The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Already $1,000 men lave decided to take
part in the parade at Buffalo during the G.
A. r. encampment.
Margaret Reid, the yoIn indianapolis
singer, was chosen for the part of Micaela
in Carmen" at Covent Garden, and is said
to have done we'll. The title role was taken
by another American singer, Zelie De Lus-
san.
King Alfonso of Spain, now clever, years
of age, is again spending the summer at
San Sebastian, with his mother and his two
sisters, who are sixteen and fifteen years
old. Don Francisco d'Assis, husband of eX-
Queen Isabella, is a frequent visitor.
Mr.. Coburn, of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture, recently got out a report
showing that Kansas has 155, $40 dogs, and
that during the past year they killed 1,294
sheep, while the wolves, upon which most
OF the counties pay a bounty, killed but
1,150.
j. Pierpont Morgan puts 800 in the con-
tribution plate every Sunday morning, and
has given 1000, 600 to The New York Lying
in Hospital. His benefactions are said to
reach $4,000 a year. George Peabody's fad
was the promotion of education. His gifts
amounted to more than $500 600. Asa
Packer had the same fad, his benefactions
amounting to about $4,000, 900. He founded
Lehigh University.
No one disputed the dictum of a Chinese
physician who had been called to attend
a Celestial who had tainted in a store at
Portland, Ore, when the doctor said, aft
er filling the prostraten mans mouth and
nose with red paint: Him blow out paint,
him all same not yet dead; him no catch i'm
wind, no blow out paint, him heap dead.
The< man didn't blow out the paint and
the coroner was called.
1t appears from the experiments of a
French scientific man that oak trees are in
more danger than other trees of being
struck by lightning. Beeches, on the con-
trary, are not good conductors of electrici-
ty. TIL danger of trees from lightning is
great in proportion to the electrical cOnduc-
tibility of their wood. Dead trees and dead
wood generally form a much better con-
duetor than living growing woods, which
offer greater resistance
In a genealogical way the funniest thing
on record is that Menelik, Negus of Abys-
sinia, insists on his descent in a straight
line from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba..
If this were questioned the august Negus
would have your head cut off, or if you
limited that there was a bar sinister some
where you might be impaled. There is,
however, a notable family in France, the
Counts of Noe, who show on their family
blazon the ark and that most adventurous
voyager, Noah, and they claim that vet
eran seaman as their remote ancestor.
The curse over the grave of Shakespeare
has been discovered to be identical in idea
with that which King Ashmanezer of the
Sidonians caused to be engraved on his in
tended sarcophagus, which was moved
A0CA 1@AA1s
Let no one open this resting, place nor
trouble me in this resting place by disturb
ing the couch Of my slumbers. For all
men who should open the tomb of my rest
there shall be no rest with the departed;
they shall not be buried in a grave, and
there shall be to them neither son nor seed;
neither root below, nor fruit above, nor
honor among the living under the sun"
They pulled a wish-bone: What wish was
yours?" r4
She asked with a smile benign.
"a wish that has been, and still endures-
Ills the wish to call you mine"
"And l." said she to her lover true,
II wished that what you wished would
come true"
Judge.
A little lad sat by the sounding sea,
Flat on the damp, damp ground,
And seeing a ship sail over the edge,
He cried: THE world is round.
81 know it must be so, because
/ study geography now.
And the book declares that's one of the
proofs.
But I'm sure I don't see howl"
Tudor jerks, in August st. Nicholas.