The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Great Western Railway of England
has made present of 100 guineas to the
greatest traveller in the world" one Of its
employees. who has travelled four million
miles in forty years of service.
DR.. Alexander, who has lived in Paso del
Norte and FL Paso since the Mexican war.
says: Il never knew a case of consumption
among MexicanS until within the last three
years The germs of the disease have been
brought into the country by American con-
sumptives.'
The New Jersey mosquito has added much
to its evil reputation this summer. Among
the charges made against it are of
having stung a baby to death. of kill
ing q cow, of causing two girls to lose
limb each and of poisoning womans arm
so that amputation may become necessary.
When Mr.. Bryan requested the B. & NJ.
line, in Nebraska, to hold his train for
fifteen minutes to enable him to address
crowd. there were several extra freights
waiting TO be sent forward. and he received
the following telegram: THE b. q NJ. is
not in politics; too busy hauling dollar
wheat"
eve are shocked" says a Georgia editor,
who has just been visiting Rome, "to see
a city in such a state of decay. They
doubtless had a big fire there years ago,
and many of the finest buildings are still
in ruins. Here at home we would have re-
placed those buildings in short order GIVE
Recent reports Of the condition of Michael
Munkacsy, the celebrated Hungarian paint
er. are so favorable that hopes are enter
tanned of his early recovery. For ten
months he has been a patient at a sani-
tarium in the neighborhood of Bonn, suf-
fering from a severe mental ailment, the
result of overwork. A few days ago he
was able to take his first carriage ride.
On one occasion P. T. Barnum walked
into Dr. Collyers church just as the preach
er entered the pulpit. Barnum was put in
back seat. The clergyman spied him, and,
leaning over the reading desk, said: will
pew? When 1 go to his show he always
gives me a front seat. / don't see why he
shouldn't fare equally well at my show.
The house of DR.. Siemens, the Berlin cleo
trician, is known throughout Germany
1.-The wonder of the Wansee." 1t is fitted
from roof to cellar with electricity. The
dining ROOM kitchen and wine cellar are
all connected by means of a miniature cleo
trio railway. In order to convey things from
one room to another the article required
has only to be placed on a little car but
ton pressed and the car is almost instantly
where it ought to be.
my first client" said NJ Chalk d'Est
Auge at the dinner table of a prosperous
bourgeois. was the greatest scoundrel un-
hung-a bad egg any way you took him.
But / got him off. He was the black sheep
y,
have made great scandal" Towards the
close of the dinner pompous, important
parsonage entered, and as the host was
about to introduce him to the advocate he
said: "Oh, / need no introduction to M.
d Est Auge L was his first client"
An awkward slip was made by the coad-
jutor to the Archbishop of Cambria, who
preached beautiful sermon over the body
of his vicar general, praising the great
Of oe and T Had ed st e
The next day the vicar generals will was
made public; After dividing 100000 francs
among his brothers and nepheWs he left
100000 francs to the archbishop. the money
being his savings while in office.
When Queen Victoria ascended the throne
there were not more than a hundred
abstainers among the ministers Of the va
rous religious denominations in the United
Kingdom, no bishops and only about a
To-day there are, according to returns just
issued, two archbishopS, fourteen bishops
Of English dioceses, many thousand clergy
scians who are total abstainers. Moreover,
one man in every three in the army is a
teetOtaler.
When it's dry and dusty weather
People bitterly complain,
And we often hear them wishing
For a good, old-fashioned rain;
But when showers that they yearned for
Come along and cool their blood
They again indulge in grumbling,
And it's then about the mud
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Maud Muller on a summer night
Was riding her wheel without light,
With graceful hump and a bicycle face
She ScOrched along at a merry pace,
When across her path there doomed man,
And into him Maudie straightway ran.
But, alas, to her sorrow, he proved to be
A police-court judge of stern decree,
And she sighed next day as he fined her ten
Stead of 1898, as it might have been.