The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The mother of President Loubet still man.
ages her farm at La Terrasse, Marsanne,
where her famous son was born.
Germany will make a complete medical
exhibit. including appliances, instruments,
diagrams etc., used in medical lectures, at
the worlds fair, next year.
The bishop Of Durham said recently:
When people get old they are inclined to
prophesy, and i sometimes think that the
English language will soon be nothing else
but slang and initials"
Admiral Dewey, like other men of promi-
hence, has occasionally to repress the usu-
ally irrepressible. The other day familiar
stranger came UP to him and cried: :
George, I'll bet you don't know me-" You
win,'' said the admiral, and passed on his
way.
One of the wealthiest baronets in Eng
land is Sir Tatton Sykes, whose rent roll
from his Yorkshire estates alone does not
fall far short of 100000 a year He is about
as eccentric as he Is rich, seldom wearing
fewer than four coats, while i'm the winter
he has been known to don dozen.
The widow of Brave Bill Anthony"
whose GOODNESS the night that the battleship
Maine was blown up in Havana harbor
made him famous, has been given a clerk
ship in the permanent census bureau, with
a salary OF $500 a year. When Anthony COM
mitted suicide he left his widow destitute.
Richard Strauss, who is, by many authori-
ties regarded as the greatest of living Ger
man composers, has completed his thirty
ninth year. His father was Franz Strauss
first horn player in the Munich Grand Opera
House. When seventeen years old he penned
symphony. His wife was Pauline De
Alma, a well-kn0wn opera singer.
Cape horse sickness is disease which
resembles human malaria. 1t especially at
tacks horses that are left to Craze all night
in marshy regions. DR.. Pitchford found
that horses stalled by night In stables pro-
tected by wire gauze remained perfectly
we'll, and therefore concluded that mosqui-
toes are responsible for the disease.
William Durant, of Boston, who recently
celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday an
niversary, will, in February next complete
seventy years of active service in the Office
of the Boston Transcript. He Is now the
treasurer of that publication. On his birth
day he was presented with a testimonial
address by sixteen fellow-employes, whose
average length of service is over thirty
seven years.
Miss Marion III. Brazier has been in
trusted with the formidable task of secur-
ing collection of thousands of photographs
of descendants of colonial and revolution
airy men and women for the st. Louis fair
These will adorn the long room of indie
residence Hall Gin facsimile) and will prove
NdiudOle eAniDlt, dS edcn picture VIII De
accompanied by a brief sketch of an an
cestor. After the fair they will be placed in
the Congressional Library i'm Washington.
The protection of birds has become a
settled custom in most civilized countries.
Australia is now making great efforts to
save it's native birds and for the prevention
of the trade in so-called osprey plumes The
colonies of egrets in Victoria are being rig
orously protected and the government of
Queensland will soon have certain islands
reserved for the Torres strait or nutmeg
pigeons peculiar to that region. Action has
also been taken to reserve chains of lakes in
Victoria as breeding places for wild fowl.
When Governor Crane was chief executive
of Massachusetts he was approached by a
delegation of business men who asked that
President Eliot be appointed one of a COM
mission to report on the proposed construc-
ton of dam across the Charles river. The
Governor demurred. would you mind stat
ing your objection To President Eliot 30
asked the spokesman. WELL" replied the
Governor. the law says that the COM
mission shall consist of three men. If L APP
pointed President Eliot there would only be
one"
ing TO the Westminster Gazette, was 10
make his first sketch for drawing with the
utmost care. putting in all the details,
light and shade, and on. When that
was finished, he proceeded to knock away
the scaffold as it were, and i'm the finished
product there remained nothing but the alb
solutely essential lines OF the picture. He
reached his ends by the elimination of the
and the result literally repaid the sacrifice
of labor apparently entailed by the process.