The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Roscoe Conkling Bruce. son OF ex-senator
Blanche X. Bruce. of Mississippi. is a stu
dent at Phillips. Exeter. and made a strik-
ing impression in the chapel the other day
by his rendering of Blaine'S Grafton on
Garfield.
Miss Helen Hinsdale, a daughter of Pro-
fessor Hinsdale, of the University of Michi-
gan, upon whom the University of Coffin
gen recently conferred the degree of PHI. ID.
is the first woman TO be so honored by
that institution.
4 Boston paper says: Throughout the
Western States there are scores of aban-
doned churches. over the door of one
Western church is the inscription: This is
the Gate of Heaven and beneath IL this
notice: Closed by Order OF American Loan
Company.
Someone asked a member of the Presi-
dents household if Mrs. Nancy Allison Nc
Kinley. the Presidents mother, objected to
being called Mother Mckinley" mo. she
don't" was the reply. That is just what
she does like to be called. She is proud of
the title
Consuelo de Lesseps. third daughter of
the late Count Ferdinand. of Suez and
Panama, is shortly to marry Baron La
grange. She is said to be as beautiful as
her mother-and Nine. de Lesseps still re-
tains much of her beauty Notwithstanding
her nine children.
A Pittsburg man recently took a photo
graph of some men, and upon development
it was found that some steel beams against
which they were leaning were plainly WISH
bic through their bodies. 1t is not yet
known what conditions of apparatus or
light made this freak possible.
Out of the thirty-one young women who
received the degree of a. IL. at Radcliffe
College twenty-three are named as having
| passed their examinations with distinc-
| ton The examinations there are the same
as at Harvard. but there has never been "A
| time. il is said. when the latter graduated
a class in which the proportion OF dlStin-
guished students was so large. q
The curious way a word is manufactured
is found in the history of the word dem
licked" AS a Yorkshireman man will say.
Them taters is demicked." He means the
potatoes are suffering from some disease
OF the plant. ''Demick" came from cpl
demic. When the first potato DllSht came,
a half century ago. the farmers hearu IL
called an epidemic" Thus new words are
coined.
Count TolstOi is at present staying in
st. Petersburg. At the recent celebration
of the founding of the University of st.
Petersburg. a body of about 100 students
happened TO meet him on the street. They
at once recognized him, and gave vent to
the most demonstrative indications or their
regard for him, kissing his hands and his
garments anu NOulU nave hhh III
triumph through the city had he not de-
cisively protested.
1t has been found that the average pro-
fessional life OF a trained nurse is only ten
years. In that time she must save up
enough for her support in case of illness,
| 10 which she is peculiarly susceptible owing
to the nature of her work. She Is always
| liable TO contract contagious diseases from
her NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. not only from cpl
! denies such as cholera. yellow fever and
smallpox. but from the infection of typhoid
troubles and pneumonia. which are readily
conveyed TO the nurse in close and constant
attendance. At the end of ten years or ac-
tive work in her profession. the average
nurse is worn out and incapacitated for
further arduous service.
Ye say you're Scotch?
| haze me dootsi
we've talked an hoOr
An nae said 'hoots."
-Harper's Bazaar.
If you would have loves flame grow bright
Do not withhold your pelf:
To make his torch give better light
Don't blow it-blow yourself.
Detroit Free Press.