The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A late count shows that Boston has IT,
900 houses.
Mr.. SewaIl is distinguished as owning
THE best vegetable garden in Maine"
1t is said that the gold bracelet sent 70
Princess Maud of Wales was the first no.
tice taken by a Pope of an English we'd
Ding in several centuries.
Date vinegar has been made by the Arab
for ages. 1t has recently been put on the
English rnarket. and the English say IL is
tar superior TO any other vinegar.
The German Emperor hsis nearly COM
pleted another painting. synsholizing the
protection of the arts and sciences by the
army. Professor Knackfuss has assisted
MN IN some of the details.
Baron De Meneval. who took down vast
quantities of Napoleon's dictation, pre-
served the following sample of his wit:
You Frenchmen are not in earnest about
dhythlhg, except. perhaps, equality: and
even TINS you would gladly give up If you
Were sure of yourself being the first"
II Is a curious fact that in spite of it's
great brilliance, the electric light does not
carry so far through fog as gaslight. and
for that reason it is not in favor for light
houseA IL is now proposed. however. TO
try the incandescent gas light, which is
cheap, and is said TO carry farther in bad
weather than either an electric light or
an ordinary gas light.
The Marquis of Butte has signifed his
intention of contributing G10.O 900 to the Uni
versity of South Wales. to be applied to
the purposes of technical education in
romised e10,0W towards the fund for pro-
viding new buildings. and the British gov
eminent has promised 10000 on condition
that an equal amount be raised by public
subscriptions.
A Berlin paper relates this anecdote of
the late Prof. Curtius: one day he was
lecturing in a very enthusiastic strain on
the glories of ancient Greece. when the
door suddenly opened. a cabman walked
in and interrupted the discourse by ex-
claiming loudly: "Ah, here you arei L
You didn't paw YOUR fare" The professor
turned red, beckoned the coachman to
come and get his mark. but his enthusiasm
was chilled for the remainder of that lee
ture.
An epigrammatic correspondent hits Off
some of the chief watering places in the
following fashion: When you go to New
port you take letters of Introduction, when
you go to Long Branch you take clothes,
and when you come to Saratoga you bring
your appetite. For this is first and last a
place to eat. We disguise the fact by a
thousand ingenious observation-disclosures: we
pretend to drive in the afternoon, we pre-
tend to play cards in the evening, but what
we really do is to drink digestive waters
ana appetlzing cocktails and when we are
not eating we think of what we have eaten
and what we are going to eat.
An extraordinary story is current in the
European press to the erect that the Arc
tic explorer, DR.. N%ansen, is about to be
remarked to his wife, in consequence of
the fact that prior to his departure on his
last voyage in search of the north pole
he divorced her in order to permit her to
marry again in case of his disappearance
or death. without going to the trouble of
proving his decease. In order to under
stand this it must be explained tha. in
many countries in Europe great strict ness
prevails with regard to the remarriaae of
women whose husbands deaths cannot be
legally proved, absences of seven. ten and
nNyan fifteen re hainO rnnnirad nv Iauy
to furnish satisfactory evidence that a
missing spouse is no longer in the land of
the living