The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-08

sional majority, for he has filed the chair of English
literature of Yale for exactly twenty-one years, and
also has filled an enviable place in the social regard Of
New Haven.
MORE than three thousand bright British young
women competed in the recent Cambridge University
examination, but Miss Beatrice Parsons, of London,
won the highest honors. If she chooses the church
for her career she cannot advance to a %bishoprie, but
must remain, unless she marries and changes her
name, among the parsons.
REPUTATION seems hardly worth the hard labor
of a lifetime when so influential a paper as the LON
don Daily News can dismiss Nine. Anna Bishop in a
line as IAN American singer" This woman. the wife
of one of London's famous composers, was herself a
Londoner, and in London she aroused a Juror which
has hardly been equaled in the century.
PREsIDENTaARTHURIlately honored the memory of
his wife's father, William Lewis Herndon, by a me-
mortal window in st. Johns Church, Washington, and
since then he has had prepared for him from the
Navy Department records a history of the heroic con-
duct of Herndon, who lost his life in 1857, while in
command of the mail steamship Central America.
THE King of the Belgians offers a literary prize of
$4,000 francs, or So, 900, to the author of the best
work on the means of popularizing the study of geog-
raphy and developing it in the different educational
establishments. Foreigners may compete equally
with Belgians. The works of the competitors must
Dt Seub 70 lDe AllllSIeF o / n interior before III >
of January, 1885.
MR.. HENRY WILLARD has purposed making a trip
to Europe for several months, but the date of sailing
has been postponed from time to time and has not yet
been fixed. 1t is understood that while he will go
abroad mainly for the benefit of his health, he will at
tend to certain business matters of the companies of
which he was formerly the president. 1t is not known
how long he will be absent.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to a London evening
newspaper: "a case which is at present attracting
much interest reminds me that I recently saw at Nice
in a shop window a small scent-bottle of glass, with
silver-gilt mounts, in a shabby condition. 1t was ex-
posed with the following announcement in English:
This facon formerly belonged to Mrs. Gras, the first
woman who has thrown ~sulphuric acid upon her hus'
band. Only 93. Proofs and vouchers within
There was no notice in French, German or Russian,
so that evidently a buyer for this pleasing souvenir
was looked for only among the English or Americas
tourists"
MILE. LINDA GARDINI, who is four years old, ra.
mains in New York while her mother, Nine. Gerster,
swings around the operate orbit with Mapleson.
Mile. Linda is the "Gerster's Baby" recently eonspic.
uous because of the Baltimore sensation. THE little
dear sends me Above message by telegraph every day"
said the singer to a San Francisco reporter, recently.
''The costl Oh, that's a trihe."
EsTHETIc London is paying a pilgrimage to the
bridal dress of the future Mrs. Oscar Wide. The
shrine where the nuptual garment is exhibited is the
show room of a fashionable French dressmaker in Re.
gent street. The dress is safron-hued, the color worn
by Greek maidens on their marriage day, and is
adorned with pale violet trimmings, which Hellenic
brides would probably hardly countenance. Miss
Lloyds headgear will be of s~unfowers.
Mr.. WILLARD is seldom seen on the street in New
York now. He appears rarely at the opera, and
spends nearly all of his time when he is in New York
in his residence on Madison avenue. If he leayeA
town for a month or a week it attracts no attention.
He has sunk out of sight: He still keeps up his
superb establishment on the Hudson river, besides his
city house, and lives in the style of a millionaire. The
stories about the abject poverty of Willard are no
longer heard in New York. He is very comfortable.
Mr.. SAsAKI SATo recently read a paper ON STU.
dent Life in Japan at a meeting of the Johns Hopkins
Literary Society. He said that to be a good japanese
student requires considerable work. Although he
said, I'VE study many languages, we do not study
what you call the classics. 1 am afraid students ia
Japan overwork, but they have all sorts of amuse-
ments. fencing with swords of bamboo, spearing,
wrestling, and they have introduced base ball. When
they grow tired they go to storytelling, public speak,
ing, and debating societies. Students have begun to
take some part in political debates"