The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-05
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Admiral Dewey's son says that his father
life.
When Eugene Debs lectured the other
evening In the Grand Opera House, of ST.
Paul, there were only eighty people in the
audience.
John Fiske, who is writing a history of
the Spanish war, says he finds the best ma
terial not in official reports, but in the news
papers, which give minor details and local
color.
1t is doubtful if any one has more gold
and silver than the Pope 1t is declared
that were he TO melt down all the medals,
chains, vessels, and other objects preserved
in the Vatican the amount of gold obtained
would make more coins than the whole of
the present European circulation.
An English journal of the icteric type re-
Gently published notice of Mr.. Gladstone,
In which il mentioned, as a partial expla-
nation of his power in debate, that he had
nictitating membranes in each of his eyes.
and that he could by winking them during
argument so startle his opponent to
leave him speeches..
In the suit recently brought by Rudyard
Kipling against Ebert Hubbard, publisher of
the Philistine, the novelist made affidavit
to the fact that for fourteen years he had
been engaged in the business OF writing
ballads sketches, stories, ETC., and that by
much hard work during this time he had
devised and perfected a style that made his
work distinct.
Aquarius is the sign from Jan. 20 until
Feb. Is. The sun in Aquarius makes
one kind-hearted. good, reliable, gentle,
obliging. even tempered, intelligent, scien-
tific, fond of learning and quick in its ac-
QUESTION. Such people desire to rule over
others. They are especially liable to rheu-
matism and other muscular troubles. Tho
color of Aquarius is sky blue and its planet
is Uranus.
A well-informed citizen of Uniontown, Pa,
writes thus concerning the story that Gen.
eral Joubert, of the Transvaal, was born in
Uniontown: ''The fact is the old chap never
lived here, and so far as i know never saw
Pennsylvania. The story of his Uniontown
birth and residence had its origin in the
fecund mind of some writer for a Chicago
paper, and is a fiction pure and simple.
Some other town, 1 am sorry to say, has
the honor of producing the old warrior"
DR.. COLES. an eminent surgeon Of Dublin,
who died in 1S43, was remarkable for his
plain dealing with himself. In his fee book
he had many such candid entries as the fol-
lowing: For giving Intellectual advice for
deafness, one guinea" For attempting to
draw out the stump Of a tooth, one guinea"
For telling him that he was no more, Ill
than was, one guinea" For nothing that
1 know Of except that he probably thought
ne did not pay me enough last time, one
guinea"
The Misses Letter, the sisters Of Lady
Curzon, have introduced the woman's din
ner in India. This was a notable diversion
one summer at Newport, when men were
very scarce. 1t is always looked upon as
dernier resort, and 1t does not speak so
well for the gayety of Simla. Things must
have been sadly changed since the era of
Eveless Eden pictured by Thackeray and
even Kipling, when a woman was always
sure of much attention in a community in
which there were few of her sex. The rum
ored insistence of Lady Curzon in making
people stand up in her presence is creating
much merriment in England Although the
position of viceroy is that Of d sovereign
theie have been so many good natured dem
ocratic rulers" IF India to whom the rigid
court etiquette was dead letter, that The
revival of this state by the daughter of an
American has not had a pleasing i'm
preston
The man with the hoe is martyr, We
4. know,
He lives his hard life with bravery grim:
But the man with the lawn mower-brother
in woe
Who ever has painted picture OF him?
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