The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-15
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Charles w. Fullerton intends to erect a
lecture hall for the Chicago Art Institute
in memory of his father, Alexander n. Full
erton.
The father of John Oliver Hobbies has
bought the famous London review the
his full name reads is also proprietor of a
brand of liver pills He is deacon In the
London Temple, DR.. Parkers church
In one of the most fashionable and extern
sively patronized shops in Birmingham
Eng young girls. skillful needlewomen are
engaged to make baby's clothing by arti-
fetal light in basement. They get 81 a
week and have to provide their own food.
j. M. Studebaker, the big carriage-maker
says that when he went overland to Cali
fornia in search of fortune he reached
San Francisco in 1852 with but 30 cents in
his pocket. He then made the first Stude-
baker wagon, and his brother, Clement,
irOnsd it.
Berlin art circles are interested in a
young artist who promises to make his
mark. Though only twenty-three years old
and still student, w. KreiS has won the
$500 prize for the plan of a national war
monument to be erected in Leipsic. There
were seventy-twO competitors.
Ex-Governor Morrill,. of Kansas, has an
American flag that will be used as a wind
ing sheet at his burial. 1t was given to him
by fifteen old soldiers from the Leaven-
worth home. He said the other day that he
priced the flag more highly than all the off,
cial honorS which had been bestowed upon
him.
Miss Caroline III. Ingersoll, of Keene, N.
H., has founded at Harvard the Ingersoll
lectureship, provided for one lecture each
The first has been delivered by DIR. Gordon
of the Old South Meeting House, in Boston,
who spoke on Immortality, and the New
Theodicy," which will be published in a
small volume next month.
The collection of postage stamps has
risen to the dignity of an international ex-
hibition, such philatelic festivity having
been arranged for next July in London.
AS John Fiske pointed out in one of his lee
lures, it Will be remarkable demonstra-
ton of the world wide power of Great Bri-
tain for the exhibition will consist very
largely of portraits of Queen Victoria
The Green Bag tells this story of Judge
Wilson, of Ohio: Several lawyers gath
cred in Judge Wilson's room after adjourn
ment of court and were discussing the re-
tirement of member of the bar. Among
them was one whose practice is worth $25-
900 a year. He said: L have been practic-
ing several years and am well fixed. L have
thought should like to retire and devote
my remaining years to studies L have neg
lected. Study law, said Judge Wilson,.
The approach of the centenary of the
high hat has led "A Paris newspaper to in
terview the literary and artistic celebrities
of the metropolis on the subject of mascu-
line headgear. Jules Lemaitre, the critic
and dramatist, says the tall hat is 'igno-
ble;" Gustave Larroumet says il is neither
ornamental nor practical. and Claretie pro-
nounces ii ugly, inconvenient. heavy, and
headache producing. Carolus Duran oaiis
it the last word of the horrible. The gem
eral consensus of opinion is emphatcally
against the beaver.
Speaking of the origin of the term short
grass country" the Eagle brings to mind
that it was Mr.. o. o. Brown, of Wichita,
who once vehemently said: why did God
make this long stretch of beautiful prairie
and then not give it drop of rain? Why.
/ ask? Let me meet Him face TO face and
ask.
He drew and he painted,
And followed no rule
So now he is sainted
For founding school"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
''Imperious Caesar, dead ard turned TO clay
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away
But when it comes to patching up a tire,
IT'S rubber, not dead Romans, we desire.
Chicago Record.