The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-29

ending in a country road far beyond the village Of
Jefferson, magnificent houses, homes of the
wealtest in the city varying in style of architect
from the typical Southern house, with its great
pillars and broad galleries. to the latest craze, the
Swiss cottage Beautiful lawns and gardens surround
them from which the rich perfume of orange myrtle
Cape jasmine and magnolia combined fills the air.
THE soldiers and sailors monument at Hartford is
to be an arch the bridge the road up to the
State Capitol forming entrance to the park, the
design of George Keller, local architect. Terra
Gotta freezes running around the bases of the arch
have been assigned to Samuel Kitson an Englishman
who has studied in Rome and worked in New York
and Boston. The frieze is seven feet high and 185
feet long and will show more than one hundred
figures the size of life completed section has
figures and four horses; the scene is confederate
battery charged by Union infantry, and landing of
marines opposed by Southern troops. The freze will
be of buff tint
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain is
ofico the Speaker of the House of Lords. He is also
member of the Cabinet and usually peer though
there nothing to prevent the sovereign from naming
commoner for the position He sits the wool
sack, and wears wig and gown during every session
Members, they arise, do not address him. however
but the House. and he has not the right to decide who
has the floor, nor the right to demand order He is
mere fgurehead for which he receives $50 900 as
judge and $4,000 as Speaker annually-the same
salary as the President of the United States. He
goes out of Office with the resignation of the Ministry
but receives thereafter pension of $25 900 year
for life. The present occupant of the woolsack is
Lord Selborne.
THERE are at present seventy women in France
who have received the distinction of the Cross Of the
Legion of Honor. The last of them is Nine. St. Jul
lien, the superior of the Sisterhood of St Vincent
Paul, who has been engaged at the Marseilles city
hospital for thirty years. The order is generally Civ
en- to women for devotion to the sick and wounded;
Lady Pigott for instance besides several French
women, has received the order as a reward for her
services during the Franco Russian war But the
name of Rosa Bonheur artistic pentre, is also the
list, and it is said that Nine. Abicot decorated
for defending the house of the Marie of Olson, her
husband, against armed men, and that Nine. Regis,
who is the first decorated French woman earned her
distinction in 1919 sot resisting the mob"
AT Hogoumont that historical spot on the battle
field of Waterloo there a one-story chapel eight by
twelve feet in size in which terrible scene was
enacted. During the battle there was hand-to-hand
fight withsword inside the little structure in which
the French were all killed. The last one doughty
colonel piously took refuge behind the wooden figure
of the Virgin the altar but the Brton cared naught
for the efigy, and he raned the sword blows upon
the Frenchman with fatal effect The wooden Virgin
stands there now and there IS split in the head and
cash in the wall behind her the result Of either the En-
glshman's uncertain amor the Frenchmans ability
to dodge. Over the door there is small ehigy of
Christ, but lacking and having terrible cash
in one thgh-more work Of the recklessly swung
sword