The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Commenting on the recent gift to Chi
cago University, the Boston Globe jealousy
remarks: Them as has, gits.'
Nine Modjeska has Geo hives of Italian
bees on her beautiful California ranch and
sells a quantity of honey every autumn.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
Whittier home in Amesbury. Mass. as a
memorial, are at an end for the present.
Queen Victoria purchases almost every
new book of note published. and her ex-
peEdIture on literature of all sorts is over
GL2U0 per annun.
James r. Garfield. of Ohio. son of the
nartyred President. will spend one week
making Republican speeches in Kansas
during this campaign. Mr.. Garfield has
served as State Senator in Ohio. and is
one OF the best camoaign orators in the
country.
The Amer of Afghanistan is carefully
training his future successor in state af-
fairs. Abdurrahman now leaves much of
his work to Iabibullah Khan, and only
deals personally with the most important
questions, such as relations with the In
dian government.
The red bedstead on which Mrs jeanne
Carlyle was born has been added TO the
relies in Carlyle's house in Cheyne row.
Chelsea 1t used to stand in Craigenput
took, and then was brought to Chelsea.
where its last use was by Carlyle in his
old days. when it made him too tired to
mount the stairs to his own room on the
second floor.
The recent death of Prof Whitney
leaves Prof. Child the oldest instructor in
active service in Harvard. Although he
began his profession as teacher in the ca
paclty OF Instructor in mathematics. Prof.
thlld is now renowned the world over for
his investigations into the ballad literature
of England and of the Anglo-Saxon and
Chaucerian studies.
Prof. A. Supan expresses the opinion in
Petermann's NIitteilungen that Nansen was
successful in his expedition, even though
he did not reach the mathematical pole for
ne corrected the notions conce fning a shall
low polar sea and abundant land, made i'm
poftant contributions to the topography of
tfanz-Josef Land and collected for three
years observations in a hitherto unknown
region which may prove of inestimable val
ue to science.
There was much surprise in Vienna when
it was announced that Emperor Francis
Joseph had conferred his Minister of
Foreign Affairs. Count Goiuchowski. the
order of the golden fleece. This, the high
est of all orders, was founded in 1929 by
Philip the Good. Duke of Burgundy and
IS seldom conferred, Count Andrassy hav-
ing received it only after having added
Bpoiila , anu i1er1zesoVlna TO the Kingdom
holders of this order at a time, including
foreign soVefiegns and princes.
Pope Leo AIlI. it is known, has very
nervous temperament, and this, added to
his incessant work and exertions, renders
d.
not slept lately much more than two
hours night. When sleep does not come
to him. he composes Latin verses or calls
one OF his secretaries and dictates to him.
III his bedroom, sentences, sketches for
documents for encyclical letters and
thus keeps constantly at work The prfn-
cipal physical trouble with the Pope is that
he catches colds asily. which render him
vCiceless for a few days but which do not
affect his general health.
Johannes A. Oertel, known as the art St
priest who is more than seventy years
of age, is living in Belair Nd. His best
known painting. Rock of Ages was
painted for Augustus Storrs, of Brooklyn
The reproduction of this picture is widely
known. He lived in New York for a num-
Der of years, and painted d series of car
toonS for the Church of the Heavenly
Rest. entitled waiting at the Gate, sug-
Sested by Bryants poem. AT present he is
the assistant minister of the Episcopal
Church at Belair. and is at work on a
series of Scriptural pictures.
He'd two abrasions of the face,
wrist and shoulder out of place,
Three broken ribs, a broken nose,
Six badly dslocated toes;
hic-joint badly twisted and
compound fracture of the hand
spinal curvature. and half
dozen sprains of thigh and calf:
Two teeth diSL ced, a twisted neck
And general corDOreal wreck.
Which so the proofs did all concur,
The products of safety were.
Richmond DisDatch