The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-24

DOhrdfng-n0nse When heStStteu 10 business.
TIE Americans in Paris are arranging for
reception and dinner to be given TO Ex-Governor
Hendricks, who is expected to arrive in that
city within few days
DION BoUc1cAULT says, in a letter just pub
lished that there are 227 travelling companies in
this country, with 4,O96 members, whose ex-
penses he puts at $12,981 900 nethird for
travelling expenses and two-thirds on salaries,
scenery, royalties, etc.
DIR. JOHN HALL says churches require eGuoa-
ted men for mnIsters-men of social standing
as indicated by dress, hospitality, money con-
tributons, etc, and yet in majority of pay
them salaries smaller than are received by post
men and policemen.
LADY was reproaching william Warren, at a
recent reception, for going into society SO little.
''You ought to let us lionize You little" she
said. 81 never heard of but one man." replied
the veteran actor, "who was not spoiled by
being liOnized." "And who was heq' "Dan-
iel"
DR.. PEABODY, in his article in the Atlantic
Monthly Oh the STUDY of Creek" gives Charles
Francis Adams, jr., a queer jab i'll the ribs. Mr..
Peabody holds that the only failure" that can
be conceived of in the history of the Adams fam
lily sis their failure TO become race of heredi-
tary monarchs."
WHEN Beaconsfield young the Duke of
Rutland sneered at him. Disraeli had long
memory. Returning from Berlin in triumph,
after many years, somebody said he would be
made duke. 81, duke!" he exclaimed with
feigned resentment. snake me duke! Why,
Rutland's duke"
WHEN Weston started, the other day, from
Westminster bridge, London, to walk fifty miles
day for one hundred days, to illustrate the
physical advantages of temperance, crowd of
distinguished doctors and eminent clergymen
and benevolent barons and fair ladies gathered
to see him off, and he started to the strains of
temperance hymn. The veteran tramp is i'll
clover again.
NEW YORK letter: One of the handsomest
turnouts on the road, yesterday, was that of Mr..
U. s. Grant, jr. 1t Russian dhr0sky. The
drivers seat was high above the main body of
the sleigh, which sits on low, solid runners.
Three white Arabian stations were harnessed
abreast, in true Russian style, and they, as we'll
as the dashboard OF the sleigh, were decorated
with flowing plumes of blue and gold.
JOSIAH PERHAM, deceased, of Boston, is cred
tied with being the father of the Northern Pacific
railroad. The initial movement towards that
enterprise was Mr. Perham's securing from the
Maine Legislature, in 1860, the charter for the
izing the company in Boston. This led TO the
organization of the Northern Pacific Rail- Dad
Company in 1864. Mr.. Perham died in 1868.
THERE still exists in Germany, on the banks Of
the Elbe, colony of Flemngs. which was
founded in the year 1900. The colonists from
the very first kept to themselves, and have never
inter-marrled with the Germans, in the midst of
whom they live. All their old customs have
been preserved; they still speak the ancient
Flemish; they wear the Flemish costume of five
centuries ago, and primogeniture is still in force
among them.
ACCORDING to Belgium papers, the health of
the ex-Empress Charlotte widow of Maximil-
ian, has SO much improved within the last five
months that her physicians entertain hopes of
her recovery. The ex-Empress is now in her
forty-third year, but looks much older her hair
being very gray. she has become thin and
wrinked, but her eyes still retain their old ami
mated expression, The King and Queen of the
Belgians often visit her at the castle of
BOuchonte, where she resides.
BISHOP WALKER, of north Dakota, is a native
of New York, and graduated from the General
Theological Seminary in 1862. He was at once
appointed assistant rector of Calvary Church,
New York city, and has until now been ldentl-
fed with it. Through his efforts Calvary Chapel
was founded and built at a cost of 100000. He
has served as its missionary pastor since its
erection. He leaves for his new field of labor
very soon, and there remain behind many
friends in his parish by whom lie was much
loved.
AT o recent meeting of the Industrial Home,
of Boston, Mr.. Robert Swan expressed the hope
that ndustrjsl education for girls might be car
red one step further, by the introduction of
classes in cooking. CO ntral KITCHEN could be
established to which the girls of the public
schools might go on certain days. One, and per-
haps the chief, reason why young women choose
to work for mere pttance i'll stores when they
could earn large wages at cooking, is that they
actually do not know anything about cooking,
and have no opportunity, nor in the years which
they have now reached, time, to learn the art.
THE concluding sentence of Mr.. Darwin's
posthumOus paper on "Instinct," read before
the Lnn@an Society In England, the other day,
is SIT may not be logical, but to my mind it is
far more satisfactory, TO look at the young
cuckoo ejectiug its foster brothers, ants making
slaves, the Larvae of the ichneumOuidB feeding
within the live bodies of their prey. cats play
ing with MICE offers and cormOrants with liv
ing fish, not as instincts specially given by the
Creator, but as very small parts Of one general
law leading TO the advancement OF organic
bodies-muluipy. vary, let the strongest live
and the weakest die"
OF Mr.. O'Hara, the colored representative in
Congress from North Carolina, the Rochester
Herald relates that not long ago, in North Caro-
lima, he had introduced TO him couple of late
ly-landed Hiberniaus VIII o also bore the name of
O'Hara Having in him vein of numor, and
good powers of mimicry, lie INDUCED in some
fun at their expense. "Phat old Oh understand
that yer names moight be, gentlemen2" he
asked. "O'Hara, is it? Not O'Hsra av Kilmain-
ock2" ''Thc same" replied they in amazement
can who the devil are you2'' "Opm yer kins-
man, begorra,' said he can be the same token
the cloimat av this country has been bad for
me complexion, as ye may notice -" The two
'sons of the sod" have not been seen in North
Carolina since.