The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There is a law in France that compels
the wife to get a signed certificate from
her husband before she is permitted to go
touring on wheel.
James M. futile, of Lincoln, ILL.,, who lies
on his deathbed at the age of ninety-two,
has wiled 81, 600 to Colonel Robert G. In
gersol on condition that the orator delivers
the funeral Grafton over his grave.
The music-festival idea has spread to Nor
way, which has recently given the first ma
tional gathering of the kind at Bergen. The
orchestra was from Amsterdam, but the
composers represented were all Scandina-
Wan, Grieg, Svendsen and Ole Bull figur-
inS prominently.
The Xenia (Ohio) Herald in speaking of
the troubles Of that locality says: 1.-THE
time has come for action. The streets are
in a horrible condition. The police fund is
exhausted, and our militia has gone to the
war. Ed Schmidt owns the Council, and
the city is in darkness. Burglars are at
large, and the Methodist conference will be
here in few days. Johnny, get your gum"
One of the best stories that Richard Hard
ing Davis tells in the August Scribner's of
the Rocking Chair Period of the War at
Tampa is about young officer who, with
a long iced drink at his elbow and cigar
between his teeth, gaZed at the colored
electric lights, the palm. trees, the whirling
figures in the ballroom and remarked sem
tentiously:. Gentlemen, as General Sher-
man truly said, war is hell "
Judge Marshall. of Missouri, addressed
county convention the other day and told
his hearers howNhe was the unanimous
choice of the Democrats of st. Louis and
how he carried the primaries in that city.
During pause in the speech an honest old
farmer with long whiskers leaned over and
said to his neighbor in q stage whisper
that could be heard all over the hall: Yes,
he was; en an honest man would 'ev had
no more chance in them air primaries than
talIOW legs would have
1t is authoritatively stated that small mos
quito nets are much needed at the various
camps. The regulation kind, made by the
quartermasters department, are made on a
ring or elastic, that may be fitted around
the army hat. There must be plenty of
around the cot bed. Mosquitoes have an
inSinuatlng way of securing an entrance
from the. ground if the netting is allowed
to hang in free folds. A soldiers sleep is
so necessary to him that guarding against
it's being disturbed by the pests of South
ern climates is important.
The Maine was very polite ship and the
ceremonies of the service were strictly fol-
lowed in the dreadful moments that fol-
lowed the explosion. The marine orderly
when he saluted Captain Sigsbee, both be-
ing in the dark stumbled against his COM
mander and Immediately apologized for
such unsodierly familiarity. The officers
when leaving the sinking vessel would not
take precedence of their captain in enter
ing the boats until he peremptorily ordered
them to go ahead. These statements are
from the evidence of Captain Sigsbee, who
says that the only order not promptly
obeyed was his command that all others
should take to the boats before he en-
tered them. He was the last man to leave
the Maine. Naval ceremony that seems SUI
perfiuous in times of tranquility promotes
GOODNESS III time of danger.
When you're naming off the heroes
OF this summer war with Spain,
Beginning with Captain Sigsbee,
Who commanded the ship Maine,
And going on with Dewey.
And Hobson and Pop Schley,
And shafter and the others.
Whose fame will never die,
You must not forget another,
Who has Stunned heroic glare;
refer TO one Mckinley,
Who has bossed the whole affair.
philadelphia North American.