The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-28
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Inc COST OF q state dinner at the mite
House runs from $500 TO 1000, according
to the price of wines furnished.
Thomas Ewing Moore, the United States
commercial agent at Weimar. Germany,
says the locomotion by means OF electric
ity is gradually gaining ground in Europe,
though not TO the same extent as in this
country. In mileage of electric railways
Germany stands first.
One of Congressman sideways New
Hampshire constituents wrote to him the
other day about a pension bill. Mr.. Sui
lcway replied: only two obstacles stand
!, the way Of passing your biu-Jehovah
and Tom Reed. L think 1 can ana Je-
hovah if you look after Reed"
The Lend-a-Hand Society Of Boston is
preparing to celebrate the seventy-fifth an
niversary Of the birthday of Rev. DR.. Ed
ward Everett Hale, on Saturday. April 3,
by presenting to the Ten Times One Soci-
ETY. the Hale endowment fund of SIS, 600.
Both societies originated with DIR. Hale.
Leo XIII has just entered on the twenti-
eth year Of his spiritual reign, and some
of the more superstitious in Rome look on
the year with dread, because of the story
that on the eve of his election a young
Franciscan monk had a vision, in which he
was told that the new Pope would hold Of
flee twenty years.
Professor Noble, the ~well-known plant
Psychologist of Saxony, says that he has
produced, ION a commercial scale, pure
cultures Of the different bacteria, which are
efficient in affixing the nitrogen of the air
in a form available for plant food, and he
has them for sale in small glass bottles. :"
1t is said that soil can be inoculated with
these organisms for the modest sum of
$l.25 an acre.
Count Erwin Won Neipperg, who died re-
Gently at Vienna at the age of eighty-three.
was the last surviving son by the first
marriage of Count Adam Won Neipperg. the
chamberlain, and subsequently the husband
of Napoleon's Empress, Marie Louise. His
half brother, the Prince of Montenuovo.
Neipperg's son by Marie Louise, born three
months after Napoleon's death at St. Hell
ena, died two years ago
What surprised the Londoners as much
as anything else in Nansen was the correct
English he spoke. The explorer made a
great hit at the Savage Club dinner. He
spoke rapidly and with self-possession, and
his humor elected roars of responsive
laughter. 1t is noticeable, too, in the news
paper reports of his lecture that laughter
appears in brackets at the end of every
other sentence. The canny Norwegian has
become very popular in England, not least
because of his personality. for he is tall.
straight and blonde, and his face is good
to look upon, while there is a winning
geniality of manner about him. 1t will not
be long before he appears on this side of
the water to gather his second, and main,
harvest of dollars.
1dTNdIu SOl6Se RAISED money Dy a lOt-
terry as late as 1906. In that year 1t Of
| fered for sale 10000 tickets at s. each, the
prizes ranging from SIS, 900 down to 81. The
prospectus issued stated that "in the above
scheme the just expectations of the pub
lick, and the interest OF the University.
have been consulted. 1t is worthy the at
tention of adventurerS, that the highest
prize is nearly double i'm value to any that
has been drawn in this Commonwealth for
many years past. though the usual price
of tickets is preserved. The Managers So
licit the patronage of the publick in gen
| eral. and Of the friends of Literature and
the University in particular: and consider
ing the object of the Lottery, they will
| combine the prospect of gain with the GER
tainty of benefitting the University, and
by lending their aid to the means of edu-
| cation, will promote the best interests of
their country.
| Hark, IT'S the bluebird's venturous strain
High on the old fringed elm at the gate
Sweet-voiced, valiant on the swaying
bough,
Alert, elate.
Dodging the ftful spits of snow,
New Englands poet-laureate
Telling US spring has come again!
IT. b. Aldrich's Spring in New England"
Lives OF great men oft remind us
We may yet be shining lamps,
And. departing. leave behind us
Other heads for postage stamps,
Other bridges DER the rivers,
Other arches high in air,
/ Other markets in the city.
Other statues in the square,
Other hatchets trees and stories 49,
Bearing morals sure 10 feaze,
And-the pinnacle OF glories-
Other legal holidays. Truth.