The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-24
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

To vote for a member of Parliament a Japa-
nese must be twenty five years old and pay
about $3.50 annually in direct national taxation.
This rule shuts out nearly 80 per cent of the
population of Japan.
D. a. A Buck, who died recently at Medina.
n. Y was the inventor of the Waterbury
watch" Il was in January 1875. that he per-
fected the '1ong-wind'' watch that, in 1890 was
suppianted by the more modern type.
A German professor says that large
area OF central Russia the magnetic needle does
not point north or south. 1t is in one part de-
fected to the west and at another part TO the
east. and at place 1t points due east and
west
According to Pliny the elder the first people
to invent soap. and. 1T is supposed. to use 1t.
were the Gauls who made a detergent COM
pound of goats tallow and beechwood ashes.
about 200 b. g. What people used before this
it is not known, but there is an Arabian fable
to the effect that at time they went with
out it.
The King of Denmark is likely to live until a
descendant of his has been a queen a king in
almost every country of Europe. His face is
familiar enough in old age as, one of the gen.
tlest but somehow other. despite his many
years. he has missed the good luck of being
him extant are photographs
DR.. Carl Jacobsen. who In the last few years
has come to be known in his country the
Danish Carnegie" is visiting in Chicago. He
is the present head of a finally of famous brew
ers but he is best known for his liberal gifts to
the pubic institutions of Denmark Among his
notable gifts were art collections from Rome
which he secured for the Copenhagen galleries.
A boycotted judge is on exhibition in North
Cafona- He is Judge R. B. PEBBLES. who went
to hold court IN Robson county the other day
and found nineteen cases on the trial docket but
not lawyer in the courthouse. 1t appears that
the entire bar OF the county had agreed before
hand to consent to continuance of all cases on
the ground of Judge Peebles's discourtesy to
counsel and unfairness.
Robert B. Mantel, who is starring in 1.-The
Light Of Other Days" and Bill Nye were great
friends. When the humorist first engaged in
| newspaper work he took house on Staten
island and one day Mr.. Mantell went TO dinner
with him. Nye exploded some stories. and
| Mr.. Mantell, turning to his hosts little girl,
said: VERY clever papa you've got, my dear. -
| YES" responded the demure little miss. when
| there's company"
| When Isaac Abraham took a job as miner in
| the Minnie Healey mine in Montana he decided
| to take out life insurance policy, realizing the
| dangerous occupation he was to engage In. He
! left the money with his mother to make the frs,
payment to the local agent. AT s p. m. she paid
| the premium and received the policy for So. 000
| At sos O'Clock Abraham killed by a cavern
in the mine. Four other miners lost their lives
| at the time. The life of his policy is the
| shortest on record.
Here's new widows mite story. widow
| In West Bromwich, England, recently obtained q
| farthing in a breach of promise action she
| brought against a faithless sweetheart. She put
| 1t in the window of her tobacco shop with q
printed warning to trusting women to beware OF
'Mizpah' rings, and inviting men to come and
buy breach Of promise cigars and widow
mite cigarettes" The result such a bis
| business that the police had to stand by to keel
| the pavement clear while nineteen men, mostl,
| widowers, came and offered themselves in mar
| riage.