The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Victor Ballot, who was a sergeant at
Waterloo. is still living in the little village
of Carisay in France at the age of 104. He
is in good health. except that he is deaf
from the cannonading at this battle.
1--WE want" says the Wichita Eagle, ito
be perfectly fair. Sunday, Mrs. Lease, in
the Eagle, attacked Queen Victoria and
we wish to say that the columns of this pa
per are open to the Queen for reply
The statement has been frequently made
that Miss Kingsley, who has been lecturing
in this country, is a daughter of Charles
Kingsley. In point of fact, she is the daugh-
ter of George Kingsley, a brother of
Charles.
The vandal who painted John Harvard's
statue at Cambridge On the night of the
Decentralization baseball game on May
49, has been found by the student investi-
eating committee and compelled to leave
college, The college feeling was strong
against this outrageous piece of business.
An electric contribution box is the latest
Connecticut invention. The minister touches
a button, and small silver cars, lined with
velvet, visit each pew simultaneously
running on. q slender rail back of each pew
Each car returns to a lockbox at the pew
entrance, and the deacOnS collect the re-
ceiptS after the service.
There is crusty old bachelor of con-
siderable wealth, in Kentucky. What will
you do with your money when you die 90
some one asked him, recently. WELL" he
replied, Il m going to sell everything for
cash, and get all my money, in paper. When
L find that death is near, I'll pile this paper
money on the floor, stick a match to it
and lie down on It. Then the money and
the house and Will go together
Queen Victoria has some proficiency as a
vocalist. From the programme of the royal
private concerts, left by Sir Michael Costa,
it is discovered that on one evening she
sang no fewer than five times, and on oc-
caSion sang in duets and trioS, not only
with the Prince Consort but with such art
lists as Rubini and Lablache. Mendelssohn
himself has borne enthusiastic testimony
to the Queens excellence as a vocalist
The Buffalo Commercial tells story of
a little girl who was greatly disturbed by
the discovery that her brothers had set
traps to catch birds. Questioned as to what
prayed that the traps mil ut not catch the
birds" Anything else?" Yes she said:
Il then prayed that God would prevent the
birds getting into the traps, and then /
went and kicked the traps all to pieces"
In a recent interview Prince Bismarck
laughed about the sentimental reports of
his loss of interest in life. My depression, :"
he said. lis solely my great age. Wait till
you are eighty-two and see how you feel
especially if you have spent nearly half a
century in struggles and anxiety. My whole
life has been spent In playing high with
other peoples money. / could sail my ship
on the stream of events, but not steer it 2
In some of the high-lying villages of the
Riesengebirge in Silesia some German re-
formers have lately been trying the ex-
pertinent of posting up the drunkards
This, though only possible in limited
population serves as a preventive, for
il brings the inebriate into startling promi-
hence and encourages the sober TO be con-
tent with Virtuous obscurity On the out
side of the public house and no great dis
tance from its bush a tablet is suspended
which bears the names of all the drunkards
in the village. recent traveller in that
region relates that the first tablet OF that
kind he saw ran in his wise: 'Inebriates
Exclusion Law-Access forbidden by the
police to the following habituai drunkards.
Ruppig. tailor; Schuffel bootmaker: Widow