The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

For the first time the sailors of the Brit
ish navy are to be supplied with salt as
an article Of diet. The substitution. to a
considerable extent, of canned goods for
salt junk accounts for it.
The New Jersey mosquito has made a
bad record this season. Among the charges
against it are singing a baby to death,
killing a cow, causing two girls to lose
leg each and poisoning a woman's arm so
that amputation may be necessary.
Miss Stella F. Jenkins of Kansas City,
has been made a minister of the Friends
Church Of that city. Her mother, Mrs.
Frances c. Jenkins, has been a minister
of the church for forty-five years. and her
sister has also occupied pulpit in Rich
mond, Ind.
David A. Brewer. associate justice Of the
United States Supreme Court, and Samuel
B. Capen, a well-known business man Of
Boston, are being mentioned for the pres
idency Of the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions, to succeed
the Rev. DR.. r. S. Storrs
The glory of the bicycle is to be sung in
music worthy of the theme, if the news
from Paris be true. Jules Massenet is
said to be writing a cyclists chorus for his
new opera "sapho." in which Calve is
bicycle music might be written in handle
bars.
President Rogers, of the Northwestern
University, of Evanston, ILL.,, has an
nounced that hereafter all girl students
will be kept under guard. They must live
in the university boarding hall and be in
doors every night by o'clock. They must
not leave town unless accompanied by a.
chaperon named by the faculty Frater-
mites may give only one party year.
Mrs. Louisa Williams, of San Landro
Cal. walks for a quarter of a mile over a
stony road on her bare knees once a year
-
complished the feat for the seventeenth,
time. Seventeen years ago she prayed that
her husbands sight might be restored She
vowed that if her prayer was answered she
house to the church once a year Her
husband regained his sight, and the wom-
an has kept her vow.
Prof. Booker T. Washington, like most Of
his colored compatriots, is abundantly en-
dowed with that sense of humor. COM
bined with ability to express it, which are
essential to the quipment of a really great
and popular orator. In recent speech he
told a yarn of an old negro who wanted
Christmas dinner and prayed night after
night, "Lerd, please send a turkey to this
darkey." But none came to him FinaIlyy
he prayed, 20 Lord, please send this dary.
key to a turkey" And he got one that
same night.
The one-hundred- anniversary
of the storming of the Bastile last July
mas reminded some or the foreign paDerS
of the little-known fact that that attack
was made with the property swords of the
Grand Opera in Paris. This appears from
a statement left by Dauvergne, who was
director of the opera at that time He said.
m. Janssenu sent me word last evening
that great crowd of people gathered in
the opera house to demand the weapons
that were there. He had the place opened
where they We're kept. They took the
swords only, since there Were no Other
weapons that could be used. The halberls
etc, We're made of pasteboard.'' This lef
ter is preserved in the national archives
of France.
Mrs. Frances N. Sorcho. of Baltimore
has worked for several years at deep-sea
diving She is the wife of Captain Sorcho
a veteran deep-sea diver and ex-captain Of
the United States Life-saving Service. Soon
after her marriage she prepared herself
by taking a years course of physicaI
training. Then she put on twenty-seven-
pound shoes and the rest of a divers ar
NOR. Weighing about $50 pounds. and thar
went down TO get coral and rare sea shells
at Gravesend there is also woman diver
She first went down, instead OF her htIs
band, who was III. some years ago and
she did this with such success that she