The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13

the total population: in 1880 the number
reached 34.67 per cent, and in 1890 II rose
to 1851 per cent Analysis OF the figures
further establishes that IN general the num-
Der engaged in the lowest walks Of bust
ness laborers and the like, Is decreasing
in proportion, while those employed in the
higher walks are increasing in number rel
atively to the whole population.
In McClure's Magazine for September is
reproduced a fine Hfe-cast Of the face
of Henry Clay. made by John H. l. Bro
We're in 1925, when Clay was forty-eght
years old. 1t is thought to be the most
real and vivid likeness of Clay in exist
ence, and ii has never been published. In
the same number of McClure's is repro
duced the only portrait ever painted OF
Mrs. Henry Clay. 1t also has never been
Hart relate the history of the portraits
and the circumstances under which they
were produced.
John w. Emerson, who is publishing a
series OF articles in the Midland Monthly
on Grants life in the West and his Mis-
sissippi valley campaigns, relates some
interesting and characteristic anecdotes OF
the great soldier in the current number.
The stories have to do with his career as
a farmer and bear the impress of truth,
some having come within the personal
knowledge of the writer, while others are
the "reminiscences of his old friends and
neighbors. 1t is announced that the. next
installment will consider, and, it is believed,
forever settle the old question as to
Grants drinking habits.
The recent canonization of the two new
Saints, Antonio Maria Zaccaria and Pierre
Fourier, in the Basilica of st. Peters on
May 9th last, forms the subject of the
leading article in the September Open
Court. It's author, Prof. G. NJ. Fiamingo,
of Rome, has had ample opportunity to
study modern Catholicism in all its phases,
and he here presents his Impressions as to
the significance of this great and gorgeous
fcGfi raliCinn a
history of past concentrations and a telling
description of the present one. The article
is illustrated with half-tone cuts of actual
scenes in st. Peters and with portraits of
the two new Saints.
The portrait of Verdi in the Strand Mu-
steal Magazine suggests veteran member
of the G. A. r. of the United States rather
than an Italian composer. 1t is very
American face. In an interview in the same
magazine with the dear maestro" as the
writer calls him, he says that he will
write no more operas, but is giving his
time and attention to the building at Milan
of a home for old Italian artists OF all
classes. The funds for its establishment
and maintenance are given by the great
master, and the cost of erection alone or
the building, as designed by Signor Ca
mile Boito Ca brother of Arigo, the libret-
fist of "Othelo and 'Falstaf'), will
amount to 916,0O0 The home will provide
shelter for 100 inmates-sixty men and
dorTnitory, for Verdi, with thoughtful tact,
wishes to spare the feelings of people who
may have known a certain comfort in their
youth. There will be reading rooms, a
concert room and bathrooms, all lighted
by electricity and heated by hot-air stoves.
The meals only will be in common. To Sc
cure the funds necessary for the yearly
expenditure of the endowment, Verdi has
already given up part of the income due to
him for his copyrights. The fruits of his
genius will thus provide for the wants of
those whom he calls his "fellow-artists."
1t will be called Casa di Riposo blouse OF
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