The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the
London publisher, has made sensation In
Paris by appearing in a most novel auto
mobile coat, made of the hide of perfectly
white goat, trimmed with sable tails.
Jonesboro, a new village now being laid
out at Fort Lee, five miles from Richmond,
Va, is to be populated by negroes only.
The site consists of 500 acres, cut UP into
building lots, a park, orchards. grazing
lands and small farms for trucking.
Gilbert Parker, the novelist, has given
a collection of portraits of the Governors
OF Canada to Queens University at Kings
ton, where he was formerly teacher of
elocution. He intends that the collection
shall form the nucleus or museum or
pictures and documents illustrating Ca
madam history.
1t is not generally known that the Ger
man Empress is a sculptor and painter of
more than usual ability. In her husband
study at Potsdam there is lifelike por-
trait bust of the Emperor in bronze, while
several of the young princes have also
been reproduced in marble. Many sketches
and paintings by the Empress adorn the
walls of the various palaces.
The households and establishments of
the late Empress Frederick of Germany, at
Cronberg and at Berlin, have been broken
UP. The members of her households and her
old servants have been pensioned from Jan.
l..
Berlin reverts to her grandson, the crown
prince, and will be thoroughly repaired
and redecorated during the next year.
The Rev. DR.. David Gregg, pastor of the
Lafayette-avenue Presbyterian Church, of
Brooklyn, has asked the trustees of the
church to cut his salary from $4,000 to
5000 year. DR.. Gregg, who is one of the
best known and most popular clergymen In
Brooklyn, has been pastor of this church
many years. Mr.. Gregg's reason for his re-
quest is that he does not believe a man
should receive a salary greater than he is
worth.
Capt F. W. Dickins, OF the cruiser
Brooklyn, was in Westminster Abbey the
other day and said TO the verger: 81 would
like to see the bust of Charles Dickens.
am a sort of namesake; only my branch
of the family spells the name somewhat
differently" ''Ah, is that SOP, replied the
other, with interest We'll, do you know
family immortal?" And what is it, pray?"
asked the captain Weller" was the re-
ply, and the two shook hands
The Washington Times has raised the
price of its morning edition from one to two
cents and the price of its Sunday edition TO
five cents. Mr.. Munseys explanation of
this change-at a time when the general
tendency is toward reduction in the prices
charged for newspaperS-it that in city of
the size of Washington a first-rate morning
paper a first-class Sunday paper cannot
be produced at a profit at the old figures.
The price Of the Washington Post is three
cents and of the Washington Star two
cents.
Herbert Spencer, the great English So
biologist and philosopher. is fond of a game
OF billiards. At the Reform Club in Lon
don he recently met an acquaintance whom
he invited to play with him. The young
member accepted and Mr.. Spencer said
joyfully he chalked his cue: Young
man, good billiard playing is the proof OF
well-balanced mind" II believe IL Is y
replied the young man. They played and
had only scored 3S when his young antag-
onist finished his 100. Herbert Spencer put
the cue away in disgust. Young man." he
said, "such fine billiard playing as yours
is the proof of an ill-spent youth"
A Cuban says, in the Washington Post
that the family name of the new pres
ident of Cuba is Estrada, and not Palma.
Estrada was his fathers family name and
Palma his mothers. Following the Span
ish custom he writes it Estrada Palma
but he should be addressed as President
Estrada and not as President Palma. The
od-fa shioned way of writing IL would be
Tomas Estrada Palma, but only the
highest and oldest Spanish aristocracy and
the lowest and most ignorant class now
use the Y. The mass of Cubans have
abandoned II, and those who have much
ing their mothers name first according t.
the American custom, or dropping il en-.
tirely. Palma, by the way, is pronounced
Palma, with the / sounded"