The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-18

times fears to open a paper. So, too, Mrs.
Russell Sage. But Mrs. Roosevelt has made
quite a collection or the multitudinous rep
reservations of the Rough Rider
A quilt was recently exhibited at a fair
in Delaware which came over in the May
flower. The figures on it were colored an
indigo blue with dye pot in vogue at that
time.
Miss Helen Gould has received a twelve
inch projectile from the Navy Department.
1t was sent to Lyndhurst, her country place,
south OF Tarrytown, as souvenir or the
war with Spain. 1t weighed eight hundred
pounds.
Lady Henry Somerset, who has been in
poor health, has been living almost in re-
tirement in England for some time. She has
occupied her leisure in modelling statuette
Oh ner Iate friend and co operator ,, IN the
Secretary of State Hay tells this story of
Lincoln which did not appear in his biogra-
ply of that President: One morning in the
White House grounds Lincoln found that
a robins nest containing three little birds
mad been knocked off an evergreen tree
near the White House by careless cab
urlVer. kneeling on the ground and put
ting the birds back in the nest, he replaced
1t, saying: These birds are helpless and
I'll make them happy again"
Emperor William is much displeased over
several incidents of his trip to Jerusalem.
The reply of the Vatican to his notification
of rights acquired at Mount Zion is con-
sidered extremely curt, and on all important
occasions the French consul general kept
an eye on the Kaiser in order to assert
Frances guardianship of holy places More
over, it appears that the Sultan practically
took forcible possession of the land he pre-
sented to Emperor William, the owner OBJ
jecting to sell ecclesiastical property
A doctor who has been among New
York's poor on the East Side for five years
states that he has known families who for
weeks have existed on an expenditure of 5
cents day for food. The amount and char
acter of the food vary with the nationality
and the amount of total income. Hebrew
women told him that they can give morn
ing and evening meal the latter consisting
Of soup, bread, coffee and a vegetable, for
W per month per person and make money.
lie fixes the average outlay for food in the
darkest district at from to IL cents a day.
The Empress Eugene is dying in exile
after seeing the pomp and glory of empire
pass away from her. She is now in her
ceventy-third year and resides at Farm
borough, in one of the southern counties of
England. She is rich and owns a country
house and estate which cost her about a
quarter of a million dollars. She lives
quietly and entertains few people who are
not relatives. The most distinguished
among her guests during recent years have
been the German Emperor and Queen Vic
torias daughter, Princess Henry of Batten-
berg. F'orty-f1Ve years have passed since
her marriage with Napoleon Ill in Paris
with splendid pomp. For seventeen years
she was the greatest lady on the continent.
For twenty-eight years she has been an
exile in England, making occasional jour
neyS to Spain and passing through Paris
a few times. Her longest pilgrimage was
to Zululand, in South Africa, where her
only son was killed in the English service.