The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A German trial for swindling with forged
autographs Of Martin Luther brought out
the fact that the ink used by Luther $50
years ago is so good that copies can still
be taken from it.
Senator Lodge was visiting former in
structor of his at Harvard recently, and
when the latter said: "Of course, you've
forgotten all your Greek?" the former
promptly recitcd half of the Alph of the
"Iiad' with only few mistakes.
A fact not generally known about Ad-
miral Walker, who is now in Chicago, look
ing up the big drainage canal is that, ac-
cordng to law, he was, account of age.
ago, but was first retained for the use or
his experience in regard 10 the Nicaraguan
canal, and then retained because of the
war
Herr Ladislaus Mierzwinski. once a
great Polish tenor, who, in mis- palmy days,
was wont to receive $500 for a single per-
Torrance, has just accepted a job as porter
in the Hotel d'Angleterre, in Cannes,
France. He is less than sixty years old, but
hale and hearty, though his voice Is about
gone. His downfall is largely due to
gambling.
Lord Elgin will leave Calcutta on Jan. 8,
the very day ON which his successor will
arrive It is the custom that the incoming
and retiring viceroys do not meet, the idea
being that a new Viceroy comes directly
from the sovereign and IS not Iett6red by
the policy of his predecessor. The same
custom prevails in the case of the Irish
lord lieutenants.
The lowland Scottish peasant has an ex-
tremely matter-of-fact way of speaking
about her relatives and friends deaths. A
good woman who had lost her aunt re-
marked to q sympathiZing visitor: ''Eh,
yes mem, aunty's deid. But she was very
aud and frail. She's far better AVA and
far happier in glory and got hummer
pounds o legacy"
Spiders 'by the Million according to the
Board of Health of Southport Me-, have
taken possession of house recently occu-
pied by Mrs. Julia Pierce, a widow of that
village. She doesn't occupy the house now
because the spiders have made it unin-
habitable. No methods yet tried have sue
ceeded in materially reducing the numbers
of the pests, though thousands Of them
have been destroyed.
The Hungarian novelist, Jokal, is. like
Tolstoi, q farmer. his speciality being viii
culture. on which. subject he has written
several treatises. Luckily his books yield
him sufficient profits to enable him to in
dulge in the luxury Of farm. To a visitor
he remarked the other day: Baron Roth
schild once received some royal visitors on
one of his estates, After showing them the
sights he remarked, loosely, What can I
offer you to drink-claret champagne or
Rothschld'S experience with milk is my eX-
perience with wine. And that is one reason
why l like it better than the wines l buy"
When the famous Clover Club entertained
the President and Cabinet at the peace
jubilee in Philadelphia, one of the most in
teresting and dramatic speeches there was
made by Capt. Bob Evans, who graphically
described the scene when Captain Eulate,
of the Vizcaya, wounded and bleeding, was
lifted aboard the Iowa, and, loosening his
sword belt, and pressing a ferVent kiss on
the hilt of the weapon, offered 1t to Captain
Evans. Il am sometimes reckoned hard
hearted man." said Captain Evans, but l
lieVe any one of you could have taken 1t.
"Oh, we don't know" said somebody down
at the other end of the table You don't
know what PennsylvanianS would do. 1t
was pretty good sword"
My sweetheart stood before me yester cen
And said: Now tell me candidly. 1 pray,
Just what you think of my new hattie
green
Ruff round the crown--is it becoming?
Say
1t looks well on me if it doesn't! Be
Fair with me-look at my lew hat
Is it becoming? Tell the truth to me!'
I looked upon the thing, this way and that
First from one side and then another
1t was wonderful affair-that hat!
looked upon it's makeup and was dazed
Yet did treat her fairly-told her just
What considered wrong about it-then
She looked at me a. moment with disgust,
And bade me never speak to her again!
Cleveland Leader.