The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-23

little ANIMAL" the ladies' of Vienna, ale is dear
! fool" the Boston lassies, ale is a brick" and
the girls of Cambridge, "He is fit for the an
mex"
DIR. WERNER SIEMENs has demonstrated by
experiment that intensely hot gases do not emit
light, and thar, consequently, all light given by
heated gas must come from solid impurities, and
not from the gas itself
| Ex-SECRETARY WINDOW is in Paris, where he
expects to remain with his family for some time.
His daughters at school at Neuilly, near
Paris, where a daughter OF Secretary Cameron,
OF Pennsylvania, is also entered.
! THE Philadelphia Press, with no respect for
the able professional thinker, says: "Matt. Ar
mold is the only living Englishman who can
come over TO America and get 50. so minute
| for reading his old magazine articles.
JAMES WALTON, whose death in England at
the age of eighty-one, is announced was noted
inventor of cloth-weaving and spinning ma
ohinery, and his two sons were the inventors of
! linoeum loor-cloth and new material for the
| decoration of walls and ceilings.
! PROFESSOR WILLIAM DENTON, the distinguished
geoiogist and paleontologist, who, 1t is supposed
was at Java at the time of the earthquake, has
not yet been heard from. His wife, who is now
| In Boston, expects her sons there in the course
| of a few weeks. They left Professor Denton in
Java.
| ON the goth of last April Miss Emma Larson,
of Queen Lake county, Wis. started out alone
on horseback ana rode across the plains, arriv-
ing at Portland, Ore, Oct. 10. Her outfit con-
sisted of good mare, oil coat, a small buff
falo robe two saddle blankets and small sum
of money.
| ARAB PASTA has gained many friends in his
place of exile, and his power and influence
among Mahometans have Increased instead of
diminishing, since his arrival in Ceylon. Thou
sands of HIS Indian coreligionists have visited
HIM at Colombo, which is now a sort of halfway
house to Mecca.
MRS. GOVERNOR TABOR No. is evidently an
en- husastic admirer of herself. she recently
ordered five portraits painted, all in different
styles. When the pictures were finished she de-
clared that they were so unlike her as to be
valueess, and the artist was given his money
| ana told to clear out.
ONE of the survivors OF the Black Hole of CAL
cutta was Sir David Baird. When his mother, a
canny, undemonsrative OLD scotch lady, was
told of the horrors experienced in the Black
Hole on that awful night by the survivors, she
merely remarked, ''Lord help the man that was
chained 20 ma Daview
A WE'LL KNOWN actress in Vienna, Mathilde
Singer, has hit upon a brilliant IDEA, which even
the versatile Sarah Bernhardt has not vet tried
She has opened an oyster bar, over which she
presides herself, with the result that the Aus
trian "mashers" flock in crowds to do homage at
her shrine, consume her decacies and bring
their golden ducats to her Golfers.
PARIS Register: Senator and Mrs. Cameron
left Paris, last Tuesday. on short trip to Bel
GUM, Holland and Germany. They intend to
return to Paris previous to setting out for Italy,
where they will spend the winter, returning
| home next May. Senator Cameron has paired
| off with Senator Butler, of South Carolina, on
questions coming up in the Senate during the
! formers absence.
| A HAMBURG manufacturer, conversing with
his store room manager by telephone, received a
reply which annoyed him, and replied in an in
sultug manner. The manager pretended not to
have heard the remark, and asked to have it re-
peated, at the same time inducing a colleague to
take his place and receive the second edition. In
this manner he secured witness, and is now
proceeding against his employer for libel.
THERE is an old hook bound in sheepskin in
Nashville Tenn, which was about the only
thing left by young journalist named Charles
Rutedge Whipple. The book has a chain
around it with paddock, and Whipple never
read line in it in his life, and never opened it
except after dark. He claimed it to be an heir
| loom, bringing misfortune to its possessor Soon
after futile effort to get rid OF it he died sud
denly.
BOSTON JOURNAL. Tuesday: Rev. DIR. J. M.
Buckley, the distinguished editor of the Chris
tian Advocate, of New York, delivered yesterday
afternoon the first in series of five lectures at
the Andovcr Theological Seminary. on "The
| theory aud practice of effective extempora-
neous preaching" 1t is expected that the course
will be finished during the present week. DR..
Buckley enjoys the distinction of being the first
minister of the Methodist Church ever invited to
lecture before the students of the Andover Sem
| mary,