The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The American Tract Society has four
hundred publications in the Spanish Ian
guage, and intends to make an effort to put
a Spanish primer and New Testament in
the hands of every Cuban family able and
willing to read them, as soon as the war is
over.
Mrs Cora Henner, who was chief of the
women detectives at the Worlds Fair, is to
take charge of a similar department at the
Paris Exposition. Mrs. Henner personally
made 200 arrests here, and she had ninety
five women detectives working under her.
She will take one hundred to Paris.
Prince Robert, of Bourbon, ex-Duke OF
Parma is now the father of his eighteenth
child. daughter, the ninth child by his sec
ond wife. All eighteen - seven sons and
eleven daughters--are living, but only the
eldest, the wife Of Ferdinand of Bulgaria,
now twenty-eight years of age, is married.
Mrs. Cleveland, it is said by one who
saw her recently, has developed from the
pretty, girlish bride of the White House
to dignified, handsome woman, somewhat
more matronly looking than her years war
rant and with serious and, indeed, sad
expression of countenance.
Mary Anderson-Navarro's younger half
sister, the daughter of DR.. Hamilton Griffin,
is with the Navarros in Germany this sum-
mer training her voice for the concert
stage. She is just at the age when her sis
ter made her first successes on the stage,
and is said TO bear a striking resemblance
to the former actress.
About fifty years ago an English railway
company abandoned a sixty-feet deep tun-
mel in Edinburgh after 1900 yards had been
excavated;. Ten years ago it occurred to a
bright individual that this deserted tunnel
might be used for mushroom growing. The
attempt was made and at present the
monthly yield of mushrooms is 5000 pounds.
A Springfield (Mass) German went into
the police station the other day and desired
70, tI1rtfo I0I1o ~.
war because Spain tortured some of his
ancestors in the Inquisition but the police
decided that IL they were tortured only a
dollars worth the case wasn't one to bother
with, especially as they had troubles of
their own.
DIR. John Blair Gibbs, who was killed by
Spanish bullet in one of the recent Skin
mshes along the shores of Guantanamo
bay, and who sacrificed practice of $4,000
year IN order to go to war, said to a
party OF friends in New York before he
leLt 70 JOIN his command: Boys, can
afford to go and ought to go to war. With
me it is country first
1t is stated in a recent issue of a journal
devoted to the interests of the rubber trade
that a substitute for rubber can be made at
a greatly reduced cost from corn. The pro-
cess is said to consist of deriving a certain
sort OF OIL from corn, which is then mixed
with an equal quantity of crude India rub
Der. The compound possesses all the eS-
Sential properties of Para rubber, and if its
manufacture is successful great field lies
open for it.
When Commodore Schley returned from
his successful search for the Greedy party
in the arctic regions the country was loud
in his praises and his pictures were in de-
mand While in Detroit the commodore
went into a place of refr@shment to get a
glass of beer and was surprised TO be con-
tronted by large picture on the mirror
labeled with his name. After studying it
awhile he asked an attendant who it was
and listened to d long eulogy of himself.
but no one present recognized him the
original of the picture.
In shortened skirt ~she rode along,
And it was so amusing
To see the glances of the throng-
She found them quite confusing.
That was year ago; to-day
She's really shorter Skirted
And yet nobody looks her way
She thinks their taste perTerted.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I'd like to be a hero.
And with the heroes stand,
And have my picture published
All over this broad land.
Tis sweet TO be hero,
To hear the peoples praise,
To be wined and dined and honored
In a hundred thousand ways.
Oh. I'd like to be a hero,
But that must never be,
For fear to let the poets
Get to monkeying with me.
Chicago News