The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-17
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Professor Koch has been invited by the
Indian government to return to India to
study the plague, but has declined for the
present as his presence in German East
Africa is necessary for some time TO come.
Martin Martin, an eccentric Scotchman,
has begun the erection near Doveland, Ia,
of a castle in the old baronial style. In the
parks which surround it are a number OF
lakes. He will occupy the castle alone, as
he has no family
The health of the King of italy, which
has improved during the last three years,
is again causing uneasiness. His fainting
fits which at one time had almost dsap-
peared. have again begun to affiict him, eS
pecially after long and fatiguing ceremo~
MES.
The new Pop history in use in the Kan
sas schools devotes nearly as much space
to the four years of Grover Cleveland's
first administration as it does to the 1863
years during which the American colonies
were developing a civilization which turned
the course OF the whole world
John Oliver Hobbies has 'hied her to
nunnery,' as Ophelia did not. She has TAX
en- up her abode in the Convent of the AS
sumption, in London, and announces her
intention of staying there for two years.
She has a pretty room at the top of the
house, which she has beautitied by all
sorts Of artistic trinkets from the outside
world"
Lord Sandhurst the governor of the Bonn
bay presidency, is a strong believer in wom-
en- physicians, and at the recent opening
of q hospital which is in charge of wom-
an, he said that those who made fun of
the new woman'S desire to follow the medi-
cal profession could have no idea what a
blessing such women were to the unfortu-
nate of their sex
Rev. Sam Jones will go to Baltimore to
attend the Methodist conference in May,
where the question of the status of the
Gently: LAS an evangelist who has raised
over $500.0O0 for the church and brought
more. converts into it's membership than
any other one man in the church. l will
ask as a matter of right that this question
be settled.
The paragrapher who discovers an odd
epitaph considers himself fortunate. An
Australian writer says he was looking over
the graveyard in a bush town. when he
discovered the following lines on child s
grave and FASTENED to give them to the
world
Our Emily Frances was so fair
That the Angels enVied Her,
And Whispered in her Ear
We will take you Away on
Tuesday night
In a lecture at Inverary the otf er even.
ing on What Is Science?" the Duke of
Argyll gave it as his view that Darwin was
not so much opposed to theological or theo-
logical explanations of the creation of life
as many people supposed, ana certainly not
so much as most of his followers are In
support OF this, he narrated an interview
ne had with Darwin in the last year of his
life. His attention having been directed to
some specially remarkable adaptation or
organs of function, Darwin said, looking
very grave for a moment: Sometimes the
vision of design in nature comes upon me
with overpowering force, but at other times
it seems to vanish.
Alphonse Daudet used to tell this anecdote
to illustrate the incvility of some English
men: II was on my wedding journey, and
an Englishman was with my wife and my
self in the compartment in the train. The
air in the car was close, and l wanted the
window lowered. But he insisted it should
be kept closed. / told him that ] wanted
some fresh air. that my wife needed it,
but he persisted in keeping the window
shut. At this incivility l thrust my elbow
through the pane, at the same time eX-
claiming: Keep the air away from now,
if you cam and the fellow glowered like
bull"
Jules Verne's habits are most regular. He
rises at dawn, and writes until II o'clock
After luncheon he goes to reading room
and peruses all the newspapers, except on
the days when he has to attend the Munic-
ipal Council. In the evenings he rests like
a real provincial. or goes to the theater. He
works carefully and fastidiously An adj
vertisement of Cooks agency suggested
the Tour du Monde en- Quatre-vingt
Jours," just as incidents related in the
papers also give him ideas, plots and in
cidents. His hardest work is in reading
up about the countries which he describes
1t was Georges Sand who induced him to
write ''Vingt Mile Lieues sous les Mers,' -
and expressed herself as fascinated and en-
thralled by his narratives.
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