The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-02

that it caught In her hair and earrings. She
was thrown to the ground and dragged quite a
distance before the coach was stopped and she
was released.
Dion BoUCICAULT. when asked his views con-
corning Irving's success in this country, said
that Irving was like many alcoholic drinks,
very distasteful when first taken, but, after be-
coming familiar, very hard to get along with
out.
Mr.. HUTCHINs, editor OF the Washington Post,
now lives il a big house next to the British
ambassadors residence at the national capital.
Six years ago Mr.. Hutehins was a member of
the Missouri Legislature and boarded at a ST.
Louis hotel.
IT is said that General ~Ignatieff on a recent
occasion, when somewhat borhd by an English
peer who insisted on discussing the Jewish ques-
ton, said that Russia would be delighted to
exchange her jews for the Irish of Britain, the
rate Of exchange being ten Jews to one Irish
man.
NEW YORK Star: "Catch-a tree hundred-a
sparta day. We fx-a feed for sparta a week-a
before we catch um. Sparta dam laza. Llk-a
get food banda. He soon-a know-a place. Then
we catch-a sparta. SeIl-a him to restaurant.
Get thirt-a cent-a dozen, plucked. Restaurants
man sell him for a reed-a bird. Pays us BETA
dan black-a boots. Sect" The speaker opened
his coat. Inside was q false pocket with per-
haps fifty dead sparrows inside of it.
PRINCE TECK and his wife are wandering in
cognito on the continent, seeking to avoid the
pressing demands of the Princes creditors
The Princess has again applied to the Queen
for assistance, but her Majesty, who is evil
IDENTIFY tired of these opportunities, has re-
fused. Prince Teck, it appears, has 30 disguised
the Queen by his extravaganza and the manner
in which he has cOnnu Noted himGalf that aha has
at last determined not to encourage him further
by paying his debts.
THE Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Record tells a good story about Mrs.
Brown, wife of President Buchanan's first Post
master-general. She had been married before,
and so had acknowledgement Brown, and each
had q daughter left over from the first marriage.
Mrs. Brown used to present them at her recep-
lions in this way: This is Miss Brown, Mr..
Browns daughter by his first wife; this is Miss
Sanders, my daughter by my first husband, and
this ISIS Miss Brown, our Joint daughter"
MRS. OLIPHANT has written for the November
Century a paper on Queen Victoria, which will be
more particularly devoted to her life as a happy
queen and mother before the death of the
Prince Consort. The frontispiece of the num-
Der is an engraving of an original oil study of
the Queen, made from life by the young Ameri-
Can dTllSb, 1nOuudS Cully, III 1000 IL was pre-
liminary to a life-size portrait of the Queen in
full regalia, painted at Buckingham Palace for
the st. Georges Society of Philadelphia.
DIR. BUNTING HAWKINS, of Bordentown. n, J.
claims to have the largest and most complete
collection of high-bred pigeons and other birds
in the United States. He has devoted many
years and much money to breeding thorough
bred birds, many of them having been imported
from the furIhest ends of the world. The pig
cons are quartered in a nicely arranged wire
coop seventy five feet long, twenty-five feet high
and about thirty feet wide. There are between
800 and 400 birds, and they are valued at
$4,000.
GEORGEiAUGUSTUs SALA, in commenting on
the tremendous bill of the Russian government,
$4,000 rOubles, for entertaining the press at
the coronation festivities, says thai neither
English nor American journalists allowed the
Russian government to pay their expenses, but
that correspondent of the continental press
sponged disgracefully on the Russian govern
ment, living shamelessly at free quarters, with
carriages and horses supplied them, and as
much money as they could get, even asking for