The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19

declaring that the legitimation of such marriages
would be a greater national calamity than the landing
of 100000 Frenchmen at Dover.
No more
Doth Corydon his Philis fair await
Beneath the moon,
Or swing with her upon the garden gate
And sweetly spoon;
For when the forest leaves begin to turn
Apart from all turmoil,
They sit within the parlor snug and burn
The old mans coal and oil.
-Someryille Journal.
LEANDER P. RICHARDSON; AS a general writer and
as the conductor of a periodical, Tourgee has shown
himself to be weak, stupid and incapable. He has
had every possible chance and his magazine has been
backed by extensive and liberal capitalists, who would
not have it go if there had been any possible show 4or
its continued existence. 1t is only in the weakness of
the man and the ~incapacity of his judgment that the
explanation of this failure lies.
NJ. BEoHAMP lately commended before the French
Academy that the human system manufactures"
alcohol, and a colleague-M. Gautier-said decidedly
that alcohol often presents itself physiologically or
normally in the animal economy without the introduce
ton of sugar or other fermentable substance. The
late researches of Perrin and Dujardin- Beaumetz are
considered as having fully demonstrated this fact,
which is not unlikely to have a marked effect in ques-
tions concerning legal medicines.
MRS. HEMMEEwAY gave a reception in Boston the
ObIeF oNOulHS 10 MISS EAny DTduteY, VIM ~ D6bu
carrying out the plans Of her patron in the education
of the freedmen. Mrs. Hemmenway has devoted
$780, 900 to this cause and to Miss Bradley was com
mitted the executive responsibility. At the reception
a purse of 50, 900 was presented to Miss Bradley or
behalf of the assembled guests. Mrs. Hemmenway is
known as the founder of many of the finest education
al and philanthropic enterprises of Boston.
PREPARATIONS of the drug known as coca have
been used somewhat largely by physicians as exhila-
rants. 1t is stated, however that the crude article has
become so poor in quality that the real strength of
the manufactured one is uncertain; so its place has
been supplied by a preparation of tea, and the fluid
extract of tea" may now be found on the list of a
manufacturing chemist. 1t would seem strange to us
at first to send the family teapot to the junk shop,
and watch our wives as they held a tiny vial
over a cup of hot water and asked us ''how many
drops we would have.
THE number of dwellinghouses in Paris is about
10000. The area of the whole city is twenty-five
squaremiles, and the population over 100000. A
recent measure of the Conseil d'Etat ordains that
henceforward no flats shall be less than eight feet
high; that in streets 25 feet wide the height of the
houses must not exceed 40 feet; in streets between
25 and 80 feet wide the height must not exceed so
feet; in streets between 30 and 65 feet wide the
height must not exceed 60 feet; in streets above 65
feet wide the height must not exceed 60 feet, and no
buildings are to have more than seven stories, all in
cluded.
Mr.. GLADSTONE generally dresses plainly, but, like
the aloe, blooms once in hundred years or so. When
that event occurs the splendor of his ~blossoming calls
for detailed record. On his first drive into Edinburg
from Dalmeny-the morning was bright and sunny
he flashed upon the town like a ray of light, aud sat
among his sombre companions Ike a bird of paradise
in an aviary of ~jackdaws, clothed, like Tennyson's
party in the pool, 'in white samite, or what might
have been a coat of that material; his waistcoat was
also white, his trousers a lovely lavender, his tie the
hue of the pale primrose, while in his buttonhole he
sported a rose larger than a caulifower, but less in
size than a drum-bead cabbage. I'D to this a hat Of
veritable white, not the dubious drab which is the
common wear, but as white as whitewash, and you
have the figure which showed in the Scotch capital as
the sun in Turner's sea pieces shows from surround
ing clouds.
THE London Spectator has just made a discovery
nothing more nor less than that London is the first
city of the world. A French visitor once said that
London was a magnificent city if you could see it. 1t
is impossible to get a bird's-eye view of London. The
atmospheric conditions are never such as to enable
one to behold tin all directions on a given day. Few
persons have any idea whatever of the shape of Lon
don. Paris is pear-shaped, with a bite out of the
north side. Our own New York is an irregular paral-
telegram, and Vienna is not, from one point of view,
unlike a gridiron, handle and all complete. But Lon
don has been built and planned with the exterior il
regularity Of a great hornets nest. There is at times
a decent view of parts of London 20 De mad from
HempsteadH Heath. From the dome of st. Paul's a
good deal Of the city may be seen, but nothing like a
comprehensive view of the vast conglomeration of
spire and tower, of mansion and factory, can be had;
it's endless and fathomless miles of masonry evade the
pencil of the sketcher and are lost to the lens of the
photographer.
Mrs. L. Z. HILLS, of Elgin, Ill, has a copy of the
wellknown poem, "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of
Mortal Be Proud" in the handwriting of Abram Lin.
coin. She was once a member of a concert company,
which CHANGED to put up at the same hotel with Mr..
Lincoln in Western town, when he was a candidate
for the presidency. In the evening the singers en-
tertained the company in the parlor for a time, and
then called upon Mr.. Lincoln. "My friends, " said he,
II couldn't sing a tune, not even Old Hundred if it
were to save my life, but l can recite a poem for you"
Then stepping to the other side of the parlor that he
might face them all, he said: Il will recite to you