The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-02

country some time ago. Associated with
Governor Pingree arc several Michigan cap
ita.ists The deposits are said to be almost
iLexhaustible, and Pingree is on the road
TO immense wealth.
Sir Walter Besant recently delivered
lecture at the Guild Hall, at Winchester,
on King Alfred. It Is proposed to mark the
thousandth anniversary of the death of Al
fred October. 901) by the erection of a
memorial in Winchester.
Boston Is getting rid of its professional
beggars by turning them over to the ten
der mercies Of some special policemen de-
tailed for this service. The beggaFS are
given the choice of disappearing from the
streets or going to Jail. A majority chose
the first alternative, and are working other
cities which have not adopted the Boston
plan, and the others are in jail. where they
will be required to stay until they have
served out their full sentences.
In his fourth article of the series entitled
Bright Skies in the West" appearing in
Harper's Weekly, Franklin Matthews men,
tons that one of the foremost editors, in
Chicago, speaking OF Kansas and Nebraska,
quoted the dictum Of a, weE-known pubic
man: IAN American race of giants is to
come out of the middle West" Il think
he continued, you'll find indications of 1t.
They are the most intelligent people on
earth. The native-born population numbers
hard times and have been in distress, but
whatever may be said of them and their
vagaries, they are already beginning to
produce giants in intellect"
Carl Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, the world
renowned animal dealer, has made the sug-
gestion that "as there is such rage for
the Klondike at present, and as the pros
pectors want beasts which can stand the
terrible climate. / offer as the best animal
for that country the real Siberian double
bumped camel, which weighs about 400 to
LEGO pounds, and which can carry five to
six hundredweight. These animals never
see 4 stable. They can stand the dreadful
Siberian cold as well as the greatest heat,
and as these animals are also trained TO
go in harness, and as they pull as much as
big horse, think they would be the most
valuable animals for the new klondike
gold fields.''
President Kruger will shortly have the
opportunity of unwilling at Pretoria
monument to himself. AS result of the
national subscription raised for the pur-
pose native artist, Van Bouw by name,
was commissioned nearly two years ago to
execute the work, and has been exclusively
engaged upon it at Rome ever since. The
monument is designed to glorfy the mai
esty Of the Transvaal republic, and the
statue of Dom Paul, in heroic size, crowns
the structure, in itself some fiftysfeet high.
One interesting, but uneSthetic, fact is
that the President has insisted on being
represented in the ordinary top hat of daily
life. and strangely enough those who have
been admitted to a private view of the clay
model concur in saying that the por-
trait of the Boer statesman is, despite this
hard fact, quite dignified.
Oh, gentle weather man, be fair,
And serve a noble cause;
Shall we put on our wooden wear
Or travel out in gauze?
When forth we fare for pleasures fling,
The playthings of the fates,
Shall we our tennis racquetS bring
Or will we need our skates?
Will skies with torrid sunshine siZz
Or be O'ercast with gloom?
Oh. tell u.s. will the blizzard blizz,
Or will the Violets bloom?
Washington Evening Star.