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

PROFESSOR kltrldge, OF Harvard, is said to
be the only man living who can read Eliots
Indian Bible.
Jerry Simpsons ranch, near Medicine
Lodge, Kan, consists of 1,460 acres and is
stocked with 500 head of cattle. He is rated
at $4,000, and doesn't owe a dollar. His
house is comfortably furnished and contains
hot and cold water and a BATH
The visiting cards used by the Emperor
William are said to be the largest in use
anywhere in Europe. They measure as much
as six inches in length and four inches in
width On the upper line is the single word
''Wilhelm and below are the words,
'Deutscher Kaiser and Koenig Won Preus-
SEN
Colonel Roosevelt, speaking of the crud-
ity of Populistic ideas, says: when Bryan
first came to Washington he was reform
er, and, thinking me one, called on me with
two new Populist congressman. One of these
declared that no man could honestly earn
$l.5O0 "A year. ] never looked to see whether
he drew his salary"
'Trilby" made $SO,000 for Paul Potter. A
New York writer compares this with the
amount of cash Shakespeare didn't gather in
five years work, at an average of two
plays per year. Rev John Ward who was
vicar of Avon from 1862 to 1884, says of the
great bard Shakespeare, DraytOn and JON
son had many merry meetings, and. ii
seems, drank too hard for Shakespeare died
of fever there contracted"
a London governess to take her own life,
leaving the following letter of explanations:
Last night as | lay in bed miserable and
hopeless, took TO studying my hands again
stand You know / told YOU | was born
mad, with my fate line upside down. / found
this line repeated on the other hand.
| am just coming to a fatality.
Rather than submit to 1t / mean TO be
drowned
Munkacsy. the noted Hungarian artist.
now confined in an insane asylum near
Bonn. has been spending his time lately be-
fore a mirror painting his own portrait,
which is said to be an excellent likeness.
He sent it in letter half in French half in
German to his wife. He is much oppressed
with melancholy, which seldom leaves him.
When he is free from his temporary de-
has been appointed his guardian, together
with friend of the family.
IT is known that the body of any small
animal or bird, if left near an ant hill, will
be quickly picked clean of flesh 1t has
lately been demonstrated that ants can thus
be made useful in the preparation of skele-
tons as scientific specimens Professor
bernard has been employing the insects as
his servants. While in Florida he had a fox
squirrel thus skeletonized in a single day,
and the work was performed more satisfac-
torily than it could have been done by chem
zeal agencies or human hands.
Joseph Jefferson says that while acting in
the West one evening he received note,
the writer OF which stated that he was so
overcome by Mr.. Jeffersons performance
that he felt he must let the actor know how
he had appreciated it. The letter closed: My
name is Blank and / am the inventor of
Blanks spring beds / would like to send,
as d token of my gratitude, one of my beds
to you for your family. am entirely disn-
terested in the matter and all ask you
to do will be simply. when you wake ur
in the last act. to say you wouldn't have
felt so bad if you had been sleeping on one
of Blanks spring beds.
There is an invention of the English, de-
scribed in Harper's Bazaar for Dec. 3, which
means so much comfort to the householder
that it should be imported. 1t consists of a
couple of pulleys and ropes for the opening
and shutting of heavy windows The pull
leys are high up in the framework of the
window, and there is some little arrange
ment in the sash which fastens the cords
Two handles at the end of the two pieces
of rope fall where they can be conveniently
reached. One is dark, the other is light
window is to be opened one has only to pull
the dark handle and down comes the win
dow. When the window IS to be closed the
light handle is pulled and the window sash
is lifted
With longing eyes the fading year looks
To view her youthful way, as one grown
old,
June smiles to her across the heightened
track
And, 10! the world is bright with summer
gold
Charles Hanson Towne.
In childhood days we played together
/ kept a store. she came to buy;
Sometimes | was her little husband
And she would cook and make mud pie.
All! that was long ago and many
A country have l wandered through
To-day she's married to another
And settled down and happy, too.
Last night they had me in to dinner,
| ate a piece of pie she'd made
She knows no more about pie making
Than she did when we, children played.
-ChicaoO News