The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss Cisneros's visit to Chicago has so de-
pleted the exchequer of the women's aux
Hilary Of the Cuban committee that it is
now $500 in debt.
When the late Alexander Dumas was
asked if he ever gave anything to the poor
he replied "Oh, yes. when 1 come across
a bad piece of money / always give 1t to
a blind man."
President Stryker. of Hamilton College,
in a recent address, threw out a hint that
is worthy of consideration by those who are
prone to excessive pride in circumstances
of birth. I'VE ought" he said, Ito think
more Of what our ancestors would think of
us than of what we think of them'
A French physician has proved to a GER
tainty that the contagious period in whoop-
ing cough comes previous to the appearance
of the "whoop'' Now the questions arise,
how are children to be guarded against the
contagion, and Of what use is it to quaran-
tine them against going to school after the
'whoop" has made 1t evident that they
have the disease. Physicians are now study
ing these new problems.
An experienced man who has just re-
turned from Alaska tells the Fargo Argus
how to cure the Klondike fever: Pick out
morning next winter he says, when
the mercury is below zero, shoulder a pick
and go into the woods before breakfast; dig
a hole sixteen feet deep; come back to the
house at night and eat q small piece OF
stewed buffalo robe and sleep in the wood
shed. Repeat the dose as often as neces-
sary."
"A conceited' fellow, with some pretensions
to literature, once travelled some distance
by rail with Victor Hugo and entertained
verse. The author of Les MiSerableG,"
having arrived at his destination, was about
to leave the train, when the interlocutor
said: You may perhaps, like to know who
7 ar Victor Hugo How odd
remarked the real Hugo; so am /.
There will be total eclipse of the sun,
visible in India, on Jan. q, 1898. Three Elk
petitions will go out from England to OBJ
serve it. One, under Sir Norman Lockyer,
will go to Columbo, in Ceylon. and will oc
cupy itself chiefly with spectrOscopic and
Photographic work. The second, headed by
the astronomer royal, Mr.. Christie, VIII pc
stationed at Jour, one hundred miles south
of Poona, while the third under DIR. Cope
land, will watch the eclipse at Wardha-
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who has just at
tanned the age of sixty has spent more
than half his life in the House of Commons,
and has twice been Irish secretary. A. NJ.
Sullivan used to say of him in old times
that he was the frankest Irish secretary he
had ever dealt with. IN do sO-and-so IL
you can help me; If not can do nothing"
was a sample of Sir MichaelS way. AS a
parliamentary leader his bad eyesight has
always stood in his way, as he has frequent
ly cut sensitive followers when meeting
them in the street.
The son of Calvin s. Brice made no pre-
tense of being a citizen of Ohio while run
ming on the Tammany ticket in New York
for a seat in the City Council. In this re-
spect he is an Improvement on his father
who lived in New York and held Office from
Ohio The young man also starts on a high
moral plane, Notwithstanding his Tammany
alliance. Being charged with having used
swear words in a speech, he wrote to the
newspapers saying it was false, that when
he went into politics he made up his mind
never to be guilty "of using language on
the stump or elsewhere which / could not
repeat to my mother
Next to the Bible, the last book that
might be expected to go out of print in
Scotland is the Westminster Confession of
Faith This has actually happened. how
ever, as the report of the Glasgow and Ayr
Established Church Synod shows. A mem
Der introduced a motion, in the form OF a
petition TO the General Assembly, begging
it to remove the reproach of the nation. or.
IN the words of the prayer Ito adopt such
measures as in its wisdom 1t may see At to
attain the end in view. /. e.. a reprint OF
the Confession. Much amusement was