The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

On Monday next George Dewey will go to
the head of the list of the admirals of the
United States navy. Admiral Bunce, who
ranks him, will be retired on that day.
George w. McNear, the San Francisco
millionaire, said the other day: IT have been
asked if it is true that 1 had no capital to
start with. l began with a capital l. and
have never lost it. =
General Wheeler was asked the other day
by very young lady of Washington: How
is it you never wear any medals? You
surely have some. mo, answered the sol,
never made a century run in my life
The grand old man of the Roman
Church is not the Pope as most people sup
pose, but Cardinal Mertel, who is in his
ninety-fifth year and so active and ener-
getic that he bids fair to see the nineteenth
century out, and the twentieth in. He has
just returned to Rome from holiday visit
to his native town of Allumiere.
In the just published Life of Henry Nor
ley is recorded this story of a railway
journey made by him. HE had for a COM
.panion an old gentleman who had been try
ing to make himself more comfortable with
the aid of a somewhat Debated air cushion.
Professor Morley was going to blow it up
for him, but his action was arrested by the
exclamation: stop sir, stop! That cushion
contains my deceased Wits BREATH!
A Russian storekeeper recently posted the
place of business: 1.-The reason why have
hitherto been able to sell my goods so much
cheaper than anybody else is that / am
bachelor, and do not need to make a profit
for the maintenance of a wife and children.
1t is now my duty to inform the public that
this advantage will shortly be withdrawn
from them. as / am about to be married.
They will therefore, do well to make their
purchases at once at the old rate.
AS the result of careful investigation of
OIL n;
rector of the Hungarian Bureau of Statis-
tics the following conclusions: The offspring
of parents between the ages of twenty and
twenty-five are likely to be weak and deli
cate but between twenty-five and forty
five will probably be strong and thrive. The
mother bears most robust children between
her twenty-fifth and thirty-fifth year. When
the mother is ten years younger than the
father the proportion of healthy children is
greatest the chances being 10 per cent. more
favorable than when the parents are of
about the same age.
The Greeks have decided to exclude all
bachelors from their Parliament. They
reason that an unmarried man has no stake
in the commonwealth, and that if he is rep
resented he really should expect nothing
further A representative himself they say
ne cannot be because he has no one to rep
resent. The truth of the matter is that
what the government wants is TO put
check upon the tendency toward celibacy
which is seriously threatening, as OF yOfe,
the welfare of the entire state. Now, to
the modern Greek, a seat in the Parliament
is almost equal 10 the former glory of
OLYMPIC victory. One sees the subtlety of
the scheme at once. Should the measure
pass, the spectacle of a legislature of mar
ried men will be worth watching.
If all the world should love us,
How full were sorrows cup,
The cash we'd spend at Christmas
Would simply break us up.
Cshico Tpaoord