The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-25

was an immediate expression OF surprise. My
friends experience was the same ne mine, and
this covers a period extending from 1856 to
1868, when were children in the South"
MEDICAL man in California gives a curious
prescription as a safeguard against smallpox
when he says "Place one ounce of cream of
tartar in sixteen ounces of water, ana take TIA
blespoonful three times a day, and you may
sleep with a smallpox patient with perfect i'm
punty. If every citizen wo1ld dO-this for fif-
teen days there would be an end of smallpox in
any city"
THE white Star of Texas" wanted warrant
in Philadelphia yesterday for the entire city
staff of the Times of that city. The "White
Star" is but a synonym for ferocious prize
/ fighter whose name is Henry Snagg. Snagg Is
training himself for Sullivan to run against, and
the Times described his training in way, Snagg
says, to injure him 81 1000 worth. The warrant
was not issued.
"THE indefatigable NJ. de Lesseps," writes
Paris correspondent, "since he returned to Paris
has been to the Italian Opera, three dinner par
ties, and gone out daily riding with eight OF his
ten children. He has, besides, got through all
the office work that accumulated in his absence,
been interviewed by journalists from all parts of
the world given cues to friendly editors checked
nousekeeper's accounts and embraced poetess
who called on him on Thursday to read a poem
| in 400 lines, of which he is the hero"
FARMER GRoEsBECK, of Fishkill Plains, New
York, has had his little joke, and, what is more,
he has paid for it. He thought that it wonld be
an intensely amusing thing to send for the viii
| lage doctor in great haste, and when he arrived
| to introduce goose with broken wing as the
| patient. He carried out the programme to the
| letter. The doctor seemed pleased too; set the
goose's wing, lett minute instructions as TO the
care and diet of the fowl, and called every day
| for fortnight, and-seut in his bill accordingly.
| Farmer Groesbeck grumbled, protested, re-
fused. and-paid
THE electric light bids fair to be the light of
the immediate future in English country houses
according to the London World. Lord Sails
bury, who is of an experimental and scientific
| turn of mind, was the first to use 1t in eOuu-
| try house. That was four or five years ago.
| Then the Duke of Sutherland followed the eX-
ample at TrenGham, and now Lord Thurlow is
| lighting Dunphial House by electricity. Not
only are the houses, the offices and the home
farm to be thus lighted but several of the mills
on Lord ThurlOw's Morayshire estate are to be
| worked by electricity.
| IN the public and private galleries of Russia
there are scores of pictures attributed to
Raphael The owners and custod1ans of these
canyases will read with something more than
interest article in the Messenger DIES Beaux-
Arts, in which NJ. Vassiltchlkoff the director at
| the Hermitage Museum at st. Petersburg, dis
1 cusses their commences. M. VassiltchikofPs
conclusion is that there are only six Raphaels in
Russia which are beyond doubt authentic. All
the other so-caled Raphaes in Russia, he says,
are either copies or the work Of pupils of the
great painter Of Urbino. co..
IN the memoirs by Davis of Aaron Burr, the
| letters of the latter to his daughter Theodosia
are quoted in one of which reference is made TO
| the marriage of the elegant and accomplished
Sarah Duer to John witherspoon Smith, a Dung
| lawyer OF great promise and excellent charac-
ter, about 1906 The lady referred to is now en-
| tering on her 1O1st year. She is the daughter
of Colonel William Duer, of the revolutionary
| army, and a representative of New York in the
! first Congress of the United States. She is also
| a granddaughter of William Alexander Earl, of
| Stirling, majorgeneral of the revolutionary
| army, on whose staff James Monroe served as
| an ade-de-camp.
| AT one of his lectures. recently, Dr. Erasmus
| Wilson exhibited woman thirty-eight years
old, and five feet five inches high whose tresses,
| when she stood erect, enveloped her entire form
| in golden veil, and tFailed several inches on
| the ground Tie ongest fiber measured six
| feet, three and half inches Thirty inches is
| the mean length for the hair of females, and
three feet considered remarkable length.
This instance, he said, was exceeded by two
| American women, one whose hair measured sew
en- feet six inches. and another the wife of a
druggist in Philadelphia, whose uxuriant hair
was almost as long, and SO thick that when
seated on a chair she could completely cover
| herself with it. .aay., n. ..,,i.- ,, ~, r.