The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-02-21

SENATOR SHARON says that he has drawn
no pay from the present Congress.
MR. YosHIDA the japanese minister, Is ex-
pected to arrive In Washington neAt month
with his family.
A BILL before the Hungarian Parliament
proposes that after six years the Magyar Ian
guage shall be obligatory in all schools
LEO XIII. has suffered slightly from cold
during the present rigorous winter at Rome
but otherwise his health, it is said, never was
better.
The entire Importation of print paper for
the past II months is only about 10000 p unds
Governmen mt is not likely to get rich on ~ per
cent. of that.
THE Hawaiian Legislature has appropriated
$50 900 to buiid palace for the King whose
palace has hitherto consisted OF number OF
wooden cottages inclosed by a high stone wall
A BosroS clergyman supposed he was get
ting - Tor performing marriage service lor
couple of strangers but he was really losing
49, for he gave that amount Oh money III OK
change for a bad so bill.
SEVERAL charitable institutions o. Pittsourg
lose a l.Ige oequest through the Pennsylvania
law that wills devisi1g property TO charities
are void "a such requests, If made within
80 days of the testators death.
EXPERIENCE has shown at the Petroleum
iron works, Titusville, Pa, that a barrel OF
petroleum will generate heat sufficient for
making a ton of iron. while ton and quar-
ter OF coal would be required for the same re-
suit.
THE ex-khedIve has arranged a grand tour
which Will embrace Rome, Paris and Lonjon.
| But b. fore setting out he his sent an envoy to
fiean tn II a m
If g anted, this will be one of the most note
| worthy meetings in history.
] McKEEHEN was compelled, while a loaded
pistol leveled at hin, to marry Miss
Moore, at Leavenworth, Ks. He contested the
| legality of the marriage, and the courts &C.
clared it null and void. Then he voluntarily
| had the ceremony repeated.
LADY RAMSAY, the wife of an unsuccessful
candidate for Parliament from Liverpool
went heartily into politics for her nus 'and's
sake She worked enthusia stically In his
! cause, and became an lmu ense fayorite with
the electors, who cheered her warmly when-
ever she appeared.
In the last edition of Dickens works Is
/ little farce emitted the "Strange Gentleman"
produced at the St. James the ter, London, in
1876, which undoubtedly contains the original
! sketch of "Sam Weller" under the name of
TON SPARKS" Otherwise no duller produc-
ton was ever penned.
AT Dillingham;. near Chatham, England, a
singular bail was recently held. The party
was made up of So ladies' and gentlemen whose
| united ages amounted to $50 years. \ gen.
tleman born in 1870 opened the dance with a
lady only four years his junior, and II Is SAID
that thei waltzing was as brisk as that of any
young couple of 10.
ALBERT PAYNE RICHARDSON eloped with a
married woman from Merose, Mass, and
was arrested, tried and fined. Then he re-
turned to his own wife, with whom he live d
until few days ago, when he eloped again.
This time he chose a maidea, having learned,
AS he said in a letter to Mrs. Richardson, that
thre was no law against running away with
unmarried females.
SOME relics of prlvateer fitted out at Saint
MaIo in l747. which sank in the roadstead OF
Morlaix (Flnisterre), have lately been re.
Covered by Captain GuerIn, of the Plonguer.
He has brought to land three anchors. Rcau-
non, a Dell, some non balls, a number of
boarding pixies, sabers, pistols, etc. He was
obliged to suspend his operations on accouL I
of bad weather, but purposed resuming them
at the first opportunity.
Mr.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON read his "Con-
cord Hymn" in The Old South church the
other evening, in cid of the preserva ion fund
for that edifice. DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes
read "Dorot ~ O." and a poem, the Silent
Melody" which ne has recently written, and
which Is described as "beautiful." He read,
also, Mrs. Howe's poem. Our Orders" which
he declared that he regarded las the best
poem which was written during the war;"
THE Emperor william, feeling the weight of
the crown prince. leave him even for short
Journeys. His maJssty VINO has hitherto
borne the faligues o. the court season remark
ably wei, astOnishes every body by his fresh
ne.s and vigor. He Is said to be far from
pleased at The early close of the years festivi-
| ties, which terminated rather prematrrely,
owing to- the speedy commencement OF Lent
PIErRo ALE-sANDRo GAsDA the man who
when Napoleon returned from Eba hoisted
the trlo-colored fl az on the Tuilleres while the
palace was still occupied by the Royai Guards,
| has lust diej at Turin. He was after the
return at Elba attached to NapOeon's staff
| and fought at Waterloo. Since then he has
been direc or of an English mining company
In Peru, a volunteer with his friend, Gari-
! baldI, and a gentleman of leisure, living
! quietly In his own chateau.
Mr.. TOoLE mas nearly recovered from his re.
cent severe illness and has returned TO his
work. On the first night of his temperance
the theater crowded and the audience
burst into loud applause before he got in ST. Int
upon the stage, his voice being recognize as
ha approached. "Ahl" he said to a friend ON
returning TO his DIRE sing room after The first
act, shat did me more good than wider
ness of doctors, an ocean of lotions and a
square acre Of Brighton air."
WHEN Mr.. Teunyson sits down to write
which he usually does for five hours a day-he
gives strict orders that he shall not tie dis
turbed. There have been cal ers who, through
some blunder OF servants, have got into his
library while he was writing, and were de-
nounced by him for their intrusion as If they
had been his worst enemies. Any Interrupt
ton while he Is at work is said TO make him
Wild; ne raves like mad, and, figuratively
foams at the mouth. In his work he Is delib
Grafton personi6ed, spending hours some
times on a single line.
The return Of the number of wolves and
other wild animals, killed last winter In
France, has just been published, and shows
the following results: Wolves. 4O2 young
wolves, l5s; foxes, GIL; badgers, 5,O36: wild
bears, 53-S. 1t Is supposed that the returns
for the present winter will show a vast In
crease in the number of slaughtered wolves,
In consequence of the exceptional severity If
the weather. Most of the wolves which Der.
ish In France are slain by the louveterie,
special body charged with that duty. Under
the ancient regime the grand lauveterie of
France was an officer of the kings household,