The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr.. Herbert Spencer is still living at
Brighton. England 1t is doubtful whether
he will ever return to London. He. is re-
ported to be in exceedingly feeble health,
suffering from an affection Of the heart.
A pigs tail is said to indicate unerringly
the condition of the animal. If it hangs
loose it shows that the pig is not wei and
that it's food should be changed. If it is
coiled tightly the pig Is healthy and happy.
Mark Twain is very popular with the
Viennese. He gave public reading in
Vienna three weeks ago and the hall was
not large enough 20 hold the people willing
to pay S. to listen to him, and the reading
was in English, too.
Elephants in the Indian army are fed
twice day. Wher meal time arrives they
are drawn up in line before a row of piles
of food. Each animals breakfast includes
ten pounds of raw rice done up in five two
pound packages. The rice is wrapped up
in leaves and then tied with grass.
Mr.. Gladstone has found music great
relief during the suffering of the last few
weeks. Miss Geraldine Iiddell is, it APP
pears, the performer who charms his neu-
ralgia. She is an exquisite musician and
has a way Of playing iong-drawn chords
which has a peculiarly soothing effect.
Mrs. c. Parish. whose age is eghty-four,
who has been shipwrecked three times in
three different oceans, recently entertained
party of friends at her home in San Fran
cisco. The age of the youngest person
present was seventy years. Two gentle
men, one ninety-three and the other 102
years old, sent regrets because of business
engagements.
With the death of John H. Ryder, of
Cleveland, the other day, there passed away
the last of little coterie of men who were
chiefly responsible for setting Artemus
Ward in the way of becoming famous. Ar--N
temus was a reporter for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, and Ryder in those days was
his most intimate friend and lived with him
when he wrote his first letter signed 'Arte-
mus Ward"
Some recruits for the German army were
recently examined with reference to their
knowledge of history. To the question,
who is Bismarck" the following were
among the replies received: Bismarck was
the Emperor of the French Bismarck is
dead" Bismarck is a pensioner and lives
in Paris" Bismarck took part in the cam
paign of 1870 and received medal for good
conduct" Bismarck descends from the
Hohenzollerns and was born on April J."
Professor AgGssiz, of Harvard, has just
arrived at San Francisco after an absence
of some months on the South seas spent
in studying the formation of the coral
islands. 1t is said that he is now prepared
to demonstrate, in opposition to the theories
of Darwin and Dana, that the coral islands
are not built up from the bottom, but are
formed by a comparatively thin crust of
coral upon tops of submerged mountains at
points where the ocean is comparatively
shallow. In nearly every instance where
boringS have been made in the coral the
coral has been found to be shallow. At
few places where 1t seems to have great
depths Professor Agassiz says that the ma
terial into which deep borings are made is
lime of a former age of the earth.
A woman cashier is the kind to have
She always is honest and true;
She never runs off with intrusted cash,
But she takes her employer, too.
Judge.
How strange a thing ones income Ia,
A paradox 1t seems to be-
To live without one bothers some,
To live within one bothers me-
The Widow.
faint the thing to holler,
Raisin a distress
When a situation
Calls for thoughtfulness.
It's a waste o. power,
An it doesn't seem JeS' right
Usin' up yer vaior
When there isn't any fight.
People as is patient
Thems the ones as acts
When they've Sfted matters
To the bottom facts.
Dogs that does much barlSin'
Amt counted on to bite
Usin up their Yalor
When there isn't any fight.
Washington Star.