The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-26

in the various departments of his business of
which he understands every detail, and in which
he manages his host of laborers like a general
marshaling an army to battle.
THE sacred tank in which the Golden Temple
of Umritser, northern India, is situated was
lately cleaned out for the first time in several
hundred years. The mud was carried off by the
elite of Hindoo society, and coolies aud low
caste men were not allowed to touch it, Many
Hindoo ladies and gentlemen daubed their
rooms and bodies with the holy mud.
NEARLY forty years ago the Comanches
raided Texas and carried into captivity Cynthia
Parker. A few years afterward she married a
Comanche chief, and of this union a son named
Quinah was the fruit. General Sui. Ross recap
tured Cynthia Parker, and she returned to Tex
as much against her will, and died. Her son re-
manned with the tribe, and is now their chief
ADAM CROOKS, Minister of Education for uhe
province OF Ontario since 1875, has been driven
crazy by overwork in his Office and the fierce
ness OF party warfare, and has been sent to the
Hartford asylum. The issuing of edition Of
SCOTS Marmiob for use in schools, changed so
as not to offend the Catholics, was one of the oc-
casions of controversy which led to the giving
away of his mind
MR. j. q. SHANKLTN editor of the Evansville
Courier, has been compelled to cease his jour.
h'heOlo laoOr5 aRAlu anu CONSULT inc nlgueSt
surgical skill in New York with reference to hig
eyes For several years Mr.. shanklin. who is
well known in Kentucky and Indiana has been
threatened with the loss of his sight, and it is to
be hoped he will come out of this critical opera
tlon with his vision restored.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET is forty years cid, wears
his black hair so long that it reaches his shout
ders, and has benign, almost ministerial
countenance. Owing TO his extreme, short
slghtedness he some years ago met with seri-
GUS accident on the street, and since then he has
walked out but little, and has become as well
known to Paris cabmen as Victor Hugo used to
be to omnibus drivers. He is greatly assisted in
his literary work by his wife.
GENERAL WARD B. BURNETT, of New York, the
old war-worn veteran of the Mexican war, is
passing the winter In Washington. General
Burnett, it win be remembered, has the distin-
guished honor of being the recipient of the gold
snuffbox bequeath by President Jackson in
his last will. upon the condition tina should our
country be again engaged in foreign war, 1t
should be given to the bravest and most distin-
guished soldier of New York in that war, and
which was awarded by his comrades in arms to
General Burnett.
SOME time ago Mrs. Fremont remarked to q
lady that she remembered Jhe time, probably in
1856, when her husband. the General, walked
five hours on Nantucket beach considering
which presidential nomination to accept, over
lures coming to him from the Democratic party,
which had anticipated the strength of Fremont
in the pending Republican cOuyention. Mr..
Fremont said that the Democratic nomination
meant success, while the Republican nomina-
ton undoubtedly meant defeat, but with the
principles General Fremont sustained he de.
cided to take the Republican nomination
ROBERT BARRETT BROWNING, the younger, has
just finished statue representing the myth OF
Apollo and Dryope, which is described asa mar
vel of beauty and grace, Louise Chandler Moul-
ton gives some interesting particulars concern
ing the model who posed for the statue For
weary hours she stood, with living serpent enc
twined about her nude body, while the artist
worked, and a sort OF friendship sprang up be-
tween her and the serpent-a python ten feet
long and very large. AS DryOpe yielded to the
love of Apollo. the models first horror of
the snake changed to affection, and when he
died she wept for a beloved friend The stat
ne has the models face In perfect copy, and the
great snake coiled about her has his head raised
to the level of her lips as If soliciting kiss.