The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

and I believe that all the inmates would theret
escape some of the special Ills to which residents
in large towns are liable"
REV. JOSEPH COOKS audiences don't always
have the pleasure of understanding him, for he
words. A Bostonian, who read the report of a
recent lecture in that city, says that he found I'M
1t ten words that are not given in any dietionarl'
OF modern times.
PERHAPS the most dramatic Incident of poet,
1cal irritation on record is the story told of Lord
Byron when his wife came and sat down silently
ID the room when he was writing. "Do I annoy
you ByrOn?" she said meekly. "Damnably,r
said the noble author, and scrubbed away fierce.
ly at his fourth canto.
MISS ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS is a slenderi
graceful woman of thirty-nine years. with darkI
brown hair, sympathetic blue eyes, a rather
long, thin nose, o facle mouth. never at rest,
and a gentle, tender voice, which is not an un-
welcome sound among the poor people of An
dover and Gloucester. Her health is delicate.
MR.. WILLARD has a son at school, and the boys
there recently got up a subscription for the pur.
pose of presenting their teacher with a set Of
books. Young Willard refused to join, saying
tnat he would make the teacher an individual
present. And he did so by handing him q richly,
bound copy of the history of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
LONDON swells now call champagne ''the boy
and describe themselves when in good physical
condition as feeling eft as a rat" Both of these
expressions are credited to the Prince of Wales.
Both these expressions are atrociously stupid,
but If they're the thing in England of course
we've got to accept them. and we may as well
make up our minds to it at once.
1T is said in Mexico that tine il-fatad Emnraau
Carlotta owes her madness to a dose of the milk
of the plant "Toloachi," administered soon after,
her arrival in Vera Cruz. It is a harmless look
ing plant, much resembling the northern milk
weed, but a few drops of the tasteless white,
huid act Immediately on the brain, producinsl
first violent insanity and then hopeless idiocy.
A GOOD story, which may or may not be true,
ls told apropos Of the recent Vanderbilt bali
Mr., W.. Il. was going out one afternoon when he
was met upon the threshold of the entrance hall
by a boy loaded with packages. what is thisf"
he asked the boy. 'Them is favors," was the an
swer. $50 right back where you come FROM"
Numbered the great railroad magnate, "and tell
to whoever sent you here that Mr.. Vanderbilt
does not want no favors from nobody"
LEVY DAVID CERT, for forty years leader OF
the claque at the Opera, in Paris, is dead.
Seated in the front row Of the pit, having a part
OF his forces around him, while the others were
placed in the second gallery, he directed from
his seat, by his stick, the intensity and the dura-
ton of the applause. A short, sharp rap on
the floor meant that the claque was to confine it,
self to a moderate ~clappiug of hands, but when
he gave a rapid and prolonged movement of ro-
tation to his stick, his followers knew that they
were to indulge in an outburst of enthusiasm
recall the actor on the stage, aud give hun an
ovation"