The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-03
ABouT pEoPLE AND THINGS.

Admiral Dewey has a. valuable collection
of butterflies, which is insured for 5000.
When Colonel Warning wanted the ap-
pointment for cleaning the New York
streets he was jokingly told by those in au-
thority that heaven itself couldn't clean
them in century. Il can do 1t In
MONTH said Waring.
In Mr. ZangwilPs speech at the Tolstoi
dinner he observed that the great novelist
was "a witness for the spiritual in life, a
witness sans peur ct sans reproche." One
of the reporters got it that he was "a wit
ness sepmtore, a son OF reproach.
Although she is very progressive, the
dowager Empress of China is very ex-
elusive. No man has ever seen her except
the Emperor and the eunuchs of her court.
Even La Hung Chang, her favorite minister,
has never seen her face. When he visits
her she always sits behind a screen.
A Louisville woman labored so energet-
icaIly at combing her hair last week as TO
break her collar bone. Another woman In
Ohio nearly burned an eye out with curl
ing iron and a third, this time in Kansas,
had all her hair burned off because her
curling papers caught fire accidentally.
Necessary evils say the women.
Speaking of the prevalence of YiGdish as
tongue, Israel Zangwill said in lecture
in Chicago that he recently witnessed a
play in Jewish theater in London founded
on the Dreyfus case and where Yiddish was
spoken. The character Of ESterhazy was
taken by one of the actors, and he was
Kissed so loudly that he stopped to explain
that he was not really Esterhazy and that
he thought the latter ought to be snot
Dewey's sword will cost $1,000, but tho
one to be presented to Admiral Schley by
Pennsylvanians will cost SO. 800 and will be
the finest sword that has ever been pre-
sented to either a military or naval officer
Of aataf INor mill H.
incrusted with diamonds, the hilt will be
ornamented with q large opal, and the
blade will be Damascened steel, and will be
nightly wrought and embelllshed with etch-
ings With the exception of the blade all
the metal work will be 1S-karat gold.
The American Legion of Honor, which is
composed exclusively of those to whom
medals have been awarded by Congress for
saving persons from drowning and the
perils of the sea- has elected as honorary
members President Mckinley, because of
his official position, and King Leopold of
Belgium, because he is head of a similar
organization in his own country Both the
new members have written letters of ac-
ceptance TO the washington headquarters
of the society.
William Waldorf Aston writes to the Lon
don Times denying the story that he recent
ly won a bet by giving q dinner to twenty
seven guests seated around a table cut from
a section of redwood tree. He says that
the section of tree placed in the grounds
of Cliveden was put there as an object Of
curiosity, and was never intended to be
used as dining table. No bet was ever
made as to the seating capacity of the sec
ton. The whole tale was a deliberate fab
rication. He has entered proceedings
against the paper which published the
story The account of the alleged dinner
appeared in the Daily Mail.
Don't you kinder hate the Teller
That's the hull dern show?
The chap that amt got nuthin'
More on earth to know.
He does his talkin' mostly
Thout his brains advice
The Teller with the habit
When you tell a tale to stab 1t
With
THAT cuts no ice!"
Don't you kinder hate the Teller
That's a frs -class peach?
Thinkin he's the on'y pebble
On long, wide beach.
He tries to pose as KNOWN,
But his brow WON'T grow
The Teller with a habit
When you tell a yarn to jab 1T
With
"Oh, l don't knowr'
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