The Indianapolis journal., 1897-11-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

William h. GOWell, assistant secretary VI
the treasury was a messenger boy in the
department fifteen years ago
Lafcado Hearn, who has lived many
years in Japan, says that the grotesque
pictures made by Japanese artists now seem
to him TO be true.
A Topeka man recently addressed
postal card to w. ]. Bryan which read as
follows: Dear Sir: Don't you think the
report of Mark Hanna's death were greatly
exaggerated? ~ 4a
Mrs William Thaw, jr., has built in
Pittsburg Pa, and presented to the Civic
Club. bathhouse where the poor of the
city can obtain baths by the payment of
cents each. 1t is to be opened Thanksglv-
ing day.
Charles H. Hackley, who has made gifts
to his home city, Muskegon, Mich, amount
ing to about $500 900, came to that city when
he was fifteen years old with 81 in his
pocket. When he started in business for
himself he had a capital of only $780,
Mrs Mckinley, in spite of her position
as first lady in the land, retains all the
simple habits of her Canton life, and when
entertaining caller informally in the his
toric White House drawing room plies her
crochet needle or stitches at some piece OF
needlework
Hamelin on the Weser is to have a mon
ument to its Pied Piper whom Browning's
poem has made famous, The monument is
"
erectS it to commemorate early German
colonial enterprise, as according to the
form of the legend the children whom the
Ratcatcher led into the Koppelberg turned
up in Pennsylvania and established the
Saxon settlement there.
John Ruskin, who is opposed to railroads
because they disfigure rural scenery and
| for other reasons, objects also to all forms
of cycling. His language is quite radical:
ITO walk, to run, to leap and to dance are
virtues of the human body, and neither 20
stride on stilts, wriggle on wheels nor dan
gle on ropes, and nothing in the training of
the human mind with the body will ever
supersede the appointed Gods way of slow
walking and hard working.
Won Moltke, whose letters of the Franco
German campaign have just been published,
was originally an officer in the Danish
army. At the age of nine years he was en-
tered as a royal cadet-i e., he was to be
educated at the expense of the King, Fred
eric VI, in the Copenhagen Military Acad-
emy, and, having taken his examinations,
he wore the Danish uniform until he as
sublieutenant at the age of twenty-seven,
pettioned the King for three years leave
to proceed to the continent to study the
military art, as he says in his petition, Ito
be able on his return to employ his ac-
quirements for the good of his country.
This petition was granted. but the count
and as the King refused this, he took his
discharge and entered the PrusSlan army,
a recruit whom that organization mas every
reason to hold in enduring memory.
The Book Buyer reports that Mr.. Walter
A. Wyckoff, whose articles relating to his
experiences in earning his living as Ia
borer are appearing in Scribner's Magazine,
has received hundreds of begging letters.
Ore woman wrote him from the West, pa
thetically urging him to buy her farm at
$500 an acre in order to help her out of her
distress and ''enable her to educate her
children" Another letter comes from a
Norwegian woman who is 'aristocratic.
but not nobel" since TITLES are not in our
country" Nevertheless. she is married to
a man who belongs TO one of the Oldest
nobel families in Germany" Therein lies
the difficulty. His people disowned him be-
cause of his marriage and ne is now Ill.
His wife'S simple request is that Mr.. Wye
koff will send them--"German nobel, ariS-
tocratic wife and two children-over to Ger
many in order that they may secure their
rights.
There's no thought of weather
In q football crowd:
They're all cranks together
In q football crowd;
The young, the old, the lame, the malt,
All gather under heavens vault
And hoot, and yell, and shout, and scream,
For the players of the favored team.
There's nothing like the waste of steam
In a football crowd.
Philadelphia North American.