The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-04-03

THE collection of Chinese works In the Brit.
ish museum includes 10000 volumes.
FRANCE In 1878 had $4,000 births, of which
81 600, or about one In Is. were Legitimate.
WHILE boy at North Attleboro, Mass. was
holding horse the other day, the animal bit
off his lower lip.
Mr.. PARNELLs sister is to be married In
June to Mr.. Paget. brother of the husband
of the lady who was Miss Stevens.
LATEST news from the Texas sugar belt is to
the effect thai the late freeze stopped short be-
fore reaching that latitude, and that the cane
crop is safe.
REV JAMES Z. BEECHER, an eccentric cousin
of Henry Ward Beecher, who with his family
has lived on the border OF q backwOOds lake
foI some years, was nominated for supervisor
I'D the town of Hardenburg, Ulster county, but
was defeated.
MR.. FLETCHER, the father Of the clever
young author of "Kismet" and MIRAGE" Is
quoted as saying: al would rather see my
daughter married to an American blacksmith
possessing the attributes of a true man, than
TO any scion of the British nobility lacking
them"
THE rumor that Prince Leopold, Of Britain,
was to marry the beautiful Miss Maynard
step-daughter of Earl Roslyn, is contradicted.
she is good match even for prince-being
a winning au Il lovely girl of Is. and the owner
OF magnificent estate and an income of
$4,000 year.
AN article upon the human fgure says that
"the proportions of the figure are six times
the length of the feet" Coming generations,
wnen they shall excavate q Chicago young
lady's shoe, will remark incontinently: "There
were giants in those days." and mentally re-
construct race of women III feet tall.
ULYSSES 3. GRANT, JR., and Miss Flood fel
in love at a picnic In California. The young
lady went botanizing in the afternoon and
Mr.. Grant accompanied her. In trying to OBJ
tain a bit of wild geranium for her he poison
ed himself with ivy. and Miss Flood cured him
with some soothing salve given by an old
lady. That was enough for the young gentle
man.
WENDELL PHILLIPS In his oratory repeats
his figures of speech very frequently-we do
not mean to say too frequently, because there
is nobody who can repeat them so well as he
can. But IL you read one of his speeches
any one-it will be found that he always uses
the figure of the right hand holding this and
the LETT hand holding that This figure Is not
tiIesome, but he always uses 1t.
THE Boston Post says that Washington
gentleman who Is a shrewd observer of politi-
cal events writes the Post q prediction that
neither OF the Republicans now prominently
mentioned for the presidential nomination
will secure 1t, and that the Democratic nomi-
nation will fall to some man little If any
talked of at the present time. He predicts
that Blaine will not come as near q nomina
ton as he did four years ago. and, though a
friend of Mr.. Tilden, says his nomination by
the Democrats would be inviting defeat.
The Paris Patrie announces the death at
Salt Lake City of the Count Of Massena, son OF
Marshal Massena, of the first empire, and says
he died III a hospital in extreme poverty. The
Patrie must have got its news from some
source other than the American papers. A
son of one of Napoleons marshals could hard
ly have died in Utah without the event at
tracing or. at deal OF attention, unless his
identity was carefully concealed, and made
known only by letters received In France after
his death. The story is, to say the least, doubt
full,
OLD Mr.. Baker advertised for a wife. specify
ing "a young woman of irreproachable char
acter" He received letter from a lady of
Dewitt Mo. She said that she only IL,
and was willing to become an old mans dar-
ling wife. AS TO her character, she assured
Mr.. Baker that anybody In Dewitt could give
him the facts; and she told the truth, for the
first person of whom he inquired informed
him that she had served three terms in prison
for stealing, and one for shooting q man. He
decided not to marry her.
THE main body of the Salvation Army
which is campaigning In England, has some
thing worse to contend with the re than hard
hearted city officials. At q meeting In Ply
mouth on the Drill Hall grounds q crowd of
roughs created disturbance, and, being re-
monstrated with, attacked the army. The sal
vationists repealed the attack with their fists
and with sticks, and held the fort for two
hours, but were eventually defeated and forced
to seek refuge In a house.
THE railway from Vera Cruz to the City of
Mexico is in many respects one of the most re-
markable pieces of engineering of its kind In
the world. The cost was very great, taxing
into account the cheapness Of labor In this
country; but a trip across the mountains
should be sufficient to convince the most
skeptical that not much of the S27 100000 that
1t cost to build 26S miles Of the road was mis-
spent. Between Orizaba and Esperanto the
the rise Is nearly 500 feet and this journey Is
accomplished in three hours.
JOHN TENNIEL, the celebrated cartoon ar
fist of the London Punch, is 20 years old. He
created his own style and Is considered self
educated. In l845 he painted fresco In the
palace at Westminster, and generally the few
pictures he has painted have been for private
collections. He has been on the stan of Punch
since 1851. In addition to his work on that
journal he has illustrated several holiday
books. He divides with Du Maurier, the sar-
castle artist of the society pictures, the honor
of keeping Punch In the van of English
comic papers. Du Maurier Is a Frenchman oy
birth, and was at one time In London stu
dent OF chemistry. His excellent sketches
have recently been published In book form.