The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-19

Inc pest insured man III the Couutfy 10
Wanamaker, with $1.5OO.0OO on his life.
Barnard College girls are to have a roof
playground. Their present campus is too
much in public view, and they find the
"ogling" of passersby unpleasant. One of
the trustees of the institution will provide
the funds
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has just become
a great-grandmother through the birth of
a child to Mrs Henry Marion Hall. of East
Orange, N. ]. Mr.. Hall is a son of Mrs.
Florence Howe Hall, of Plainfeld. This is
Mrs. Howe's first great-grandchild.
Nine. Krupp's income for the current
year is estimated at only 100000 marks,
whereas her husbands. in the last six years
of his life, averaged 22,090.0O0 marks; his
tax bill was a million ls24o.WOl Inc de,
the large sums left by Krupp in charitable
requests.
The present mayor of st. Paul, Robert A.
Smith, is just at the end Of a fifty years
residence in that city. He went there in
1853 as the private secretary Of the Terri
torial Governor appointed by President
Franklin Pierce, and has seen the place
grow from a hamlet Of few hundred per-
sons to city of nearly 100000
Attorney General Knox considers that be-
ing in the Cabinet is playing, as he loses
100000 a year by neglecting his private
practice The only other member OF the
Cabinet who loses heavily by remaining in
public nets eyery
when he applies himself to it.
A story is going the rounds of the Lon
| don service clubs to the fleet that an elder
ly gentleman with patronizing air stopped
another near All Souls Church, Langham
| Place, and said: you'll excuse me, sir,
| but I've seen you several times. Do you
know you bear striking resemblance to
| the reply.
| If trades reports are to be depended upon
tea is going out of favor in the United
States. The present average consumption
per capita is much smaller than 1t was q
! quarter Of a century ago, while that of cot.
fee is much greater. The use OF distilled
liquors rs about the same as 1t was gen.
| Grafton ago, but that of the milder malt
| liquors has been more than doubled
| Here is characteristic anecdote about
| Mr.. Chamberlain. He was showing lady
| over the Highbury Conservatives, when
| she remarked: Zone need hardly ask you
| Mr.. Chamberlain, whether you are fond OF
| flowers" "Oh," he replied. "I don't know
when started growing flowers made VI
my mind that no one should have better
| ones than ]"
| A story is told of Bishop Williams, OF
Connecticut. for many years presiding bish-
| op of the Episcopal Church in America. and
all his life a bachelor. He was talking
/ with a young man from the West about
/ tax Western State was trying to impose
/ on bachelors. the tax to be increased Q
certain per cent. for every ten years OF
bachelorhood. "why. bishop" said the
young man, lat your age you would hav'
| to pay about 800 a year. We'll, said the
bishop. quietly, and in his old-time vernac.
| ular. its with It."
A reputable medical journal makes the
statement that any one who eats fresh let
tuce daily will be made absolutely immun,
from smallpox. Smallpox is a typical scor
butte disease, like scurvy, and RACES in tn.
| winter season when poor people are deprived
| OF fresh vegetable food. Onions and ceIer,
are as good perhaps as lettuce, but they ar
| eaten some time after being gathered. ant
| thus lose most Of their anti-scorbutic prop
critics. Lettuce, on the other hand. must b
| eaten very soon after leaving the garden
| and hence contains the properties which
are claimed to prevent smallpox.
The scandinavian bridegroom presents t.
his betrothed q prayer book and many 9th
er gifts, which usually include q goose. Sh,
In turn gives him, especially In Sweden, Z
shirt, and this he invariably wears on nj
wedding day. Afterward he puts It away
and under no circumstances VIII he wear 4
again while alive. But he wears Il In hi
crave, and there are SWede9 who earnestl,
believe not only In the resurrection Of tn
body, but IN the veritable resurrection o
the betrothal shirts Of such husbands q