The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There is movement on foot in Charles
ton, S. c., to erect monument to Mai.
Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame
One of Buffalo Bills periodical visits to
Paris has given Rosa Bonheur who is now
seventy-hVe, and has for years done little
work. an opportunity to study the bison
and the result was a large picture reDr-a-
senting herd browsing on a snowy plain
German papers comment on the enterprise
and business sense of the city government
of Lahr. The gas works being the prom
erty Of the town. the Authorities have dec
GRATED all the gas lamps with large signs
in red letters reading: Cook your meals
with gas"
Three young women in Germany have
been recently commended for their thor
ough work in pharmacy, and Fraulein Eva.
Bosse a daughter of the German minister
of public worship, has been pronounced bv
DR.. Fraulich, president of the Imperial
German Pharmaceutical Society," to be one
or the most excellent and gifted scholars
he has ever met.
According to the Hamburger Nachrichten
Prince Bismarcks health is comparatively
good. He walks great deal and drives
every day, but he has not yet quite got ria
of his neuralgia, the severity of which
sometimes makes speaking very difficult
He would like to go to Varzin this summer
but DR.. SchWeninger will probably dissuade
him, as he did last year.
Ben Butler in a case in the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court involving damages for IA
tai injury-Senator Hoar being on the other
side-quoted Job: "All that man hath
will he give for his life That" said Mr.
Hoar, was plea of the devil in motion
for a new trial, and | don't think the court
will be more impressed by it On account of
its modern Endorsement"
The Queen of Italy is called the most
"queenly" queen of Europe. She is fond of
study and music, has done much for the
arts and is well beloved by her people. In
summer time, when she goes for holiday.
she drops ceremonials and becomes oniv
Margaret of Savoy wears light summer
gowns, goes for long walks alone and en-
Joys herself as would any other woman of
fashion
AT a recent sale of curios in Brussels
one of Victor Hugo's straw hats sold for
$40, and the goose quill with which he
wrote Napoleon the Little" brought $72O
1t fastened to sheet of paper on
which was written the following: Il beg
Nj. Victor Hugo to certify that it was with
(S1gnedl Camille Barru. 1T was" (Signed)
Victor Hugo.
The National Sculpture Society announces
that, through the generosity of Mr.. T. KEEL
ly, of New York, it will offer prize for the
best and secOnd-best design for sun dial
to be competed for under its direction. the
designs to be exhibited in the societys ex-
hibition in 1898, and the award to be made
at that time. The prizes are $500 for the
best design and $3.50 for the second best. the
competition to be open to sculptors only
When Fridtjof Nansen passed the day
with Emperor William the Emperor intro
duced his children to his guest in a charac-
teristic manner. After dinner the young
princes were called. They filed in and stood
'at attention" in military style Shake
hands with this gentleman said the EN-
peror. Look well at him. Some day you
will be able TO understand what his work
is, and then you will be glad to be able
to say you have met him."
Once when he was asked if he was not
afraid of temperature of 10 degrees be-
low zero. the late Tolman Wiley, of Bos-
ton, said: Where 1 was born, sir nv
father one Sunday took me into a meeting
house which set on four stone posts with
no other UNDERMINING. l sat in that church
ana listened to sermon on hell for sixty
minutes, with the wind blowing under
meath the church and blowing forty miles
a minute, with no fire in the stove and the
mercury 70 degrees below zero. Do you
think ! was born in sugar box and nursed
on heliropes?'
The familiar associates of Mr. William
Dean Howells report him to be sweled
with paternal pride over the crop of dis
tinctions that begins to be gathered by his
son John Mr.. John Howelis who has Just
received his diploma in architecture from
the BeauX-Arts. has lately been asked to
join the Socfete des Architectes Diplomes
par lie Commencement. He is the fifth Amer
lean diplome and has got his diploma in
FIVE years, the usual term being seven
years. To see to il that American ar
chitect is trained up in the way he should
go is q good and patriotic work especially
when the student takes as kindly as Mr..
John Howells does to his training.