The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-17

were excluded from the theater. Thereupon
large portion of the audience broke into APP
plause, and then left-the house, proceeding to
private theater where play by the popular
poet, Iosen, was being performed. Toward the
end of Schonthan's play they returned to the
other theater, and vigorously Kissed the obnox-
ious foreign piece.
"a VERY peculiar contest has just taken place
in Paris between legs and wheels A young
cavalry officer. the Baron de Magnout offered to
race on foot to Versailles NJ. de Villars on his
velOcipede. The stake was $1,000, and the
velocipedist was freely backed at five TO one
in hundreds. They started from the triumphal
arch, and the pedestrian beat his adversary by
four and half minutes. Large sums were lost
on the issue.
DIR. L. L. NICHOLS, iE tho Science Monthly, as
serts that any given territory will sustain from
six to ten men on fruits, grains and vegetables
to one on flesh. He writes: ''Ony the direst me-
cessty, such as sometimes causes cannibaism,
could have induced men to kill and eat other
animals, Probably such feeding began with the
lowest forms Of life, as with oysters, for exam
pie. However the carnivOr0us tastes and hah-
its of men may have arisen, there is no doubt of
the sufficency of a vegetable diet"
ENGLAND's greatest historical fame, Westmin-
stcr Abbey, Is said to be so crowded with the
remains OF Industrious dead that it now contains
no more room for interments. Chaueer's grave
was mOlested to make room for Dryden's. Ben
JousOns bones fell into the grave prepared for
Sir Robert Wilson. Addisons remains are
squandered over those of the Duchess of Abe
marie, and, in turn, those of James Craggs rest
upon his. 1t is proposed to enlarge the burial
Accommodations of the Abbey b. erecting new
cloisters.
SHAKsPEARE's gloves, which were presented
by the mayor and corporation of Stratford to
Garrick IN 1863, are now in the possession OF
Miss Florence Beason, of London. They are
made of substantial leather, without any Orna-
ment, and have seen much wear. The scroll
| stitching the knuckIes has been in red and
gold, two coors maintained through all the ac-
eessories. The ribbon marking the cuff Is of vel
low silk, and that on the lower edge of crimson,
with yellow fringe. The cuff is of double leath
err with pattern pinked in the upper skin.
ACCORDING to Macauay, Warren Hastings
made it the ambition of his life to possess-and
doubtless to transmit to posterity's long line
Daylesford, the home of his ancient and time
honored race. He did gain possession of it; but
from him it went to his step-son, Sir Charles I'M
hoff, and from him to the real estate market. 1t
has had several owners since then, and a few
years ago fell into thu hands of Bass, the re-
nowned manufacturer of ale and beer. He re-
stored it to its former glory and made it his
home, hut has now sod it again, for an enor-
mously high price.
JOHN BRIGHT makes notes aud headings of his
speeches, and with great care writes down and
commits to memory all the important passages
Gladstone merely jots down facts and figures
and for expression trusts entirely to the mo-
ment. The late Lord Derby, tho "Rupert OF De-
bate" wrote down every word and committed
his speeches to memory. In one of his letters he
says that all his principal speeches cost him two
slecpless n1ghts-one i'll thinking what he would
say, and the other in lamenting that he might
have said it better Theirs was equally precise
O'Connell and Gambetta spoke always on the
| inspiration of the moment.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's favorite breakfast dish is
bacon and eggs, so says his late cook. He dis
likes white or fresh-baked bread of any kind and
takes hard brown toast and black coffee for
breakfast, after having had snip" of brandy
and settler when he first gets up. He is very
fond of coffee, and will take four or five cups
when he has been working late the night before,
while at midnight he invariably DRINKS cup of
tea. The ex cook declares that the Chancellor is
a most unaffected and pleasant man in general,
but when he is in a rage every body keeps ont of
his way, from the servants to his wife, while
when anything goes wrong in the Reichstag ''he
| storms about the house like fury"
EX-CoNGREssMAN HENRY B. PAYNE, of Pitts
burg, has q running record in Pennsylvania
something like that OF John Gpin's horse He
was born IN New York State in 1910 ana edu-
Gated at Hamilton College. He is slight, silver
haired smooth faced, atfable ana determined.
In Congress lie was the author of the law re-
pealing the resumption act. He is rich; n lawyer
who is interested in mines coal, real estate, oil
companies and railroads. in politics skillful
worker, though not without ability to make
ness matters; hardshell in Democratic faith;
one who furnishes the p1ckaxes rather than
the Chinese lanterns of campaigns; an always
almost successful manipulation in the wrong
State.
THE march of improvement has seldom en-
cOuntered greater obstacle than Aunt Mary
Jane, of Philadelphia. This aged negress is not
obstinate but unweldy. Day and night for
years she has sat at the window of a decaying
house on the east side of seventh street, eating,
sleeping and sewing carpet rags inclination
prompted. But at last the owner of the house
decided 70 convert it into "a store, and Aunt
Mary Jane had to go. She was too large to be
carried through the door of her room, and so
she was transferred to furniture van through
the window at which she had so long sat help
less. regiment of stawart neighbors safely
accomplished the arduOus task while an army
of spectators applauded its progress and COM
pleton
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.