The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS

Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait. president -
the woman's Suffrage Association, said, IN
a recent speech at Ocean Park, Ne. thft
one-fourth OF the millionaires ia Amerita
are women.
CAPTAIN Mahan's great work, The lnht-
ence of Sea Power upon History can mob
be obtained in japanese. The third voluuss
of the translation has recently BEEN
brought out in Toxic
Bumkins island. near Huh, Mass. vas
given to Harvard College by Samuel Warp
a friend of old John Harvard. and IL cannPt
be sold outright. 1t has, however, bean
leased TO A. G. Burrage, of Boston, Tor ~
wears and he will build a hospital on II arid
make it a free summer home for the
crippled children Of Boston
Secretary Hays chief summer amusH-
ment is fishing. but his pleasure in tie
sport is mostly an aesthetic one, and a
friend recently said of him: Hell take his
Walton along and get 50 deep IN that 0ofk
which he knows by heart-that ne il ltt
most OF the fish get away. IL 5 the theor.,
not the practice, that he really likes
Jerry Simpson viii leave Wichita fer
good. A dispatch from that place says: H
intends to practice law in the new town ~
Lawton Mr.. Simpson has advertised MS
office furniture for sale. and has already
sold his residence property here lie hfs
been at Lawton since the boom began. MI.
simpson has abandoned politics"
A Persian rug, recently purchased by !.
Pierpont Morgan, is said to have been wog-
en- l5O years ago. and 10 have required six
teen years in the weaving. 1t is ten feet
six inches wide by nineteen feet long, and
was woven of Persian silk IN Tabriz, Per
sia The fact that il is one OF the rarest
specimens OF its kind caused II 10 be valued
at no less shan $4,000.
c. Barber, president OF the Diamond
Match Company, proposes TO devote large
part of his fortune for the benefit Of Bar
berton o., founded by him ten years ago.
He will expend about 100000 in beautify-
ing public park OF 200 acres, and adjoining
this in an estate OF $50 acres, he is 10 build
$4,000 dwelling, which, at his death, Is 10
become public hospital.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor OF
the telephone, who has been studying aerial
navigation, says of NJ. Santos-DumOnts re-
cent tests: 81 think that NJ. Santos-Du-
mont has demonstrated that aerial naviga-
ton is possible, but that the balloon part
of it is not the essential. Never before has
there been an aerial ship with balloon 30
small and a motor so powerful. lie mas
shown that aerial locOmotion is not 50
much a question of a balloon as one Of me-
chanics and of power in the motor
Miss Helen Morton, who is TO marry the
Baron De Perigord, second son OF the Duke
De TalIeyrand. is the third daughter OF
Hon. Levi p. and Mrs. Morton She is
about tWenty-tOur years or age, IS a blonde
and is thoroughly educated, her teacher be-
ing her mother. Her sisters are Edith.
Lena, Alice and Mary. Last year the oldest.
Miss Edith, was welded TO Mr.. William
Corcoran Eustis son OF the late Senator
Eusts, Of Louisiana. The Morton and Tai
leyrand families first met in Paris about
twenty years ago, while Mr.. Morton was
occupying the high post OF minister to
France, to which position he had been ap-
pointed by President Garfield.
Sir George Dibbs, who has just presented
King Edward with a walking stick of his
own make. is one of the remarkable men Of
Australia. He is probably the only man in
the empire who has passed through the
two extreme experiences of a prime min
lister and a prisoner in jail. Sir George has
twice been premier of New South Wales.
and has held many other posts of the high
est Importance in the colony; and IL was
while he was a prominent public man that
he had the courage to refuse TO pay what
he thought an eXtortionate bill OF costs. He
was committed TO DarlinghUist jail sgd
ney. for year, and serVeG the sentence
through to the end.
The shades OF night had fallen fat
When up in bed the boarder sat.
This mattress can't be stuffed with hair
Said he: 1t feels as If II
Excelsior"
Philadelphia Record
There once was a man named Colquhoun
Who got out OF bed far too squhoun;
IL ten-as rule.
And he said: I'm a fule:
wish were up In the mquhoun."
Philadelphia Bulletin