The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The German Emperor has French blood
in his veins, its source dating back over
800 years. The Kaisers ancestor, Freder-
lex of Prussia, was the son of princess
descended from the French Admiral Gas
pard de Coligny, who died In 1872.
A London dispatch says that John s.
Sargent, the American portrait painter, will
soon start for the United States to paint
a portrait of President Roosevelt Lon
don paper says that, bachelor himself,
Mr.. Sargent is said to ban the female sex,
even in the matter of domestic service.
Queen Alexandra Is so fond of clocks that
she has 300 Of them-small, large, fancy and
plain-at Sandringham. Curiously enough,
these have always been kept half an hour
fast to humor the King. The finest collec-
ton in the world is supposed to be at Buck
fngham Palace, the number of clocks there
being considerably over 300, while Marl-
borough House is believed to boast coll
lection of some 400.
An institute is to be opened in London at
which young women are to be educated in
the practical details Of everyday life. They
will be taught, among other things, how TO
alight from an electric car in safety; how
to open WINDOW and put up a shade I'm
railway car; what kind of shoes to wear
for comfort, and when to wear them; how
to do up umbrellas, to trim lamps, to open
boxes and tin cans, to drive nail and to
light fire.
Prince Eitel Fritz. second son of the Ger
man Emperor. will take up his studies at
Bonn next week The professors there are
awaiting the arrival of the royal student
with anticipations of mixed character, as
the Emperor has announced his intention
of accompanying his son. The professors
show the same repugnance for . German r u,
student customs manifested by his elder
brother, the crown prince.
Swamp cane was often employed as ma
terial for breastworks by the Union army
that invested vicksbure, Miss. in the civil
war. The cane never attains the height or
thickness of the bamboo of the East. but
IS much like II, being exceedingly tough,
horny and elastic. II was found that when
1t came to resisting bullets bundle of
swamp cane was better than ton of earth.
Bullets could not penetrate 1t. On the con-
trary, 1t fattened and cut the balls I'm every
direction, and as fast as they rained down
on 1t.
The crown prince OF Germany is the ris-
ing sportsman of the Hohenzollern royal
family. and is already almost as good a
shot as his father. The prince In exceeding
fond of deer stalking. He is now in the
old forest house Dambachshaus, formerly
Prince Henry of Prussia.s favorite shoot
ing lodge, situated at lonely spot I'm the
middle of the forest. on an elevated plateau
overlooking the Bodethal. He goes out
morning ana evening with his aid ii a. a mr.,
a keeper, and two German bloodhouuds
When he was a young man at oxfora
John Morley was eminent chiefly as an am
ateur actor. Later in life he took a good
deal of interest in London theaters. In the
early seventies Mr.. Bateuan was lessee NJ
the Lyceum Theater. One day Rafemar
SAID to Morley: 4 am at a loss to know
what to play next why don't vc,, ot,,s
that tall young man a chance as HamIsf ,''
asked Morley. The tall young man" wa 9
Irving, In whom Mr.. Morley saw the possi-
oiiities which were developed in after wears
1t is announced that between s4eoo ooo
and 100000 will be expended on improve.
ments and enlarsements at the IJnivsr.,,v
OF Chicago Before the end OF the nresent
collegiate year announcement will be mad
| or the complete plans for a tecbno,o.,
scnool- This statement WA made hy n.
harper recently. A technoloeicaI dsn.1.
ment has long been the dream AZ the nj
versity president and his eollea e,,es p,'is
lngs Tor the school may be berun 49,.
autumn. and In that case will he rad. -
the students By the autumn Of faos Ut ~
estimated that this department Will cost -,
In his recent volume Of sRenin,scAn~.. .
covering sixty years OF public life. Co.
3 Boutwell, has many entertatnsr. - =
ooteo 70 relate concarnine Ms IA NE
GATES "a politice and 6overnmenf. ~ t<o, .e-