The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-04

Martin Irons, the famous labor agitator,
who has for the last few years been living
quietly on little farm in Arkansas. is now
seriously i'll of malarial fever in a hospital
In Little Rock.
Mr. G. N Curzon, the new viceroy of In
dia. is an author of good deal of power.
His books are Russia in Central Asia. .
Persia and the Persian Question" and
problems of the Far East
1t is a curious fact that Mr.. Curzon, the
new viceroy of India, though the eldest son
and heir of an English peer and the hus-
band of one CT Americas wealthiest heir
esses, has, strictly speaking. no habitation
in England that he can call his own.
The Princess of Wales has had a singular
distinction paid her by Newfour dland. The
latest issue of stamps bears the portrait of
her Royal Highness, the third of series
of royal portraits to appear on the stamps
of EnglandS oldest colony.
When the Orange Free State Volksraad
was considering an appropriation for bet
ter army barracks. one named Fouchee
rose and said: when l was a young man l
slept in the open without shirt socks,
and was never i'll. Now | indulge in those
luxuries, and am never WELL" The appro-
priation was defeated.
Israel Zangwill, the novelist and poet, is
described as a man with the head of a
thinker. the eyes of poet and the hands of
a faro dealer The most startling thing
about Israel. however, is the fact that he
has face to scare horses with, which IS
equivalent to saying that he is the ugliest
fellow in seven Kingdoms.
A traveller who has just returned from
Athens says according to the London
World. that, strangely enough, the Greeks,
who not so long ago were shouting their
favorte cry of Down with the King Out
with his right eyeI' have now returned to
the most exaggerated loyalty, and King
George pn1OVo0 L.
larity since he came to the throne.
Admiral Dewey, according TO the Balti-
more Sun, recently applied for $500 worth
of the war bonds, and directed that they
be delivered to his brother at Montpelier
Vt. The express company. handling the
bonds, acting under orders from the Treas
ury Department. refused to deliver them
TO Admiral Dewey by proxy until specially
directed to do so by virtue of an exception
TO the rules made in favor OF the hero OF
Manila bay by the treasury officials.
Vegetarians came out ahead in recent
Observation-Disclosures (sixtyfour miles,
walking match at Berlin, with a time limit
of eighteen hours. Out of twenty-five COM
petitors eight of them vegetarians. only
six, all vegetarians, covered the distance In
the time specified, the winner finishing In
fourteen hours and a quarter. The other
two vegetarians lost their way and walked
five miles extra. but came IN next, followed
after an hours interval by the only meat
eater that completed the course. The 9TH
ers all dropped out before covering half the
distance
Kaiser Wilhelm does not intend to let
anything the Bismarck biographers have to
say affect his view of the origin of the Ger
man empire. His Mayence speech simply
reaffirms the old. old story that he has cen
secrated himself to the task of preserving
the work of his grandfather. The old EN-
peror may have Eeen led and showed and
pushed into doing what he did. but Will
helm il too consec Ned himself to so view
it History as the Ajser makes II is his
keeping up the alteration Of his grand