The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Lord Chief Justice Russell said in
speech on his recent visit to Montreal that
the average English Judge makes q great
sacrifice in income in taking the bench
1t is declared that before setting out on
his expedition to the pole Prof. Andree
enga ged a manager to make arrangements
for e. lecturng tour through the United
States on his return.
professorship of mental philosophy and
logic is to be established at Cambridge
University, England, with Il salary of e70O
"a wear. The new chair was resolved upon
several years ago, but the necessary funds
have been wanting until now
The death is announced of Mrs. Thurston,
who for many years held the position of
nurse in Queen Victoria's family and had
much to do with the earlier lives of most of
her children She was very highly es-
teemed by members of the royal family
and on relinQuishing active work some
wears ago was pensioned by the Queen.
Miss Bessie Moore champion woman ten
mis- PLAYER of the United States carried
off first prize at the Staten Island Ladies
Club tournament Friday. Her antagonlst
was Miss Helena r. HellwlS, hatohai
two sets to Miss Hellwig's one ana W
points to 80.
One of the prettiest Of recent information
al incidents is this: The little native chill
dren who 'go to school at mission school
in Burmah sent SO to help rebuild one of
cyclone. The church had supported the
mission, and the mission returned the COM
pliment of contribution, as far as able
The wife of Booker I. Washington, of
the Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute, is doing much
to elevate the women of her race. In 1892
she began her labors in a shabby upper
room. where she and six other women dis
cuSsed ways and means. To-day there Is q
weekly conference of over 400 women, some
of them walking sixteen miles to be pres
ent. There are talks on useful subjects,
there are classes and library Tor the emil
dren, and the whole nefghborhood has been
elevated and improved.
Frau Klafsky-Lohse is said to have been
a victim of medical incapacity. There are
two or three versions of the story, but the
one generally accepted is that falling
cupboard while she was in this country
caused painful Inflammation of her scalp,
that the pain became unbearable. and that
the Hamburg physicians diagnosed the
case as tumor of the brain and performed
the operation of trephining. with the result
that the patient died under their imple-
mentS but the aiment not tumor.
being of a comparatively trifting nature.
Sir William Martin Conway, who has de-
parted for Spitzbergen, can boast of hav-
ing reached higher altitude in the Hima-
layas than any other climber has ever at
| tanned. He reached the summit of Pioneer
| Peak, $4,000 feet above sea, after spending
| eighty-four DAYS on snow and ice, and ira
versing the three longest of the known Gla
ciers outside of the polar regions. HI
states in recent article in the English IL
| lustra ted Magazine. thatssthe rarity of the
| air of these great attitudes did not affec
| him so long as he kept himself out of an!
| cramped position, and kept the chest free
SO that the lungs might expand to the ut
| most limits.
The goose bone tells an early fall
''T'is not the goose bones year at all;
Just we bank with spirits gay.
On what the rabbit foot shall say.
Chicago Record.
| The college man now ponders,
| But the thought which ne thus squander:
! Is not wasted on MS hope of gaining ever
| lasting fame.
| He strives with great precision
| To reach a fair decision
| On the chances of his football team in tina
| Thanksgiving game.
| And the omnipresent heeler
| Throws out a gentle feeler
| To find if voters generally with him are il
| accord
/ He wants to save the Nation
| But he'll swear like all tarnation
| If on election day he doesn't carry his owl
| ward.
Philadelphia North American.