The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The finest compilations in the world are
said to be in the Bermudas. This is ac-
counted for by the fact that the inhabitants
lively chiefly on onions, of which they ex-
port over 100000 pounds annually.
Although the Car of Russia receives no
salary, he manages to keep the wolf from
the door His income arises from 100000
square miles of land, which he inher1ts with
the crown. He averages $4,000 day.
One of the students at the Chautauqua
cooking school is a middle-aged man. Il
am a widower," he explained when he en-
tered II must either get married or take
course in cooking, and 1 prefer the lat
ter"
The ruby In the center of the Maltese
cross on the top of the British crown is the
stone that was given to the Black Prince
by King Pedro of Castle, after the battle
of Najara. Henry V of England wore it in
his helmet at the battle of Agincourt.
Booker T. Washington, principal of the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala, and Miss Maria Baldwin,
in Cambridge, Mass, were recently elected
honorary members of the Brooklyn Insti-
tute of Arts and Sciences.
Mr.. F. Ashcraft, formerly editor OF the
Decatur QndD Journal, has accepted the
professoShip of history, civics and political
economy in Chattanooga Normal UNIVERSE
ty. Professor Ashcraft is a graduate of two
Indiana institutions-the Valparaiso Normal
School and Taylor University.
The royal crown of Great Britain is COM
posed almost entirely of diamonds, pearls
and rubies, weighs thirty-nine ounces
and five pennyweights troy and is valued at
&240OO0. When the kohnoor was flrst
brought to Europe it weighed 1S6 carats,
but by cutting has been reduced to 1922
New York printers have under consider
alton a plan to lease a tract of land near
the city on which the unemployed of their
craft may raise vegetables, fruit and other
farm products that are always in demand
in the markets. They believe that the ex-
pertinent under good management will be
sure to succeed.
The wheat king" of the world belongs
to Argentina. He is an Italian immigrant
named Guazone, and his broad acres are
situated in the south of the province of
of 66,270 acres. He numbers his Wor6men
by the thousand, and each one receives a
certain share of the profits. When his sea-
sons crop is harvested he fills over 5000
railway trucks with his grain.
Queen Victoria has paid $500 for the walk
ing stick Prince Charles forgot by his bed
side at Culloden Castle when he went out
to fight the battle. 1t has handle with
two heads carved on it representing Folly
and Wisdom. The bed on which the last
brought SO $50, and a lieutenant's commits
sion for a Macintosh, signed and sealed by
the prince, $475.
An amusing story is told of the late Miss
Jean Ingelow. Once" says the Philadel-
phia Record, when she was staying with
some friends in the country it transpired
that, although she often wrote delightfully."-
of nightngales, she had never heard one
sing. So one night the whole household
went out in the moonlight especially to hear
them, and after, by effort, holding their
tongues for hve minutes while the nightin-
gales sang divinely, they were startled by
Miss lngelow asking: Are they singing?
l don't hear anythingr With a London
er's dread of draughts, the poetess, before
going out in the night air, had filled her
ears with cotton wOol!'
Justice Brewer, of the United States Su-
preme Court, when in Kansas City recent
ly, told the following anecdote: Several
years ago a cigarmaker in Washington
named Scott, got up a brand of cigars
which he called the Supreme Court The
labels on the inside of the boxes were pic
lures of the entire court and the cigar was
a good one. l know this, because one day
each of the justices received two boxes of
them, with the compliments of Mr.. Scott.
Nothing was thought of this fact at the
time, and 1t was taken as a slight courtesy
in return for the use of our pictures But
several weeks later We learned that the
cigars had been sent to SOothe our anger
One of the clerks had gone to Scott and told
him that the members of the court We're
much provoked at him and intended prose-
cutting him for taking such liberties with
their pictures. Scott was frightened and
he hit upon the idea of bribing the justices
and L suppose thought he succeeded, for he
was never prosecuted, nor had any such
a thing been thought of"
"a rag and bone and a hank of hair
'Divinely tall, diVinely fair"
Genial Alfred, Rudyard churl?
Or is it entirely another girl?