The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Princess of Wales has held her pres
ent title thirty-three years. Only one of
her predecessors = Augusta. daughter of
George 1I-held the same title longer Thir-
ty-flVe years was her record.
Miss Helen Gladstone daughter of the
Grand Old Man. has given up her principal
ship of Newnham College. Oxford. which
she has held for fifteen years. in order to
remain with her father and mother.
Louise Michel. who is really a most kind
hearted and generous as we'll as a clever
woman, has written and arranged for the
publication in Paris of history of the in
surrection in 1S1. She is now in London
The costliest rugs in the world are owned
by the Shah of Persia and the Sultan of
turkey. Each possesses a mat made of
pearls and diamonds. valued at over So 500
600 The Carleton Club, London, owns the
largest mat or rug ever made.
When Mr.. Dingley was graduated from
Dartmouth College the suit he wore or
the occasion came from the fashionable
tailors shop in the little town of Hanover
ana the fashionable tailor was Levi Norton
since vice President of these United States.
Dean Farrar quotes Tennyson as having
related to him the remark of a farmer who.
after hearing a birthstone sermon
from an old-style preacher, consoled his
wife by saying: Never mind Sally that
must be wrong. No constitooshun couldn't
stand it
According to the London Figaro. the
Prince OF Wales is the greatest spendthrift
in the world. The statement is made that
he has spent s5O0O0.0o0 in the last thirty
three years. From the English nation he
has received So. 600 OG0 $50O0OOO more for
travelling expenses and special allowances
and has besides private debts amounting
to S20OH,0O0.
DR.. Luys. of the Salpetriere Hospital.
D.ri.- hoe
cine his collection of 200 brains. carefully
prepared and catalogued. The collection is
the result of thirty years Investigations
and includes the brains of idiots. of blind
persons, of persons who had undergone
amputatiOn, and of those who had suffered
from various forms Of mental disorders.
British generals have privileges not ac-
corded to peers in the English police courts
Sir Reginald Gipps. who was recently sum-
moned for riding "a bicycle on a footpath
at Aldershot. sent his servant TO paw his
fine of D shillings and to tender apology.
which the magistrate accepted Several
peers wives who We're guilty of carrying
unmuzzled iapdogs In their carriages were
obliged TO attend court in person last year.
The total number of patents granted to
citizens of Connecticut for the year ending
Nov. /. 1896, was $40, or one for every 793
inhabitants of the State, including women
and children. For the same period 1853
patents were granted to citizens of New
York, or one to every 1854 inhabitants.
Mississippi appears to be the least inventive
of the States, only one patent to every 81. .S54
inhabitants having been issued to that
State.
Earl De Grey has kept record of the
game he has killed in twenty-eight years.
1t amounts TO 316,699 head. his average for
the last twenty years being about 10000,
while in 1893 his record was 1915. He has
put to death 100000 pheasants and partrdges.
1000 grouse, 5000 other game birds, 566
deer and 5000 miscellaneous animals. in
Guiding pigs capercailZie, sambur, a dozen
buffaloes and tigers. and two rhnoceroses.
The good man must shoot sleeping well
waking.
Says the Boston Transcript Mrs. S. T.
Pickard. niece of the poet Whittier. is in
Amesbury caring for the poets estate. The
Whittier portraits and a portion of the
furnishings have been removed to the Pick
ards home, where they will be cared for.
Before removing anything the location of
portraits, pictures and furniture was care
fully indexed for the benefit of any changes
which may be made whereby the home may
become permanently Whittier memorial.
SO that they can he restored as in Mr..
Whittier'S days of occupancy. The library
has not been diSturbed-Ony replaced 5
the books were cataiogued-and will remain
in it's every detail the poet left it,.