The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Melba. the prima donna, is an excellent
whistler, and is reported as saying that she
always whistles the music of a new part
before trying to sing it.
In the second week of June Miss Helen
Gould received six hundred begging let
ters, in which the total amount asked for
was over million dollars.
An English paper says the sword of Sala-
din. the adversary of Richard Occur de
Lion, is i'm possession of a native of the
town of Bayroot, Syria, who is willing to
sell 1t for 5000.
Admiral Dewey says the first bit of fiction
he ever read was Robinson Crusoe Then
he and his sister, now Mrs. Mary Greeley
started an island in their fathers barn,
where George was DefoeS hero and his sis
ter Man Friday
Philip d. Armour was asked by an Amer
lean friend who met him at Baden how
much he made or lost in opposing the Letter
wheat deal. THE public will never know
exactly" said Mr.. Armour, for 1 don't ex-
actly know myself"
Nine. Calve is not the only vocalist who
has beer enormously announced as ill by
certain French writer's. Mdlle. Delna re-
Gently issued an amusing rebuke to one Of
the paragraphists. She wrote: You an
nounce L am seriously i'll. / cannot further
conceal from you the fact that L am dead.
Marie Delna."
The Prince of Wales, when attending the
Queens birthday, was mounted. With the
exception of his visit to Yarmouth recently,
to review the Norfolk artillery, this was
the only occasion on which he mounted a
horse since his accident last July. So per-
feet has been the cure that the prince has
again taken to cycling. He will begin with
tricycle..
G. A. Dewey, a Kenosha, Wis, hardware
merchant, recently ordered ladder from a
Chicago house, and after waiting a reason
ab1 10y oth of limo he TO IN inn ire
why he had not received it. He was in
formed that the ladder had been shipped by
tracer was sent after it, and it was over
taken just as 1t was about TO be placed on
board of a steamer at San Francisco.
AT the last days session of the Friends
Yearly Meeting. in Philadelphia, on Friday
a check for 100000 was received from the
executriX of Samuel Jeanes, Ito aid in as
sSting quarterly and monthly meetings and
isolated members of restricted means in re-
pairs or construction of meeting houses for
Friends of that branch OF which ne was a
member, ard who bear testimony to the saw
ing power of obedience to the laws of God
in the heart
A Mennonite bishop was chosen by lot
at Millersville, Pa. There were four candi-
dates, there were four Bibles precisely SIM
liar In every respect, but under the fly leaf
of one there was placed blank paper Each
minister took Bible, and the one To whose
lot the paper fell was Rev. Abram Herr
Gods choice. Mr.. Herr is descendant of
Hans Herr, leader of one of the pioneer
parties of Mennonites in Pennsylvania
nearly two hundred years ago.
1t is rumored In Calcutta that Miss Daisy
Letter sister of the vicereine of India, is to
be married to the Earl of Suffolk, aid-de-
camp of the viceroy The earl who Is only
twenty-five years old, Is one OF the Famous
Howard family. Though not publicly an
nounced, ii is understood that an engage
rrent for some months has existed between
his lordship ard Miss Daisy, but 1t Is i'm
probable that the marriage will take place
Immediately.
David Belasco was entering the Garrick
Theater, New York, the other night when
a diminutive newsboy rushed up to him and
shouted: ''Wuxtry! Terrible accident to
President McKinley!' Dear me!' said Be-
lasco, fumblng in his pocket for change,
what kind of an accident did he meet
WITH" Nearly drowned, sir" replied the
urchin. his eyes dancing. he fell through a
mattress into the spring.. Belasco gave
him nickel.