The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs Russell Sage is interested in her hus-
bands many business projects and has for
many years made a careful study OF the
street and it's stocks.
Lady Curzon of Kedleston, formerly Miss
Mary Letter, is credited with having spent
$4,000 with one dressmaker in Paris lately
in anticipation of future needs in India.
Mark Twain frequently goes without eat
ing for a whole day. but is never without
cigar between his lips. and says that the
cigar he can't smoke has never been put
together.
Ex-Governor Waite, of Colorado, has be-
come a rich man in mining Several of his
claims have turned out well, one return
showing as high as $4,000 ton and he
will now devote all his time to mining.
A delicious stufing for dates is a paste
made of chopped peanuts, mixed with the
white of an egg, powdered sugar and few
drops of sherry. After the dates are filed
with this mixture they may be rolled in
fine sugar These are novel and toothsome
bonbonS, and very easily prepared.
'Clarson" is the name of a new made
to-order language constructed from French,
Italian Spanish and Portuguese. 1t is said
to be less thin than Italian, less cultural
than Spanish, and omits the nasals of the
French and Portuguese. The author OF
Garrison claims that 1t can be completely
mastered in two or three weeks.
E. A. Burbank. the portrait painter, sue
full face, of the Apache Geronimo during
the Omaha exposition. Asked how much
he would charge to sit, the Indian replied,
you'll get about IS fol, the picture;, give
me $780, but later he demanded a dollar
more to don his war paint.
Miss Lutte A. Lyle, Topel1a's colored
woman lawyer, has been appointed men,
Der of the faculty of the law department of
Central Tennessee College, Nashville She
is said to be the only female law instructor
in the world. she will teach the law OF
the domestic relations, evidence. real prop
erty, crimes and criminal procedure.
Boston's ten public ice-water fountains
cost the city forty cents apiece per day
during the summer. Water Commissioner
Murphy is now making arrangements
whereby ice will be cut this winter from
reservoirs belonging to the department. and
the cost Of the free ice water will thereby
be made merely nominal next summer.
NJ Dmitri Schevitch. the Russian ambas-
sador in Madrid. who is well known as
judicious collector. has succeeded in pur-
chasing medieval work of art. which was
formerly in village near Valladolid, and is
well known as the Christ with the Blue
Eyes" 1t is q marble bust. with the eyes
apparently made OF rock crystal. Its his
Italian of the early renaissance period.
Dr. Wolff, of Strasburg. an authority ON
surgical matters. has been collecting sta
tistics with regard to accidents to workmen.
He finds that Mondays and Fridays are
the days on which most accidents occur.
and he traces the cause to the fact that the
drinking shops are most freQuented By
workmen on the previous days. viz. Sun
days and Thursdays. With reference to the
hours of the day. DR.. Wolff states as an
undoubted fact that the hours after break
fast dinner and the afternoon rest are those
signaiizsd BY most accidents. He attributes
this TO lassitude, caused By the work of
digestion. ard to the use made by men of
intoxicants during meal times
The ancient weather vane of Faneuil Han.
Boston--a mammoth grasshopper-is to be
taken down and repaired When this yane
was last repaired a paper bearing the fol-
lowing legend was found within It: "Shesn
browne Made fft May 25 17l2 To my
Brethren aud Fellow Graashoppers. fen