The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Andrew Carnegie has offered Montreal
$4,000 for a library provided the city will
contribute a site and spend $4,000 yearly in
maintenance.
The statue of Frances Z. Willard to be
presented by the State of Illinois to the
national Capitol at Washington will be
modelled by Helen +. Mears, of Oshkosh,
The London Lancet declares that 1.-The
prices asked for wine at big hotels are SO
monstrOusly high and the wine offered is so
often bad that this fact alone accounts for
an increasing demand for whisky as a din
ner beverage"
The Countess Tolstoy, Sophia Anderona,
IS a mild seeming woman who, since her
marriage. has devoted her whole time to
her husband and her three children. For
the latter she made all the clothes until
they were ten years old.
This is Joseph H. Choate's definition of
the dinners of the New England Society of
New York: Those gatherings of an I'M
happy company of Pilgrims, who meet an
nually at Delmonico's TO drown the sor-
rows and sufferings of their ancestors in
the flowing bowl. and to contemplate their
own virtues in the mirror of history"
a. G. Burrage, OF Boston. has leased
Bumkin's island from Harvard University
for 500 years. and will build a hospital on
IL. and make it a free summer home for the
crippled children of Boston. The island is
near Hull. II was given to Harvard Col
lege by Samuel Ward, who was a friend or
John Harvard. The terms of Wards will.
were such that the land could not be sold
outright.
a Kansas school board received the fol-
lowing letter the other day from one of
the teachers: al would like TO have the
refusal of the school as long as you are
willing TO hold 1t for me. though l can't
say positively that 1 will not teach nor
positively that | will. If I am married.
as 1 think l will be. OF course I will not
want the school But you know the old
story about many a slip, and l would hate
TO be out of a job as we'll as the other"
Ex-Speaker Reed was in the Supreme
Court at Washington, D. c., recently when
the justices were slow in assembling. Mr..
Reed waited with an %elephantine patience.
Presently a friend OF his leaned over to
him and whispered: Mr.. Speaker, cam
you count a quorum?" A look of grave
reprOach overspread the retired states
mans face. Sir" said he in a tone of
dignity. you forget that when | counted
a quorum there always was a quorum"
Ben De Lamos. a prisoner in the Column
bus. o., ~penitentiary. is preparing a unique
request to the authorities. He offers to
give a bond in 10000 If permitted TO at
tend the Grand Army of the Republic en-
campment at Cleveland, saying he has
never missed one. De Lamos was sentenced
for a technical violation of the pension
laws. He is the man who slept in the
speaker chair IN the Alabama House as a
tramp and within two years was elected as
a member.
The Chinese ambassadors family in
Paris amuse themselves with excursions,
with amateur photography and with pri-
vate theatricals. Yu Keng, before his gov
eminent sent him to Paris. had been minis
ter OF war during the war with Japan, and
afterward ambassador to Japan. Lady Yu
keng is only half Chinese. Her father was
an American. Mr.. Pearson, of Boston, who,
living in China married a Chinese lady.
The young people,. therefore, enjoy the rare
distinction of being Yankee-Chinese. The
family, in fact. are completely Westernized.
They speak more English than Chinese.
and the children have English names. Their
table,. their dress and their entire mode OF
life are Western. Their Chinese costume
they wear on rare occasions.
Emma Calve said in a recent interview
IN Paris that she had now only one am
bition, and that was to become an actress.
IT have made a success as a grand opera
singer" she is reported as saying. Il am
rich. too. But what I now want to be able
TO DO is TO move people by acting as L have
already done by my singing"
@. East wind, in the winter,
You're a raw, rank. roaring hummer,
But you're peaches and cream
And 4 glad. sweet dream
OF JOY and health IN summer.
-ROstou Herald