The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Henry Cole. one OF the oldest real-estate
men Of Denver. Col. is to enrich the Meth
odist churches Of that city by a gift OF
S350,O00.
James y. Rogers. prominent I'm Baptist
circles in Salinas, Cal, has. after much
study and correspondence with learned
Moslems. embraced Mohammedanism. He
says he expects nothing but ostracism as
a consequence Of his change OF faith.
Harriet Beecher Stoves ninetieth birth
day was celebrated by negro residents OF
San Francisco in the old church on Stock
ton street, from the very pulpit where the
patriot. Thomas Starr King. preached forty
years ago 10 hold California within the
Union and against the extension OF slaV-
cry.
Heinrich Conried, manager Of the Irving
Palace Theater. who is now abroad. has
been summoned to Travemunde for an au-
dience with Emperor William. whose OBJ
1ect- II Is understood. Is 10 decorate Herr
Conried in recognition OF the gala opera
performance given by him during Prince
Henry's visit TO America.
a life insurance agent tried to insure
Senator W. A. Clark's life. After the
agent had stated his proposition. Senator
Clark said: Why should 1 have life in
surance? In the first place. / don't think
the company would accept me as a good
risk, and in the second place. 1 don't need
the money" The senator has an income
from copper properties Of about 100000 a
month.
Something resembling the Brook Farm
experiment Is in progress near Berlin.
where about forty German poets. prose
writer's and philosophers have undertaken
TO live with their families in a single large
house. Each family Is given an allotment
OF garden ground, which IL can cultivate
as it pleases. but until the Institution is
endowed is must pay l mark a head per
diem TO the common expenses. In addi-
ton TO this IL must also pay for its apart
ments, which range from 80 10 40 marks a
month.
President Roosevelt has put his c~oachman
and footman in the most SNOWY livery ever
seen at the White House, although COM
pared with the liveries OF many private
establishments there is nothing extraOrdi-
nary about IL. The men wear white. tight
fitting doeskin knee breeches. patent leather
top boots and blue cloth coats ornamented
with silver buttons. The wear tall collars,
white ties and high hats ornameted with
the regulation red. white and blue cockade
The liveries are said 20 be very neat and in
exceedingly good taste.
Ii Hung Changes successor I'm the title
and honors, his eldest son. Ii C~hing-hsu.
did not live long to enjoy his great position
and wealth. The Picking and Tien-Tsin
Times contains the announcement OF his
/ death in Peking from kidney disease. The
titles and honors Of the great viceroy now
devolve upon a youth Of sixteen years or
age. At one time the boy was given a West
ern training, and promised TO become an
efficient English scholar, but certain Oc-
cult and anti-foreign influences in the fam
lily stopped his studies.
Representative Dalzell says that years
ago he and the late President Mckinley
were both TO speak at a political meeting,
and ne was surprised to find Mr.. Mckinley
calm and self-conhdent before ascending 10
the platform. Major" said he. don't you
ever get nervous before speaking? You're
as cool as a cucumber, and I'm as nervous
as the valedictorian of a young ladies' sem
mary" My dear Dalzell.' replied Mr.. Nc
kinley, the difference between US Il this:
You have your speech in your head. and
I I've got mine in my pocket"
In 1857. after the bred Scott decision.
Chief Justice fancy wrote to a Massachu-
sets minister, Rev. Samuel Mott. OF Ware
ham: Il am not a Shareholder. More than
thirty years ago m~anumitted every slave
l ever owned, except two, who were too old
when they became my property TO provide
for themselves. These l supported I'm COM
fort as long as they lived. And 1 am glad
to say that none OF those whom l manu-
mitted disappointed my expectations, but
have shown by their conduct that they
use it,"
We hear a great deal about the heights OF
various mountains, and how adventurous
men are overcoming the difficulties Of as
cent of unconquered peaks one by one. OF
the bottom of the sea we hear much less.
consequently the following remarks of Prof.
Davis, OF Harvard, in his new work. "Ele-
mentary Physical Geography" concerning
the ocean depths. are OF interest: Sound
ings have shown that the ocean basins are
comparatively steep-sided and hat-hoored.
The greatest depth yet found Is Sl,6l4 feet,
in the western Pacific near the Island or
Guam latitude Il degrees IS minutes north.
longitude lao degrees 10 minutes east.) An
other place of great depth. 30,930 feet, is in
the Pacific. near the Fiji islands. The
deepest sounding yet made in the Atlantic
is p, 1866 feet, or over five miles, IN a local
depression 100 miles north Of Porto Rico,
West Indies"