The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A tablet marking the site of the house
in which Samuel +. B. Morse made his
home for many years and died. has been
set in the wall OF q ten-stOry business
block on Thirtysecond street, New York.
1t was formerly on the Morse residence
itself. which was torn down to make way
for the larger building.
University chaperons are the latest yien-
nese novelty. In consequence of the riot
Gus behavior of the male students when
the women tried TO avail themselves of
the newly granted permission to attend
lectures many mothers of women students
have registered for the university lectures
in order to have an opportunity TO accom-
pany and protect their daughters.
Mrs. Mary Jackson, widow of the Confed-
crate general, "Stonewall Jackson. who
has been at the Church Home and In
Urinary at Baltimore for more than a
lotte, n. c.. Mrs. Jackson came to Balti-
more for treatment for neuralgia, from
which she had suffered greatly. An opera
ton was performed three weeks ago with
complete success.
1t is related Of the late C. P. Huntington
that young man once called on him to sell
some much-needed rails at $40 ton. Mr..
Huntington said he had rails to sell him.
self, amused the caller by a half-hour' S
chat and got him to sell at $66 a ton, with
a six months note for pay. Then, Before
the man left. Mr.. Huntington discounted
the note for per cent. and paid the cash.
Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson, the animal
expert, who at present enjoys vogue as
the womens favorite author and lecturer,
is said to be physical counterpart of
Paderewsixi. Like the pianist, toe. he
began his career with a direful struggle
against poverty. He amuses himself now
By selling to publishers at high prices the
manuscripts which they returned as un-
available a few years ago
The discovery that oxtails could be made
into a delicious and nutritious soup be-
longs. Ii is said, 10 he dark days of the
French revolution, when many of the no.
bility were reduced TO sheer want. Hides
had always been sent TO the tanneries
with the tails still attached. The tails were
subsequently thrown away "A certain no.
bleman, on the unpleasant verge of starva-
ton, begged for one of them, and from ii
manufactured the first dish of oxtail soup.
One of the remarkable things about the
late Max Muller was that he never en-
ployed a stenographer or typewriter, and
wrote all his life a clear and legible hand
Another interesting thing in his life was
that he ardently desired in his youth to fol-
low the study of music, but refrained be-
cause deafness was hereditary in his fam
lily, and he feared il might come upon him
in his prime and injure his usefulness in
that line.
Whenever Lord Kitchner is very excit-
ed and active he is nearly always chew
ing an unlighted cigarette, and. curiously
enough whenever his whole energies are
concentrated on anything. one of his eyes
seems to turn in, while the other remains
fixed and stationary. Another of his lido
syncrasies. when excited about anything
is that the more interested he gets the
further back he tits his helmet In South
Africa one can rarely see a mans face
in bright sunshine because of the deep
shadow cast from the helmet. So that
whenever one sees Lord kitchner's face
we'll lighted by the sun one can tell that
no is anxious and excited.
The youngest reader of manuscripts in
New York city is the grandson OF a part
ner in a big publishing house For the
past three years, and he is now only six
teen years old. he has read manuscripts
been verihed by the success of the books
which he has accepted. One would natur-
ally think that boy would be the best
Judge of boys story, hui no other pub
fishing house has submitted such manu-
scripts to boys. The readers for most OF
them are men. This youngster is still In
school. and when he finishes his studies
he is going into his grandfather's house
to begin at the bottom and work his way