The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-26

the clerks OF the Pension Department. he,,-
ing been appointed 20 that position In lS-i.
and has served continuously ever since a
spite of his eighty years he is stiE in active
duty.
A recent English paper says: The
Taller and Cutter has been at the Royal
Academy criticising the clothes. We note
the absence OF a seam from the forearm
of the right sleeve" says the critic. re-
ferring 10 the portrait OF the King, but
otherwise the painting does the artist
credit"
There is" says the Jewell County CSan.D
Republican, "a fool editor In this region
who is secretary OF the county fair. chair
man of his party county committee. a
member OF the State central committee. and
who works nights and Sundays to get his
paper out. The boys will soon be telling
what a good editor his widow is.
Lord Kitchener is no respecter OF per-
sons. as the world now knows. and ifNan
officer required a talking TO he got IL. no
matter who he was. Even the members OF
MS own family were not exempt from this
unpleasant ordeal One day General r. w.
Kitchener humorously remarked at Pre-
torla that he had come UP there TO get q
wigglng from his younger brother. And
he duly received IL.
Undoubtedly the most wonderful old lady
In the peerage at the present time is the
Dowager Duchess OF Abercorn, who has
passed her ninetieth birthday. and whose
son, the present Duke of Abercorn. was
sixty-four last week. Six years ago the
dowager duchess had 10 direct descend
ants. and since then the number has in
three years Of welded life before her hus-
band, the first Duke Of Abercorn, died In
1855. The venerable peeress possesses the
Order of Victoria and Albert
The famous French geographer. Elisee
Reclus. who is now In his seventy-third
year. lives at Brussels in great seclusion.
the only place where stranger can meet
him being at vegetarian restaurant where
he takes his meals. He has been a vege-
tartan all his lffe and declares that the
time will come when Europeans will look
on beef-eating with the same horror that
We do on cannibalism. One day he came
to friend pale and agitated. MY wife
Is deceiving me" he exclaimed: and when
his friend looked at him I'm astonishment,
he added: II have surprised her when she
was boiling my spinach in bouillon.
Bishop Potter's THE East of To-day and
Tomorrow" just published by the Century
Company, giving an account of his i'm
pressions of China. Japan. India, the Ha-
waiian islands and the Philippines, con-
tains this dedication:
JOHN PIERPoNT MORGAN.
Financier, Philanthropist, Friend.
TO WHOSE munifcence these opportunf-
ties for observation in the East were ow-
ing, ana whose constructive genius. which
upbuilds and never pulls down, has in
dicated the tasks which await Western
civilization in Eastern fields.
During the past few years Citizen"
George Francis Train has lived in the
Mills Hotel in Bleecker street, New York.
He occupies a corner room near the top
and here his time has been largely spent
in reading the newspapers, which he de-
YOURS omnivOrouSly. The walls of his
room are covered with portraits and other
pictures culled from the papers Here,
however, he maintains the same alertness
of mind and dignity of demeanor that were
so conspicuously his during the days OF
his restless activity and SURPRISING sue
cesses. in large enterprises on three con-
tinents.