The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22
ABOUT People AND THINGS.

French's bust of the late General Walker,
which was secured through the subscrip-
tons OF undergraduates, is to be presented
to the Institute of Technology in Boston,
on the 5th of January, the first anniversary
of General Walkers death
Professor Theodore Mommsen, the IA
nous historian, is man of small, almost
insignificant, stature, with long, snow
white, silky hair hanging down to his
shoulders, and a frame almost emaciated,
but he still has the energy and the power
of work that one might expect in a man
half his age
The Sultan, who is very fond of music,
has lately ordered several pianofortes from
America. His son, Prince Burhannedin
Effendi is reputed to be an accomplished
pianist, and has already composed some
pieces. Abdul Hamid is also bird fancier,
and his collection of pigeons is said to be
the largest in Europe.
A woman will earn her own living every
time if given half a chance. The records
kept for seven years of five hundred fami-
lies, by a charitable organization in New
York show that the deserted women who
sought aid was less than per cent Inc aie
was much larger than the number OF UNI
married women. '4
The Queen, who the other day command
ed a cinematograph exhibition at Windsor
Castle, is, it is announced, going to speak
into monograph, in order that her words
and accents may be preserved for a curious
posterity When the royal message has
been received into it the monograph will,
it is said, be carried to the British Museum,
and there kept in safe custody.
Canon Timing, who died recently at Biar-
ritz, was the senior member of the Chapter
of Gloucester, England, having been APP
pointed to his stall by LORD Chancellor
Chelmsford thirty years ago. He was in
spector of schools for many years. and in
a "a xxfrc "a tn Gzy6n
whom he had many good stories to relate,
as we'll as of Thackeray, whom he often
met
H. T. H. Eugene Christoforo Paleologae-
Niciparae Commaere is the legal sover-
eign of Greece, the lineal descendant of
Palaelogus, a family beside which the
mushroom growth. She unites in herself
the claims of all the dynastieS Who from
the time of Constantine to the fall Of Con-
stantinople occupied the throne of the
Eastern Caesars. Her father, Prince
Christoforo. was candidate for the Greek
throne in 1863, when the powers unJustly
placed George the Dane in his place.
President McKinley's mother wrote lit
tie sketch of his early life which has in
it more worth than many campaign bio
graphfes. Abiding to her family cares she
said in, one of those simple sentences that
say so much: II did the best i could, of
course, but had six children, and | had all
that of millions of women who do their
own work. and do it so well that their
memories are blessed in countless homes:
A good woman's work is never done, and
it is doubtful if the busiest man labors
more industriously than does the ordinary,
careful housewife.
One who knows Cecil Rhodes well tells
The Sketch that he is overtaxing his
strength. 81 have seen. him." he says,
when hard at work dictate for ten or
eleven hours at stretch, absolutely wear
ing down the endurance of three typewrit-
ers, one after the other. All the time he
has been pacing TO and fro, up and down
the room, turning all his immense faculties
upon the matter in hand. or course, MS
brain requires constant artificial stimulant
and the alcohol that is necessary merely
to sustain him in times of pressure would
send any weak man under Yes, all this
must affect his constitution in the end, and
he is not now the man he was some few
years ago: but, at the same time. not one
man in hundred could stand half that he
has faced and conquered
He asked the maiden to fly with him,
But an what did she do?
She merely said: Are you one OF
Those crazy inventors, too?
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