The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Hindoo barrister, pleading his clients case
in court, said to the judge: II seek only to
place my bone of contention firmly in your Hon
ors eye"
The Rev. Z. Henry Byrons. a Congregational
minister of New Smyrna, Fla, is making an eff
fort to arrange for joint reunion of Confederate
and Federal veterans some time this summer.
Charles w. jenkins, Of Corpus Christi, Tex,
millionaire, has perhaps the oldest fad of any
collector curios in the United States-that of
human skulls. He has at present in his private
museum 34S perfect human skulls gathered in
all parts of the country.
In commemoration of the Indian Princess Poca-
hontas. who died at Gravesend. England. when
about TO sail home to Virginia with her husband
in 1916, St. Georges Church, in Mapping, is
have a pulpit made from wood brought from vir-
GINA Pocahontas is buried in the chancel of ST.
Georges Church
There has been a steady decrease in the num-
Der of births in Germany during the last few dec
AIDES. From 1870 10 1850 the number of births
was 407 for every Loco inhabitants; during the
following decade it fell to 1872, and from 1890
to 1900 it was not more than 37.4, or about as
much as during the ffties.
General Kuropatkin, the commander of the
Russian army in the far East, was a personal
friend Of Sl1obelen. with whom he served in the
Russo Turkish and the Tekke- Turcoman
campaign. He is a man of the Skobeleff type
and regards Britain the hereditary foe of
Russia. 1t is said that he regards inevitable
the Russian conquest of India
Many men charge high to be interviewed. Sir
Charles Villers Stanford, professor of music at
Cambridge University. said it required a fee of
ST. to get him to open up" W. G. Grace, the
cricketer, demands $500 for an interview. and the
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the astronomer nearly high.
That they still use the Letter Writer'S
Friend and THE Ready Letter Writer out in
Kansas is strongly suspected from a note which
an Emporia recently received from a
candidate for domestic service. 1t began as
follows: 't'My Dear Friend-I take my pen in
hand to answer your tender missive'
The art of land surveying owes its origin to
the fact that the Egyptians were una BILE to keep
permanent monuments on land which was over
flowed every year 10y the Nile Under such cir
cumstsnces il became necessary to have some
means of reidentifying the various pieces of land
The instruments and mathematical methods of
astronomy, with suitable notifications, were
used by the Egyptians for land surveying.
The youngsters of a Harlem public school have
Instituted a signal to tell them whether they are
late on the way school, A city ordinance re-
qures schoohouses to display an American
flag during the session. and over the school of
Observation-Disclosures street the stars and
stripes. flying alone signifies that the scholars
have plenty of time. But when blue flag is
also flying the children know that their lines
are on the way TO the cassrooms. and there is
a rush and scramble to get in
Pyeng-Yang. the largest and most important
city in northern Korea, was founded by a fugi-
tive Chinese statesman. who came over with
5000 followers in the days when David was King
at Jerusalem. His name is Kija, and he is re-
gaided as the founder Of Korean civilization His
well is still at PyengYang. and high hill
| to the north of the city is his tomb Pyeng-
Yang rs the second city in the empire. 1t has a
| population of between 1900 and $4,000 inhab-
itants; its people are free and Independent. full
| of energy and spirit.