The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-31

well defined. He talks like shy man to s.raI-
gers, but in his intercourse with his friends there
Is no embarrassment.
ON recent visit Of Emperor William toa
needle factory, the borer-that is the working
man whose business it is to bore the eyes in
these needles-askeC for hair from the mon
archs head. IL was readily given and with q
smile. He placed it Immediately under the Dor
ing machine, made a hole in it with the greatest
care, furnished 1t with thread and then handed
the singular needle to the astOnished King.
THE late Representative Haskell Is thought by
those who knew him we'll to have fastened his
death by overwork. His ambition was Of the
squirting Sort He had the genius for persistent,
untiring, unyielding work. He had not other gifts
above the average; yet by digging, dig
gipg and digging he had in six years come to the
front rank. he was ambitious to be Speaker OF
the House. For four months last year Haskell
spent only five hours day in Sleep the rest he
gave to his work.
COLONEL W. P. CANADAY, the new Sergeant
alarms of the Senate, is a favorite among the
cOored men of North Carolina He has been an
ardent champion of their rights on the Jury and
at the ballot-box and in the contest for Governor
In the State next year may prove successful
candidate. Only a few hundred votes need to
be gained in order to place Republican in the
executive chair. Colonel Canaday was a Con-
federate officer in the rebellion, and was noted
for bravery, energy and pluck.
LADY writes to the New York Tribune
of Mormonism: at is only with the crime of
polygamy, or bgamy, the. government has to
deal. By all the laws of the land that should be
punished in Utah just the same as In any other
place. Do not give the Mormons any pretext
for saying they are prosecuted on account OF
rail- thr.
get hold of the sympathies OF the people. 1t 10
only crimes that are to be punished in Utah. Re-
ligion has nothing to do with it.
PRIVATE theatricals, according to an English
essayist have nearly lost their character OF pri-
vacy. Even amateur companies consisting of
ladies and gentlemen perform in publIc society
has become stage-strucR, and ladies and gentle-
men are taking to the stage. eve hope the rising
taste for amateur acting will be kept within
reasonable bounds, and that it will be long
time before the stage is inundated with tyros
who, if ladies, could have done better anywhere
else. and il men, should rather have taken to
the forest or the prairie"
THOUGH there has been but one poet ennobled
in England. there have been a number of trades
people. John Coventry, from whom the present
Earl of Coventry is descended, was mercer Of
London, and Lord Mayor in 1925; Stephen
DlONh1 q leAOSOA, SaNO FlSCOuuV w
the peerage; the Capels, Earls of Essex are de-
scended from o draper Edward Osborne,
founder of the Duke of Leeds, was a cloth
worker from William Craven, G tailor. sprang
the Earl Of Craven, just deeeased;i Lord Dudley
and Ward is descended from William Ward,
working jeweler. ~ g-e
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, whose home is near
Platte City, Mo, married Miss Alice Cooper, an
orphan, with fifty men with shOtguns as wit
nesses. The courtship had to all outward APP
pearances gone on swimmngly for some months,
but the other day the young man tried to recede
and was arrested. He gave bonds and was re-
leased, and on Saturday evening fifty of the
neighbors, including Justice Day and Miss Coop
ers uncle, armed themselves with shotguns and
got marrige license Then they rode to Mont.
gomerys fathers farm and surrounded the
house. They gave the youth the option of either
occupying lot in a neighboring graveyard or
marrying Miss Cooper He chose to live and
Justice Day Immediately tied the knot
ANTHONY TROLLOPE as Julian Hawthorne saw
him in 1879: "a broad-shouldered, sturdy
man OF middle height, with ruddy countenance
and snOw-white, tempestuous beard and hair.
He wore large, gold-rimined spectaces, but his
eyes were black and brilliant, and looked at his
interlocutor with certain genial fury of in
spection. His voice was full-toned and power.
full, though pleasant to the ear; aud his words
burst forth from beneath his white uiustaehe
with such an impetus of hearty breath that 1t
seemed as if all opposing arguments must be
blown quite away. He was exceedingly fine
looking old gentleman, and at the first glance
you would have taken him TO be some civilized
and moderated Squire Western, noursh ed with
beef and ale, and roughly hewn out Of the most
robust aud least refined variety Of huma u clay"
and Apollo which Mr.. Robert Barrett Browning
has recently finished at Paris. In the studio,
says the correspondent who tells the story, I
saw the model who stood for it, with the great
live snake coiling round her, and her face was
the statues own. 1 asked if it was not almost
crue. to make her pose thus, snake-embraced;
but the sculptor assured me that she was very
fond of the serpent The snake himself was
veritable pythyon from Senegal, and had been
resident for some time at the Antwerp Museum
of Natural History. The embrace of this one
might easily have been fatal, for he was ten feet
long and very large. But he never much as
frightened his coils uncomfOrtably round the
model during the weary hours aud days in which
she stood with him entwined about her while
the statue grew.
MICHAEL DAvITT, speaking recently before the
Land Reform Union In London, received, says
one of his auditors, a deafenlnS reception, re-
newed again and again. He made q striking
fgure the dark hard face, the attitude of quiet
defiance, and the severely simple manner all
conveyed an impression of power and persist
ence. His delivery is calm, deliberate ana en-
phatic, even the most rhetorical of his
fences being spoken with manifest calculation.
He has slight brogue, which increases at excit-
ing moments OF his discourse, and he has trick
of pronunciation which is not ineffective in its
way-as manhud for manhood. His voice is
harsh and gratin g. but strong and clear; his ex-
preston only varies from its set look of resolu-
ton to sardonic smile and elevation of the
eyebrow at passages Of irony, or TO fierce, dark
int. sit 1ul,nn Iandlnrd and aristncrat do