The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-25
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Paderewski gets $1,000 for one concert in
London in jubilee week. Patti gets a like
sum for three songs.
F. Marion Crawford is at work upon a
lengthy series of lectures upon Italian art
to be delivered next winter
Ex-United States Senator Call is to be
made state agent in Florida for the collec-
ton of an Indian war claim of $750,000.
According to Professor Harnack, who is
quoted as among the best and most accu-
rate of the higher Biblical critics, the death
of Christ and PauPs conversion are Sepa-
rated by less than year.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of STAN
ford University, San Francisco, has, with a
number of prominent men of that city, sue
! ceeded in raising the funds necessary to es-
tablish a geological garden in San Fran
cisco.
The Duchess of Fife-nicknamed Her
Royal Shyness'-never attends the Queens
drawing rooms, and the Princess Louise OF
Lorne despiseS court functions and lives as
far as she can the life of a quiet, country
gentleWoman.
DIR. Charles Frederick Wuillgohs, the old
est physician in Ohio. still keeps up his
practice, despite his ninety-three years. He
says every member of his family, for the
past three hundred years, has lived over
one hundred years, and his grandfather, az
the age of 106, Graded wheat for three days
in succession.
When Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey was
deposed, Queen Victoria telegraphed to his
captors in French, "Soignez lie bien," or
take good care of him." the wires said,
Saignez lie bien,' which means something
very different, namely, bleed him We'll, an
error of the wires which reads grewsomely
in the light of the fate which befell that
unhappy monarch
Market quotations for peers may be
looked for soon in the London newspapers,
as the Court of Queens Bench has just de-
cided that $500 is a fair price for procuring
peer as a director in a stock company.
The Earl of Westmoreland was the peer in
question. Mr.. Justice Day said in giving
judgment: Il confess l do not understand
this buying and selling of peers or any one
else. 1t appears, however, to be a practice,
and the plalntlf, having completed his part
of the bargain, is entitled to judgment"
Somebody has remembered, what most of
us had forgotten, that it is just four hundred
years this coming June since John Cabot S
discovery of the coast of North America
and that the anniversary of this English
discovery, on June "a, 1897, agrees almost to
day with the sixtieth anniversary OF
Queen Nictoria's accession. which is to be
celebrated on June p. John Cabot was the
first of the long line of English voyagers
who opened the way for English settlement
upon the northern shores of the continent
and it was through them rather than
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toward the south, that our own civilization
had its origin.
The increase in numbers and in wealth OF
the congregation of the First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, otherwise the Oldest of the
christian Science" churches in New York
has made its leader, Mrs. Augusta Stetson
who is technically called the first reader
of the church, the most important woman
pastor in the city. Apart from her elo-
quence as a pulpit orator Mrs. Stetson is a
woman of extremely interesting personal
ity. She is perhaps fifty years old, keen
bright, well-poised and mentally alert and
as fashionably gowned and bonneted as any
member of her fashionable congregation,
She is a native of Boston but lived for
many years in India, where her husband
had an official position at a rajahs court
She is well-versed in astronomy, and once
navigated a ship across the ocean without
the assistance of the captain, though sub
iect to his direction.
"A rolling stone gathers no moss my
son.
The elder remarked. with a frown;
THE moss-back vocation, the younger re-
Piled
rs the most overcrowded in town"
Jester.