The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-13
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.
Senator White of California and Sen
ator Mallory of Florida are cousins.

Senator White of California and Sen
ator Mallory of Florida are cousins.
A gold nugget about as big as hick-
DRY nut is a Enthusiastically loud dec
Grafton of the watch chain of Senator
Hanna 1t is a Klondixe product and
some church people in Cleveland
General Draper, American ambassa-
DOR TO Italy, has purchased a magnlf-
fcent room in the famous BOrghesi pal
ace in Rome. His purchase includes not
only the tapestries and furniture in it,
put the floor ceiling, wall, doors, WIN
dow easements, chandelier and fire
place.
Professor Horatio w Parker. head of
the musical department at Yale, has
raised a storm of discussion by a pa
per he read in Boston in which he said
that much of the music in the Episco-
palian hymn book was light and frivo-
lOus and unsuited for the purpose for
which it was intended
DR.. James r. Cooke of Boston, who
stands in the front rank of the medical
profession there, has been blind since
childhood Strange as it may seem, he
is an expert surgeon. and is regarded
as an authority on hypnotism. He has
written number of medical and other
scientific books.
Helen Kellar, the famous deaf, blind
and dumb girl who has been so highly
educated, visited the Boston museum
artroom a few days ago and saw the
statues By passing her wonderfully
sensitive fingers over the figures she
was able to get a correct idea of their
proportions and discoursed most inter-
estingly of her experience.
The large sale of Zola's works in
1878 was due considerably to the de-
mand from abroad But though his
gross income was thereby increased, his
81 "a lar lf nv
time during the last 20 years. This IS
due to the fact that his expenses in con-
nection with the Dreyfus affair amount
ed on November 80 last to $S1.500.
Richard Croker has withdrawn from
the North American Life Insurance
company, presumably to give greater
attention to the affairs of the auto
truck company in which he is inter-
ested. The insurance company was
founded by a number of New York
men so recently that its organization
is not yet entirely perfected.
Nevertheless, the referendum is in use
all over this country in varying forms,
and nobody is seriously injured by it.
We do not know whether constitutional
amendments are submitted to the peo-
pie of Missouri or not. They are In
many of the states, the operation con-
shutting a practical application of the
referendum, with results which on the
whole have been good. The trouble
about the initiative and referendum
project is chiefly in the names, which
are appalling to people who have a
dread of long words. The thing itself is
simple and not half the radical depart
ure from existing methods that most
people appear to consider it. In the
broad sense, both the initiative and the
referendum are put into operation
every time there is an election.
The late Ruth Ashmore was never so
much at home in her work in the Home
Journal as when advising women on
how to manage a husband. Ruth had
been a widow many, many years, and
any one off the stage can always give
directions to those who are on The
women should insist that their next
guide through the wilderness not only
have a husband, but a very cross, mean
one at that.