The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16
SACRED
To the Memory of

March IL, 1883,
And was Waited from Mems Memories on the
Wings of his own Zephyrs.
AT a recent fancy-dress ball at Sydney, Aus
tralia, the wife of an editor appeared as the
press" Her dress mas made of several copies
OF her husbands paper, printed in colored inks
on white satin. The fortunate editors subscrip-
tion-list has perceptibly increased since this
shrewd bit of advertising.
THE first instance in America where a lady
oiiciated as Il Clergyman at a wedding ceremony
was at Columbus, o., a fe w days ago, when Mrs.
Lydia G. Romick, the evangelist. performed the
marriage service for Charles PIN, of Damascus,
o., and Miss Emma Bryant. Both bride and
groom are members of the Society of Friends.
WAGNER, while composing his operas, always
dressed in the costumes of the period of which
he wrote. His attire was as fantastical and
hashy as that of n dashing beau at times. The
poems to which he set music were mostly writ
ten when he was young. He says he caught
tunes floating through the air as he walked
along the lanes accompanied by his two New
foundland dogs.
THE last descendant of the famous Portuguese
navigator Magellan appeared the other day in a
Paris police court; but nothing could have been
more distinguished than the way In which, when
asked by the magistrate to give his name in
uifhO UpOiOSiHch " u ne COuItg
explaining that he was Geronimo Collao de
Maghalaens da CANA Monez vellasco sarmento
Alarcao Bulboes de San lie Maria salema."
IT is the popular impression that Senator Ed
munds has only IA moderate income. This is said
not to he the case. Besides his salary as Sena-
tor, he receives a liberal salary as counsel for
the Vermont Central railroad, and is consulted
for an opinion in all important cases that comes
before the Supreme Court. He is also frequently
retained in private cases. From all sources, it is
said, his annual income is not far from $780,
900.
THE following is told of one of the Rothschilds
he of Frankfort: Came the Baron Won G. into
the office Of the great banker. "Take q chair.
SIR said he, not even raising his head from his
writing. 'Sir," said G., "why, sir, 1 am, like
yourself, a baron of the empire, and 1 think
should he addressed as such" "a thousand par
duns," replied Rothschild, 'a baron of the en-
pire2 Then take two chairs until l can attend to
you"
THE publishers of q German novel scored a hit
recently in the line of advertising. They had
inserted In most of the papers a notice stating
that a certain nobleman of means, anxious to
obtain a wife, wanted one who resembled tho de-
s~cription of the heroine in the novel named. OF
course every manageable woman who saw
this announcement bought the novel 10 see now
much she resembled the imaginary beauty re.
ferred to.
THE Queen is probably still in blissful ignor-
ance of the fact that on her visit to Netley last
month she personally wounded one of her own
gallant defenders, as in pInning a metal to the
night-shirt of an invalid hero, she pinned in q
portion of the hero with it. The brave soldier,
who had faced Egyptian bayOnets, did not finch
under a pin-prick, however, but bore it with
Spartan firmness, for. as he a~fterward remarked,
"Bless her! her words were SO gracious that l
couldn't mind it,"
QUEEN CoRoLA, of Saxony, has a beautiful
face and engaging manners. She is fond of Eng.
lish literature, and reads American stories to
her children. Many readers will remember that
when she was herself Il princess she won the
love of Napoleon III, who sought her hand.
But the Crown Prince Albert, of Saxony, won
the bride,a and the Princess Corola was married
to him in June, 1858. Two years after Napoleon
and Eugene were driven from France, the
Princess Corola, who might have shared Napo-
Icons fate, became Queen of 5axony. "She is
today" says the London Queen, zone of the
three perfect sOVerejpns in EuroneD