New York. in memory of his wife,
W no died about two years ago. The memo
rial will cost about $1,000
Raisins, dates and chocolate tablets are
all good sustainers for a days tramp of a
days run on wheels. a country physician
who finds himself obliged often to be OBJ
livious to mealtimes says that he flndo the
compressed chocolate cakes, easily carried
and easily nibbled, his food salvation over
and over again in the course of the year
Miss Jane Harrison, the English woman
who is said to be the first woman to have
received the degree of LII. d. honoris
Causa. has broken another record in being
elected a member of the Archaeological So
ciety of Berlin, in spite of strenuous oppo-
s.tion to the innovation. This partly makes
up for her rejection on account of her sex
archaeology in London.
A South American lady is quoted as say
ing that some time ago, in the absence of
water, of which there was great dearth
at the time she washed her face with some
of the juice of a watermelon The result
was so soothing that she repeatedly washed
her face in this manner. and her aston1Sh-
ment was great, a few days later, on seeing
that there was not freckle left on her
Pr eviously befreckled face.
same ship with Ii Hung Chang, but some
low failed to convince the Chinaman that
he was the greatest American extant Mr..
Davis told Mr.. Ii that he was writing a
novel. This disguised the Viceroy. Writ
ing novelr' he exclaimed. You ought to
be ashamed of yourself. Writing a novel,
indeed big, strapping, able-bodied fell
low like you ought to be at work. Why
Gont you go to work.?
John Bull petitioning the House of Lords
for redress of a grievance sounds like a
joke. But it is, on the contrary, a pro-
ceeding of the most earnest description
Mr.. John Bull is the appropriate name of
officer who, until the 30th of July. was
resident superintendent of the palace of
Westminster little more than a month
ago he. received notice to quit from the
Lord Chamberlain, who refuses to reopen
consideration of Mr. Bulls case. Hence the
petition to the House of Lords.
Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, who is now in Germany was seventy
years of age last Saturday. "It is difficult"
says the Worcester Spy, in noticing the an
niversary Ito realize that Massachusetts
senior Senator has reached this three-score
ard ten. If anybody in public life has mas
tered the art of growing old gracefully it
is George Frisbie Hoar. 1t has often been
remarked of him during the few years past
that his latest work was his best work.
the fruit of extraordinary combination
Of vigor and stage experience. He is al
seventy in his intellectual prime. better
qualified out of the ripeness of his accumu-
lated wisdom than ever before TO serve his
State and country
Comparing Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell
Ti.illips and John E. Cough together, Major
Pond says that the two former were more
eloquent and had greater power to hold
their audiences, but that Cough was n
more popular favorte for a greater num-
Der of years than any other lecturer. He
lectured altogether 5000 times, to about
1000 600 hearers
She had lee rned to be a ruSher
In a weary business orld;
And along dizzy pathway
BY life's pressing needs was whirled
So enslaved was she to phrases
OF that hustiing, busting cline,
That, when man would wed her.
She said: Thank you-haven't time
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