The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-01

form from st. Nicholas Prof Baldwin is also
the author of an admirable textbook on English
literature lately published by John c. Potter &
Co., of Philadelphia.
Miss KATE GREENAwAY promises this year
again to delight young folks with one OF her col
ored picture books. Miss Greenaway's book is
entitled "Idttle Ann" 1t contains some forty
pictures, bssiAes many minor Illustrations.
LILLIAN RUSSELL is soon to appear in her lat
est alleged husbands latest alleged opera, en-
titled "Pocahontas; or, the Great White Pearl"
Mr. Solomon may possibly make his "Pocahon-
| tas" go down with the Londoners, but he Won't
be able to poke it onto us.
Miss LESLIE AVER, daughter Of the late James
Aver, of patent medicine celebrity, is the latest
American target for the aim of impecunious
foreign counts. The young woman, with her
| dot of S5,000,000, receives much attention in
the aristocratic circles of Paris.
| Ex-ATToRNEY- GENERAL WAYNE MAcVEAGH is
trying to recover the health which he lost dur
| ing that hot summers attendance on the dying
| President Garfield. He has a Queen Anne
house two miles from Bryn Mawr, on the Penn
! sylvania railroad, nine miles from Philadelphia.
THE longest bridge in the world is in China,
! Its roadway is seventy feet wide and seventy
feet high There are three hundred arches, and
each of the pillars, which are seventy-five feet
|
a lion twenty feet long and made out of one
block of marble.
FINNISH student, Mr.. Kaarlo Krohn, has
been travelling in Esthonia, collecting the folk
songs, the number of which surpassed all expec-
taton. Mr.. Krohn has during this summer, OBJ
tanned over 1000, and the Finnish Literary
Society in HelsingfOrs has now over Is, 900 such
songs in its possession, all of which bear more or
less resemblance to the Kalevala.
EDWIN BOOTH is morbidly sensitive about his
brother, John Wilkes, and dislkes to hear his
name mentioned in his presence. When he ar
rived i'll Paris his recent professional tour
the evening journals announced that "Monsieur
Booth, whose brother assassinated Monsieur lie
President, has come to town." This announce
ment nearly untitled him for the hard work be-
fore him.
| THE other day the morning papers appeared
| without containing word about the movements
of Lord Coleridge. We we're left in total ienor-
ance as to whether he was in New Zealand, New
Jersey, or 'some other seaport town" "This
should not occur again. His English friends
may think he has been murdered in the streets
| of New York by wild Indians" says the Norris
town Herald.
BRAHMA missionary to England gives this
description of John Bright: "John Bright eats
his breakfast like lion, and digests it, too; but
ne dosen't drink. He is a broad, middle-sized
man. with great soft hands and an enormous
appetite. have seen him finish off the plenti-
full morning meal with half jug of milk and a
good lump of sugar. which he puts into his
mouth somewhat surreptitiOusly."
A MRS. FURLoNG, of Westmoreland county.
Va, who is in Washington on visit, says she
owns the horse that J. Wilkes Booth rode after
he assassiDated Lincoln, and on which he es-
capped to Virginia. The horse, though twenty
five years old, is still lively. 1t was generally
supposed that Booth killed the horse he rode
and left him in a swamp before he crossed the
Potomac from Maryland to Delaware, but Mrs.
Furlong says this is not so.
REMAINS audiences at his lectures are any
thing but large, but lack of numbers is made up
by originality. Old gentlemen, with long, flow
ing hair; short-slghted, noisy individuals; old
women, dressed in shabby black; young ones,
with hard lines in their pale faces; wiry looking
clergymen and wisely-nodding rabbits are among
the assembly. The clock strikes 2, and, pune
tual to the moment. Renan enters. He sits
| down in his armchair, and the short, thickset
man forms harmonic ensemble with the folio
in front Of him. His large, round head, with a
mass of gray hair, rests on his hand He begins
to read almost istlessly, but before long his
face becomes animated, his voice sounds clear,
and his language grows eloquent and sympa-
thetic, and treasures of learning are poured out,
while not a sound is heard but the gentle voice
of the teacher.