The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-21
ABOUT PEoPLE AND THINGS.

Emperor William is having made for MS
friend. the Sultan, faithful imitation Oh
the historic walking stick Of Frederick the
Great 1t is to be surmounted WIN Knot
of massive gold and TO be ,stuuoeo WITH
diamonds
Richard Olney has written letter to Col
onel Roosevelt in which he says: Con
ordinations young man, on a canvass the
most plucky j have ever known, ana Ioi-
lowed by the success which so much PLUCK
deserves, but does not always dchleVe.
Lady Henry Somerset, who has been In
poor health, has been living almost III re-
tirement in England for some time. She has
occupied her leisure in modelling statu-
cite Of her late friend and co-operator IN Inc
temperance cause, Miss Frances willard
The Netherlanders stand in the foremost
rank as coffee drinkers, using go ounces
year to each inhabitant. We are but fourth
on the coffee-drinking list, using 125VV,Ooo
pounds a year, or 155 ounces apiece rus
STA. however, allows but three ounces 10
each person.
John Arbuckle, the millionaire coffee king,
who is fighting the Sugar Trust Will not
remain in a place in which the temperature
is lower than his theory thinks hygienic.
Every room in his house ana place OF pusi-
ness Is furnished with a thermometer, WHICH
he inspectS hourly.
William Barton, New York newspaper
man for fifty years until he retired in 1898
and some years before his coming to this
country London Times reporter has just
died at the age of elghty-three. FOR forty
years he was the ship news edltor OF the
Herald, and the fact shows that there Is no
dead line' against competent worKhen.
1t is understood that Lord Kitchener
while on a visit to Balmoral presented
Queen Victoria many interesting relics OF
the battle of Omdurman The final destiny
of the Khalifa's standard is not at present
known, but as it seems to nave peen cap
tured by the Sudanese troops II is thought
not improbable that it may hang IN the
Khedive's palace at Cairo.
John Ferguson, who works on farm near
Calhoun, Ca is fifty years old, just over
eight feet tall and weighs SIG pounds Up
to the age of twenty years he was an in
valid, but after that he increased in Drawn
and muscle with miraculous rapiuIly, -, Until 4;
at the age of thirty he was, as ne now II,
a veritable giant He is forty-eight inches
around the chest and forty around the
waist.
a London man named Onion has been con-
victed of being drunk and disorderly one
thousand times He makes living by writ
ing poetry advocating temperance. AS soon
as he receives pay for a poem he goes off
and gest drunk. He defends this somewhat
curious course by saying that he couldh
write such effective temperance poetry u
he didn't get drunk When he received his
milennial conviction the other day ne Sug-
gested that he ought to get souvenir 10
commemorate the event.
When James whitcomb Riley was in
Cleveland lately a reporter came upon him
while he was writing something on the fly
leaf of book 1t was a slow process, and
Riley seemed to appreciate it,, for, looking
up al the reporter. he remarked: Folks
might consider me a pretty slow writer, but
they would be wrong l don't write. print print,
writes dialect poetry he gets into the habit
of thinking that the dialect is important.
but ne is apt to stick to it. In this regard
he meets with no sympathy from the COM
positor. fact which he very soon discov-
ers. Therefore, 1 stopped writing and de-
voted myself to print. It's slow, but it's
fairly sure
When money talks
What does it tell?
The answers easy
just FAREWELL