The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24


self-control. 1t is asserted. as he has a
temper that would blaze up IL he would
let II.
A portrait of General Leonard Wood by
Sargent has been hung in the Corcoran Art
Gallery in Washington. 1t Is a half length.
with the subject in full uniform. The por-
trait hangs next to that Of Prince Henry,
which was gift 70 Miss Roosevelt on the
occasion OF the princes visit last year.
DR.. c. H. Parkhurst is widely known for
the plain way he has of stating facts. In
recen, Sunday discourse he referred TO
those who are in the habit Of dropping a
nickel in the plate after listening to the
eloquence and logic of some particularly
distinguished divine as showing five cents
worth OF evangelical responsiveness.
Prof. William z. Watt, who calls Shak-
speare "a cheap punster and wit of slim
order" has been principal of the Graham
School in Chicago for eighteen years. He
his degree at the old Fort Wayne College.
now Taylor University. Professor Watt is
an artist, lecturer, traveller, author and
singer or some note.
| As an expression of regard for Helen
Miller Gould and a recognition of her phil
anthropic works, Mrs. Samuel Sage has
presented to the American Female Guar
dian Society and Home for the Frendless a
stalned-glass window. Miss Gould present.
ca SSoo TO the society as starter toward
the $4,000 to be raised to enable the society
10 erect Its own school building.
Samuel Hill. of Eigin, has the distinction
of being the first colored man in nncis to
ask municipality to elect him mayor. He
circulated a petition among the voters, but
afterward withdrew from the race Hill
was slave during the Mexican war, and
accompanied his master through that war.
AT present ne is the Elgin pondmaster, and
Is unique character in that city.
| The Pope has said that he will be the
| godfather Of the ninety-three children born
at Rome on March g. which was the twen-
ty-fifth anniversary of his succession to the
papacy. 1t is strange that the number of
children born on that day should be the
| same as the number of years of the Pope's
lie and also that the daily average birth
rate at Rome is thirty-five. The Pope has
| given each child an outfit of clothes and
one hundred lire.
Mrs. Mary B. James, of Minneapolis, has
been appointed by the Minnesota State
| Board of Control to supervise the cooking
| In State institutions. The board has en-
gagged trained expert in dietary matters,
| because il hopes to run its institutions more
economically, and 1T prefers not to trust
| the matter to superintendent, whose usual
without considering the comfort or health
| of those most intimately affected by the re-
1 duction.
| Senator Blackburn tells story of a
| constituent of his who holds the office of
trial justice" in the Bluegrass State.
His own son was brought before him on a
| charge of drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct. His honor listened gravely to the
| evidence, which established a clear case
| against the young man, and said: 1.-The
| court will now render sentence. You're
fined one cent and costs. The court will
remit the costs. and you may go home and
| thank God that your father is the judge.
! The man whom Darwin referred to as
''the great apiarist''-Dr. Johann Dzierzon-
is still living. at the age Of ninety-two.
During n recent exhibition in Vienna he
| attracted much attention. He was born
| in Silesia, and already as boy was greatly
| interested in bees. In 1885 he became q
/ pastor, but abdicated in 1858 in order to
| devote himself entirely to bees. Many i'm
| portant discoveries have been made by him,
| and it was he who acclimated the indus
| trious Italian bees in Germany, and made
| it possible for every farmer to have his
beehive.