The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The City Council of Murray KY, has
passed an ordinance making it a fine of S.
to use corncob as stopper in a coal oil
jug.
One hundred and eighty-six carats is the
weight Of THE Sea of Light" the largest
diamond in the possession of the Shah of
Persia. He also owns THE Sea of Glory,
another diamond weighing sixty-Six carats.
The German Emperor, who prides himself
upon his knowledge of contemporary Eng
lsh publications. has been reading Mr. LIE
Galliennes brochure IF I Were God" A
Paris paper says that the Kaiser contenl-
plates writing sequel entitled If 1 Were
Not Cod
In the play which DR.. Conan Doyle is
writing Sherlock Holmes makes his appear
ance, but goes through new adventures,
none of those set down in the Holmes stories
being used. It is intimated that Sir Henry
Irving may possibly take the part of the
now famous detective.
The young Queen of the Netherlands is
said to be unwilling to receive presents at
her coronation. Amsterdam will rejoice in
no less than four exhibitions-one of relies
directly connected with the House of
Orange; another for the works of Rem
brandt; a third of womens work. and a
fourth of costumes from the earliest times.
The impressonist painter Claude Monet
delights in living the life of a peasant in
picturesque Giverny, in Normandy He lives
in a long, low white-plaster house with
red-tiled roof, with nothing to distinguish
it from the neighboring houses except the
unusual splendor of it's garden. He wears
the sabots of the country, but somewhat in
congruously delights in the finest linen, with
hemstitched ruff1es at neck and wrists.
Miss Alice Shaw, canine physician" her
cards read. She is a fair-haired, energetic
young woman who lives with her mother at
No. 679 Sedgwlck street, Chicago. Back of
their living apartments are rooms fitted
with rubber cots, on which repOse sick and
wounded dogs. 1t is q hospital in every
feature, with all the appliances necessary
to the treatment of the sick. Miss Shaw
frankly admits that she became a dog doc
tor to earn her living. Her father was a
professor in Oxford She has q sister who
married millionaire and lives in luxury.
They do not speak.
A thoughtful English gardener has discov-
cred way whereby lichens and MOSES can
be made to grow on brick and stone, and
utilizes it by ageing new houses. In thirty
days, it is said, he can make new house
look like a time-honored family seat. He
rubs preparation of earth and lime on the
walls at various points, and after it sets he
rubs another preparation which, contains the
spores or lining cells of the lichen or moss
he thinks suitable for the stone and the ex-
posture. On northern exposures one class
Of low vegetable life flourish, while on
southern they wither and die. When to
were several centuries old.
The "Dreyfus affair." has had for a time
an almost disastrous effect upon the sale
of books in Paris, and, indeed, throughout
France. One of the leading publishers IN
Paris says that since the opening of the
year his sales have fallen off Is per cent.
per day. The publishers have delayed pub
fishing books announced. Now that M. lola
has been condemned, however, the mer-
Curial temperament of the French returns
to its traditional Observation-Disclosures and gay
ETY.. The boOkstallS once more attract the
boulevardierS, for whom a fortnight ago
only the newspaper kiosque had any at
traction; and no doubt the publishers will
find that the reading public are eager to
make up for lost time.
The flowers are faded that / sent,
My dearest girl, to you.
/ would be happy if the BILL
Alas! had faded too.
Life
When woman browns her home in suds
Her husband feels despair;
She roots out such lot of buds
She thinks he ought to wear.
Chicago Record.
She sang a little song of love;
Her voice was sweet and low;
He listened to her for awhile
And then arose to go.
She sang a little song of love;
1t scared him out, for she
Was a widow twenty years old
And he was twenty-three.
Chicago News.