The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-07

William Stolber, the newest Colorado mil
lionaire. has his wife for a business part
ner.
Charles Booth stateS in his book. 1.-The
Life and Labor Of the People in London
that the organ grinders in that city earn
from 50 cents TO $3.50 and even 50 a day.
Since Jerry Simpson is returning to Con
gress it is recalled that lie was the very
first Representative. to. throw dignity to
the winds and to appear sailing down Penn
sylvania avenue on a bicycle.
At a literary party in, Hartford one lady
wore a gown made of copies of two sensa-
tional New York papers, 1t is said thai
there was no difficulty in deciding that she
represented the BiSlow papers.
Mrs. Ella Castle, the wife of W. NJ. Castle.
of San Francisco, who was released from
prison in England after being convicted
and sentenced for shophfting. and who.
after reaching this country. entered q sani-
tarium, has been discharged as completely
cured.
General Booth. of the Salvation Army,
says there are five thousand homeless wo-
men in London above the age OF fifty years.
They subsist by cleaning doorsteps. selling
watercresses, picking rags and collecting
refuse: and find shelter at night where they
can. The army hopes 10 open Il home for
them in the West E1d
The kind of campaign against Quay that
Wanamaker conducted appears in the
fact that he recently addressed n circular
letter to 100000 Republican voters request
ing them TO forward an inclosed postal
card to their representatives at Harris
burg calling upon them to vote for Wanna
maker. 1t cost $4,000 in postage aione.
DR.. Campbell. who issat the head of the
Norwood Normal College for the Blind in
England, says that music is by far the
most important thing TO which IA blind per-
son can turn his attention. As an evidence
of this. of the S1l5.000 earned by his grad
uate pupils last year $ll0. 900 was earned
by teaching music DIR. Campbell is the
son of a Tennessee farmer. and he has
crossed the Atlantic forty-nife times.
Spinning has come into vogue again. says
the Decorator and Ffurnisher. and ladies'
who own the old-fashioned spinning wheel
will find that they can put it to the same
use as the woman of long ago. Hand spin
ming and weaving this season is all the
rage on the other side. The Princess of
Wales and her daughters being the first to
set the fashion. so this old art ~ now being
revived as a new one. and no doubt will
flourish as it did in former generations.
Leo XIII has hitherto held undisputed
claim to being the best Latin verse writer
i'm Italy. if not in the world. But now his
supremacy in the art is threatened by Car
dinal Jacobini. the late nuncio at Lisbon.
The cardinal has just left Portugal and has
returned TO Rome. where he is about to
publish a long Latin poem dealing with
modern Rome. The poem viii be a history
OF Rome in verse since ISL, and will con-
tain especial allusion TO recent political and
social events in the eternal city.
1t is recalled that il is not so many
years since il was deemed effeminate for a
man TO play the piano and unladylike for a
woman to practice the violin. On one occa-
sion. at a party given by Sir John Millais.
Lady Halle arose 10 play the violin. when.
to her intense amusement. she heard Land
seer exclaim: Good gracious, y woman
PLAYING the iddle," On the either hand. an
old-fashioned nobleman. when he saw "A
gentleman sit down 10 the piano, contempt
uously remarked, Il wonder If the creature
can sew.
Nine. Adam was driven into journalism
by the ~unhappiness of her first married life.
Her parents married her while she was a
girl of fifteen 10 a notary in a provincial
town. She left her husband, and. aided
by George Sand. wrote herself into fame i'm
Paris. She married "A senator. NJ. Adam.
and was left Il rich widow at his death.
This enabled her 30 found La Nouveile
Juliette Lander, to which all the celebrities
of Paris crowd on her reception nights.
There Is a private theater attached to the
house, where new plays are occasionally
acted by clever on Sunday nights.