The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Prof. George Frederick Holmes. of the
University of Virginia, who died recently
had held his position since 1851, but had
never been late to lecture
Paderewski has postponed all of his con-
cert engag ements to complete his Polish
opera, which has been accepted for produc-
ton at one of the continental theaters.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale said in a
lecture in Boston that he found that nine
out of ten in a class of girls in one of the
city's public schools had never heard OF
Noah'S ark.
Russian papers complain that the Siberian
Railway, instead of civilizing the regions
through which it passes, is teaching the
natives the art of robbing trains, which is
greatly in vogue.
The following curious advertisement APP
peared the other day in a London paper:
Sympathy offered to those who are in
trouble and have no one to whom they can
tell their sorrow. Interviews by appoint
ment."
Miss Anna Vernon Dorsey, the Maryland
girl who popularized plantation songs in
New York, has just returned from London
and says that the English idea of the plan
tation negro is summed up by an old lady
who asked II the negroes spoke English
model young man in Chicago who
neither drank nor smoked and who at
tended Sunday school with great regularity
recently disappeared with $3.50 of his en-
ployers money. 1t is Impossible to COM
bire all of the virtues in one personality.
The st. James Gazette says that the blood
of Oliver Cromwell still runs, through fe-
male lines, in the veins of the following
well-known persons: The Marquis of RipOn
the Earls of Chichester, Morley, Clarendon
and Cowper Lord Ampthill Lord WalSng-
ham and the Countess of Rothes Among
commooers who can claim knship with
Cromwell is Sir John Lubbock, M. Z.
Earn oy~Fea
health and vigor to the excellent advice
given to him by his favorite Doctor and he
has learned by heart the latter's rule of
life" which isy as follows: Eat fruit for
breakfastNl EatI fruit, for lunch. Avoid
pastry and hot cakes Only take potatoes
four miles every day, wet or fine. Take a
bath every day. Wash the face every night
in warm water. Sleep eight hours every
night. t
The Munshi Abdul Kareem, who now oc-
cupies his own snug abode in the grounds
Of Balmoral, has received extraordinarily
rapid promotion since he came to Windsor
in the capacity of personal attendant" to
the Queen in 1887. He was then only TWEEN
ty-three, and as a clerk at Agra earned
ing lessons in Hindoostanee to the Queen
who now not only speaks that language
huently, but can write it with more than
average correctness in the Persian char
acter.
Emile lola, since the publication in a
German paper of statement that he in
tended to run for the Chamber of Deputies,
has had his hands fun denying it. He
answers all inquiries to the effect that he
has not the least intention of doing so. For
some years he has been much interested in
politics, ands would have. yielded to the
temptation to participate in them if he had
sufficient confidence in himself as an orator.
He has tried his oratotfcal talent several
times at banquets and similar occasions,
but has never been able to speak without
his manuscript, and even now it costs him
the greatest effort to read a page in a clear
and Ineligible way.
The chilling winds sweep through the sky;
The winter season comes
And soon Well see, thelplumber HE
Him forth to gather plumbs.
Chicago News.