The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Blind Tom is still living, at the age of
forty-seven.
Wautoma, Wis, claims to be the banner
sound-money town. There are several Dem
ocratS in the town, but a recent canvass
did not disclose a single silver man.
The badge of Office worn by the Lord
Mayor of London contains diamonds to the
value of $500, 900, and the temporary owner
of it has to give a bond for it before he
is sworn in.
The cross mark, still used occasionally
instead of a signature, did not originate in
ignorance. 1t was always appended to sig
natures in medieval times as an attesta-
ton of good faith.
A story is being told in London of a
well-known African millionaire who at one
time resided in Pan Mall. On his visiting
cards was printed: Mr.. - -, Pail
Mall, opposite Marlborough Housei'
The Queen of Sweden, who is one of the
richest women in the world, owes her great
wealth to the gambling tables at Wiesba-
den. which were owned by her brothers,,
from whom she inherited her vast fortune,
The late Duke of Marlborough, in allud-
ing to the size of Blenheim Palace, used to
say, by way of d joke, that it was the
only residence in England which required
81, 900 worth of putty a year to keep the
window paneS in order.
Prince Mirko, of Montenegro, the second
son of Prince Nicholas, seventeen years of
age, is a musical composer. He has writ
ten two Q%uartets for string instruments,
and is at work on a light OPERA, which will
be brought out at the Cettinje Opera House
during the bicentenary festival.
In Buda-Pesth a great sensation has been
created by the announcement that the
three young daughters of Count Vasquez,
all of whom are countesses in their own
| right, have decided to go on the music-hall
sixteen and seventeen, respectively, and
are not yet out of the schoolroom. They
have already signed articles for several
years training and
A German correspondent at Picking says
that the opinion is spreading among the
Chinese that there will soon be a change
on the throne. The belief is not based so
much on dissatisfaction with the Emperor
as on various occurrences which have
reused superstitious forebodings. including
the falling of a dragon from the sky, as
seen by an astronomer, the death of the
Emperor's brother, and the absence of an
heir TO the throne, which is regarded as
a punishment of the gods for some INSIDE
meanor.
..The popular idea that the age of a horse
| can always be told by looking at his teeth, -
said a veterinary surgeon, lis not exactly
+! correct. After the eighth year the horse
has no more new teeth, so that the tooth
smethod is useless for telling the age of a
horse which is more than eight years old.
As soon as the set of teeth is complete.
however, a wrinkle begins to appear on the
upper edge of the lower eyelid, and a new
wrinkle is added each year. SO that to get
at the age of a horse more than eight years
4 old you must figure the teeth plus the
wrinkles.
DIR. Fleury, a French savant, announces
there is a proner physical method
of relieving that most unfortunate
of maladies jealousy. True jeal-
ousy, he insists. is never the result
Of knowledge, but of doubt. The jeal-
GUS man suspects. He does not know
Hence this suspicious. weak state of mind
is the very thing to foster the ailment
Defective brain nourishment can be met
by stimulants and nutritives. All Jealous
persons have sensible intervals, the NAL.
: ady being in some degrees a periodic one