The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. L. S. Grant was awarded the prize
of $75 offered by the New York World for
the best and briefest argument In favor of
McKinley's election. Mrs. Grants state
ment was as follows: II say that McKin-
al honor and for the general welfare of
the country"
In a Berlin insane asylum is a patient,
1t is said, whose hair changes color with
her temperature. When she is cool and
quiet her hair is a light yellow, but when
she is restless and excited it becomes au-
burn. In other words, this is a sort of hu-
man development of those little blue and
pink litmus paper figures which are sold
to act as barometers.
The Rev. Miles Grant, of Boston. thinks
he has solved the problem of living. He
is a strict vegetarian, and never uses meat,
pies. cakes, tea, coffee, sugar, salt or
graham bread, vegetables, cheese and milk,
and he says that he lives well ut a cost
of 81 cents a week, the result being that
he is healthy and strong.
Helen Kellar, the deaf, dumb and blind
girl, has added to other achievements that
of riding a bicycle through the streets of
Cambridge. 1t is. to be sure, a tandem"
and her companion does the steering. but,
as showing the possibility of a new pleas
ure for the blind, this latest triL.nph of the
famous mute is regarded as an important
as well as an interesting one
One of the richest men in Mexico is Max
imilian Damn, a German by birth. He
lives in an old monastery in Durango, and
enjoys an income of nearly 500, 600 a year
from his silver mine, Ell Promontario. He
began life in Mexico as a clerk. Finally
he went into business for himself, and
while he was visiting IN Germany his man.
ager took what was supposed to be a
worthless mine for a bad debt. 1t is this
mine from which he is now deriving his
great income.
j. A. Certel, known as the artist priest"
who is more than seventy years of age, is
living in Belair. His best known painting,
Rock of Ages. was painted for Augustus
Storrs. Of Brooklyn. He lived in New
York for a number of years, and painted
a a. series of cartoons for the Church Of
the Gate" suggested by Bryant's poem. At
present he is the assistant minister OF the
Episcopal church at Belair, and is at work
on a series of Scriptural pictures.
Nothing pleased William Morris SO much
rolling through one Of the riverside streets
of old London. he was overhauled by a sea-
faring man. "Avast there" cried the
stranger. Don't L know you? Weren't
you once the mate of the brig Sea Swal-
low?' To be mistaken for the mate of a
ship bearing SO poetic a name as the Sea
Swallow was simply glorious. Yes, I'm
he said Morris, and he locked arms with
III tIdDetI, pilOleu iii lHlO an dlenOuSe
and filled him full of liquors and substan-
tiaiS.
While visiting the capital at Albany re-
Gently, the editor of the ~Poughkeepsie
Eagle noticed that in the Governors room
a fine big picture of Roswell P. Flower oc-
cupisd a prominent place between the por-
traits Of Washington and one of the Gin
tons, while Grover Cleveland was not rep
resented at all. On questioning an attend
ant. the editor was told that any ex-Gov-
ernor who wanted this honor could get il
by the simple expedtent of paying for a
portrait and presenting it TO the State. This
Mr.. Flower had done, while Mr.. Cleveland
had not.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger revives the rumor that
ex-Minister John w. Foster may become
Ii Hung Changes chief adviser. 1.-The old
'Tsung Ii Yamen,'" he says, 1.-The Council
which, 1t is said, would adjourn If a bird
happened to fly in a particularly unlucky
direction over their ancestors graves, is to
be dissolved, and a foreign department or
ganized as far as possible on the plan of
our own State Department Is to be substi-
tuted In it's place. Mr.. Foster is to under
take this work, just as General George
Williams. formerly Deputy Commissioners
OF Internal Revenue, also from Indiana. un-
dertook and successfully accomplished the
task of reorganizing the customs service
of Japan"