The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS

Aguinaldo is only twenty-seven years ola
1t is interesting to note that at the Dorof.
lean college where he was educated he NH
regarded as hopeless Ounce vas
Cardinal Parrochi who is spoken NJ DC -.
probable successor to Pope Leo XIII e
great reader of the newspapers. and Was
himself newspaper man in his younreS
days. ee'
It's timetable folders cost the Rosto, .
Maine Railroad last year $4,000. Simnlo.
and cheaper forms are being used this vs,,
and give. it is said, better satisfactior y,
the patrons OF the road.
On conspicuous knoll fronting mpch-
frequented drive outside of Milwaukee tboro
stands a large white wooden cross ereotas
at Miss Jessie Schley's expense as rel
minder to all passers-by to remember their
Maker. e''
Lord Dufferin, who is now over seventh
years old. has lately set about the acouisi-
ton of knowledge, of the Persian Ian
guage, thereby riValing Queen Victoria
who, at nearly the same age, began TO stnd,,
HindoStanee.
Bishop John p. Newman, who is spending
the summer at his cottage in Sarators
Springs. has been compelled on account ~
bad health, to cancel all of the assignment
made for him by the board OF bishops of tba
Methodist Episcopal Church.
A Western paper says that Colonel "
Cody received the name Buffalo Bill" from
the fact that he had the contract to s,,nnlv
meat to the men who were constructing the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, and that he almost
always gave them buffalo meat
Not all the reason given for the DELAYED
publication of book are as neat and con-
elusive as those advanced in the case Of q
recently announced book. Ease in Cycling /"
The publisher had to beg for indulgence be-
cause its author had just been pitched or
his wheel broken his collar bone and lain
insensible for sixty hours.
The average native of the Philippines is
a humble and peaceable sort of fellow.
He has very little education and has no
knowledge at all of the world outside of the
islands. The natives are simple people
They love to dance, sing and loaf Poverty
is moro general than anywhere on the con-
tinent. Under good government there
would never be suggestion of rebellion,
and these people could be made prosperous
A good story is related at the expense of
Bob" Ingersoll. The colonel was recently
talking with an old colored woman in
Washington concerning religious matters.
do you really believe, aunty," said he
that people are made out of dust?" Yes
sab. The Bible says dey is, and so
weather, when there is nothing but mud?"
Den / s'pects dey make infidels an SIGH
truck"
Joachim, the great violinist, was intro
duced to Carlyle by a mutual friend. The
sage was about to take his morning walk.
and he asked Joachim to accompany him.
During a very long walk in Hyde Park Car
lyle kept the conversation running on Ger
many and its great men-the Fredericks,
Moltke and Bismarck-until at last Joachim
thought it was his turn to take lead, and
he started with the inquiry: DO you know
Sterndale Bennett?" NO" was the reply,
and, after a pause 'T don't care generally
for musicians; they are an empty. wind
baqPv sort of npOnle -
Lieutenant Hobson," says To-day, Of
London, whose sinking of the Merrimac
before Santiago has made him famous was
at one time a resident in Paris, and was
among the first to join the White Rovers
Football Club, who pioneered the associa-
ton game into France. w. H. Sheator who
was one of the founders, and who gave me
this little bit of information, did not speak
very highly of Hobsons play. He remarked:
Hobson always. played as though he did
not know on which side he was on. He
kicked all over the place, and among the
most celebrated of these kicks was one that
put a. prominent member of our club to bed
for six weeks
You had better have a care,
Aguinaldo-
There are things we cannot bear.
Aguinaldo-
We should hate to swing you high
Up between the earth and sky,
But may have to by and by,
Aguinaldo.
Detroit Free Press.
She's gone away to stay until
The early autumn days,
Where the winds blow cool and DER the hill
There ever hangs haze.
She Tolls at ease from morn till night,
While must toll away
But the worst is that I've got to write
Chicago News.