The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The women employed TO bind Bibles In
Scotland receive from 81 to $3.50 a week.
This low rate of wages makes Bibles so
cheap that the very poorest people can buy
them.
The largest dog in the world is Nero,
owned by Wayne Bailey, of Rutland. Vt
He weighs nearly 800 pounds and measures
six and a half feet from tip to tip. This
Is about the size of the largest lions
The Emperor and Empress of Russia will
receive their friends at the 1900 exhibition
in Paris in a pavilion of their own. The
plan has been submitted to them, and the
estimated cost of the building is 10000.
Judge Robert P. Dick, Of the United
States District Court of North Carolina,
who is i'll in hospital in Baltimore, has
written his resignation to pc forwarded
in case his illness should be long and dis
abling. The judge is seVsnty-four years OLD.
The aged Jonathan Strauss, the waltz
king, recently reappeared as an orchestral
conductor in Vienna after long absence
from public view The Vienna papers say
he looked erect and elastic and conducted
his newest waltz, 'On the Elba, with all
his old-time authority.
Nine. Du Bos d'Elbehecque is the oldest
living woman who earns her living with
her pen, She is ninety-nine years old and
lives in convent near Anglers, France.
She has been writing for seventy-nlne
years and has published many books. She
sui writes Tor newspapers.
There was time when the government
of India had to import annually $25O,OOO
worth of quinine, and did not get enough
of it even then. After great many ex-
periments the cultivation of the cinchona
tree was made successful in India, and now
there are 100000 trees in Bengal and
every rural postofflce in India sells five
grain packet of the drug for half cent,
while the government makes from $1,000 10
$500 a year out of the profits.
DR.. Watson says that when he was re-
Gently travelling in Scotland man in the
same carriage said: IF you will stand up
with me at the window / will show you
something; you will only get a glimpse sud
denly and for an instant" They stood up
and waited. Soon little smoke came into
view. That's Kirriemuir," said the man,
and sat down with smile of ineffable COM
placency. After a while Ian Maclaren re-
marked that j. M. Barrie was born there
YES" said the man, and so was
One day a mother. who had been to a
country house near Marseilles was return
ing at twilight to the city with her son, a
child of eight years, who had been put in a
peach basket borne by a donkey, and the
mother, fearing the child might catch cold
Git was in November), had covered him
with a thick brown shawl. Tired with run
ming around the country all day, coy ana
warm under the thick shawl, the child was
soon asleep and hidden by the sides or the
basket There is a local custom house at
the gates of Marselles, and when the in
Spector surmses that any package con-
tains contraband articles he thrusts a
sharp steel pick through 1t. He was pre-
pairing to do this with the basket when the
mother, some distance behind, saw his m
tention and shrieked out that her son was
in the basket. 1t was Adolphe Theirs.
Charles Dudley Warner has grown a lit
tie weary of the press badinage incident to
the Interpretation of some recent remarks
of his to the effect that he proposed the
foundation of a sort of French Academy in
this country and writes to the New York
Times to say: Il made no such suggestion.
l was careful to say that no one expected
such an institution, but that conference
of literary workers like the one under con-
sideration might possibly grow into national
Importance, and that such reunions might
be of service to an important lnterest-that
of literature in America; 1t seemed ruh-
necessary to explain that the French
Academy is a peculiar historic growth not
to be successfully repeated elsewhere.
with all my worldly goods I thee en-
He stopped-his strong brain seemed to
cat least, with all of them,''-he stammered
Except my brand new chainless wheel"
Puck.
your money or your life!" he cried,
My quest there is no stopping
You're richly clad, and we'll | know
That you going shopping.
She handed him her purse He found
Car tickets but not many
Some dry goods samples. chewing gum,
A hairpin and a penny.
Washington Star.