The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, wife Of the
senator, is said to be one of the few Wash
ington women who can drive q four-in-
hand.
M. Zola, H. Lis retirement in England, has
been learning English with the aid of the
Vicar of Wakefield" NJ Theodore Duret,
one Of his friends, supplied him with a copy
having the French and English on opposite
pages.
During the pontificate Of Leo XIII 1923 car
dinals have died. AS the full college Of car
dinals contains only seventy and is never
been entirely renewed twice since Leo XIII
came to the papal throne.
When Joseph Chamberlains son, ]. Aus
ten Chamberlain, was elected to Parliament,
an old family servant said to him, with
tears in his eyes: When i think that
father in their collins it makes me feel
proud of you this day."
Tesla thinks a man has just go many
hours to be awake, and the fewer of these
he uses up each day the more days will they
last. II believe that a man might live two
hundred years if he would sleep most of the
time. That is why negroes live to such an
advanced age, because they sleep so much"
The memorial to Lord Tennyson in Hasle-
mere Church is to take the form of a win
dow, after a design by the late Sir Edward
Burne-Jones, one of the last of a series IL
resenting the vision which came to Sir Gala
had in the little chapel. The window will
cost about G100.
The Duke of Norfolk up to this year drew
pension of $40 a year, which was awarded
&C his ancestors in 1913 When the Earl of
Surrey defeated James " of Scotland, on
Aug. o. 1913, and left him. together with the
flower of Scottish chiValry, dead upon the
field, Henry VIII, by way of reward, gave a
pension of so a year to the earl and his
neirs forever. The pension has only just
been committed in accordance with the ar
rangemelts for abolishing hereditary emol-
uments
The flight of geese is an unfailing sign of
coming temperature. When they fly south
in their wedge-shaped phalanx the northern
blast is behind them, while if they diverge
to the east or west the cold snap will DE
only temporary. On their return when they
fly from their winter haunts to their great
summer resort in Siberia summer follows
them, as we'll as awaits their coming A
feather from a wild goose in it's fight will
bring back an Grant lover to the maiden
who has it..
Despite the kissing of Count Tolstoi by
the Gar of Russia, the report continues
that his expulsion from Russia in the near
future is probable. His defense and aid of
the Doukobors, or Russian Quakers, who
are emigrating to this country has given
offense to the Russian court and the Car
son is making preparations to accompany
large party of the emigrants to this coun-
try, intending. after he has helped them
to acquire land, to return to Russia.
1t is not generally known that a reward
was once offered for Senator rilTs life
He told the story himself at citing Of
the Vermont Historical Society Jout four
years ago. 'In the early days OF the late
war;" he said, my picture was put forth
by a rebel Virginia newspaper, with an adj
Vertisement Offering a reward for me- dead
or alive, of $25. That was usually offered
for the recovery of runaway slaves. They
described me as a person who would be
expected to have been the author of yam
kee Doodle" rather than OF the Internal
tariff of 1851 The picture was of course
pleasing to the old masters of the South,
being after the manner of Hogarth and
have not learned that ii has been made
immortal by preservation in any of their
historical societies. 1t will be for posterity
to say, if posterity should ever trouble itself
to say anything, whether or not VermOnters
made mistake in not surrendering me for
the $50 Virginia reward
To break tender bond is hard
To break cut glass is ILL
But sadder yet it is to break
Ones last five-dollar bill.
Detroit Free Press.
The cable man I scorn, forsooth.
And exc the naughty waiter:
But cringe before the lordly youth
Who runs the elevator.
New York Herald.
Here's to the man who is clear out Of style.
Though pleasure oft gives him the slip.
At present his face wears q radiant smile
For he hasn't been i'll with the grip.
Washington Star