The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Pineapple gardens planted two years ago
at st. Petersburg, Fla, have proved so
Successtul that the acreage given to them
has been considerably increased
a negro resident of Washington estimates
that his people in the District spend over
$l2,OO0,0OO there every year of which Sc 120 O00
goes for food and other living incidentals.
So, $4,000 for clothing. 81, 995, 900 for liquors
and $031OJ for tobacco.
II. }. Jones, of Cincinnati, bought a violin
a few years ago for SIS and gave it to his
daughter. While it was being repaired re-
cenlIy ne accidentally discovered that it
was an instrument he himself had made in
1913 as an experiment and sold for S.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, in
the Youths Companion, tells of James Rus
sell Lowells first client when he began to
practice law. After Lowell had nervous!y
given the CLIENT Il chair taken his hat and
sat down with his notebook TO take notes
on the case he found that his visitor was
painter, come to collect bill.
American improvements are more and
more attacking London. Westminster and
Waterloo bridges and the Victoria embank-
ment are to be lighter by electricity, and
one Of the reasons for its use urged in tive
London Council, was that it would make
the city more attractive in the sight o.
rich Americans. The proposed improve
ment will cost about $110O00.
The late Archbishop Janssens, of New
~,
which he inherited from his father and
three-fourths of it he bequeathed for re-
.ligious and charitable purposes He was en-,
titled TO a handsome salary for years but
drew barely enough to pay the actual e1-
penses for his simple living, having allowed
the remainder to accumulate to pay off the
debt Of the diocese.
One day a preacher called on Horace
Greeley to ask for a subscription to a tenn
perance society What are it's objects?'
ENORMOUSLY asked Horace without looking
up from the manuscript upon which he
was working. ITO prevent people from GO
ing TO Il, was the pious man 5 response.
I'm not give you a D. cent" piped
shrill tones. There are not half enough
people going to h now"
The Tennyson memorial in the Isle of
Wight will be unveiled by Lady Tennyson
and dedicated by the Archbishop OF Can
terbury on Aug. 8. at o'clock, the anniver-
sary of the late laureate's birthday No
invitations to attend will be issued bur
all who IRE interested will be welcomed. The
memorial is on FreShwater Down, Tenny-
sons favorite walk, and it is in the form
of an Iona cross, replacing the old beacon
on the same site.
The Boston Transcript recalls a story of
Edwin Forrest during one of his Boston
engagements. A poor artist called several
times to see him at the old Winthrop
House Each time he brought a picture
which he had painted. He finally left it
with a note stating that he was in needy
circumstances. Forrest read the note ana
took the wrapping from the picture 1t
proved 10 be painting of himself as Spar
tacus. Forrest gazed upon ii a moment
and then calculated to the clerk: Give
him $40. II he is as poor as his picture no
must be on the point of starvation"
The recent appointment of two young
women as translators TO the Bureau Of
American Republics a new department or
the government at Washington, has been a