The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-05

Prince Bismarck il is said has a strain
of Jewish blood from his mother whose
father Anastasius Won Menken. one of the
favorite bureaucrats of Frederick the Great,
was of Hebrew parentage.
Lemons, oranges, nuts. raisins and wines
to an annual average of about s2,OOO. 900 have
been imported from Spain. This year the
CalifornianS and Florida people will have
that market for just as good products, too.
Lieut.. Charles Young, the only colored
officer in the United States army and the
only one of the men of his race who ever
passed through West Point. has been chosen
major of a colored battalion of Ohio volun-
teer infantry.
Admiral Dewey's religious status has also
been fixed. He is an Episcopalian and not
Roman Catholic. Jew, an Irish Protest
ant, a Presbyterian. a Methodist, Budd-
hist, a PantheiSt and UniVerSaliSt, as had
been claimed
Miss Marion Hovey, of Boston, has given
5000 to the city of Gloucester, the income
to be paid to the graduate of the high
school who passes the best examination for
entrance to the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology
Admiral Cervera was formerly a naval
government of Spain in that city about ff-
teen years ago and was universally liked by
those with whom he came in contact. The
admiral was at that time lieutenant.
The niece of the late Charlotte Wolter sold
all the personal belongings of the famous
actress, except her papers, at auction the
other day for 113,GO0 fiorins-only a fraction
of their value. Her jewelry alone was sold
for $1,000 forms under its market value.
There was a biographical sketch of Glad
stone published in Turkish paper in 1876
1t stated that he was Bulgarian by birth,
but, going to London with some pigs which
his master desired to sell, and desiring to
become an Englishman, he changed his Bull
garian name Grozadin, for Gladstone.
The women of Coffeyville. Kan, made
up a package of useful articles for each
member of the local company of volunteers,
and sent the whole to the camp at San
Francisco. a copy of the New Testament
went with each package. and one of the
recipients objected to the gift. He said he
wanted the Old Testament, because there
was SO much more war in it.
One of the last of the old wooden ships
in the British navy is doomed. Orders have
been given for the sale of the Nelson, which
has been lying in Melbourne harbor for
many years past. She was launched in 1914,
and was then the largest English line-of-
battle ship. Her figurehead is bust of
Nelson, with England expects that every
man this day will do his duty" a scroll
beneath. The oak of which she is built is
as sound as ever.
From a preface to a volume of drawings
by Mile. Yvette Guilbert it appears that she
was born on Jan. 20, 1868, but this point is
not insisted upon. the writer adding: This
requires investigation 1t cannot give
Yvette's age. Yvette has no age She has
eternal youth" Yvette's mother was an
embroiderer Of great merit. The daughter
was apprenticed to a working dreSSmaker,
but her natural bent for the stage asserted
itself and overcame many obstacles. The
apprentice dressmaker is now wealthy
woman with a fine house in Paris and a
chateau i'll the country and an American
husband.
The boy stood at the speakers stand,
When all but he had fed.
Il want to be a soldier,
And fight with the troops" he said.
Then did he seize deadly gun,
The while his folks were cryin'?
Oh, no. he just talked on and on,
For this kid was Boy Bryan.
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