The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-04

told story that Interested then and they al
lowed him to remain their guest for several
months. Az last cable message which he had
long said would come, was delivered, and he de-
parted for Europe. He has lately sent his
kind hostess and her husband a draft for $4,000.
In Boston: "Ma, really think shall marry
Mr.. Perkins" "Wel my dear, If you must, you
must, suppose" 81 can't see, ma, why you
should object. Mr. Perkins is rich, he is actually
a narObert, ma" "a what, my dearq" "a
narobert, ma; you wouldn't have me make use
OF that vulgar word nabOb, would you mag
THE so called Englishwoman who took part
in the petty riots which the Paris police sup
pressed a few months ago turns out TO be the
Miss LIE Compile who formerly lived in Fail
River, and once figured American repre-
sentative in some sort of an International Mini
istic congress. Miss LIE Compile represents her
self only.
THE impression has gone abroad that the
Queen has practically disgraced the new Duke
of Marlborough by refusing to admit him to her
presence to deliver up the insignia of the garter
which his father wore, and which his successor,
according to custom, delivers to the sovereign.
He has been told that he may leave the things
with the Lord Chamberlain.
Now, John, said the father of the city family
to the father Of the country family, "we have
been spending all summer with you, and as
some sort of recOmpense we are going to have
some amateur theatricals and give you fare
we'll benefit" "No thanKee, Charles" was the
reply; 'dont wait to do that The farewell
will be benefit enough for mo-"
CETEwAYO knows that African resistance to
English authority is madness, and he tells the
Basutos with vivid and forcible eloquence.
"If you think, he wrote them from Dude Mo-
len, "that you can do anything against the
English, go on in your stupid way, and you will
be sorry for it. You will perish suddenly, as a
vessel on the sea that Is suddenly filed with
water and is no more. What are you2 Il you
got all the white people of this cOun try English
Beers, and also all the black people, to help you
what could you DO against the English4 You
could do nothing. You are simply like fly Oh
the nose of a strong man; you be brushed
away during the wink of an eye and be no more.
Listen TO me; stop this foolishness of yours, and
pay homage to the English nation. Listen TO
me. L am among the English people and know
them. If you now despse my words jump down
the precipice swear to you that you act
Ing as children; there is no black race that can
do anything against the English. The black
King and people that listen to the English and
talk nicely with them are the only ones that
Will die from old age and save their country"
f. w. II. MEYERS, i'll his notable essay on
George Eliot, gives the following "reminiscences:
81 remember how, at Cambridge, 1 walked with
her once in the Fellows Garden of Trinity on an
evening of rainy May, and she, stirred somewhat
beyond her wont, and taking her text the
three words which have been used so often as
the inspiring trumpet-calls of men-the words
God, Immortality, Duty-prOnounced with ter
rible earnestness, how incOnceivahle was the
first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how
peremptory and absolute the third. Never, per-
haps, have sterner accents affirmed the sover-
eighty of impersOnal and unrecompensing Law.
listened, and night fell; her grave, majestic
countenance turned toward me like sibyl's in
the gloom it was as though she withdrew from my
grasp one by one the two scrolls of promise. and
left me the third scroll only, awful with inevita-
BILE iates. And when stood at length and
parted amid that columnar circuit of the forest
trees, beneath the last twilight of starless skies,
( seemed to be gazing. like Titus at Jerusalem,
on vacant seats and empty halls-on a sanctu-
airy with no Presence TO ballow it, and heaven
left lonely of God"