The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Rev. Dr. ParkhurSt says in a recent letter
to friend in New York: Il cannot stand
by the Sunday saloon pure and simple, but
1 do believe in allowing the sale of beer
and light wines on Sunday provided they
are the accompaniment of an honest meal
honestly paid for"
Bath rooms in public schools are a now
city that Boston will introduce ia it's new
buildings The latest structure of an edu-
cational nature in that city is to cost $780,,
900, and will be fitted with toilet, dressing
and bath rooms for both sexes, with eleven
shower baths and foot baths as we'll.
In digging at Herculaneum there has been
brought to light pillar covered with bills,
one on top of another. The paste used to
stick them was made of gum arabic. When
separated and examined they were found
to be programmes and announcements of
public meetings, and even election procla-
nations.
Thomas w. Burton a Wisconsin farmer,
who was a federal scout in the civil war,
once lay within twenty feet of Gen. Robert
e. Lee, and tried for five minutes to make
up his mind to shoot the great soldier. The
deed seemed too much like murder, how
ever, and the generals life was spared.
Burton now treasures a letter in which
Lee thanks him.
There are, according to an eminent
archaeologist. no less than from 120 to 1870
absolutely distinct languages in North and
South America AS the growth of language
is very Slow he thinks the fact of the eX
istence of so great a variety of speech on
the Western continents proves that the ma
tive red men have inhabited them for many
thousands of years.
A wonderful discovery in fireproofing is
reported to have been made by Chicago
woman. 1t is an enamel, and when applied
very thinly to the surface of combustibles
renders them decidedly noncombustibe. So
ar a QriY IN ,z q 16 n " q
process has been subjected tend to support
the claims of the discoverer In appearance
the enamel is similar to shellac, but its in
gradients have not been disclosed.
The Neyerbeer prize, stipend worth
5000 marks Isl 25W, was awarded for this
year to Bernard Koehler, a pupil of the
Cologne Conservatory. This stipend was
endowed by the composer in his will for the
benefit of talented young composers (under
twenty-eigh) to enable them to spend six
months each in Italy, Paris, Vienna, Mum
ich and Dresden for the purpose of con-
of the young men benefited by this stipend
YVES Engelbert Humperdinck, since famous
as the composer of "Haensel und Gretel."
A correspondent of the Glasgow Evening
News tells a story Of Carlyle, which, he
says, he received at first hand and which
has the merit, he believes. of never having
been published before During a visit at
along with some friends, had sat down to
coffee. Jane" said the sage, in a fit of i'll
temper this coffee is cold 1 shant have
it," Thereupon UP rose Mrs. Carlyle. She
went to the fire CRATE, and picking out q
red-hot cinder with pair of tongs, dropped
it into her husbands cup, with the eXcla-
nation There, Thomas, is it hot enough
for you now?''
No young woman who enters vassar this
fall will do so with better right than Miss
Lu Verne Hall, of Denver. Miss Hall was
one of the cleverest girls graduated from
the East Denver High School last June.
Long ago she determined to take the course
at Vassar. Part of her time she spent as a
reporter for one of the Denver newspapers,
but in order to raise enough money for coll
lege Miss Hall has opened a boolblacking
establishment for women in one Of the prin-
cipal business streets. She is doing a rush
ing business now, and by September will
have earned enough money, she expects, for
the first year in college, A girl friends acts
as cashier, and a lalf-doZen boys assist as
bootblacks. When trade is particularly
lively the manager and the cashier shine
shoes with the bootbacks