The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

John D. Rockefeller believes that the
chief fault of Americans is overeating. Ac-
cordingly his one heavy meal is dinner,
served at Z in the evening. His usual
luncheon consists merely or a glass OF milk
with two sailed crackers and an occasional
piece of fruit.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to $3.50
per day; President McKinley's is equal 10
s131 a day; Cabinet officers, the Vice Presi-
dent and the speaker of the House get
$3.50. and the chief justice of the Supreme
Court 500 day.
Abram S. Hewitt is probably a sorry man
to-day. When the site on which stands the
old customs house in New York was offered'
TO him for $4,000 he said he would not
just been sold for 50. S65j 900. 1t cost the gov
eminent 81, 100000.
Rosa Bonheur left many unfinished pic
lures, notably a large canvas representing
horses starting at full gallop. Though Of
fered $4,000 for this painting she refused to
finish 1t. Her heirs are her brothers, M.
Isidore Bonheur, a sculptor, and NJ. Peyrol,
who married her sister Juliette.
General Benjamin F. Tracy has a won
derful memory which will probably come
into play in the Venezuela dispute in Paris.
In a trial in 1874 he made an address to the
10000 words, a feat unparalleled In the New
York bar. In preparing the present case he
has consulted 1900 books, maps, papers and
pamphlets, and IL has taken his undivided
time for nearly a year.
William Sodds, the greatest cattle owner
in the United States, attends to all the de-
tails Of his work, intrusting as little as pos
sible to the care of subordinates, although
he could we'll afford to retire from the ac-
| tive management of his business. If / want
to be sure a thing is we'll done / just do 1t
myself" he says. Twice a year he accom-
panies his shipment of cattle from northern
Arizona into Kansas City.
A Cincinnati gentleman advertised his de-
sire to sell a valuable secret for 80 cents.
| He stated that he would tell how he was
cured of drinking, smoking, swearing, stay
ing out at night, going to the races. gam
bling, how he gained 20 pounds in weight
in two years. Several persons sent him 30
eeiVed: Just ST. cured of all the bad habits
named by an enforced residence for two
years In the Ohio state prison."
Richard Harding Davis, the author. and
his bride are spending their honeymoon in
Porto Rico following by means of donkeys.
guides and a complete camping outfit as
nearly as possible the route gone over by
Mr.. Davis in a less fortunate manner as
correspondent during the recent campaign.
After ~roughing t as long as the weather
and their endurance permit, they Will 60
to London and spend the remainder of this
summer over recognized routes of travel
A lover of good corn" has thus ex-
pressed, in print, his methods of proceed
ing in disposing of the dainty in a cooked
form: Il pick up the ear with both hands,
one at each end; l butter two or three rows
at a time and put on so much salt as 1
want, and then / pick up the ear and bite
off the rows Of kernels that | have thus
prepared. Then / put one end of the ear
down and fix the next two or three rows,
and eat them in the same manner, and so
on"
The Rev. DIR. Frank Gunsaulus, pastor OF
the Central Church. Chicago. is not alto
gether unoccupied. The Record says of him
I'm addition to his ministerial duties, DR..
GunsauluS finds time to act as president OF
the Armour Institute of Technology and to
lecture, write novels, biographies and
prepare a sermon, oversee the institute
work, write a chapter in a new DOCK, and
in the evening deliver a lecture. He works
with refreshing ease and is always ready for
a joke or story in a spare moment"
Naught of the forest primeval now grows
around Minnehaha.
Naught but real estate and a strong sugges-
ton Of Parkway,
Here where the red man fought rises the
smell of the peanut,
Likewise popcorn and "ham-and" and the
flavor of soda water,
Where the stern Indian brave sought for the
hand of the maiden
Pastures the spoony dry goods clerk, loud
with the vibrant necktie,
While the hot scorcher, Hump-umpty, rides
DER the orphan asylum.
Slams the old man to the ground, much to
the joy of the surgeon,
While the bluecoated policeman looks in the
other direction.
Minneapolis Journal.