The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Hiram 5. Maxim the American inventor,
who prefers to live in England, says the
trade in fine tools is leaving England for
America. because of the superior workman
ship of the United States.
In 1870 the Duke of Ganiera began to
spend thousands of dollars a year collect
ing rare stamps. To-day his collection is
believed to be the finest in the world, and
is valued at $1,250 600.
tablet has been placed by the Society
of Colonial Danes OH the old. Whitefield
house in Guilford. Conn. This stone house
was built in 1859, and is the oldest in New
England. 1t was used for years as a meet
ing house
The Emperor of China, who was care
fully educated by an American missionary,
can speak and read the English language
fuenty. He has a positive horror of Euro
pean doctors and his diet is regulated by
board of native medicine men.
A watch given by Napoleon to Marshal
Ney has been acquired by the Army Mu-
scum in Paris. On the morning of Austen
litz, so says the tradition, Napoleon asked
Ney the time. BY your watch repiled
the marshal taking it out of his pocket,
lit is the hour of victory.
Miss Clara Barton president of the Red
Cross Society, is living at Glen Echo,
suburb of Washington ten miles from the
capital where the headquarters of the So
ciety now are She is attending daily to the
is as good as could be wished for.
Bishop William Taylor (Methodist, who
has Just returned from Africa. called re-
Gently on President Kruger. II found the
ruler of the Boer republic" he says, IAN
exceedingly unassuming man. He heard
with interest of the work that was doing,
and spoke very encOuragingly to me, He
is an intensely religious man. He arises at
6 O'clock in the morning to hold family
prayers, and breaches nearly every Sun
day.
Our hop growers are gradually driving
their German rivals from the English mar
ket, and Germans fear that their exports to
the United States, which already evince
failing tendency, will continue the down
ward movement, till the market here is
practically nothing. They are turning es-
pecialy, therefore, to Belgium France ana
Russia for larger fields, and determined
effort is to be made to retain and enlarge
the trade with Great Britain.
Miss Hamilton M. d., the well-known
English doctor at the court of the Ameer
of Afghanstan, says that few of the
chief ladies in Cabul can read and write.
but hardly single one outside the CAPT
tai can do so. 1t is considered great ac-
compiishment, and the princesses and a
good many little girls are now being
taught. But they make little, If any. use
of their knowledge when they have ac-
quired it, The Sultana, who is the daugh-
ter of a mullah. o. priest, can write fair
ly well, and she can read the Koran IN
Arabic, but not one word does she under
stand. II
The Empress of China. was to have cele-
brated her sixtieth birthday with great
pomp and lavish expenditure of money in
November, 1894. In consequence of the war
with Japan she issued a proclamation that
the festivities had been given up, because
they would seem ungracious in view OF the
suffering caused by the war This procla-
nation did much to endear her to the
hearts of her subjects This year the En-
peror decided to have the deferred festiv-
tiles on Nov. 3, and about 100000 was put
aside for the purpose; but again the EN-
press gave her veto, on the ground that
better use might be made of that sum-
The Princess Dolgorouky, whose Death in
San Salvador is announced, was not, the
princess who, after living as the mistress
of Alexander III of Russia for many years,
and bearing several children was morgan
aticaly married to him shortly before his
assassination by a Nihlist bomb on the
NeVSlki ProSpekt. Alexander'S left-handed
widow is living in fine style, with suffi-
cent fortune The princess who died was
a pitful pretty little woman, who played
the violin in this country as a member of
not play it very well. She appeared on
the stage in a bizarre garb and with many
Jewels ard was very grateful for a word
of simple kindness. She was a DolgOrou-
ky all right but not the Dolgorouky.
/ like the man who praises
And laudS me to the skies
honor him. l love him
Fen though l know he lies.
Cleveland Tender