The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
ABOUT pEOpLE AND THINGS.

1t is noted as an interesting phenomenon
that the American Captain Mahan's book
on 1.-THE Influence of Sea Power in History
is now being used in all German schools and
libraries to promote the Kaiser IS scheme for
big navy.
Seven Yale students passed their vacation
by serving as conductors on a New Haven
trolley line The superintendent says they
were the best conductors he ever had and
they were not members of the football
eleven at that
The wedding ring of Luther is still in
existence, and has been exhibited in a
jewelers. shop at Dusseldorf. On it is a
representation OF the crucifixion of Christ,
a small, bright ruby standing for a drop of
blood me lnscrlRtl9n IS 7et 3,1 ,5 gon
Joan of Arc has been put first on the list
of candidates for saintship at Rome, owing
to the intercession of the Bishop of Orleans.
AS there are 27l names on the list, the mere
preliminary inquiry into the cases would
have put off the trial of her merits for a
quarter of a century, and France needs a
powerful saint right away.
Mrs. J. b. Brant, now lightweight years
old, is reported to be very ill in Lexington,
Ky. She was a sister of Senator Thomas H.
Benton, who spent much of his time at her
beautiful house in St. Louis. 1t was there,
also, that John c. Fremont made his head
quarters during the war, and where he met
and married Jessie Benton, the daughter OF
Not long ago a distinguished European
scholar was lecturing in a Western city,
and in the course of his lecture he remarked
that Goethe was, perhaps, the greatest man
intellectually who has appeared since the
days of the Apostles. He. was at once IN
terrupted by woman IN the audience, who
declared that DR.. Talmage was as greaS a
man as Goethe ever was.
DIR. Thomas Dunn English, the pic
turesque author of Ben Bolt" collided
with trolley-car fender at Newark. N. j.,
thus embalned the .jRCfdent:
Oh. didn't you see the trolley, Ben Bolt,
The trolley, so<cruel and grim,
mat mo R !, ,,I "a man down and picks a
And does hot a thing unto him?
Mr.. Rider Haggard is devoted to farming.
He spends the early part of every day in
wandering around his farm, at Ditching-
ham. and does not settle down to writing
untlt IL 80 o'clock. He dictates his novels
19<a woman secretary, who types from his
Mctation-taking them down on the type
writer at lightning speed. instead of mere
" in shorthand first The scene of Mr..
Haggards new story is Holland, many CEN
turtles ago.
The most famous Methodist shrine in Lon
don next to John Wesley's Chapel is the
house where the founder of Methodism lived
and died. 1t fronts the City Road, standing
to the left of the mother church. and has
been a ministerial residence for more than
a century. A generous gift of $500 in cash,
to form a sort of endowment fund has led
the official custodians to decide 10 set 1t
apart as a Methodist institution and home.
BY the terms of the gift, says London
daily. the historic house is always to be
kept in a state of good repair and preserVa-
ton and TO undergo no structural aitera-
tions. the aim being TO keep the building,
as far as possible, in all its rooms Just as
Wesley left it. The site of apartments on
the first floor, comprising his par or, his
private oratory and the chamber il which
the great evangelist died, are 10 be specially
set apart as "Wesley's rooms.
Mrs. Cowden-Clarke, now in her eighty
! ninth year, is stil hale and hearty, living a
beautiful old age in peace and tranquility