The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin
Mary, is asserted by French tradition to
have been a knitter of gloves: she is, there
fore, the chosen patroness of glovers in
France, and her fete day is celebrated by
the craft with especial ceremony
In order to test the loyalty of ants to each
other Sir John Lubbock once made fifty of
them drunk and incapable, and then drew
the attention of twenty-five sober ones to
their condition. The twenty-five buckled to
it, and carried the fifty home to bed.
Col John S. Mosby has just refused to
receive as a present from of his old
guerillas a limb from the walnut from
which General Custer hanged ten of the
Confederate scouts during the war. He said
that he would not touch the wood with a
pitchfork.
Eighteen of his poor relations recently
dropped in on Georgia man and said that
their visit would last all winter, whereupon
he went out and got drunk. The Judge,
before whom he was hailed, let him go on
the ground that 1T was enough TO drive a
man to drink.
A friend says that Cecil Rhodes has never
been known to be late for an appointment.
AS boy he always lived 'by time"-being
in the habit of continually consulting a
watch, which was his most cherished pos
session. Mr.. Rhodes keeps a diary-or used
to keep one-Written in an intricate cipher
known only by himself.
Governor Desha, of Kentucky more than
half century ago had wild son who was
convicted of murder in that State The
Governor promptly pardoned his son, and
he disappeared. That son is now the most
eloquent preacher in the Hawaiian islands
tie knows the language perfectly, ana MS
greatest sermons are preached in it.
The Emperor William of Germany has dis
patched two water-color drawings done by
himself to st. Petersburg for presentation
to the officers of the cruiser Rossiya, which
he inspected during his recent visit to Rus
STA. The pictures will be formally handed
over to the officers of the ship by the Ger
man naval attache at st. Petersburg.
There seems to be a scarcity of perfect
models of the feminine form. NJ. Merce,
who is at work monument to be erected
in honor of Gounod, says that it is next to
impossible to find women whose physical
personalities and facial expression fit them
to serve as models of Sappho, Marguerite
and Juliette, by, whose ethgies the eompo-
SerS bust is to be surrounded.
BY the will of Anna Eliza Colburn, late of
Brookline, Mass, these public requests were
made: Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, SIS, 900; Home
for Aged Men and Home for Aged Couples
both in Boston, $4,000 each; Massachusetts
Charitable Eye and Ear 1nfirmary and Per-
kins Institution and Massachusetts School
for the Blind in South Boston, $1,000 each.
Prof. H. c. Crosby, for twenty years the
principal of the State Normal School at
Plymouth S. c., who recently died in Ra-
leigh, bequeathed his entire property
amounting TO $500, TO found the Henry
Clay scholarship for poor young men at
Shaw University, of which he was an early
graduate. This is thought to be the largest
gift ever made by a cOlored man to an cdu-
cational institution.
In a list of questions prepared some time
ago by Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, and
mailed to all the employees of the Treasury
Department, was this: please explain fully
how you came into the civil service" One
of the watchmen, an old German, who save
his residence in one of the southern counties
of Indiana wrote the following reply. but
with strictly phonetic spelling: Il walked
eight miles to -, the county seat of -
county, and then rode by the cars on the
RaItimOra e OhiO -