The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A form of clothing known as knee cuffs
is said to be used quite generally in France
by all classes during the winter. 1t is a
wooden cuff for the knees much the same
as in England Is worn around the wrists.
Undoubtedly the salaries paid engineers
in Africa are larger than anywhere else in
the world. Several of these experts get
$4,000 to $4,000 year. The American John
Hays Hammond's $780, 600 annual salary is
said to be the largest sum paid anywhere
In the world to an individual employe.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen declined, 1t is
stated, to attend a ball at Ottawa on New
Years night on the ground that. in their
opinion. it would be highly improper to al
low the pleasures of the ball room to in
trude upon time that could be more profit
ably spent the first night of the new year.
Already Alfred Austin, England's custom
made laureate, is paying the penalty of
greatness His mail is enormous, and the
autograph fiend is after him in force One
of the curious features of the case is that
Mr.. Austin receives as many requests for
his signature from the United States as he
does from England
John L. Sullivan declares that he has quit
Boston for good. He is to take charge of
a saloon in Chicago. In speaking of the
change, he is reported to have said: Say.
is 1t any worse for me to go to Chicago
than for those other professors from Har-
ward and Yale? 1 guess not. We profess
sional people have got to live. See?''
The annual report and balance sheet of
General Booths Darkest England" scheme
has been issued. The total income for the
year was $4,000. The value of the produce
sold from the farm colony was s104, 900; while
the cost of keeping the whole of the So
cial undertaking connected with it, incud-
ing money spent on buildings, was $4,000.
The greatest bane of Queen victoria's ex-
istence is the enormous amount of original
poetry sent to her from all parts of the
world. 1t is all read by her secretaries. and
the best of it submitted to her Majesty and
personally. acknowledged. On the recent
birth of the royal grandson nearly half
ton OF manuscript verse was received at
Windsor.
Signora Duse recently received a rare
honor from the King of Sweden. He pre-
sented her with the medal of sciences and
arts and his autograph and Photograph.
The King also sang to Duse an ancient
ballad that he had set to music. Then he
addressed her in Italian, and made her
promise to call upon him whenever she Wis
tied Sweden.
Senator Cameron says that few Americans
realize how big the United States really are.
1--WE could support population from ten to
twenty times the size of that we now have"
ing like to compare with them on the face
of the globe, and we are only at the begin
ming of our prosperity. Our country is not
yet one-tenth developed
The artist William NJ. Chase who for
years has been the instructor of the paint
ing class in the Brooklyn Art School, has
resigned from that position, and his place
has been filled by very competent man,
named Henry Reeves. Mr.. Chase has gone
to Madrid, Spain, to study Spanish art, and
he takes with him a class of young men
and women who want to learn thing or
two about art
If woman continues still to usurp
The place of man, l guess
thing
Will make her own hat and dress.
Detroit Tribune.