The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Sam Jones, the eccentric Georgia evan
gelist. is to get $1,000 and his expenses for
his months revival work in Boston, &C
cording to the Transcript.
Senator Hoar is one of the best read men
in the Senate. Not only this, but his
prodigious memory allows him to quote at
an instant's notice the verse or passage of
prose. which he regards as fitting the oc-
casiOn.
The Queen of Portugal perseveres in her
medical vocation. She goes regularly to
the dispensary for children that she found
ed. On arriving she dOnS a nurses uniform
and proceeds to work The managers are
the Daughters of st. Catharine of Siena.
John Nicholas Brown has given to the
Providence Public Library Association for
the erection of a library building in that
city the sum of 100000. The announce
ment of this gift was cabled by Mr.. Brown
from Europe to his representative in Rhode
Island.
Magdalen College, Oxford. has refused to
accept tablet to Gibbon. the historian,
who was a student there. Gibbon had a
very low opinion of his college, and left on
record 40 years ago that life there stag
mated in a round of college business, Tory
politics. personal stories, and private scan
dal."
M. CASTOR Paris, Of the Academic Fran
caise, has struck deadly blow against
Germany, i'm declaring that many of Wag
is an Italian legend of the fourteenth CEN
fury, 'Lohengrin" is French. while ''Parsi-
far and Tristan, as Is well known, are
Celtic tales from the King Arthur cycle.
The Rev. DR.. ]. Z. Rankin cites in The
Independent some amusing fragments from
Longfellow's journal. LAS I was standing
at my front door this morning" says the
poet . a lady in black came up and asked:
is this the house where Longfelow was
R Refa die hep D Not SaS yef Are yoG Long,
fellow 1 am L thought you died two
years ago.
French detectives as we'll as English
watch over the safety of Queen Victoria
while she is on the continent. The Empress
Eugene who has recently been in Paris.
is Swallowed by a faithful Corsican, who
dates from her own dynasty and who is
assigned TO this duty by President Faure.
But the Empress OF Austria has more
numerous bOdyguard than any other Eu-
ropean Queen.
Mr. Charles Willard, who recently died
in Battle Greek, Mich bequeathed $4,000
for a building for the local Young Mems
Christian Association, $40 900 for a public
school library building, $50 600 to endow a
chair of Latin and literature in the Baptist
College at KALAMAZOO, with $4,000 addi-
tional to the college as a fund for the edu-
cation of poor students, and $4,000 TO the
Baptist State Association for home mission
work.
They tell this story of Lord Rosebery,
who is a very bad shot: Not long ago he
| was on the Scotch moors and, having I'M
| successfully fired at a covey OF birds that
rose not more than twenty yards ahead. he
| exclaimed 1T is strange that none of
| them fell, I'm positive that some of them
| must have been struck Il dinna doot,
returned the keeper, with the usual free
| dom of his class, that they were struck
| wi establishment at gettin' off sac easyi"
r. c. Lehmann writing to the London
| Telegraph about the Harvard-Princeton
| football game, said recently: And what of
| the brutality? All i can say is that / saw
| none. Football cannot be gentle game. A
| milksop has no part in il in England or
| America. But the game as i saw, though
| il was violent and rough was never brutal.
| Indeed L cannot hope to see finer exhibit
| ton of courage strength, and manly en-
| durance. without trace Of meanneSs. than
| that which was given by these two teams. .