The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-08

more heartily with the heroes of the great strug-
gle than L have done since my eyes have been
opened"
1T was Captain Ed. Brady, not Tom Brady,
who lost $4,000 betting on Randall. AS
he is the owner OF the Washington Critic, there
seems to be some ground for the rumor that
he is about to sell.
GEORGE WAsHINGToN's autograph, at the sale
of the library of the late Joseph }. Cooke. of
Providence, r. l.. brought $l2; that of Roger
Williams, $40, Thomas Jefferson's ST., and that
of George ", S72.
AT a recent library sale in New York a vol
ume containing the address delivered by Rev.
Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdon College
from 1903 to 1873 with sketch of his charao-
ter, sold for one cent.
GEN. NEAL DOW of Maine, has just received
from an ex-confederate soldier pistol which
was taken from him when he was captured dur
ing the rebellion. Sometimes these ex-confede-
rates set good example.
THE sect which believes that Englishmen are
the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel is so
large that it supports two weekly papers and
monthly magazine One book on the subject Is
far in its two hundredth thousand.
THE Duke OF Norfolk is the richest of English
mobiles. They rate him at $45, 100000 Next TO
him comes the Marquis of Butte. Both of these
eminent gentlemen would be considered on the
road to bankruptcy in this country.
A FEMALE miser, aged eighty-three, was re-
Gently found dead IN London. She owned several
houses, one hundred acres of land and $4,000
in cash. She had written the Lords prayer on
both posts of the garden gate as a charm against
thieves.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer, writes from
the jungles of Africa to acknowledge the receipt
of gold medal awarded him by the Swedish
Geographical Society as token of it's approcia-
ton OF his services to the world as traveller and
explorer
ONE of the treasures of "Joe" Jeffersons studio
is the palette of COrOt, set as the great French
man left it when death drew nigh, and presented
to its present possessor by the family of CoroT.
Jefferson also owns the last pallet to used by Jeau
Francois Milet.
LORD OVERsTONE died worth over $60,000,-
600. He would walk a mile to save penny,
and was exceedingly pompous and prosy.
Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, who married his daugh
ter, is very unpopular. Mrs. Lindsay Is now
richer than the Queen, and as parsimonious.
HENRY L. NELSON, whom Speaker Carlisle has
appointed his clerk, is the Washington corre-
spondent of the Boston Globe. Mr.. Nelson is a
writer of considerable prominence, frequent
contributor of the North American Review and
the Atlantic Monthly, and at one time published
paper in Michigan.
THE Princess Amelie, eldest daughter of the
Comte and COmtesse de Paris who is about to be
welded to our old friend, the Grand Duke Alexis,
is fair of blonde complexion and elegant look
ing, but, like her intended, very tall. Alexts's
gay disposition and fondness for pleasure when
here has been sobered by the war the Nihillsts
have been making on his family.
GENERAL "BoB" TooMBs, of Georgia, lives in
big two-stOry frame house, into the hall Of
which wagon-oad of hay could almost be
driven. He is rich, having received for years a
handsome income from his law practice. When
he was young he bought large tracts of land in
Texas, and it is said that he has cleared $780,
600 on portions thereof that he has sod while
he still owns enough to turn him two or three
times as much more.
THE Queen always sleeps in beds of precisely
the same pattern and made lp in exactly the
same way They are all manufactured at Wind
sor Castle, and there is one with accessories as
each royal residence in this country, at the
Villa HoheDlohe at Baden, at Rosenau, near Co
burg, and on board the Victoria and Albert.
When the Queen pays visit or goes abroad a
bed on the usual pattern is made aud dispatched
from Windsor i'll advance, to be in readiness for
her.
THE admirers of Matthew Arnold in this
country are but dimly aware that he has writ
ten one classic tragedy, "MarOpe," from which
copious extracts may be found in Miss Arnold's
Matthew Arnold birthday book" Mr.. Lowell
has written as severely of it as Arnold has spo.
ken of Emerson. SIT has,, he says, "that one
fault against which the very GODS we are told,
strive in vain it is duh, and the seed of this
dizziness lies in the system on which it is writ
ten"
HOUSE may be lined inside with a certain
coarse paper pasted over the lathng instead of
plaster. It is much cheaper, and greatly lessons
the chances of Colds coughs, rheumatism and
pneumonia when the apartment must be Oocu-
pied before the plaster has fully dried. Use rye
paste, in which pour pint of dissolved glue
and few pinches of red pepper to Keep the
mice from nibbllng it when dry. A fouss lined
in this way, standing on a hill very N 1ch ex-
posed to the winter winds, is within warm and
comfortable. The floor is similarly covered with
a thicker paper.