The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

King Edward of England once learned
the printers trade. Alfred Borckel, Ii
brarian at Mayence, has compiled list of
thirty members of European royal families
who learned to print.
When the Danish literary expeditions to
Greenland reached the capital of that coun-
try they found that Greenland for year
had been without a physician, wherefore
DR.. Bertheisen found himself the most well
come member of the expedition.
1t is the opinion of the Ottawa (Kan)
Republic that a woman can think of more
deviltry in a minute than a man can think
of all day. 1t notes the case of a vengeful
Ottawa woman who dug fishworms by the
painful and threw them in neighbor's
well.
Alarmed at the report that the arduous
nature of the duties of his ONCE was rap
idly telling on Pension Commissioners
Wares health, friend recently wrote him
a solicitous letter. He received the follow
ing reply by wire: Its not work that's
breaking down my constituencies soft
shell crabs.
at is not true" says Rose Coghlan, that
1 own a ranch in Montana. 1t is true, how
ever. that 1 am part owner of one. 1t is
fine country, and have enjoyed my vaca-
ton there immensely. Most of the time
was on horseback. / am alive to-day be-
cause / rode astraddle. Otherwise / would
have been jolted from my saddle down
precipices on any number of occasions.
At a recent meeting of the Royal Society
of London 1T was demonstrated by photo
graphs that fish scales show annual mark
ings which indicate successive years Of
growth. About thirty rings are formed the
first year. TWENTY-FIVE the second, and if
teen the third. Afterward the rings in
crease by ten to twelve per year. The lines
formed in summer are more widely sepa-
rated than in winter.
On one occasion in Manchester. during
the performance of Macbeth" Sir Henry
Irving came to the line where he has to
say to one of the murderers, There's
blood upon thy FACET The great tragedian
stared SO hard at the actor who was play
ing the murderer" that that worthy quite
Great Scot! Is there he replied in
alarm, and rushed off the stage
Miss Kate Livingstone. a cousin OF the
famous DR.. Livingstone, has now completed
her one hundred and seventh year. She is
living at Finnish, Isle of Null, with Mrs.
Fletcher, proprietress of Glen Aros, Null,
where she was long privileged domestic.
Miss Livingstone is now very feeble. Mrs.
Rumiey, mother of the late Walter q.
Gresham, celebrated her hundredth birth
day at New Albany. Ind. on Monday.
Worldwide Methodism is beginning to
interest itself in the bicentenary of the
birth of John Wesley. which event will &C.
cur in June of next year. In America,
where Methodism is remarkably strong.
extensive arrangements are being made
for it's due observance. No definite steps
have yet been taken by the parent body
in England but it is likely to come before
the conference, which meets soon In Man.
chester. 1t will be interesting to many to
learn that the journals and letters of John
o-la 20 a hi INF in ynxU
larged and specially edited form in the near
future.
In a recent lecture on his countrymen WI
Tingfang made some pungent comment on
Bret Harte's famous line, 1.-The Heather
Chnee is peculiar" Mr.. WI said From
your point of view this is true, but from
ours you are peculiar. In China we accept
a mans word in business transactions,
here you exact a writing from him. Since
| foreigners have been doing so much bust
ness in China native merchants have
| learned to demand some kind of writing
| from them. We respect age. while you
seem to give most respect to money, muscle
| and Drawn. From your point of view Her
| cules is hero. The Chinese do not think
| so. Peculiar, isn't it?'
A perpetual cloud of SCOT. gradually set
| Ting down, is known to overhang every
large manufacturing city. To determine
the amount of this wasteful dirt deposit In
Manchester. England. Mr.. w. Irwin
weighed the solid matter obtained from a
sample OF snow that had been lying on the
| ground ten days, and has found an equiva-
| lent of 107 pounds per acre, or three tons
per square mile. AS the sample represented
| the condition of at least one hundred square
| miles, the chimneys of Manchester are con-
victed of throwing out not less than three
| hundred tons of SCOT in ten days. Analysis
showed 1876 per cent of carbon. SO Of heavy
| oil and grease, and ASS of ash from which
| IL appears that each days thirty tons OF
SCOT is given adhesiveness by about two
| tons of oily matter.