The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-10
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is so greatly liked in England that u great future
is there prophesied for her.
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS. of Illinois, has de-
cilned the invitation to deliver the annual adj
dress at the North Carolina State fair this year.
PRINCIPAL DAWSON, of NJ, Gill University, at
Montreal, who is not without honor in his conn
try, was presented with an address and $4,000
when he left home for a year in Europe.
MIR. WILLIAM II. HURLBERT, recently editor of
the World, who is now visiting the Duke of
Sutherland, at Dunraven castle, in Scotland, is
paying the most devoted attention to the still
beautiful widow OF a Scotch Duke.
MoNsIGNoR CAPELs voice is of a rare beauty,
having a tender, musical quality, without sacri-
flee OF the attributes of clearness or Impressive
ness. just the voice, in fact, for a persuasive
rather than a controversial discourse.
The daughter of Bayard Taylor has, until re-
Gently, been supporting herself as "a goyerness
in New York. She aud her mother declined a
purse of $4,000, raised by New York ladies on
learning that Bayard Taylor died poor.
THE private fortune of the COmte de Cham
bOrd, alias Henry ", of France, is estimated at
$4,000 600 This is a very good fortune for a
European king, but It would not be rated as II
trst-class fortune for an American king.
SIX ladies, all widows, and all very aged, live
within three-Quarters of a mile of one another
upon a road leading out of New Haven. Conn.
Their united ages are $50 years, an average of
nearly 80 years. The youngest is 70 and the
oldest 90.
PRESIDENT DARLING, of Hamilton College, is
confined to his home, and most of the time to his
bed, by serious lung troubles, and Is altogether
unable to pursue his regular college work. He
is able occasionally, however, to confer with and
advise members of the faculty.
THE Federation of Labor Society, in Washing
ton, has appointed one man from each trade in
the city to look out for the "mashers" who APP
proach girls on their way to and from work,
and when the masher is found he will be
bounced upon and prosecuted in the courts.
AT Paterson, N. j., on Saturday last, a young
man from the country, going to a boarding
house, rolled TWO $40 notes into as small a COM
pass as possible and at night placed them in his
mouth, When he awOke the next morning the
notes were not to be found. He tried to raise
the money again by taking emetics, but entirely
failed.
ALL the outdoor servants on the Balmoral es-
tate are ordered to wear black on their arms, as
mourning for john Brown, whose grave in the
kirkyard at Crathie has just been inclosed with
handsome iron ratings, while the large mOnu-
ment of gray graniTe-which was ordered of an
Aberdeen firm by the Queeu-is ready to be
put up. .
NADACN AAAI VIM " 10 % W I'll pc sun AANhA
of Abraham Lincoln, among other things says
of him: 81 never saw a man with less instinct
for commerce., for gain by barter or any of the
usual methods OF getting rich. He knew moth
ing about them. That is, perhaps, why he had
suen a happy temperament. He trusted Provi-
dence and did what came along"
THE Princess DOlgorouki is still in deep mourn
ing for her roy al lover, the late Gar of Russia.
They threw her out of st. Petersburg, and her
gripsack after her, but they couldn't deprive her
of her loyalty to the memory of the stern old
monarch she loved. History may not accord
her a prominence. but the romance of the future
may more than do the unfortunate creature
justice.
ALEXANDER III is the despair of opera man.
ayers in st. Petersburg. Once the Car vas a
boon to them, for the announcement that he
would ''hOnor the performance" was sure to
crowd the house. But now, the mere suspicion
that he may attend scares the public away, for
they see visions of bombs, dynamite and sudden
death. Yet the Emperor cannot be asked to stay
away. The managers are wishing that he would
adopt the plan of Leopold, of Bavaria.
THE yonng Crown Prince Of 5ervla was mus
tered into the military service as a private i'll
the Seventh regiment OF infantry, which will
hereafter be known as the "Crown Prince Alex
ander Regiment" He had just attained his
sONohbh DithhuaJ' ~ SOuuS IIlhOO was So
excited in anticipating the ceremony that he be-
came III, and the muster in was deferred twenty
four hours in consequence. The child causes
great anxiety to his parents ana friends in con-
sequence of his marvellous mathematical pre-
cOeiousness.
ARTHUR ORION. the notorious Tichborne
claimant, drags ont a rather monotonous eS-
istence in Portsea convict prison. He is per-
tectly we'll, and in good flesh and spirits. Re
Gently, in conversation with prisoners, he de-
clared he would rather remain the balance of
his days in prison than be liberated as Arthur
Orion. He has earned "A frst-class certificate
by exemplary conduct, and after November he
will be entitled to nave friends visit him every
two months. AT present he is employed in the
carpenters shop of the prison.
ABoY in Vermont accustomed to working
alone, was so prone to whistling that as soon as
he was by himself he uncOnsciously commenced.
When asleep the muscles of his mouth, chest and
lungs were so completely concentrated in the
association, he whistled with astonishing shrill-
ness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite and
almost total prostratI0n of strength convinced
his mother 1t would end in death il not speedily
overcome, which was accomplished by placing
him iu the society Of another boy, who had
| orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to
whistle.
THE body of James Carey, the intOrmer, was
followed to the grave by Mrs. Carey and her
children. the district surgeon and the assistant
magistrate of Port Elizabeth. A rabble of ne
groes also gathered in the burial ground. No
minister was present, and no arrangement was
made for religious services, bnt just as the coffin
was lowered into the grave the surgeon. DR.. En-
sor, who for some time had laOored under strong
emotion, spoke, in u clear and distinct voice, as
follows: "FrIends, in the absence of any official
minister, l think it only right that a few words
should he said over the grave of this poor man.
Let us pray" Every head was Immediately uu-
covered, and DR.. Ensor offered up a short