The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-15

markably beyond anything he had ever seen.
"My friend" said Mr.. Stevens to the farmer,
'this is truly magnificent There is nothing to
be desired III your yield this year" "W-el-l,"
responded the farmer, guardedly, sit is purity
fair, purity fair. But" and there was notice
able tinge OF sadness, thar might be few more
cunnels-just few more eunnels- at the end OF
the cob"
ST. JAMES Gazette: "From Delalus down.
ward artificial wings have not proved a success
when applied to the human body. Wings. or
their substitute In the shape of an aerial screw
propeller must be worked by some kind of ma
chinery and the difficulty is TO find one that
combines the requisite motive power and the
requisite lightness. If electricity does not solve
the problem we shall have to give 1t up"
A NOVEL and pretty ceremony, not withoutits
moral value, has been borrowed from France by
a London priest Father Nugee, of a charitable
religious mission, has crowned with roses, in the
Crystal Palace. a poor sewing girl for conspiou-
GUS virtue The damsel thus distinguished ia
selected by COUNCIL of matrons who are in q
position to know her life. The London Tee-
graph, in speaking of the occasion, says that
Father Nugee did not exaggerate when he said
that the miserable existence of the sewing-ma-
chine girl was necessary surrender of health
as the price of virtuous industry.
NJ. REMAINS lectures are delivered it is said.
with great genalty. Sometimes he becomes
sarcastic. But, as rule, he is very pleasant.
Slowly reading a portion of a psalm, he often
calls attention to passages of special beauty,
reading them over again and again, as II he
could never be satisfied with hearing them. He
makes his genealogical, pathological, and paleo-
| logical explanations with singular lightness,
grace and simplicity. His enthusiasm frequent
hor,
only too coon when NJ. Renan concludes OF
his lectures with the observation that "Truth Is
the foundation of the world, and the true SER
want of Jehovah can only be the true man."
WHILE the Bisop of Peterborough has been
bravely fighting with death his friends have
been recalling some OF the brightest efforts of
his biting wit. One of his most effective sar-
| casms was at the expense of prominent peer.
| The Bishop was In railway carriage immersed
| in newspaper when the temporal peer camo
| along using language of the most offensive char
acter to a railway porter who had mislaid some
of the lordly luggage When he entered the car
riage the peer saw the Bishop, and saw also that
the Bishop must have overheard him. Profuse
in his apologies, the temporal lord explained
that he was righteously angry at piece OF Gull
pabe carelessness, and that in such cases he
was in the habit OF calling spade spade II
am surprised and delighted to bear that" tho
Bishop quietly replied, "because, from my ex'
perience, certainly was afraid that you called
it "a - shovelp The peer looked foolish, and
entered another carriage. ..'1-
| Mr.. HASTINGS had handsome residence az
Pleasure Bay. The New York Herald, long
ago, in recognition of his many excel.
leucies, dubbed him the earl of Pleas-
ure Bay" and by that name he L.
known both far and near He used to enjoy life
keenly in his country home with his family and
his friends. man who knew him we'll thus de-
| scribed him, as he appeared last summer: "ShOrE
| but well formed, with a strong, compact alert
| and vigorous frame, Mr.. Hastings is a capital
type of the North Of Ireland people, from whom
he derives his ancestry. His face is rudy, ans
| apparently weather-beaten; his keen, laughing
eyes flash beneath thick, bushy eyebrows his
| auburn hair shows yet few silver threads
among the brown his face is expressive at once
of true Irish upoiery and qulckwitted de.
! Termination. Seeing him abroad, appropriately
| attired in corduroy shooting-coat and leather
leggings, you would take him for Irish
sqnireeD, whom Charles Lever would have loved
to meet and immortalize in a rollicklng novel.
That Mr.. Hastings has the inherited tastes of "a
| squireen, his establishment at Long Branch
| amply indicates. There ne is, in double sense
| at homo. There he practices the Irish virtue Of
prOfuse hospitality. Happy in his own family.
as much of a boy the youngest of his sons, ha
never thinks his family circle quite complete
without the presence of friend and bottle TO
give him"