The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


President Kruger of late has been get
ting very deaf The malady is, in the opin-
ion of his medical advisers, due to excessive
smoking.
Sarony has a most remarkable memory
for faces. He will remember sitter a
number of years after the photograph is
taken. and can even tell what kind of
picture he turned out
King Otto of Bavaria is incurably mad,
being afflicted with that form of insanity
called ''mathesis," and which, like that
cribed in biblical history to Nebuchadnez-
Ear, takes the form of the victim imagining
himself to be either bird or an animal
Lady Marcus Beresford is English
woman who has devoted herself to the pur-
suit of providing horne for cats. She has
succeeded in establishing and endowing one
has made cats her speciality, and her col
lection of Angoras is famous.
An agriculturist of Westphalia made a
bet that twelve bees released at distance
of three miles from the hives at the same
time as twelve pigeons would travel over
the ground as quickly as the birds. The
first bee entered the hive a quarter of a
minute before the first pigeon reached its
columbary. Three other bees arrived be-
fore the second pigeon. and the remainder
of the competitors reached nome stimuli
taneously.
England's Queen has never known the
fascination of going into store and max
Ing 0cT OWN pun Cl4doSS, tiiS I<LipteSS
Elizabeth of Austria delights in doing her
own shopping when she is visiting or trav-
cling in a foreign country where she is not
likeiy to be recognized. st. Petersburg was
utterly amazed not long ago when the Gar
accompanied his young wife into a shop
and bought some gloves.
The last lines addressed by the Prince of
Montenegro to his daughter on her be-
trothal have attracted much attention.
They were: "All is not gold that glitters;
l.a MINI nj of m danphtar nd
know that happiness has never chosen for
her seat a throne. Under the kingly crown
is the crown of thorns, and not even in
fable can We find a happy king. Seek hap
piness in the graceful corner of thy home
in work within thy human power and
obedient to divine command. Thy father,
Nicholas"
In an article on why the Confederacy
Failed" contributed to the November
Century by the son of a Confederate Off
GER the first cause is laid to the excessive
issue of paper money. He says: THE gov
eminent acted upon the theory that all it
had to do to raise money was TO print it.
They did not seem 70 realize that, being
the largest purchaser in the market, it was
necessary for the government TO keep down
prices as much as possible; that every
issue of bills must inevitably raise prices
and render a new issue necessary; that
every rise in prices must be followed by
new issue, until the bubble must collapse
of it's own expansion and redundancy"
Mrs. NJ J. Evans. woman who belongs
to the sect known as Christian Scientists.
appeared before the Topeka School Board
recently and demanded exemption for her
children from the necessity of studying
physiology in the public schools. She de-
clared in an address which she made in
support of her demand that the study of
physiology was contrary to the belief of
ner sect not SO much from the religious
aspect from the laws of health which
they believed in. Why" shs said, the
very first sentence in the Textbook is in
contradiction 20 our belief. 1t says: The
human body Is the frame in which the soul
dweils while 1t is on earth. Our belief is