The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

vienna's Oldest painter, Rudolf Alt, has
been voted a municipal pension of $3.50 q
year.
Lord Dufferin is said to have twelve white
cats, almost exactly alike, for which he
paid $780,
the life of Alexander III and received there
for present Of $4,000, spent that sum in
few years, and then committed suicide.
Germany is now the best educated nation
of the continent, yet only one hundred years
ago German teachers in many parts of the
country sin We're SO poorly paid that they used
TO their income by odd pence.
When an interviewer recently asked
Governor Bray of Alaska, why he lived in
such an out-of-the-way place he replied: Il
can get more of the good things of life in
Alaska with smaller amount of effort than
in any other place have ever been In"
Corks are being made for medicine bot
ties which will drop the liquid instead of
pouring it. an air inlet passage and liquid
outlet passage being cut in opposite sides OF
the cork with a bulb over the air inlet to
control the air vacuum inside the bottle.
A French writer has ascertained that
Napoleon's favorite dish was bean salad,
and that he held that so cents a day ought
to be enough for any ones meals. Louis
XIV. on the contrary, had a favorte dish,
made Of the eggs of various birds, which
cost 500.
The discovery of mineral spring in Es-
sex is thus reported by local paper: A
gentleman bored well on his estate, and
was surprised to find that the water which
came gurgling UP was mainly composed of
something resembling seidltz powders in
constant state of ebullition, unsurpassed in
nauseousness by any foreign spa.
There has been a very marked interest
shown of late in Europe in American made
shoes, as evinced by consular reports and
through the newspapers The shoe manu-
facturers of the United States are taking
special pains to make a. magnificent display
in this line at the Paris exposition, various
houses having sent out circulars stating
facts in regard to space, privileges, etc.
Here is a new anecdote about Cecil
Rhodes: In 1884 he was severely attacked in
the press. and notably by one journalist to
whom he had given very considerable as
said one of Mr.. Rhodes's friends after all
you have done for him." Mr.. Rhodes
though rare. explosions. burst out with:
Hound yourselfi Do you think / wanted
to bride the man?'
The Society of Friends is dwindling
body in the United Kingdom generally, but
in a corner of Wales a revival seems to
have set in. The opening of new meeting
just taken place at Llandrindod Wells, and
1t is the third to be opened in the locality
since 1890. Llandrindod, by the way, is the
favorite summer haunt OF Cardinal
Vaughan, who preached to the population
on the occasion of his last two visits.
The late Henry Moerlein, of Cincinnati,
wrote very remarkable book, which is
highly priced by collectors. With a party
of friends he made trip around the world.
AT every place of interest he bought the
best photographs of buildings, scenery,
places or other objects he could find or had
them made to order. On his return he had
these made into colored photo-lithographs
He wrote condensed account of his Jour
ney, adding all the facts which had oc-
CURED in the past five years. so as to bring
the volume down to date. He printed and
handsomely bound certain number of
books and gave one to every friend as a
souvenir. The cost is said to have been
about $40 book. None was ever sold by
the author.