The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-24

to leave her husband in China and seek a
milder climate and the skilled medical attention
she could secure in Paris. Her husband could
not leave his post owing to important duties. A
child was born in Paris last summer.
MAX MULLER, the eminent philologist, in a
few words has succeeded In giving a comprehen-
sive definition of true politeness. In a notice
of the death of a Buddhist student he says: "His
manners were perfect-they were the natural
manners of an unselfsh man."
THERE Is q story abroad that Nine. Nilsson
will soon marry an American merchant. Her last
husband was a business man, and if the Madame
marrIes again, her choice will be an afaele, APP
preciative American journalist, a man who
doesn't know what it is to spend other peoples
money.
VICoUNTEsS COMBERMERE recently entertained
a party of twelve at luncheon. The table dec
~orations consisted OF white Dresden china orna-
ments and tazzas filled with Illuminated grasses
and bouquets of white and scarlet geraniums.
Beneath the center epergne and at each end OF
the table stars were arranged OF lamInated
grasses, sprinkled with shed geranium petals.
DR.. C. C. ABBOT, of Trenton, N. j., has de-
stroyed another old belief in weather lore. For
twenty years he has kept a record of the build
ing of their winter houses by the muskrats. the
storing of nuts by squirrels, and other habits OF
the mammals which are commonly regarded as
indicating the character of the coming winter.
His conclusion is that the habits referred TO
have no connection with the rigor or mlldness
of the approaching season.
WHEN Horace Greeley visited Utah the
''saints' told him that there were more girls
than boys born in M0rmondom, which, they
argued, was a sign of Gods approval of polyga-
nv. The latest statistics, however, show that
of the births in the church during the last six
| months 1900 were male and LOO female.
| Moreover, the last census shows that There were
then in the Territory 24,932 males under rem
years of age, and %, 1852 females.
BY a previous marriage with Levy, the
cornetist, Minnie Conway, who is now Mrs. o.
mond Tearle and a member of the Union Square
| Theater Company, had two children, a boy and
a girl. The boy is an exceedingly bright little
fellow, but he has not yet been made to under
stand the why's and whererores of his mamma's
marriage with Mr.. Tearle. In Denver a fort
night ago a gentleman took the child in his lap
and asked him what mis- name was. 81 don't
know" replied the boy, naively; "hrs' it was Joe
Levy, and zen it was Joe Tearle, and l dess it's
Joe sumfin else now"
Ex-MAYoR JAMES L. GREEN, of Norwich,
Conn, is dead. When he was mayor in 1868 he
ordered one hundred guns fired and the bells
rung over the congressional resolution support
ing the emancipation proclamation. Some OF
the citizens opposed to the proclamation secured
an injunction from the Superior Court forbid
ding the city treasurer to pay the bills. Greene
paid them and in public afterward declared:
'And now, upon my soul, 1 do exult and rejoice
that I, James Lloyd Greene, am the man who
ordered and paid for the first emancipation
salute ever fired in the State of Connecticut"
MRS. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE returned to Amer
lea by the Britannia. and a fellow-passenger says
of her: "She is ageing fast; in fact, one who saw
her years ago would hardly know her. The lines
of care left by a life full of trouble are plainly
visible, and her former beauty is hardly percep-
tible now. She was most l~ady-liRe and retired
in her manner, seldom speaking to any one UNI
less addressed, and If her former history wal