The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-09
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

For a policy of 10000 on the life of King
Peter of Servia. the German Insurance Company
asks premium of $4,000.
dress owned by Kiowa Indian squaw was
sold in FL Reno o. T., for $1,000, and the pur-
chaser thinks he lucky to get it at that
price. 1t is lavishly decorated with elk teeth.
which are becoming almost valuable
pearls
Morris Williams. of Wilkesbarre. who has
just been appointed president of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, started his work about
the mines breaker boy. and has risen
through all the grades of mining to his present
position, where he controls millions of dollars
worth OF property and commands 10000 men.
]. II. Alderman state superintendent of public
instruction in Oregon. urges that the elements
of scientific farming be taught in public schools
He does not contemplate thorough agricultural
training, but rather that pupils be taught such
facts and principles should be understood by
every living in agricultural country.
Alfred Vanderbilt was driving his four around
the ring at the recent New York horse show
when a overheard to say that he was
easily outelassed whip by some of the
other men in the ring. Then woman expressed
the popular idea of the young millionaire by
saying: Don't find fault He's at least trying
to do something"
1t is understood that ex-senator James X.
Jones' of Arkansas, has shaken the dust of that
State off his feet and will never again have a
residence there. He hopes eventually to be ap-
pointed a member of the Isthmus Canal Com
mission. MIR. Jones took his defeat for the Sem
ate very hard, and would have preferred almost
any in Arkansas to beat him than ex-Ciov.
Clark.
According to the best figures on the subject
the following measurements approximate ton
of hay under the conditions set forth: Moder-
ately settled, 512 cubic feet per ton; medium
settled six months after stacking, 500 cubic
feet per tom old stack. 495 cubic feet per ton.
For baled hay. go cubic feet per ton is allowed.
| In the of prairie hay the figures are
| sometimes used for stacks not thoroughly set
tled but for old. well-settled stacks. S43 cubic
| feet is in some cases considered ton
| The custom of the late Phil May. according
| to the Westminster Gazette, make his
| first sketch for a drawing with the utmost
care, putting in all the details. light and shade
| and so on. When that was finished he pro-
| ceeded to knock away the scaffold as it Were
| and in the finished product there remained
| nothing but the absolutely essential lines OF
the picture He reached his ends by the elm.
| nation of the superfiuous pushed to it's farthes
! limits and the result literally repaid the sacri
| fee of labor apparently entailed by the process.
| Marks Nathan. of Chicago. the ''scrapiror
| king" whose will has just been fled. left pro
vision for the erection Of synagogue in Jeru
| salem. He also left instructions that land b,
| purchased in the Holy City and dwelling,
| erected for the free housing of the families o.
| poor and deserving Jews. Out of a total for
tune of $4,000. made in the buying and selling
| of scrap iron. Mr.. Nathan bequeathed SAG. 500 t.
| charity The amount named for expenditure IL
| Jerusalem $4,000. An equal was Sc
| aside for the erection of Jewish hospital o.
| asylum for Jewish orphans.