The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-28

The mayor Of Houston Tex, has served that city
four years and has accepted dollar of his saa-
ry though he that every other official is promptly
paid.
AFAc SMILE of Dickenss little tract, SUNDAY
Under Three Heads, is being made in London The
original edition is that copies have sold for
$3.50
MATTHEW ARNOLD was frank enough to tell a Bos-
ton reporter that the primary object of his American
tour to make money and his expectations in that
respect have been fulfilled.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has accepted the invita-
ton of the Boston city to deliver the eulog
on Wendell Phillips, and he has selected Wednesday,
April Is, as the time for its delivery.
LIEUTENANT SCHwATKA the arctic explorer now
in Portland Oregon. said the other day that in his
opinion, the Greedy party safe and that if its mem
bers keep the scurvy off they will be rescued dur
ing the coming summer.
HENRY JAMES says that the most beautiful woman
he saw is the cashier in Provence restaurant
She is large, quiet, and has the dignity of Roman
empress. He also declares admiration for the washer
women in the Trastevere.
MILE. DARE, q peasant girl of France who drew
the $50 600 prize in the lottery two weeks ago was
called to Paris to get the money and in the two days
she remained in the city received 106 offers of mar
rage from loving Frenchmen she had never seen.
THE author of Peek Boo" Mr.. w. J. Seaman
has received 81 600 in royalties on his song. A
grateful public would willingly spend ten times the
amount on palatia States prison for the gentleman
if he could be induced to occupy it for life at hard
labor
ALEXANDER GUMBLETOS RUFFLEToN SCUFFLEToN
OBERDA WHITTLEToN SoUTHENHALL BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN SQUIREs is still resident of North Caro-
lima aged ninety two. Mr. Squiress forbearance in
not putting his parents death will be commended by
some but not by others.
THE sheriff of Walla Walla Washington Territory
recently got two letters in day inquring for long
lost brothers and by lucky coincidence able to
satisfy the affectionate curiosity in both He
had himself just hanged and the other helped
up the golden stair by amateurs a week before.
THE coming Rosa Bonheur is said to be Miss
Strong, of San Francisco. Her teacher is Van Marcke
the cattle painter She has had in the salon fesze
picture of IA dog, which showed a strong original
touch Then she went to live in the country study
sheep and cattle painting, in which she evinces like
power.
THE Kursaa Hotel in the upper Engadine e 900
feet above tie ea will be opened in July. 1t con-
tains about 500 apartments The cost of the
ing and ventilating arrangements alone amounts to
$1,000. The Belgian company have selected an
has been introduced of adding ozone to the internal
atmosphere
ALBERT EDWARD Prince Of Wales, seems to have
large fund of good sense and in this respect differs
from nearly every other Guelph that ever lived In
accommodating himself to the circumstances of the
times, and accepting position the commission of
inquiry into the condition of the poor, he has dis
played than usual tact. His action in this mat
ter will certainly increase his popularity.
KATE FIELD says that when she goes TO Massa
ehusetts, the land of the Pilgrim fathers, the home
Of Garrison, Wendell Phillips Whittier, Lucy Stone,
and Julia Ward Howe she finds that the women,
the most enlightened in this country, praying in
vain to have voice in the making of the laws When
she goes to Utah. where education is at its lowest
and culture is almost unknown she finds women
joying suffrage,
Mr.. CARNEGIE of Pittsburg is building granite
mansion on Cumberland Island, few miles north of
Fernandina Fla. This famous island once owned
by General Nathaniel Greene and it is the buriap
of Lighthouse Harry Lee. Deer at will through
the vast recesses Of its forests. Lord Huntingdon
said recently that he did not know of gentleman
park in all Great Britain that superior to it in
natural beauty.
A WESTERN clergyman who has just visited Wash
ington, reports Il disappointed in the Pres
dent He does not resemble the taors fashion plates
There is not the fantest suspicion of the dude about
him. He looked like plain, quiet, unpretending man
Of business dressed in costume far removed from
gorgeousness as the East is from the West He is
not handsome; his English whiskers have been partly
shorn and his is not Roman. 1 imagined no had
a troubled, tired look"
SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, writing to the London Echo
says that he only met in the United States
L ! II.
John Logan. He says that ne found him to be a man
of ncisive intellectually; every inch soldier. He
was particularly struck with his receptive disposition
his inquiring mind, and his pure idiomatc English
Mr. Logan appeared to him to be second-rate En-
glishman. which Sir Lepel naivey remarks is the
highest compliment that can be paid to American
citizen.
The curious travelling stones of Australia are paral
leled in Nevada They are described as almost per-
fectly round, about large as a walnut and of an
ivory nature. When distributed about upon the
floor table level surface within two or three feet
of each other, they Immediately begin travelling to
ward common center, and there lie huddled up i'll a
bunch like Is lot of eggs in nest. single stone
removed to distance of three and a half feet upon
being released returns to the heap, but if taken away
four oy five feet remains motonless. They are com
posed of magnetic iron ore.
NEARLYa all the recent Premers of England have en-
joyed the advantage of having had wives of great de
votion and ability, to whose tender and synpa
thy in their ambition they have been largely indebted
The devotion of the Countess of Russell who is still
living and the Duchess of Beaconseld had something
of romance. Mrs. Gladstone who is nearly the same
age the Premier, accompanies her husband, did
Lady Beaconsfeld, everyHh here, and frequently re
mains in the ladies' gallery to the close of the nights
sitting lord Palmerston, more than perhaps any
other first Minister, however indebted for his
position and its maintenance to his wife who was
physically and mentally remarkable woman Up to
her death in 1869 sixty five four years after her
husband, she could read without glasses and talked
with all the energy of of twenty.
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