The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Lieutenant Hobson has been offered by an
enterprising agent $4,000 for a lecture tour
through the United States to recount his
experiences at Santiago
The Kincaid Manufacturing Company
Griffin. Ca, have received a. contract for
two, million yards of jeans, at 10 cents per
YARD, to be used for army uniforms.
Milwaukee has decided to exclude mar
ried women from the holding of positions as
teachers in the public schools. The rules in
Chicago permit them to serve unless they
have children under two years of age.
General Miles, when he asked Hamilton
Busbey, of Turf, Field and Farm, about a
horse to ride in the army, was particular to
say that the horse must have a long tail
Il will not ride a. mutilated horse" said the
general
Hon. Walter F. Frear, associate justice
of the Supreme Court of the Hawaiian
islands, recently appointed by President
Mckinley a member of the Hawaiian COM
mission, was graduated from the Yale Law
School in 1880 at the head of a large class.
Judge Thomas NJ Cooley, the noted au-
thority on constitutional law, who has been
at private lunatic asylum at Pontiac,
Mich, for a year. has returned to Ann Ar
Dor. Mich. He shows considerable improve
ment physically, but mentally he IS in about
the same condition as when he first broke
down.
Col. Daniel Lamont, ex-secretary of war,
is to have a fine home in the Fffth-avenue
district of New York. On the ground floor
will be a room called "Mr. Lamont's dive"
The next floor is divided into library, foyer,
ure of the plans is the placing of the
laundry on the top floor.
A very excellent custom is followed out
in Denmark The city children are taken
on regular visits Ito the country, for the
benefit of their health, etc. and the process
is then reversed, the country children being
taken to the city, in order to widen and
broaden their little minds, enabling them TO
become aware of so many things that would
be for their good that otherwise they might
never learn
On the day of Gladstone's funeral ar
rangements were made in the little village
of Lower Cutting to ring muffied peal in
memory of the deceased statesman. The
bells were muff1ed and all was made ready,
but not one of the ringers put in an APP
pearance. A local paper explained the next
day that all the landowners of the neigh
ers, who belong to the laboring class, would
have become marked men by taking part in
such manifestation of respect and reVer-
ence for the grand old man.
In one of the soldier boy letters from San
Francisco it is recounted that company CT
farmer boys recently arrived at Camp Mer-
rift and were examined for enlistment Very
much to the surprise Of the officers, who
regarded the men as the strongest and most
rugged looking of any in camp, twenty out
of ninety-eight We're rejected on account of
heart disease and rupture. The examining
surgeon advanced the theory that farmer
boys were put at heavy work too young.
1t was found that a much larger per cent.
of city boys could pass the examination.
We didn't want to fight,
But now we're good and hot,
And by the jumped-up lingo,
We'd rather fight than not.
Detroit Journal.
Said Miles in telegra phing home:
"There are no flies on Shafter.
He played his hand to beat the band,
And got what he went after"
Philadelphia North American.