The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-31
ABOUT
Mexico.

$500
than $25, 600, 900 to the South for educational
uses since tie war.
MARRIED lady in Washington calls herself
Opportunity" because her husband is always
taking advantage of her.
MR.. N MRS, Tom THUMB. it is said. were be.
levers in spiritualism, and would sit hours to re-
ceive communications from little Minnie Warren
in the spirit land.
EX-GOVERNOR PLAIsTED, of Maine, has bought
another newspaper-this time in Augusta-and,
it is said, will advocate the nomination Of Butler
for the presidency.
NJ RIsToRI's daughter, who was recently
married to NJ. Bacourt, formerly secretary OF the
French legation at Rome, is said to have received
a dOwry OF 100000 lire.
HUNGARIAN visitors at the recent national
fetes in Paris said that 10 passing through Turin
they saw Kossutb, who at the age of eiehty-three
years, was remarkably well,
Mr.. GLADsToNE's literary labors, including all
his published works, translations and mono
graphs, number 29l titles. Few exclusively
literary men can count their productions up TO
that figure.
DURING her stay in Colorado, Miss Kate Field
will write letters for the Boston Herald aud
Chicago Times, deliver a number of lectures.
write a play and complete a book on Colorado
aud it's people.
GEN RAJ SHERMAN is still very much disliked
in Georgia. Caterpillars being particularly nu-
merous there this summer, the people speak of
"the sherman caterpillar" and they make war
on the worm as it goes marching to the sea.
AMERICANS will be gratitied that the great
painting of "Oliver CromwelIs Visit TO John
Milton" blythe American artist David Neal, is
pronounced "decidedly the most important
work" at the exhibition of fine arts at Munich.
Am - N.aaae DA-.1 -
who had not before seen Mr.. Tennyson were
struck by the shrewd, humorous and altogether
worldly expression which he wore. Mr.. Mat
thew Arnold, too, had a curiously unspiritual
look.
Mo~DJEsKA's poem, "The Wanderer," lately
printed in the Denver Tribune, having been pro-
nounced q translation from the German, made
by somebody else, the editor of the Tribune Of
fers to pay 300 to the person who will produce
the German original.
A DAUGHTER of Lawrence Barrett, the TRACE
dian, was married on Friday at Stuttgart, TO
Baron Won Roder, an officer in the German
army. There was a very brilliant wedding, and
the presents, including several from America,
were many and rich.
MRS. ROBERT BLIGH Is at Castle Garden, New
York in an embarrassing situation. She came
from England to join her husband, who lives ir
an interior town, the name of which she has for
gotten. The name of the place was written on a
slip of paper in her pocketbook. but this she has
lost.
Miss MARY B. RANDOLPH, a granddaughter
of Thomas Jefferson, has presented the corner
stones of the old Jefferson monument at Char
lottesville, Va, to the Missouri University at
Columbia. Upon them Will be erected a monu-
ment to jefferson that will be unveiled on July
a, 1884.
Mrs. ANNA GREENE, daughterin-law of Major
General Nathaniel Greene, second in command
of the Continental army, and mother of Dr..
Nathaniel R. Greene, of Newport. R l., will com
plete her one-hundseduh year on the 9Th of No
vember next. She is In good health, OCCASION
ally rides out, and corresponds with her relatives
and friends.
CANE>TRINI, a French scientist. has cut off the
heads of flies, ants, grasshoppors. and utter
tain their sensibilities for a very long time.
Flies calmly rubbed their bodies with their legs.
al d behaved asst nothing unusual had happen
ed. Butterflies continued to fly for eighteen.days,
and grasshoppers kicked thirteen days after be-
ing decapitated.
AN pache indian complained to the agent
that the people called him q bad Indian. He
said: "They say | killed my mother. Yes, l did,
but l did it because she was too old to work.
Then they say l killed my wife. l did that be-
cause she was too sick to work. They talk about