The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Cats are held in great reverence in Persia.
The Shah alone has fifty, of them, and each
one has an attendant of its own, with a spe-
cal room for meals, When the Shah travels
the cats go also, being carried by men on
horseback
Suggestion of a way to find the money
needed to build the Nicaragua canal may
be found in the offer of an English advertis-
ing FIRM that wants to board in the banks
OF the Suez canal and decorate them with
advertisements. ~
1t has recently been learned in England
that Lord Beaconsfeld's coat of arms was
taken from the gravestone of a Jew who
was buried in Prague. The Jew had been
ennobleI for his valiant services during the
Thirty Years war.
The Prince of Wales is credited with hav-
ing lively objection to the practice of cut
ting off horses tails, and as the custom is
largely maintained by that contingent of
the fashionable world that follows the
prince rather closely ii looks as though the
tails might now be allowed to grow.
President Kruger is reported to believe
that the world is as fiat as a pancake
When Joshua Slocum. who is making the
grand tour In an eight-ton boat, ran up to
Pretoria for an interview with the head of
the Boer government, he observed that he
was Voyaging around the world. You mean
across the world, said Dom Paul.
General Stark, after the battle of Ben
two ellis of blue and one of yellow cloth to
make him a coat, and half dozen shirts of
Dutch linen" And he was charged with
1ngratitude when he complained that Con-
gress had overlooked the matter of giving
MIN cambria with which to make the cuffs. ;
good story is told of the wife of Col.
Robert Ingersoll. She was recently spend
ing an evening with a friend. About 8
o'clock, after Intellectually attempting to
smother several uou ,pc NTrc Tp0areoI op0l-
ogiZed as follows: "You really must excuse
me, but you know, dear, that / have accom-
panied the colonel on recent lecture tour
and have in consequence got into the habit
of falling asleep at about o'clock every
evening"
According to foreign gossip, the real insti-
gator of the present Carlist movement is
Dona Bertha, the wife of Don Carlos. AL
though a princess of the house of Rohan, she
is not Of royal blood, and has been COM
PEELED on this account to endure many
Sights. BY some she is treated as NOR
ganatic wife She wants to be Queen of
Spain, If only for a day, so that her posi-
ton in the courts of Europe may be firmly
established.
One of the most distinguished medical men
and scientists in the Russian empire is about
to visit England upon an important mission.
The extension of the Russian empire in
Asia has increased the necessity of taking
measures for combating infectious diseases.
DR.. Dembo has been instructed, therefore,
by the imperial authorities to visit western
Europe and consult with the British authori-
ties as to the means adopted in their far-off
possession for checking disease.
The Countess of Castellane, formerly Anna
Gould, is so Disguised with the conventional
French marriage wherein the bride, no
matter how humble, must bring dover to
her husband, that she has organized So
ciety for promoting matrimony among the
lower classes without any such obligation
She realizes the amount of prejudice and
the weight of custom she will have to over
come and is credited with saying that if
necessary, in merftDriouS- cases, she will
furnish the dowry herself.