The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A Flemish artist has made a painting
on the smooth side of a grain of common
white corn. 1t pictures a mill and a mil
Ter mounting a stair with a sack of grain
on his back.
A scheme to control the fishing interests
of the great lakes is on foot in Chicago
and is said to be controlled by English
capital. Three secret meetings of those in
~terested have already been held.
Baron Krupp's visiting cards are made
of iron. Several other well-known iron
manufacturers have had the metal rolled
in sheets so thin that it has been sue
cessfully employed for this social use.
Mrs. Logan was given the right by the
Illinois Legislature to select the site for
the monument to General Logan which the
State is to build. and she has designated as
such site the lake 'front.', opposite Eidrldge
court, Chicago.
Burdett Coutts, Sir Ashmead Bartlett's
brother, whose marriage brought him so
much i'll will in London, will be the first
person born as an American citizen to
enter the House of Lords. There nave been
several Americans naturalized as English
men who have received baronetcies and
knighthoods, but no one yet has had a
peerage conferred upon him
The opposition to Sunday street cars in
Toronto has inspired a. local bard as fol-
lows:
Toronto the good would become Toronto
the bad
If the liberty of running Sunday cars could
be had;
The saloons would be open and the theaters
would follow,
And our Sabbath would be likened to one
in Chicago"
John Bright once said of Gladstone: He
is an honest man; he believes what he
says. The worst of it is that he too readily
believes what he wishes to believe To a
question whether that was not something
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MIR. Gladstone sees an object which he
thinks of vital Importance, and he turns
in all directions for arguments in support
of it. He finds them, and he becomes I'M
conscious OF anything outside of them.
That is not self-deceit.'
The Queen of SeSvia, the beautiful and
much-wronged Nathalie, is an exceedingly
handsome woman, whose strange habit of
wearing her long raven-black hair loose
down her back has got her more than once
into difficulties. At Heidelberg, the story
runs, her prediction for solitary walks in
the evening kept the police in an agony,
for the irreVerent and rather drunken stu
dents misunderstood her royal abandon, She
is clever, strong willed and ambitious, and,
had King Milan been any sort of a man at
all, would have helped him to play a great
part in the history of the near East.
Concerning Rev. DIR. Frank .Gunsaulus
Gust called from Plymouth Church, Chi
cago, to the Broadway Tabernacle, New
" lhJS al pal SlllOliCI dlId itlllIIldIS lIIGllu
tells the Chicago News: Money is some
thing he cares absolutely nothing about.
For years he has fatty refused to accept
the salary allowed him by the trustees of
Plymouth Church. He has sent back a
check for two-thirdS of the total amount
each year, keeping emily enough to live on.
1 personally know of half a dozen offers he
has received in as many years that 1T would
nave been impossible for many men to re-
sist. One was a guaranty of a salary ten
time that he is now receiving, yet it was
quickly refused"
Mrs. Samuel Scoville, oldest living child
of the late Henry Ward Beecher, gave the
following Indianapolis recollections to the
Brooklyn Eagle: MY memory is best con-
corning the house which my father built
just before we left there. and which we
were destined to occupy but a few weeks
or months at the most. He painted his
house with his w hands, helped, l be-
lieve, by his brothers, Thomas and James.
1t was a short walk from the church, and
when it was building we used to go up
there and stay all day long, shutting up
our little cottage while our home was pend
ing it's completion. My recollection of the
church is of a big square building, but 1t
was doubtless greatly magnifed to my
childish eyes, especially when there were
not many big buildings there, l imagine"
When Greek meets Greek, they whisper
now
Behind their mountain trellis.
With bated breath and knotted brow,
"Well, doesn't this beat Hellas?"
Chicago Record.
The hand that rocks the cradle" said the
poet, rules the world"
And once, perhaps, the statement had its
worth;
But to-day we give the medal to the foot
that works the pedal
The wheelwoman now rules Ger all the
earth.
Philadelphia American.
I do not want the earth, my lad;
NV wishes tend some other way;
For if the whole wide earth / had,
Just think what taxes ! must pay!
Oh. no! do not want the earth,
For if twas mine I'd have to pawn It;
But I would spend my days in mirth
If / just held a mortgage on it.
lester.