The Indianapolis journal., 1902-05-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The late Lord Kimberley once said: "Al-
most the greatest crime which any ore can
commit on my estate is to kill an OWL
Queen Alexandra has a quaint treasure
cupboard which contains casts of the heads
of her five children taken at the age of
two years and again at the age of twenty.
Rev. Sam z. Jones, the sensational Geor-
gia preacher, is doing we'll financially. He
is about to erect a $25,0O0 business block
in Cartersville, and has made other invest
ments of his surplus income that promise
to make him independently rich.
Senator Hanna has put a ping-pong set
in the big reception room in his house on
Lafayette Square, Washington. He has
more visitors than any other public man in
Washington with the exception of the
President, and the game is open TO all
comers as a means of amusement while
waiting their turns with the senator.
The Rev. Lewis w Nudge, of the class
of go of Princeton University, who is known
among the Princeton graduates as the
father of baseball" has accepted the call
from the Central Presbyterian Church OF
Downington, Pa. DR.. Nudge was the or
ganizer and captain of the first team in
1859, pitching afterward for five consecu-
tive years.
Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, now in his
ninety-second year and known all over the
British possessions as THE Evergreen Ad-
miral," has a great desire to die at sea.
With that end in view he is constantly
going on long voyages, hoping that the
grim messenger may find him on the blue
waters he has sailed for so many years.
1t is stated that the young Russian En-
press has by her good example initiated a
movement in favor OF early rising among
the ladies of her court. When she first
arrived in Russia she greatly scandalized
her ladies by her habit of always being up
before o'clock. They have now not only
become accustomed to this startling inno-
vation on the part of their Empress, but
ample.
Frank A. Munsey, of New York city, has
been selected as the Bromley lecturer at
Yale University in the coming academic
year. Two years ago the widow OF the
late Isaac H. Bromley. of the class Of 1853.
founded a lectureship in memory Of her
husband, the incumbent to deliver not less
than two lectures on some topic connected
with journalism, literature public af-
fairs. The first lecturer was Whitelaw
Reid, of New York, and the second was
c. Loves Dickinson. of London. Mr.. Nun
sey has accepted the invitation 10 be the
third.
Mrs. Charles E. Orvis. of West Eighty
first street, New York, has the gown that
was sent by Americans in Paris to Martha
Washington, to be worn at the Inaugural
ton of General Washington as President
of the United States. 1t was decided. how
ever, that IL was by far TO elegant and
costly, too suggestive of the pomp of royal
courts, for the wife of a good republican
70 wear and it was put aside, In favor OF
one of those simple frocks with which the
portraits of LADY" Washington have made
us familiar. To-day, however, the French
gown would not be considered in the least
luxurious.
Mrs. Luella Lane, Of Rumford Falls, Me-,
the mother Of eight children and a COM
paratively young woman, is the proprietor
of one of the most fourishing farms Of her
vicinity. Five years ago. when she took
charge of the estate of three hundred acres.
ii was in a rundown condition and was
stocked with implements which were Of the
most primitive sort. Dairying is Mrs. Lane 5
speciality She has herd OF twenty-five
thoroughbred Holstein cows from twenty
to forty hogs. according TO the season. and
keeps five work horses busy. Her farm is
stocked with tools and machines of the
most improved kinds.
after two years of life in the Quarter
Latin" writes Charles Theodore Murray,
where 1 got my studies OF French char
acter for Mile Fouchette,' l may freely
say that it is the worst place in the world
to send a young man or woman if you en-
tertain any hope of meeting him or her in
heaven. have had much experience in the
role of journalist and have investigated the
slums OF London and Liverpool. know the
"Tenderloin' OF New York and the 'attrac-
tions' at Berlin and Vienna; but for down
right satanic ingenuity of viciousness and
gilt-edged debauchery you must go 10 the
Quarter Latin. For IL is here that i'm
morality is accepted as a virtue and real
virtue has line of demarkation TO dis
tinguish IL from immortality. No young
man or young woman can survive such en-
vironment untarnished. and many are
ruined for life. That which, like London
slums. Is repilsive Is not dangerous-it Is