The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-30

library containing $4,000 volumes. Father
Sor1n also established the Sisters of the Holy
Cross in America, and founded st. Mary's Acade-
my, as we'll as instituted. numerous branches of
both orders in the United States and Canada.
The personnel of Father Sorin is a striking
one. OF a commanding figure, his long, flowing
beard and wavy hair-both Of snowy whiteness
serve to give him an air of ripened wisdom
rather than OF age. He is truly a patriarch of
the church, and it is not to be wondered at that
he should have been singled out by Garibaldi
as the especial object OF his hatred. Yet the
champion of the papaoy has not only survived
the stirring times of 1S48 and $4,000, but has
outlived those who so prominently figured as
statesmen and warriors during that period.
Miss WALLACE, of Naugatuck Valley, Conn,
has a rich pa. She went to Europe in 1880. She
met a Polish count named Ostrog. He was not
much account, it is true, being only a photog-
raphist, but he was a count all the same. He
saw Miss Wallace, and was smitten, She learned
that he was a genuine count, all wool and a yard
wide, and fell in love with him. He talked
French and she English. Each bought an Ollen-
dorf and went TO work to learn the necessary
lingo to carry on an interesting couriship. She
asked pa about it, and pa he sent for Mr.. Ostrog.
AhA' Sbl III hP PlObtJ "OA nv pO ~
luctantly advised a hasty wedding. The two
got married, and Miss Wallace bloomed out as
Countess Ostrog. The whole gang went to Paris,
and they had a lovely time, so they did, until
Mrs. Ostrog made the startling discovery that
she was No. 3 on Mr.. Ostrog's string, all living
and no divorces to speak of. Pa and ma hurried
right back to Naugatuck Valley, and so did Mrs.
Ostrog. The last named wants a divorce awful
bad, and will probably settle down on some gem
tleman next time, if she can find one that will
have her. This pretty fable teaches that you
can't always tell until you try, and if at first you
don't succeed, try, try again.
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JULES LEVY blows a horn. In fact he is an al
legged cornetist, Long years ago-some sixteen
"a cornet firm gave him one of their instru-
ments. Levy liked it, and wrote a letter indoors
ing its good qualities. Recently another firm
has donated Mr.. Levy q brand new horn. Levy
writes a nice letter, saying he'd be bowed II it
wasn't the best he ever blew. He now begins a
suit against the first firm to make them stop
publishing his puff written in 1867. He should
remember the adage about being off with the
old love, etc.
HENRY AME is very ungenerous in his esti-
nation of contemporaneous authors. OF Mrs.
Burnett's "Esmeralda" he says in the Pail Mall
Gazette: "The new play would be infantine if
infants ever expressed themselves in falsetto.
Her story is mawkish and unreal" The reading
public will be uncharitable enough to think that
the fact that the management which put on
"Esmeralda" gently, but firmly, declined Mr..
James's play, "Daisy Miller"
READERS of David Coppertield will recollect
the "caul" that the author speaks of in the first
chapter, and which was bought by an old wo-
man who continually denounced 'meandering."
What she wanted with a charm, TO keep her
from drowning could not, as she never went
near water deep enough to drown in. A lady in
New York now advertises a caul for sale. 1t is
said to be a favorite amulet with sailors.
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DENVER has, in Jail, the most accomplished
rascal yet caught. He was arrested for forging
a note for $500. In default of a So, 900 bond
he went to Jail, and while In that retreat forged
the signature of a well-known merchant to q
draft for the amount he desired and got the
money. The forgery was detected before he had
esoarad, h"t not in time tn raoovar the mnney,
as he had turned it over to his lawyers.
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INVESTIGATION into the latest Arkansas "train
robbery" brought to light three badly-scared
wood-choppers, who stopped the train to ask If
II carried any freight for them. They knew it
would be an accommodation tothem to have the
goods thrown off without having TO go to the
station, and probably supposed it would crafty
the engineer to have his train relieved of the
weight.
THE stage is not wholly bad, after all. Two
English managers have peremptorily refused to
even listen to a dramatic version OF Zola's "Pot-
Bouille."
ABOUT PEOPLE.
THE English painters, Sir Frederick Leighton,
Millais and Herkomer, are notably handsome
men.
A DANISH emigrant, who arrived at Castle
Garden, tho other day, brought with him a
blanket, upon which were neatly woven por-
traits of Hancock, Garfield and Arthur.
"FRoM the first to the last" says Anthony
Troilope, in his autobiography, "there was moth
ing satisfactory in my school career except the
way il which L licked the boy who had to be
taken home to be cured"
Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS was born in
Boston, and christenedM May GRAY for an intimate