The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss Susan B. Anthony is about to start
on an extensive lecture tour through the
West
The London World reports that Rudyard
Kipling, who has been cycling in Dorset
shire with Thomas Hardy. IS negotiating
for the purchase of a house and grounds at
Rodwell, near Dorchester.
Henrik Ibsen is goin4 to Berlin next
spring, on invitation. for the celebration of
his seventy-first birthday. 1t is expected
that this occasion will be made the oppor-
tunity for important Ibesnite demon
straton.
Tooth brushes are to be made with re-
movable pads for the bristles, so that one
handle will be sufficient for any number of
bristle pads, which can be replaced as fast
as the brush wears out, or can be fitted
with a set of brushes 'of different tirmness.
1t is stated that there are three times as
many teachers employed in the Sunday
schools of Massachusetts, as are employed
in the pubic schools, and the Congrega-
tlonalist says that Sunday-school teaching
has reached stage OF development when
teachers in addition to piety, must have
mental equipment
Though interested in the mineral collec-
ton and the meteorites. what most de-
lighted the King of Siam in his visit to the
South Kensington Museum the other day
were the remains of the giant mammals
and reptiles of earlier eras of the earths
h1story-the mammoth, the iguanodon, the
ichthyosauruS, etc.
A blind woman, Miss Bouley, took one of
the first prizes for counterpart and fugue
at the Paris Conservatory this year, while
two others of the sex shared the harp prize
at the Brussels Conservatory Miss Hant-
son was awarded the first prize with the
greatest distinction" and the first harp
prize was given also 10 woman. The
progress of the sex in music is evident.
Claus Spreckels is amazing his neighbors
bV a sort of cn-Op Col
Army in their sugar-bee colony at Soledad,
in Monterey county. He has leased the
land and given the money to sustain the
colony until 1t shall become self-supporting
When the colonists begin to earn money
they will be allowed to pay for ten acres of
land in ten years by instalments, and
Spreckels will buy their beets at good
prices.
The engagement of Prof Marcella I.
O'Grady of Vassar College, to Prof
Bovary, of Nuremberg, Germany, is an
nounced. She is a biologist and created
the department of biology at Vassar She
went to Europe last year to study her sub
Ject under distinguished authorities there
one of whom happaned to be Prof. Bovary
MISS OGrady mas resigned her post at
Nassar, and will be succeeded by Leila
Childe Dean, A. B.
Says a Philadelphia marriage license
clerk: Probably so per cent of those who
come to us for licenses to marry imagine
that before they can get the necessary per-
nit they will be compelled to tell all their
family secrets. One man who came in one
day last spring was actually prepared to
undergo a physical examination to prove
that his heart and lungs were all right We
made out a license last week for a young
fellow who had prepared with some pains
evidently the following history of his bride
Which he left with us: Miss - aged
tWenty-eight, in Phil. eight years, father
ana mother Both Living Both Willing grand
father and mother Both dead. Mother nifty
five yrs old father sixty-five yrs old grand
mother died when father was eighteen yrs
old all from delaware Sussex Co.
Abigail Adhem may her tribe increaseD
Awoke one night from a deep dream of
peace,
And saw within her seventh-story fat
A strange typewriter; and beside it sat
An angel, clicking on the keys of gold;
Abigail shivered and her feet grew cold
she raised her voice (but felt her spirits
What. writest thou?" The vision tipped
wink
And with slight amusement manifest.
Answered: The names of those who dress
the best"
And am | in it?" Abby said "Oh mo-,
Replied the angel. Abby spoke more low.
But bravely still. Write me as one / pray
Who always takes her hat off at the play
me angel wrote, and skipped. But the next
night
1t came again, with manner most polite
And showed the names of those correctly
dressed,
And lol Miss Adhem's name led all the
rest Judge.