The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There are said to be 700 Cinnamon in San
Francisco who have professed Christianity
and have united with tiIe salvation Army.
An English church is to build "a baptistry
in memory of Archbishop Benson, in which
1t will be- possible to perform baptisms by
immersion
M. Tissot's great picture of 1.-The Christ"
upon which he has devoted several years Of
study and labor, has been accorded the
place of honor above the high altar in the
chapel of the DominicanS of Faubourg St.
Honore, Paris avg +,raz
A new issue of postage stamps will be
made in Holland to commemorate the cor
onation of the young Queen next year
Prof. Stang has been commissioned to paint
her portrait, which will be used as the copy
for these stamps. JH43
A society girl was arrested while watching
dog fight in Washington stable but
succeeded in concealng her identity under
an assumed name. Her escort fled when the
police made their raid, and now his enemies
will say that he is not a fit man to take a
society girl even to dog fight.
When Mr.. Gladstone was about to depart
on his recent trip to France some one asked
him if he did not think that his continual
reading and study had a bad effect on his
nerves. My dear sir, 2 said Mr.. Gladstone,
can you imagine what would be the con-
dition of my nerves if were compelled to
do nothing?
announcement that he would resign his
$1,000 salary as pastor of the First Reformed
Church, Brooklyn. said: II have spent
seven years of my life in building up a new
church, which has grown strong and useful
and now desire to give the rest of my life
to building up. souls without money and
without price,.
In his inaugural lecture in the chair of
geology at Oxford, Prof. Sollas caused much
amusement the other day by one of his
Illustrations of the theory of evolution.
First, he said, came thehobby-horse, which
gradually developed into the boneshaker.
This, by the operation of natural selection
survival of the fittest and other evolution
airy laws, passed through the stages known
as kangaroo" rational" ETC. Now the
highest form has been reached in the ma
chine of to-day; genus. bicycle; species,
safety; variety, pneumatic.
The Cornhill Magazine is publishing anec-
dotes illustrating the humors of rural cler-
ical life in England. In the current num-
Der the writer tells of q kindly parson who
used to invite his flock, when the church
was cold, to come to the stove and warm
themselves before the services began. But
at other times his consideration took a less
agreeable turn, as when at the end of a
sufficiently long sermon he would say: AS
the weather Is still Indictment, / will, dear
friends, lsngthen my discourse somewhat,
in the hope that it may clear later"
Mexico has bull fighter named FL Curita,
who not long ago suffered in reputation
from the report that he had been beaten by
a woman. This he denied, and notified all
the local newspapers that instead he had
knocked the woman down four times with
a chair. To be sure he had been sent to
Jail, but instead of serving out his eight
day sentence he had been let off on the pay
ment of fine. This he construed as a vim
dication of his character, and invited the
press to indorse it. He is thus restored to
the society of the bull and woman lighting
class, and no doubt ranks as burning and
shining light thereof.
LIES shores are shifting
Every year.