The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Summer residents took dynamite to the
top of Mount Megunticook and blew a
twenty-ton bowlder from its place on o
Gin, that they might watch the spectacle
OF its descent of 500 feet to the plain.
Maine people do not like it.
A few years ago it was a ~favorite spec
ulation to insure the life of the Prince OF
Wales. On his death hundreds of people
who have nothing whatever to do with him
Will. on this account, receive
companies. 1t was d strange fad, but a
wise one withal.
The noted Greek, scholar. Prof. T. T. Tim
ayenias. who holds the chair of that Ian
guage at Harvard University, is big and
broad sbouldered, dark as to hair and
eyes, and wears a short stubby black
beard. He believes Greek will always. hoid
its own i'm the educational system, both for
culture and mental discipline.
The bread known as pain de guerre.'
which for some time past has replaced
the once-notorious biscuits of the French
army. has been successful enough TO war;
rant it's trial in the navy. The bread in
question is practically what is known as
whole-meal bread, but rendered rather
lighter and more palatab!e when stale by
finer grinding.
Men are so scarce or SO popular in Atch-
ison that a mother was Obliged to ask the
police to CORA. her son. who, after three
days absence. she concluded had been
kidnapped by the girls. They had kept
him up so late nights to take them TO par
ties and got him out SO early In the morn
ing TO go bicycling that he had found. ii
not worth while going home at all, she
said.
One of the most artistic houses in Lon
don is the Alma-Tadema home. 1T is like
an Aladdin lamp fairy tale realized. Each
room is a gem. and the d~rawingroom has
the noble Gothic arch above. The colorS
are all soft. and the light is subdued and
mellow. entering like the moonlight. The
ladies' wear artistic gowns. without a hint
like to wear and dare not.
w. D.. Howells tells how Longfellow had
a certain brand of cigars recommended to
him by a tobacconist as the kind Long
fellow "Ah. then j must have
some" said the poet, and he wrote
dow his name and address. The
tObaccOniSt read it with the
smile of a worsted champion. and said.
We'll, / guess you had me that time"
Longfel.ow also toldroMr. Howells of a
mourner at a funeral who led the way to
opening a. conversation by the felicitous
remark, "You'ye buried. l believe"
The ups and downs of operate life are IL
Illustrated by the fact that Sir Augustus
Harris lost $4,000 on his first season with
the De Reszkes, but won 1t all back the
second. while during a subsequent season.
on a turnover OF S-UO.CcO. the receipts just
balanced the expenses. The London Daily
News believes that the death Of Sir Au-
gustus only expedited matters, as he would
have probably retired after next season.
in consequence of Jean de ResZke's deter
mination to give up the stage and settle
down with his future bride on his Polish
estate.
While the return OF the Hebrew race to
their promised land IL regarded by most
people as a visionary scheme. ii is an in
teresting fact tina the number of Jews in
Jerusalem has increased within twenty
two years from l5.000 to between 1900 and
70,cOo. AN Englishwoman who has recently
returned from Jerusalem, where she has
lived for forty years. says that the old
suburbs of the city. long deserted and
ruined. are being built up at a surprising
rate. and that the influx of Jews is equally
rapid in all parts of Palestine. so that they
are beginning 10 outnumber both Moslems
and Christians.
She was May. but she called herself Mae,
The latter seemed less everydae.
Was she therefore admired,
Or were people made tired
By her manner of doing things? Sac!
Detroit Tribune.