The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-24

ease may be. The notice is distributed by telegraph
from the office at Toronto, and the signals for the
day are set accordingly. They plain as to be
easily read by anyone with good eyesight who see
q train passing within 200 yards
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE was born in Florence,
Italy and named for her birthplace Her fathers
name Shore but was changed legally to Nightin-
gale by the terms of inheritance. Her present
home is in London, but when well enough she journeys
a good deal among reformatories and hospitals in
Scotland and Germany.
''THERE is general impression" says the editor of
London Life, that the Empress Eugene is poor.
can say with certainty that she is rich. Besides
possessing large sums well invested in this country,
Her Majesty immense tracks of pine forests in
the Landes from which she derives very substantial
income. Then, she spends nothing"
In a certain cemetery in town in Connecticut can
be found lot containing five graves in the center
the others at the four points of the compass The
inscriptions the latter read respectively after the
name of the deceased; MY WIFE" my II Wife,
"My III Wife," my iii Wife" while the center
stone bears the brief but eloquent expression, Our
Husband"
A HOUSTON doctor had mocking-bird which lived
in the garden. Whenever he returned home the bird
would fly to tree in front of the doorstep and sing
for hours. appeared to be in ecstasy of delight
whenever the doctor at home. The doctor died
of yellow fever, and after the funeral the family
opened the doctors room and found the mockingbird
lying at the head of the bed, dead
A BEAUTIFUL Promise stood in the hotel entresol
hopping its brow. ''You seem exhausted" said
ssttee. Exhausted guess you don't know me.
Not muchl I'm just getting warmed up to my work
I'm willing to bet can do hard work between
and election day than anybody" "Do you never
restP 'Oh yes right after election I'll go to sleep,
and you won't again for four years.
THE death of little girl in Concord, N. G., was
caused by swallowing lightning bug The child was
playing in the yard with number of other children,
and while laughing and romping about lightning
bug flew into her mouth and made its way down her
throat The little girl became suddenly ill., and though
physicians did everything to relieve her suferings,
she died within few hours afterward. This is the
first death from such a record.
BECAUSE he owns Blenhem, and bears the name of
Churchill people apt to regard the Duke of Marl
borough as the only direct representative of the great
captain of the last century, but Lord Spencer stands
in precisely similar relationship to him. and inher
tied much of his money; while his personal chat
tells to large extent owned by the Duke of Buc
cleuch who has among other interesting relics the
sword that Marlborough at Blenheim.
MR.. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRIoH, who since the
tiremennt of Mr. Howells has filed the editorial chair
for the Atlantic Monthly, is about to go abroad and
Mr.. Horace Scudder will assume control, at least for
the time being. 1t has been rumored for some
months that Mr.. Adrch desired to give up his posi-
ton editor since it is not which affords him
any great pecunary returns though it takes most of
his time and involves vast amount of hard work
CARDINAL MANNING was visited by correspondent
in London the other day. II long to see America
j :
am too old. 1 have but one journey to make
Forty times have Travelled to Rome and am well
weary of the journey The position of the church in
America is to of great interest. You see in Amer
lea the church has lost nothing had anything
to lose There you have no aristocracy handing
down the traditions of the Anglican church, power
full territorial interest operating against Rome There
you have not the effects of three hundred years of
Anglican prestige. The church is free and untram-
meled.''
THE London World in sketch of Justin Mccarthy,
says ''Twice-in 1851 and 1S52-he endeavored to
obtain work in London, that New Jerusalem of the
Irish reporter, but failed for he had not yet found
that he could do better things than shorthand. In
journalism, in other things great deal depends
upon the way in which one begins. Shorthand holds
twoedged sword 1t gives the practitioner steady
income. but frequently arrests that development of
mind caused by the alternative of writing well or
Jtarving Hence there journalists who rejoice in
their faculty of stenography, and others who hug
themselves that they never possessed that sometimes
fatal facility for making enough to keep the wolf from
the lazy mans door,"
On the authority of the late Sir Henry Marsh
distinguished physician Chambers journal brings
out remarkable account of the resuscitation of
Colonel--- who the point of being buried
alive. He had been smitten with apoplexy, and at
tended for several days by the family physician and
Sir Henry Marsh, both of whom pronounced him
dead. The friends were assembling for the funeral
when the supposed dead rallied and he after
ward lived quarter of a century We have a record
of ten authentic cases of similar resuscitation While
the chances very few in most cases, of persons
being buried alive there is for caution and de-
lay in the of preventative processes that would
extinguish any part of life
THE popular notion that the remains of Byron were
refused restingplace in Westminster Abbey requires
qualification. The precise facts are given in the
appendix to Lord Broughton's ''Tour in Albania"
The body was brought to London in july 1924, and
arumor prevailed at the time that formal applica-
ton had been made by his executors to the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster for permission to bury him
In Poets Corner. But no such formal application
made An inquiry was indeed made of DR.. Ire
land Dean of Westminster without instructions from
the executors whether the permission if asked for
woule be granted and answer was given in the
negative. Byron accordingly buried at Hucknan
Church, Newstead Abbey Ten years later DR..
Ireland refused to allow the statue of the poet by
Thorwaldsen place in the Abbey. II do, indeed"
he said, greatly wish for figure by Thorwaldsen
here but taste ought to be INDUCED to the preju
dice of duty"
Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS wrote the following lines
it is said his first and only poetical atempt-on the
Ayleaf of book which he presented to Mr. Sargents
son in 1855:
Frank
Better loves to read
Than to play.
Hear him with his mother plead:
Bring me book from far away.
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