The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-10
ABOUT PEOpLE AND THINGS.

"A nonpartisan," declares Henry Cabot
Lodge is a nonthinker."
grandson of the late Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler is a candidate for The Legislature in
Lowell Mass.
Miss Helen V. Boswell, the organizer and
head of the Womans Republican movement
IN New York, IS g mining engineer and
ranks high as mining draughtsman.
In Venice many ladies have been seen
shopping in bonnets made of glass. The
craze has reached Paris, and it is said that
glass bonnets will soon be sold in London.
G. p. Wood, now baggage master in the
Union Station in Boston. is one OF three
men in that city who hold the "Kearney
Cross for special bravery during the war
of the rebellion.
when the little girl is naughty" says
Miss Jessie M. Fowler, giving mother di-
rections for curing her small daughters
bad temper, put on her best gown, and
you will see that she cannot Withstand its
influence.
Gray squirrels in the vicinity of Baraboo,
Wis, gather in droves every now and then
and migrate southwark. This fall the
woods are alive with them. They travel
at the rate of about half a mile a day. and
the migration period lasts about two weeks.
The cause of the migration is not known.
According to a Paris paper Donna Ell
vira de Bourbon, daughter of Don Carlos,
created such sensation last year, has
taken a situation in a New York millinery
establishment, where she makes hats from
o'clock in The morning until at night.
Col William r. Morrison, of Illinois,
president OF the Interstate-commerce Com
mission, is preparing to retire to private
life at the end Of his term in January next.
Colonel Morrison has been q member of
the Interstate-commerce Commission for
ten years. There will be a lively contest
for the position the office carries with
it a salary of $500 year
Francis Murphy, the temperance a1vo-
cate. says that electricity and the bicycle
are doing great things for the cause. THE
motormen and conductors" he says. ARE
keeping sober, and the Introduction OF cleo
tricity is to be thanked for it,; and "a man
cannot ride bicycle when he is drunk,
and man who is breathing pure air OF the
country receives inspiration without the
use of artificial stimulants.
Queen Victorias chief bodily i'll now is
the pain in the finger wherein she wears
the wedding and engagement rings given
her by Prince Albert. Her hand has grown
too fat for her rings, and she Will not have
them cut. They cannot now be removed in
any other way, and one correspondent SAID
that is is now question whether her
MajeSty will foregO her pretty sentiment or
continue to suffer acute physical pain.
Henry G. Bryant, the young explorer of
Philadelphia, has returned from an explor-
ing trip of more than four months in
Alaska. ''In the open season. he says,
from March 1 to the middle of September.
any man at all used to outdoor life and
roughing it can cross the Chilkoot pass and
find the rest of the journey to the gold
fields of the Yukon easy sailing. He can
carry over all the supplies he wishes to
take If he has money to pay the exorbitant
prices asked by the packers The dangers
of this trail have been greatly exaggerated,
in my opinion. The country is full of gold
and a man with nerve and endurance need
not worry about getting through in the
right time of year."
Ii Hung Chang has appointed a woman
physician to practice in his own family.
She is Miss Eng, the daughter of China
man who took his degree at an American
university She holds diploma of the
Women's Medical College of Philadelphia.
Dr. Eng and Miss Wang will represent
China in the women's congress to be held
in London the coming year.
The sun is losing it's heat, they say;
The oceans are running dry,
And the marks of death and of decay
Are on everything under the sky.
The earth is fated to whirl in space
AS dry as the moon is now,
With nothing alive upon its face
They know, but don't know how,
And | do not bother, nor do !, care,
For when this comes about
Heat and water and light and air
VIII be things l can do without
Cleveland Leader.
So live. that when thy summons comes to
join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each
shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not like the quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained
and sooth'd
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
Like one that draws the drapery of his
couch
About him and lies down to pleasant
dreams
Bryant.