The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-19

dld the sewing, mendng and knitting for the
three children. She took her needlewOrk to the
office with her, that she might not be idle when
newspaper friends came TO talk with her. FL
nally, her health failed completely, and she has
been twenty years tied hand and foot to an in
vads chair, but still writes poem now and
then, and is charming in conversation.
THE ViscOuntess FOlkestone's orchestra is this
seasons fashionable wonder in London. 1t is
composed of twenty-one women and girls,
among whom are four cOuntesses, two viseount
esses and a marchioness They play at aristo-
cratic gatherings and TO general audiences for
charity. Their leader uses baton like profess
sional in conducting, and trains them TO produce
very fair music.
AN authentic portrait of Flora Mcdonald mas
been placed in the town hall of Glasgow by Mrs
Flora wylde, descendant. Flora Mcdonald oc-
cupies place in history as the heroine who ac-
companied Bonnie Prince Charlie in an open
boat from Benbecula southwest to Skye in 1746
She assumed the character of Betty Burke, an
Irish girl, and the Prince had with him AIN Irish
man named O'Neill.
ALPHoNsE DAuDET says it's a delightful thing
to have the characters one has created take a
life of their own, without reference to their au-
thor, and when he hears some say, apropos
IT'S Tartarin" or IA Colooele," he feels like
father who, hid among the crowd, hears the
plaudits greeting his son, and who feels like ex-
claiming above the heads of the multitude
" It's my child! Ills my child"
THE Countess of Aylesford, whom the new
Duke of Marlborough at present dlshonors with
his affections, is Welsh woman, daughter of
Col. Peers Williams, and inherits from her father,
who the best amateur rider in England, a
skillful and daring Workmanship. Her husband
was over here last winter, and might have been
seen of evenings at Dem6nico's supping with
Mrs. Langtry and Frederick Gerhard.
LADY MARTIN, the wife of Sir Theodore Mar
tin, author of the "I.ife of the Prince Consort,"
etc, and who will hereafter be best remembered
by her own maiden name of Helen Fawcett, lies
dangerously ill. She played the opposites OF
Macready in all his great revivsls, and divided
with Ellen Tree (NIrs. Charles Kean) the distinc-
ton of being the first actress on the English
stage. She was one of the few great artists who
never visited this country.
WHEN JOhu S. Barry was Governor of the
State of Michigan there was about an acre of
ground around the capitol building upon which
the grass had been allowed to go to seed every
year. Governor Barry took great pains to have
the grass cut at the proper time, and when prop
erly cured he sold the hay and put the money
into the State Treasury. There only half a
dollar in the State Treasury when Barry took
the chair, snd it was bogus coin.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN's method of writing while
in the Senate, is graphically described. He
spent four or five hours every day in writing let
tiers. and 1t was his boast that he answered
every letter he received. IL painful TO see
him write. lie squeezed his pen as though it
contained money, and his hand, arm and body
were all SO unnaturally distorted that it seemed
a shame that he did not employ secretary but
he worked away hour by hour, until he had got
done with his mail
MISS EMILY YzNAGA, younger sister of Lady
Vaudeville and Lady Kaye, has been added to
the muster roll of bellies for the coming season at
Newport. Miss Yznaga has been living several
years in Europe, and, by her brightness, clever
ness and originality has won golden opinions
and made hosts of friends. 1t is related Of her
that on the occasion of visit IN a country house
where the Prince and Princess of Wales were
among the guests, she relieved the tedium. of a
first evening and saved the distinguished com
pany from absolute boredom by retiring to her
room, blackening her face, DOMINIC the costume
of a plantation Topsy, and throwing herself on
the floor OF the drawing-room, where, with tue
help of an old banjo she sang negro songs, to the
delight of all present.
A sHAPELY girl appeared at a fifth-story win
dow in Boston. Her long hair was loose, and
her gown was white, SO that to the uncritcal eye
she looked like person right from bed; but she
wore shoes and stockings, subsequently
observed, and there were numerous touches of a
| careful toilet. However, she fairly represented
girl hastily aroused from sleep by fire. Her
| movements were rapid, too, and her manner
| wild. She flung open the sash and climbed ont
| on the sill. The square fronting the building
was almost instantly crowded With 5hrill
cry, she dropped herself thrill of horror ran
through the multitude. But the girl was not
dashed to pieces on the sidewalk. She descended
| with great but harmless celebrity into the arms
of man, who began at once to expatiate upon
the merits of his device, which consisted of a
single wire, attached to kind of harness, and
pulled out from box by the weight of the per-
son hitched 10 1t. The girl was liked, but nobody
cared anything about the apparatus, and its in
genious exhibitor did not make a single sale, the
people disappearing soon as she did.