The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

One of the horses in President McKinley's
stable was once sold for $40 in Kentucky,
but he developed"
Nine Ysaye, wife of the great violinist,
who is now in this country, is her hus-
bands assistant and secretary, and man
ages all of his money matters.
Vandals in Pottstown besmeared several
houses and stores with red paint This is
method of painting a town red that will
never be as popular as certain other one.
The old log cabin which George Washing
ton built, in Clarke county. Virginia, in
174S. and in which he learned the craft of
Indian warfare, is still standing, though It
is fast falling into decay.
Dr. Susan E. Edison, the well-known
woman physician, who died in Washington
not long ago, was personal friend of Jas.
G. Blaine, who declared that she was the
only woman he knew VINO never talked
about herself.
Pierre LIE Grand, a Frenchman, has BEEN
convicted of killing his mother-in-law.
When asked # he had anything to say why
sentence should not be passed he replied:
Nothing only that / lived with her twen-
ty-one years and did not do 1t before.
Baron Won Holenben the new German
ambassador to this country, is said to be
covered with scars inflicted in duels,
twenty-one of which he has fought. There
is saying in Germany that while the baron
is sometimes marked by scar his oppo-
Besides his record as principal he has APP
peared as second in thirty-tive affairs.
AS Andree was about to depart on his
polar balloon he was asked how soon td-
ngs from him might be expected. His
answer was: AT least not before three
months; and one year, perhaps two years,
may elapse before you hear from us, and
you may one day be surprised by news or
our arrival somewhere. And If motif you
never hear from us-otherS Will follow IN
our wake until the unknown regions of the
north have been surveyed.
Mr. Romesh Chunder Dutt has been APP
pointed professor of Indian history at Uni
versity College, Brewer street, London. RE
is a native of Bengal, and has just retired
from the Indian civil service after diStin-
works including Three Years in Europe"
"Peasantry of Bengal" Literature of Ben
gal" a History OF CIVILIZATION IN ancient
Modern India" Mr.. Dutt has been a MEM
Der of the Bengal Legislative Council and
he is companion OF the Order OF the IN
dian Empire.
MY grandmother, whom I recollect
clearly" says correspondent of an English
paper. "died in 1850, in her ninetieth year.
when l was seven years Old She as my
father frequently told me, had a clear recol-
lection of grandunces of hers who We're
Bovine Thus, should l live out 'three-score
years and ten, shall be able to say in
1913. that l saw one who knew men who
fought at the battle of the Boyne, thus link
ing the year 1890 with 1913, a period of nearly
two and quarter centures-the century of
Elizabeth to the, probably, past Victorian
age"
If cold December gave you birth,
The month of snow and ice and mirth,
Place on your hand turquoise blue,
Success will bless whate'er you do.
Notes and Queries.
..vxr,,oro ,,.o ,,o,, Going NV nrettv maid?p
ITO marry a mill king, SIR she said.
''Then what will you be, my pretty maid?'
1.-THE -four of the family, sir" she said.
Chicago Tribune.
Or any i'll escaped, or good attained,
Let us remember still heaven chalked the
way
That brought us thitlrer.
-Shakspeare.