The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-07

amazing ruins which are now exposed In
the Louvre. Paris, and this fact inspired
her TO write a novel, "Parysatis. 30
dramatic was the book that NJ Saint
Saens, who was seeking a Persian theme,
offered TO set ''Parysatis" to music, ana
the result Is the fine opera now being per-
formed at Beziers.
AT the old-fashioned inns and restaurants
in Sweden it is customary TO charge less
for women than for men on the theory
that they do not eat so much. At some
hotels in Sweden a man and a wife are
charged one and one-half persons IL
they occupy the same room. husband
and wife may travel as one and one-half
persons by railway, and also by the post
routes. furnishing their own carriage.
A Canadian firm recently placed with the
Montreal and Toronto newspapers an ad-
vertisement of a new nursing bottle IL had
patented and was about TO place on the
market. After giving directions for use
the advertisement ended In this manner:
when the baby is done drinking IL must
be unscrewed and laid in cool place un-
der tap. IL the baby does not thrive
on fresh milk il should be boiled"
AS both Adelphi College in Brooklyn and
Cornell University have made good the
conditions imposed by him. Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's next gifts to education will amount 70
$4,000 OF this Cornell will get s2o0OOO.
which, with similar amount raised by
subscription, will be used for the building
of hall of physics. Adelphi College will
use its S25OO00, half of which has been sub
scribed by its friends, as an endowment.
When Herr Most talks of prisons his
words deserve attention, for his experience
has been wide and varied. He says that
the "freer the country the worse the Jail"
II was first" he says. Imprisoned In Aus
tria. There / was treated like a gentle
man. In Germany they set to work at
bookbinding. That was easy. In London
| they made me pick oakum. That was very
hard. The first time / was imprisoned in
America had to fire furnace. That was
| hades''
| The Mitsui family is called "the Roth
schilds of Japan" standing upon pedestal
| as compared with other business firms in
| that country. The line comes clearly from
| the thirteenth century but IL was not I'M
| til 900 years later that they became mer-
! chants. Since that time the Mitsuis have
been pre-eminenly the leading business
| family. connected with every large COM
mercial enterprise in the country and con-
Quoting many undertakings as much for
| public benefit as for private gain.
A record of the height of Indiana soldiers
in the civil war shows that out of lis, 254
there were 1901 five feet ten inches high
| sos five feet eleven inches, 6,679 six feet
high, 2,614 six feet one inch, 1857 six feet
| two inches 406 six feet three inches and
/ 1856 over six feet three inches Commenting
| on these statistics DR.. Gould, actuary OF
| the United States Sanitary Commission
| writes: 1T is evident from our statistics
| that the Indiana men are the tallest OF
| all natives of the United States, and these
| latter the tallest of all civilized countries
Anton Lang, the Christus of the Oberam.
mergau Passion Play, and Matilda Ruiz
daughter of the blacksmith of the village
of Oberammergau and a participant in the
| play, were married last Monday. Antor
| Lang impersonated the Christus of the
| Oberemmergau Passion Play for the frs
time at the decennial performances of 1900
succeeding the veteran Josef Mayr, th'
Christus of 1870, 1880 and $780, 1t was gen
orally agreed that his presentation OF the
Saviour was moving, pathetic and digni
| fed and entirely in consonance with the
best traditions of the village.