The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Mr.. e ]. Holmes, who was recently mar
ried to Miss Beaman in Windsor VT, is
the only grandson of the late oliver Wen
dell Holmes.
The Empress of Austria has erected a
marble statue of Heine in the grounds of
her villa at Corfu. The statue has been
placed on rock 1000 feet above the level
of the sea, and it is to be surrounded by
$1,000 rose trees.
Helen Kellar, the remarkable deaf, dumb
and blind girl, who recently took examina-
lions for Radcliffe College, read the ques-
tons in French by feeling the movements
of the examiners lips, but in the German
examinations letters were formed on her
hand by the sign language.
Oscar Wilde is living in Paris under the
name of Sebastian Meinette. While in
prison he wrote a synopsis of play for
Richard Mansfield. Now he is celebrating
that synopsis. The play is not yet named
and it is the intention Of Mansfield to keep
the authors relation secret.
1.-The man who can see nothing authori-
tative in the Ten Commandments, says the
Outlook, nothing sublime in the 1O3d
Psalm, nothing inSpirational in the both
chapter of Isaiah, lacks moral life. He
needs to use Christ'S figure, to be born
again. or, as Paul said, to become new
creature
Professor Petries explorations i'll Egypt
during the past winter have been both sue
cessful and wonderful and throw light upon
a people which lived centuries before Abra-
ham. The papyri comprise about four thou
sand documents. The discoVerer thinks
that it will take ten or twenty years to
decipher all the papyrl, though some are
easily read.
Verdi, the composer. finds his greatest
happiness in rural life and occupations.
Upon his recent birthday-his eighty-third
he was to be seen at the weekly market
at Piacenza at 8 in the morning with some
sheep he wanted to sell. He bought cow
and some Vegeta bleS, and spent his day
among the farmers and small tradesmen,
and in the evening invited them all to sup
per with him in the local tavern.
Sir Henry Irving, after the special per-
formances at the Lyceum Theater London,
for the colonial premiers Indian chiefs and
officers and officers of the colonial forces
who attended the jubilee celebrations, en-
tertaned his guests on the stage and inVit-
ed to meet them the chief representatives Of
the drama, literature and art in London.
All the more prominent actors and actresses
on the metropolitan stage helped to enter
tain the guests.
Among the law students in the summer
school at Ann Arbor is Edward Marsden,
a full-blooded Eskimo from Alaska. He
has the typical features and build, but is
good looking. Mr.. Marsden was early con-
verted to Christianity and graduated in the
Sitka industrial school. He served as a
steamboat hand on the North Pacific three
years. Mr.. Marsden expects to return to
his country and use his knowledge of law
to help improve the political and economic
conditions of his race.
Ex-Governor Altgeld tells this story on
himself: When he was running for Govern
or last fall one of his supporters asked a
Swede to support him. The Swede shook his
head and said: No; that man is a bad
man. He IS an Anarchist, Socialist and ev-
erything that is bad. l will not vote for
him" oh, he is not bad as that said
Altgeld's friend He is pretty good man.
There are no flies on him. THAT is a we're
the flies show they have got some sense, "
Immediately replied the Swede.
John A. Spooner an old sailor. has made
a viii bequeathing his estate Of 100 to his
dog Rover. A title trust company is named
as trustee. Il mean that when am gone"
explained Spooner TO his lawyer my dog
shall not be kicked and cuffed about the
world as / have been The will was final
ly drawn so that the income of the proper
~ is TO be used to support the dog and the
principal at the latter's death TO go to
sister in England. The dog has been a faith
ful companion to his master for three years