The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-26

bad management and failure of banking company.
The sale of his memoirs and journals however, has
produced a sum that enables him to spend the even
Ing of his days in comparative comfort or, at any
rate, free from monetary anxieties.
An mitator of Mrs. Nyra Clark Gaines has appeared
in Atlanta Mrs. Mary Raspberry has sued for the
possession of about twenty-five acres of land in the
Fourth ward, upon which there are seventy-fve or
eighty houses. The property is valued at $500 900.
She claims that the property bequeathed her by
aunt but that the will lost or stolen and she
cheated out of it by her father Two witnesses to
the will have been found.
TRAVELLING by railway NJ. De Lesseps gets into the
first compartment at hand, and drops into the first
vacant seat he finds Then he scrutinizes the other
passengers sharply If he get up conversation
with of them he does so; if he folds his arms
goes to sleep and only wakes up when his destination
is reached At sea- he lies in his BERTH fast asleep all
the time, except when at his meals. On voy-
from Marseilles to Alexandria, lasting $50 hours,
he spent 107 hours in sleep He has given up ice-
water baths but still takes much horseback exercise.
AN interesting ceremony took place at Birmingham,
England, recently, the occasion of the home
coming of named Hall after twenty years
penal servitude for wife murder Thousands of peo-
pie it is stated met Hall at the railway station and
gave him enthusiastic reception greeting him with
loud cheers until he driven off in cab with his
relatives These tokens of sympathy and esteem must
have somewhat surprised Hall. Wife murder was,
twenty years ago, looked upon rather serious Of
fense even when, in the of Hall, it was COM
mitted under circumstances of extreme provocation.
PARIS is almost childess Tradesmen wish their
wives to help them in the shop and in order that the
wives may be free to do this the children put out
to in the country The same custom is general
among all working people. More than so per cent of
the children born in Paris die in the baby farmers
hands, a correspondent declares, before they reach
their second year. Forty creches have been estab-
ished in the city but the counter influence of these
has been trifing. A of whom ques-
tons asked charges twenty-five francs month for
the keep of baby, but those who registered and
overlooked demand fifty francs They find
their customers among the prosperous middle classes,
but the working people not afford to go to them.
LARGE audience assembled at the Crystal Palace
at Syndenham, a few days ago, to hear Mr. Oscar
Wilde's lecture his impressions of America. Mr..
Wilde (who has discarded knee-breeches and
sumed the prosac trousers) said that the Americans
the noisiest people in the world, whose national
occupation is catching trains Pennsylvania with its
rocky gorges and woodland scenery reminded him of
Switzerland; the prairie of piece Of brown blotting
paper. Everything is twice large as it should be;
everywhere is twice far it should be- He visited
Leadve the chief characteristic of whose inhabitants
is the constant use of the revolver. He lectlred to
them upon "Benvenuto Cellini His Life and Works.
and was reproved by his hearers for not having
brought that artist with him. The explanation that
he had been dead for little lime elected the in
quiry, Who shot himl" Among the elderly in
habitants of the South he found melancholy ten
dency to date every event of Importance by the late
How beautiful the moon is tonight" he once
remarked to gentleman who standing next to
him Yes" was the reply, but you should have
seen it before the war" So infnitesma did he find
the knowledge and appreciation of art west of the
Rocky mountains that art patron--one who in his
day had been Internationally sued the railroad
pany for damages because the plaster cast of Venus of
Milo, which he had imported from Paris, had been
delivered minus the arns And what
prsing still he gained his and the damages.