The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-17

which 1t descended and knocked the large cab
met organ to splnters. In the old days of su-
prostitution such a special destruction would
have been looked on, even by the most intelli-
gent, warning.
LORD DUFFERIN, who is equally popular in
Canada, in India and in England, owes much of
his success to two Irish women-to his mother,
who one of the sheridans and to his wife,
who was one of the Hamiltous of KilIyeagh Cas-.
tie, County Down. He tells the story that on
one of his visits to the castle, when he asked the
driver of the car what was the news, the driver,
who did not know him, answered: "They say
that one-eyed Dufferin's gon' to marry the
purity Miss Hamilton"
A PHILADELPHIA bill printer relates this aneo-
dote of sothern: ga lady In his company who
played very minor part gave herself an extra
ordinary amount of airs at rehearsal sothern
came here and ordered bill to be printed with
the lady's name starred in large type support
ed by the following ladies and gentlemen, and
then followed the names of the company, end
ing up with Sothern's in the smallest type of all.
The bill was hung UP in the theater, and the
young lady's pride came down several pegs"
GOOD story is told of Dan. Setchel, the
TOR, that he one day was standing i'll the Office Of
the Fifthavenue Hotel, when one of the clerks,
indicating unmistakabe Englishman in
plald suit and eyeglass, who stood near, said
TO Dan, "What do you suppose that mans
name isl" Cannot imagine, TN sure" said
Dan "Wel." replied the clerk, "that is Sir
George Pyne Coffin, of England" ''Pine Coffin!"
said Dan; 81 wonder why they didn't call him
Sir Cophagus; 1t sounds much more aristoeratic.
CLEMENCEAU was in Paris when the Commune
was established, but resolutely set his face
against that institution. Consequently his ar
A uultt hi ~
the fact, and urged him to get other friends
around him to protect him. 81 have twelve
strong friends here" Clemenceau replied, draw
ing couple of loaded revolvers. snake IL
known that the first twelve who enter my
mouse armed will need stretchers to go home
on" He was allowed to leave the city without
molestation.
MAGICIAN, one of the officers, found himself in
the breach at Lucknow, almost alone and sur
rounded by enemies. He killed eleven of Them
and came off unscathed. He received the Vic
toria cross at parade, and the General
pinned the cross on his breast he wound up his
brief address with: "And a good days work it
was, sir" "rutts." said my gallant and simple
friend, quite forgetting that ne was on parade,
and perhaps little piqued at his performance
being called days work, "Tutts, it didn'a AK
me twenty minutes"
glishman. He has great craze for athletic
sports, and will spar any man whenever an op-
portunity offers. He is a good tennis and racquet
player, and while in New York spends all his
time roaming about town with his friends. 1t is
said that lie is not at all popular with his wife's
family, which is unfortunate, If true. Sartoris
had a much better bargain than Nellie Grant.
He gained every thing by his marriage to lovely
girl belonging to a famous family. She gained
nothing but a thick headed, though good-na-
tured Englishman, of no particular account in
his own country, and small ability of his own
right.
MAGGIE MITCHELL tells a story of something
stranger than faith cure: 81 was afflicted with
partial paralysis of the left limb and almost lost
the use of it. was billed to open in large
city, and was still on crutches. Every means
that medical skill could suggest including cleo
tricity, was brought to bear in my case, but
benefited little. The night arrived, the
house was crowded, the galleries were noisy,
and was at a side wing orutches. When
the time for my entrance arrived as Fanchon,
with a supreme effort threw the crutches aside
and sprang through the window with the chick
en- in my arms, and went on with my.part as
naturally as ever. From that day to this hayo
never had recurrence of the trouble"
CAPTAIN WEBB proposes to go over Niagara
Falls in rubber ball four and one-half feet III
diameter and onefourth of an inch thick. The
Captain will enter this ball, when it will be
closed alright. Air will then be forced into the
ball until it will bear any outside pressure to
which it may he subjected. The ball will then
be carried into the river from the Canada side,
cast OFF and allowed to follow the current over
the great falls. A point has been selected where
a ball, when cast off, follows the current over
the center of the Horseshoe Falls. Here the
river is free from rocks, aud the water at the
crest of the fall is about twenty feet deep.
To determine whether or not life would exist in
a ball while the passage is being made, a dog
was sent over the falls and came out alive,