The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Captain Alfred Johnson, who was the
first man to cross the ocean in small
boat in 1876. is still living at Gloucester,
Mass.
Rev. Robert Benson, son of the late arch
bishop of Canterbury. England, who died
in 1886, has been received into the Roman
Catholic Church.
Benjamin +. M Marshall has the largest
watermelon patch in the world. 1t con-
tains ten acres, yielded this year 100000
melons, and is located in Scott county,
Missouri.
Alfred Mosley, of London. England, a
writer of economic subjects, has entered
his two sons as freshmen in Yale Universe
ty in preference to sending them to Oxford
or Cambridge.
Congressman Sulzer, OF New York, is
credited with having uttered this gem Of
| mixed metaphor: They will keep cutting
the wool from the sheep that lays the
golden egg until they pump it dry"
The Sultan Of Turkey employs fifteen
| secretaries. whose duty it is to translate
foreign books for his deIectation. II one
| OF them happens to err and translates a
book that is distasteful to his Majesty he
| is simply pitched into the Bosporus.
Speaker Gully, Of the British House of
Commons. will be seventy years old next
year. Mr.. Gully has been speaker for
| eight years, having been in the House
about the same length OF time previous to
| his elevation to that important place.
| A mistake has been discovered in one
| Of the inscriptions on the Mckinley monu-
ment unveiled at Toledo, Sept. IA. Re-
ferring to the Presidents last hour, the in
| scription reads: He whispered freely,
| Nearer. my God. to Thee" Freely"
ought to read "Feebly," and the Inscription
will be altered accordingly.
Mayor Charles H. Leeds. Of Stanford,
| Conn.,, is taking a postgraduate course at
Yale. He is studying finance, railroad re-
ports. elementary economics. elementary
| statistics, ethnology and English history.
II have two objects in taking this course, !"
he says. 1.-THE first is to prepare for teach
! ing In case am not successful In politics.
| The second Is to fit myself more thoroughly
| for politics In case continue to sue
ceed."
| The length of either day or night can
easily be accurately reckoned by the fol-
lowing simple rule: Multiply the hour of
the suns rising by two and it will give
the length of the night; multiply the hour
| of setting by two and it will give the
| length of the day; thus take the day when
| the sun rises at $50 and sets at $50. APP
thirteen hours and day Of eleven hours.
| The rule will be found absolutely accurate
| at any season of the year.
Women are proving that even In the
| realm of discovery and invention-so long
swayed strictly by the sterper sex-they
are capable Of achieving conquests. To
| Mrs. Carrie Renston, of Tacoma, Wash, is
due the revival Of the long lost art Of tenn
| pering copper. Mrs. Renston has incor-
| porated company to put her patented Sc
cret process into practical use plant Is
being established and already is turning
| out hardened and tempered copper pos
sessing spring not surpassed by Steel
Some idea Of the size Of John d. Rookie
| feller's mail may be drawn from the fact
that 500 letters addressed to him have been
received at the Eldorado Springs CMo.)
| postoffice as a result of report which
| was sent out recently that he was going
| there to drink the waters. Rockefeller
wrote to Eldorado Springs asking If he
| could get suitable accommodations in case
| he should go there. A boomer of the town
Immediately announced to the press that
/ the multi-millionaire was coming. Letters
| addressed to him began to arrive the next
| day.
George AIDE attended recently a dinner
| of theatrical people in Boston. The stage
| folk sang songs and told stories, but Mr.
AIDE. who is very quiet and retiring, would
neither sing nor speak. He was, he said
1 no good at anything Of the kind. Finally.
| though the calls for Mr.. AIDE became toe
/ vehement. The young man had to yield
4 He rose and said: 81 will tell you of an
/ excellent trick in parlor magic. You take
| tumbler and fill 1T two-thirds full OF
| filtered water. Then you insert In the water
begin to stir. In a few minutes the sugar
will become invisible"