The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-06


THE fact that the young est "boy preacher in
this country is now about forty years old has
stimulated the Burlington Hawkeye to inquire il
| 1t isn't about time to set another hen before the
present stock OF boy angelsts maturel
TsENG, who manages the Chinese government
interests in Europe, remains in dress Chinese
npDlenan, wearing shoes with white soles,
violet tunc, q yellow waistcOat and fur cap
| with three fo1-gails attached. He has one wife
only.
THE New York Worlds Saratoga correspond
ent says the story that Mr. william II. Wander
bilt is going blind is pure invention. He is not
even threatened with loss of sight. His friends
say that his eyesight is excellent for man of
his years.
PARENTS will appreciate the action of John
! " Carney, of Bennington, Vt, who paid the
accidental insurance premiums on $4,000,
covering the children of the Methodist and
Episcopal Sunday schools of Bennington while
| on their union excursion.
"THE only thing to mar tho pleasure of the oc-
casion." wrote Boston editor in his account OF
a suburban funeral. "was little difficulty he
tween the clergyman and one of the mourners
concerning the ownership of a flask found in the
carriage they had occupied"
JAY COOKE has given his fine place, Ogontz,
Tor young wOmen's school. There is a superb
Norman Gothic building, five stories high, built
of granite and iron, and containing nearly one
hundred rooms costing $4,000, and OF which
Jay Cooke has spent S25, 900 for furnishing.
THE Earl and Countess of Roseberry will leave
England on Aug 25 for a voyage around the
world At each place of interest along enough
stay Will be made to fully satisfy both curiosity
and comfort and it is expected that about a
year will be occupied in completing the journey.
body of a child will not be child's body in
heaven; it will be fully developed. Mothers
will not consent to have heaven stripped of ba-
bies." Editors who pay for that sort of stuff and
print it, cannot have inspected the goods before
| buying.
| MIR. LABoUCHERE says that the greater part Of
the Duchess of Ednburgh's trousseau was sold
| in London a few years ago as the property of a
lady of rank. The royal family, with the excep-
ton of that amiable and popular prodigal, the
Prince of Wales, appears to be very frugal, as If
rainy day coming.
AFTER forty-seVen years of service as profess
sOr of chemistry In the Dartmouth Medical Col
| lege, Hanover, N H., Oliver Payson Hubbard,
M. D., LII. D., has resigned the chair and been
MADE professor emeritus. Professor Edwin ].
Bartlett will fill the vacancy during the present
lecture term, which opened on August 1.
ton Army. He has "a maria geable son. Miss
Charlesworth is a devoted member Of the army,
and recently distinguished herself by conduct
| ing meetings in Paris and in Switzerland. She
is, moreover. marriageable young lady, and has
| a fortune of 10000. 1t is announced that she
| is soon to become the daught er-in-law of "Gen-
eral" Booth.
MISS JENNIE HEADLY, ten years old added
another to her aquatic honors by swimming from
the Manhanset House to the Prospect beach,
across Deerln's Dor, in which the Atlantic
| Yacht club fleet anchored a few days ago. The
distance covered is about mile. She was not
weary AT the finish. and could doubtless have
swum back again. Some one asked her what
she thought of on the way over. She replied:
81 thought OF sharks, and felt as If was in a
great big world all alone"
MoNsEIGNEUR CAPEL has been spending several
days in the beautiful village of Edgewater just
below Burlington, N. J.. on the Delaware river.
u His first public celebration Of mass in America
was on Wednesday, in st. Pauls Church, Bur-
lngton. in the presence of congregation of
only three persons, one of whom was his hostess
and the Others newspaper correspondence He
says he intends to American fashionable
life at Saratoga and Newport, science and Gull
ture in Boston, and primitive and working life in
the West.
1T is one more evidence how closely we of the
| nineteenth century are connected with the men
of the eighteenth, that many persons, still
hardly middle-aged, remember lady to
whom Horace WalpOle lost his heart and actu-
ally proposed marriage more than hundred
years ago. This was the well-known Miss Berry,
who in later life attracted the love of, and q
more reasonable offer of marriage from, that
General O'Hara whose untlmely death is COM
fad y nj
now, or lately, "A broken, moss-covered ruin.
THE Earl OF Arundel, four years old, was born
blind, and about everything possible, sensible or
otherwise, has been tried to effect cure. The
parents Roman Catholics, and the chisd has
been blessed by the Pope, prayed fer at Knock
and Lourdes, and at many other European
shrires. besides having special invocations in
many of the Churches Tho next step is to take
him to Caravaggo, some forty miles from Milan,
where there many holy relics which it is
hoped will work miracle the child. The
Arundel pedigree, it is claimed, extends back to
the time of Edward l.
A oNE-ARMED soldier from Cincinnati called at
Governor Fosters Office at Columbus to ask for
assistance in reaching home. He met Mr.. Fred.
d. Mussey. the Governors private secretary,
who referred him railroad officer, with
kind letter OF Recommendation, beginning: "Mr.
| Soand-so: Dear Sir--Ths is one-armed soldier"
ETC. Mr. Mussey. In speaking Of the matter after
ward, remarked that he forgot to accompany the
letter with diagram, but felt assured that his
letter, together with the appearance of the SOL
der himself. would be sufficient to convince. the
officer that arm was missing, and secure the
poor man a pass.
LUTHER left three sons, and it has often been
said that their male line was extinguished early
In the last century, but the report is confirmed
that there are at Cloister Allendurf, the Weir,
in NTeiningin, two brothers, Heinrich and Carl
ther, who can prove descent from the great re-
former by "a genealogical tree, which has been
| deposited for safety In Leipsic insurance com