The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16


closed a ten-year contract by which he
shall receive $4,000 year, and a yearly
leave of absence for four months.
Bonapartes house, at Longwood, st. Hell
ena is now barn, the room he died in is
stable, and where the imperial body lay in
state may be found machine for grinding
corn.
pensioner in Missouri who is awarded 500
a month, yet he was in the army only six
teen days and did not fight battle. He lost
both arms in cannon practice
DR.. Hans Richter, when he made up his
mind to become conductor, burned up all
the pieces he had composed up to that time,
and declared that they cooked the most
delicious cup of coffee he had ever tasted.
Verdi visits frequently the Home for Aged
Musicians, who were connected in any way
with the stage now building at Milan. To
this home Verdi proposes to devote the
greater part of his fortune. The building
will cost over 100000. There will be room
for about a hundred persons. By his will
yearly income of about $4,000 will be left
to the asylum.
A good story is told to the effect that
when Lawson TAFT, the eminent surgeon, of
Birmingham, England and his good lady
visited Montreal they arrived on hot sum-
mer morning, and in driving to their hotel
Mrs. TAFT observing large blocks of ice
standing opposite each door, remarked:
See what novel plan they have of keep
ing the air nice and cool by exposing small
tceDergS opposite each door.
The first of the Booth-Tucker colonies in
the West has been established at Soledad,
in California. Another is to be organized
in the Arkansas valley, in Colorado, where
the Salvation Army commander has an OPP
ton IN 5000 acre tract. The enterprise
has attracted much attention and criticism,
but some who were opposed have looked
into the matter carefully, and seem inclined
to approve it and prophesy it's success.
DR.. Samuel Willard, of Chicago, an old
time friend of the abolitionist Lovejoy to
whose memory a monument has just been
erected in Illinois, said in speaking of the
death OF his friend: "LoVejoy'S body was
carried along the main street to mis- home,
and man whose name l will not give, be-
cause l wish it forever forgotten said: If
/ only had fife l would play the Dead
March for him. That was civil war"
Police Superintendent Roberts, of Tor
quay, has won a splendid reputation for
impartiality. He even Furnishes himself for
breaches of the law. The other night while
cycling home his lamp went out, and the
next day he appeared before the magis-
trate, in response to a summons issued by
himself against himself He said clergy
man spoke to him on the subject, and this
brought the offense to his notice. He was
fined shillings.
An English paper tells of a Tory army
officer who taught his Scotch collie to bark
and growl whenever Mr.. Gladstone's name
was mentioned. He lived to bury his ia
Vorite pet, and ever thereafter used to dec
crate the dogs grave with primroses on
Lord Beaconsfelds birthday. Now the old
Tory is dead himself, and he left instruc-
tons that his body should be cremated and
the ashes buried in his garden beside the
grave of his dog.
In her Abandoning an Adopted Farm"
Miss Kate Sanborn tells of her annoyance
at being besieged by agents, reporters and
curiosity seekers. She says: 81 was so per-
petually harassed that L dreaded to see
stranger approach with an air OF business.
The other day was just starting out for
drive when l noticed the usual stranger
hurrying on. Putting my head out of the
carriage l said, in d petulant and weary
tone: Do you want to see me-? The young
man stopped, smiled and replied 4 ,cour-
teously: 1T gives me pleasure to slbdK at
you, madam, but 1 was going further on "
A banker was scorching along one day.
AS bankers sometimes do, rn y-..,
When he struck stone and was wildly
thrown
AS much as rod two.
But he lit on his feet in a manner neat
And came to a gentle halt,
For in business he had learned, you see
How to manage a safety vault.
Good Roads.