The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Robert Barrett Browning is establishing
a school at Asola. Italy, for the benefit of
girls employed in the silk mills there, thus
linking still closer to that spot the memory
of the poetA
Dr. John Watson Gan Maclaren) says of
the late Professor Drummond, of whom he
was a classmate at the University of Edin-
burgh: He was the most perfect Christian
l have known or Expedite see this side of
the grave" 5u aTa
This is the Buffalo Enquirer's recipe for
transmitting metals into gold: Take %
cold-drawn seamless tubing, (2) tool-steel
bearings, go hollow rolls of rubber (D
piano wire, 90 second-groWth hickory;
Make the ingredients into a $22 bicycle and
sell it for 500.
Ceorg Ebers, the celebrated novelist and
Psychologist, on the recent occasion of his
sixtieth birthday received a specially
printed volume containing seventeen essays
by distinguished men, his former pupils, six
of whom are professors of Egyptology IN
German universities.
James Gordon Bennett had never seen his
sumptuous New York Herald building till
his recent visit to the city. His private
rooms in the office are kept constantly
ready for use, the inkstand filed, the pens
to hand the desk busted, the bathroom in
order, in case he should put in a sudden
appearance
The other day the Atchison Globe printed
this aragraph: What has become of the
old-fashioned tumble cbug?" Yesterday
morning the editor received a box by mail,
looking as though 1t might contain wedding
cake On top of it was written: Here we
are" On opening the box it was found to
be full of old-fashioned tumble bugs
Professor Lucy Salmon, of Vassar Col
lege, seems to be a reformer of the radical
type. She describes the American college
commencement as "a relic of mediaeval-
ISM" and she is for doing away with the
high school commencement altogether. In
some Cities" she writes, the evil descends
even to the grammar schools, that revel in
the grandeur of graduating exercises.
In the Cambridge home of Mrs. Ole Bull,
Frances E. Willard, founder of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union, is
recovering from what has been a serious
illness, which two months ago, caused her
to give up all engagements and seek quiet
and rest. She is out or all danger now,
the physicians say, and Will soon resume
her duties in connection with the temper
ance movement.
The King of Siam gave the Venetians a
number of surprises. He went to the great
manufactury of the exquisite lace for which
Venice is once more becoming famous; he
went through the splendid showrooms of
the chief Venetian glass and mosaic max
ers. and hunted through the antiquity
shops; and then, after seeing all that
ancient and modern industrial art can pro-
duce he bought $500 worth OF flannel shirts.
He went to the Academia, to the various
galleries of modern pictures, ana to the
art exhibition lately opened by the Prince
aud Princess of Naples, and then he bought
some photographs.
Ten years ago." says the Philadelphia
Record, John Boyle was Western Union
Telegraph boy. To-day he will sail for Eu-
rope, the winner OF the Academy of the
Fine Arts travelling scholarship, with $500
prize money. He was born on May 80, 1874
and came to Philadelphia when he was
twelve years old locating in Germantown.
He sought employment in the mills, and
subsequently became messenger boy con-
nected with the Chelten-avenue office of the
Western Union Company. Later he at
tended the Daniel l.. Keyser School and
took q night course at the Spring Garden
Institute, being graduated with the highest
honors.
1 saw a dainty maiden with a shirt waist
on,
All in the merry month of May.
Ride forth into the park at the peep OF
rosy dawn,
And, like a lssome fairy, sail along the
narrow way
Yes, a dainty little maiden with the shirt
waist on
All! dainty little maiden with a shirt
waist on.
All in the merry month of May,
she had gone;
And now she's being doctored for pneu-
mo-ni-ay-
Unhappy little maiden with the shirt waist
on
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