The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-24

future who turned and left his Majesty all broken up
by such tartness Next day King and composer ex-
| changed apologies, and good friends again.
MIR. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT during the last year
has spent ten thousand dollars relieving old
Staten Island friends of his whose homes about
to be sold on foreclosure of their mortgages.
THE Crown Princess of Sweden is pleasantly photo
graphed peasantlooking, coarse, masculine per
son, without single feature to redeem her from the
reputation of being the ugliest woman in Europe
LADY BURDETT CoUTTs does not dress in subdued
style, although she is longer young. At
cent wedding she quantities of diamonds and a
scarlet cashmere mantle wrought in gold and trimmed
with white fur.
| AT total abstinence meeting In Baltimore, last
week, the Catholic Bishop of Minnesota madea speech
in single sentence. '1f Ireland, he said had no
public houses tppng shops within its borders it
would have been free long ago."
Miss MARY ANDERSON does not, like Mrs Mackay,
permit her modste to duplicate her toilets and
costumes for anyone else and, of course, pays for
this exclusveness in fnery. Miss Andersons ward
robe is compared by her advertising friends to
Queen Elizabeths of old.
THE ranch of Richard King the cattle king Of Tex
as the largest owned by any individual in the Union
is located in Nueces Cameron, Hdalgo and Starr
counties, and has frontage the Rio Grande of
seventy-fve miles, and is stocked with 10000
head of horses and 150, 900 head of cattle.
THE anniversary of one of the families whose an
cesters hanged for witchery has been celebrated
in Salem. The houses still standing where the
judges of that famous time lived and of the prin-
cpal streets is quaint old gabled structure where
of the supposed witches is supposed to have re-
al is ubne
witeh-hazel ointment TO the credulous.
The newest canvasser goes from house to house
when wives at home and husbands away. He OK
plains how readily, privately and for slight reasons
divorces may be obtained and he departs saying chat
he will take the liberty of calling again in week He
is agent for a divorce lawyer. Disconnected wives
either with without good cause for divorce, thus
have the means brought to them; and when it is
added that pay is taken the installment plan. the
attractiveness of the scheme must be acknowledged.
THERE was building going up opposite Boston
aesthetics widow. and in watching the workmen she
delighted to the variety and picturesqueness
of several hodcarriers clothes "One of them" she
remarked, had garments almost medieval in cut,
and something like helmet ON his head. / made a
sketch of him. and here is Tell me, is it usual for
hodcarrers in this country to exhibit much of
artistic sensibity in dressl .Only after election,
was the reply The fellow had utilized campaign
! club uniform.
DURING rehearsal of "Frou Frou," one day, &C.
cording to Jules Claretie Sarah Bernhardt COM
planned of the tiresomeness of her life, whereupon
Dumas remarked that she must be hard to please,
] for, since the Czarina Catherine H. woman had
been obeyed applauded and adulated much as she.
IAN very fine, retorted Sarah but the endl The
thing is to find soulstirring denouement- Suppose
Rochefort had been killed by ball at the moment of
lir escape! There was a fine fifth act should like
to end like that Gambetts, too ended WE'LL it was
dramatic, mysterious Tell me, how do you think 1
will end2" There silence then super" shrugged
his shoulders till his collar came over his head and
said; ''You} You will end ouvreuse." An
ouvreuse is wretched being who opens box-doors,
checks overcoats etc. in theaters and levies extor-
Tomato baeksheesh for her dubious services.
THE World London) hopes that Prince George of
Wales will remember in his and his brothers forth
coming account of their travels, the following Incl
dent of the ball given at Melbourne in honor of the
two princes: Early in the evening Prince George
having strayed from the rest of his party, stroll
ing stlessy round the ball room by himself. young
lady, seeing boy midshipman's uniform wandering
about alone mp and offered to introduce him to
any ladies present if he wished dance. The young
prince accepted, and the lady asked his
George, replied he. But George WHAT" she asked
him Rather taken aback, tie boy again answered
George" Don't you know your namei' the
lady the point of saying, when it suddenly oc-
Cured to her that this of the guests of the
evening; so taking him under her wing. she
not as general in introductons she had at first
intended
MIR. GLADSTONE according to London journal
list quoted by DIR. Hsinemann, performs the opera
ton of Misunderstanding in three stages First he takes
your outstretched member softly in his grasp that
the fork of your stump and the fork of his in the
closest possible contact and alliance Then you learn
that the Premier hand is cool soft and elastic; full
of tiny muscles and bones and all alive, it
There is reinsurance invitation and interrogation
cordality, zest and confidence. And now comes the
grip which is the second stage of the process 1t is
firm and decisive and lasts as long it takes the
Premier inquire after your health and to welcome
you if you welcome. Lastly, you are released
with a sorrowful clutch that delays the departure of
your finger tips to the last fraction of a second This
is how Mr. Gladstone will salute friend and political
adherent; his way of shaking hands with political
opponent-say, the Marquis of Salsbury-I tell
you nothing whatever about"
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