The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Sufferers from neuralgia are warned by a
medical writer not to drink tea, but to par
take freely of coffee into, which the juice
of a lemon has been squeezed.
Nine Madeleine Lemaire, the flower
painter, has been appointed professor of
botanical drawing at the Jardin des Plantes,
Paris. This is the first French professorshlp
gained by lady. -s6r,tf~N
The Empress of Austria has offered to sell
her palace and estate at Alzilleion, Corfu,
on very favorable terms to the Byron So
ciety and steps are being taken to raise
funds for the purpose of purchasing the
property and founding an orpnanaSe Ior
Greek children as national memorial TO
Lord Byron
Isaac Barrow, one of the greatest of Eng
lish preachers, was thought to be very stu
pid when a boy. 1t is said that his father
used to remark that if it pleased God to
take from him any of his children ne noped
it would be Isaac. But Isaac lived to be-
come professor at the University OF cam
bridge and teacher of Sir Isaac Newton.
The cinematograph was used in the re-
cent eclipse observations in India, attesting
it's value in such surveys, and Professor
Flammarion the great French astronomer,
now applies it to taxing curing the Ilsll NJ, a
continuous series of pictures, showing sun
set the sidereal procession, the Milky way,
moonrise and the moons motion in the SKY.
Charlotte Cushman was once filling ain en-
gagement in a town that shall be nameless.
A fellow in the gallery made so much noise
that he finally brought the play to pause.
The audience, furious at the disturbance,
yelled Throw him over. Throw him over.
Miss Cushrnan stepped to the footnghts and
said gently and sweetly: No, beg or you;
dear friends, don't throw MIN over. ALI
him where he is.
An effort is now being made in the Eng
lish Parliament for the repeal of the obso-
lete statute against the use of Irish names.
so that persons of Irish descent may use
the prefix 30" or Mac at pleasure and
without feeling that they are violating even
q dead-letter law. This bill OF rights enla-
mated it should be said. from a Mr.. Mac,
AleeSe The Commons took a goOd-numoreu
view of the case, and the bill will doubtless
soon become law. II M 30-s
Booker T. Washington athe well-known
colored educator said, in a recent address
"Our race is in too big a hurry. the preach
ers want the title of ID. ID. before they
know divinity. Almost every graduate IN the
English course must be addressed as pro-
fessor.' We want a biography before we
have lived Some want to- take Latin ana
Greek who do not know the PERSONA pro-
noun in English. Some want postoIIilces
who do not know how many stamped en-
stick to the farm. = We do not want
to govern the country until we learn TO
govern the homer x1sn1s
There is a vivid little picture of Abraham
Lincoln in the "reminiscences OF DR.. Jesse
B. Thomas printed in the Youths Com
panion when I first saw Mr.. Lincoln,
says the doctor, 'he was sitting on dry
goods box at night, in one of the village
stores, his long legs dangling down in
front He was holding a tallow candle IN
one hand and in the other a copy of the
New York Weekly Tribune, from which he
was reading to the bystanders. The ungaln-
ly form, the drowsy eye, the salloW, rugged
and rather gloomy features contrasted
strongly and unprepossessingly with the
alert figure and sparkling, buoyant ana
rary (Douglas), already recognized as his
rival.
oh. where is the rose that blossomed
In the summer air so free?
Somewhere / wis, though / know not,
Between two dollars and three.
Detroit Journal.