The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-10
PERSONAL NOTE AND MENTION.


Mrs. LABoUcHERE and Mrs. Langtry are said d
have made up their quarrel at Scarborough which d
surely the place for reconciliation.
NEW tenor, named Marcon whose fine sympa
thetc voice is compared to that of Mario in his beA
days,has been discovered at AK les Bains
| HENRY IRVING said, before he left London, that
some of the American newspaper there were try
ing to down" him. Henry is too coneeited
SINCE he has attained his majority in 1868 the
Duke OF Norfolk has, in way another given
more than So 500 600 to the Roman Catholic Church.
besides princey sums devoted to private charities
| IN the MSS. of the dramatized form of Never Toe
Late to Mend" the late Charles Reade penned maA
gnal note to PASSAGE IF the audience fails te
weep here the passage has not been properly acted
HUGO BARTHoL, Hamburg clerk, has just
pleted the longest bicycle journey record In ten
weeks and five days he covered 1850 German miles
including several long stretches across mountaia
| ranges.
| CORNELIUS VANDERBILT and his wife a foreign
Grundy tells, recently bought for their six children
high Russian boots bound with fur, which delights
ed of the little girls aged ten that she insisted on
wearing them in the warmest weather.
| FRANK S. CHANFRAU was singularly handsome
when young and his hair black and glossy ia
the last. The dye which he employed to effect this
result seine of his acquantances say the direct
cause of the paralysis which killed him.
WHILE President Arthur has been assduouslS
counting Miss Frelinghuysen at her fathers house in
New Jersey, Miss Freinghuysen has been for several
weeks past visiting friends in Lenox, Mass, and
is there now and proposes to remain there till cold
| weather.
BRITISH Postmaster general Fawcett considers his
blindness advantage since it has compelled him To
cultivate his faculties especially his memory, an
| extraordinary daoree md he tails his friends thai
while he may accept their sympathy he does not need
their commiseration.
| GEORGE W. CABLE is preparing little book OF
creole songs. In company with Mark Twain he will
start the day after election, upon tour of the
principal cities of the country, giving readings from
his works. This venture will be Mark Twain's first
| appearance a reader.
THE latest thing in swell English weddings is the
employment of page. At the marriage of Mr.. Shir
ley with Colonel McDonalds daughter in London the
other day the bridegrooms nephew, Master Hugh
| Chafy, acted page He a costume Of black
velvet, with large Irish point lace collar.
LABoUCHERE gives marine touch to society. He
says; 81 own feeling of refreshment when in the
society of person of originality. Modern society is
like a shngly beach One woman is just like
another. Everyone has smoOthness and nobody fix
ity. After lot of human shingles, the clear, bold
originality that stands out from the like
side rock Is delightful"
MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE has accepted the position
of chief of the woInan's department of the New Or
leans Exposition, and all work that has been done in
various parts of the country will be grouped, under
her direction, in the government building at New Or
leans While the work that has been done represents
all departments of industry the exhibit that will go
from Massachusetts, particularly, will probably be
devoted to art science and literature Work begins
T,,,. has co.
the department in elaborate manner.
| Mr.. MEYER, noted archeologist lately discovered
on the island ofZapotera rock which, judging from
the figures it contained served in remote times for
Economical observations On this rock he found two
stone tablets of which contained representation
of the world part of Africa and Asia united Europe
and this continent. large continent situated in
the Atlantic ocean. which was believed to be the
mythical lost Atlantis mentioned in Of the
ancient authors The other tablet contained inscrp-
tons of which part is undoubtedly Phnnican.
NATURALIsTs say that the feet of the common
working bee exhibit the combination of a basket,
brush and pair of pncers The brush, the hairs OF
which arranged in symmetrical rows are only
| be seen with the microscope. With this brush Of
fairy delcacy the bee brushes the velvet robe
| move the pollen dust with which it becomes loaded
while sucking up the nectar Another article hol-
lowed like a SPOON receives all he geanings which
the insect carries to the hive Finally, by opening
them, upon another, by means of hinge these
| two pieces become pair of pincers which render i'm
portant service in the construction of the combs.
| PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR and Prince George. of
Wales are about to try their hands at authorship.
From the first day September II, 1870 Of their
cadetship on board the Bacchante they started
| journal and kept daily notebook. wherein were
chroncled the sights and strange things that they
countered during their trip in 1880 in the Med
iterranean, back to Madeira and to the West
Indies The idea kept up during the little
run to Bantry Bay in July, $780, and again when
| the Bacchante left Spthead on Tuesday, Sept Ii,
1880, for long voyage, and reached home after a
two years cruise on Aug. T. 1882. The book is
titled THE Cruise Of H. NJ. S. Bacchante, 1979-82).
ALEffsIo journal has compiled list of morganate
marriages which have taken place within compare
lively short period with the object of showing that
when the Grand Duke of Hesse espoused Nine. de
Kalomine he did nothing at all exceptionally and it
points out that the wrath of his relatives in England
and at Berlin is really very unreasonable, whictShas
all along been the general opinion in Germany. There
have been seventeen unions of this sort and it add
ed that "they all turned out most happily" The
| list includes one emperor, four kings elector.
| two archdukes of Austria and nine royal princes.
The indignation of the English relatives is all the
more absurd, as according to German law, the mar
rage of Princess Louise with Lord Lorne is a NOR
| ganatic union.
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