The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23

lery contains over three hundred pictures,
prominent among which is the late Thomas
Hovendens Breaking Home Ties, owned
by Mr. c. c. Harrison. Mr.. John wanna
maker has also loaned a large painting TO
the exposition.
on Decoration day there will be dedi-
Gated on Boston Common memorial to
Col. Robert Shaw. who commanded the
first colored regiment from Massachusetts'
and was killed in the assault on Fort WaS-
ner.
Paderewsk recently gave benefit per-
Torrance in the Gaiety Theater, Paris to
a house sold out at high prices for the
fund for the erection Of monument nead,r TO
amounted to 1900 francs
An English admirer of DR.. hansen has
secured for his use wonderful little thir-
ty-eight-ton steam launch, with new
style of propeller, placed abaft the rudder,
which Is said to show a phenomenal power
of getting through the ice.
A Kentucky woman, hearing that her
cook had applied for a divorce, asked what
was the reason for so doing. well,
ma am" said the cook, me an Jake has
alters got along pretty well but - done
got my sister divorce for $ll.4O, ana L
thought I'd Jest git me one While they
were cheap"
The present premier of Greece. NJ. Rail-,
is almost forty-five. yet he has the appear
ance of man considerably younger. He
has a slight figure. fair hair and com
pexion. and is active in his movements At
the outset of HIS political career he tray
eled from town TO town and harangued the
people in taverns and cafes.
Mercedes. Princess of Asturias, who for
six months, between the death of her
father and the birth of her brother, was
Queen of Spain and win be Queen again
should Alfonso XIII die before he has chill
dren, is now seventeen years of age. She
rides an English bicycle. the gift of her
Stepmother, Queen Christina.
"a prominent Cherokee Official" says
the Wichita Eagle, gained his Indian blood
in this manner: An old Indian woman cut
a cash in her hand. allowing the blood to
drop on a piece of bread, which the person
in question ate, and then went down on his
knees and crawled. The old woman made
oath that he had Indian blood in him ever
since he crawled
Senator Deboe, the new senator from
Kentucky. visited the stationery room of
the Senate the other day, and made Sc
lection of paper, pens, pencils. paper cut
ters, blotting pads penknife and other
appropriate articles. Il think that is all l
want" he said, as he turned to CO.
Haven't you forgotten a corkscrew?"
asked the clerk. No said the SENATOR
that is thing ] do not want, even if
/ do come from Kentucky. do not drink
and / do not smoke"
Rev. .Minot Savage said in his Sunday
sermon in New York that the world is
growing better and the people are getting
bigger. He is reported as saying; Despite
the stories of the patriarchs that the people
who existed many years ago were of gil
gantic form and lived to great ages, the
average physical condition of the men and
women to-day exceeds that of the people OF
past generations, and the period of life was
never 50 great as it is now. 1 know it, be-
cause in the Tower of London / have tried
to wear the armor of so-called giants of
the middle ages and I could not get into
any of the suits They were all too small
fer rae."
His manner showed detection and he talked
of many a pain.
He's just come home from Washington
he'd found out where he stood,
That's why he StroVe TO whip the drug
store clerk with might and MAN.
Who innocently offered something equal
ly as good"
-Washinrton Star