The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-12

The date of the Compile de Chambord's death,
Aug. "a, is, oddly enough, that of the birth of
the COmte de Paris and of the massacre of st.
Bartholomew.
AT Jamaica, L. T., the other day, a newsboy,
who was troubled by an aching tooth, tied
string to the offending molar and hitcned the
loose end to the rear car of fast train When the
train started he ran with it a short distance and
then suddenly dropped on all tours, The train
carried away the tooth to Brooklyn.
LOUISIANA boys take youug mocking birds just
before they can fly and sell them to New Orleans
creoles for ten or fifteen cents piece The Gre
oles sell them to German or Italian retail deal
ers for fifty cents and the dealers, mainly ped
lers, receive So and 81 for them in the North
The peders say that rich people do not buy
birds; they prefer dogs.
NJ. DAMALA the fortunate husband of Nine.
Sarah Bernhardt, has been soldering in Africa
of late, and appears to have arrived at the con-
clusOn that he has missed his vocation. Talk
ing the other day to journalist who is travel
ing in Tuns, NJ. Damala expressed his deter
mination to return at the earliest possible OPP
portunty to Paris and seek an engagement there
on the stage.
A RESPECTABLE colored man in Windsor, On
tario, has raised a commotion among the equally
respectable white people of that conservative
| town by insisting upon sending his child TO the
white school instead of the colored school. The
dispute has been referred to the Canadian Min
! lister of Education, and the father meanwhile
| threatens legal action against the school trus-
tees to compel them to admit the child.
A STORY is told of a certain political caucus in
Maine which was attended by only two persons,
Hannibal Hamin and other Mr.. Hamlin
elected the other man chairman, and proceeded
| to transact the business in hand. But the Gre
dentias of the delegates certified that they were
elected at ga large and respectable caucus of the
Republicans of -, because" as Mr. Hamlin ex-
planned to the puzzled chairman, "you are large,
and am respectable"
| CAPE Town papers describe O'Donnel, the
murderer of Carey, as a man six feet high, with
an unusually high forehead, narrowing at the
eyes. His nose is straight and well shaped; his
eyes gray, his hair dark. He is about forty -four
years old. He has the appearance of having
either served in the army or in the constabulary
force. The object of O'DonnelPs counsel was
to show that the electric battery found in the
] possession OF the prisoner was not an internal
machine. Very little was brought out, however
in the examination. Captain Ross threw the
battery overheard, fearing that it might be dan
gerous.
THE first notable event in the career of Mr.
Shapiro, the inventor of the "Moabite" sheep
skin decalogue, was his great discovery of Sam
sons coffin. "A few years ago." says the Pail
Mall Gazette, she made his appearance in Lon
don with this venerable relic of the period of the
judges, which he endeavored to persuade the
authorities of the Palestine exploration fund tC
purchase. The genuineness of the article was
vouched by the name of Sampson leglbly in
scriOed on the wood in archaic characters. Mr.
Besant, we believe, consulted Doctor Neubauer
as to the probable date of the inscription, and il
was only when The oxford savant pointed out
that the PhilistInes had unaccountably misspeli
the name of the Hebrew hero that Mr. Shapiro
and the coffin simultaneously disappeared"