The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-15

When sitting upon it. the Speaker enormous
white wig such as shown in portraits of Black
stone The sack is very uncomfortable, albeit
very honorable seat
New ORLEANS Picayune: The Northern racket
is for ladies to embroider suspenders for gentlemen
Tho young clergyman will be covered with
penders at Christmas They will keep up his trousers
that the slippers worked for him last year can be
seen.
Mr.. THORPE, who is TO marry Miss Longfellow is
a brother of Miss Ole Bull and member of the Bos-
ton bar. He is quite wealthy while his prospective
bride is not only the heires of her share of Mr. Long
fellows wealth, but of nearly quarter of million
besides, left by uncle
1T is thought that Rev. Dr. Newman, of the Mad
ison-avenuo Congregational Church. of New York,
who is a visit to California has gone for good.
and will accept pastorate in San Francisco Sac
ramento. The quarrel between his trustees and con
gregraton seems to leave him no other alternative.
VARIOUS plans are talked about in London for
memorial to the late Henry Fawcett. national sub
scrpton is proposed for the enlargement of the Royal
Normal College and Academy of Music for the blind of
which Fawcett of the earliest promoters,
and that it be called the Fawcett University for the
blind.
A HIGH-LEvEL meteorological station has recently
been established on Mount Lofty, twelve miles from
Adelaide South Australia The height of the observa-
tory is ZOO feet above the sea- and much is expected
from its experienced proprietor, Mr.. Wragge, in con
tribuons to meteorological science from this advan
tageous position.
THERE is a small rivulet near Dormineys mill, in
Irwin county Georgia. that is puzzle The stream
is governed by the during dry weather. At the
last quarter MOON and first quarter it perfectly
dry but the increases begins run, and at
full il is running boldly and then gradually de-
clnes with the decrease until it runs dry
THE Appletons expect to have ready early in the
coming year the second volume of Professor Nc
Masters History of the American People" 1t is
already well under way. The record is brought down
to the year 1906, and nearly closes the administra-
ton of jefferson 1t is believed that three other
volumes will complete the work, which will end with
the opening of Lincons administration.
THE place where William Tell shot the apple from
his sons head-provided the incident really took
PLACES called Altorf and is mile from the
head of Lake Luzerne. The site of the tree under
which, Schiller says, the boy stood is marked by a
hu &C. square monument sixty fees high the sides of
which adorned by painting s that are more sug-
gestve than artistic On the spot where Tell stood is
now large white statue of the Swiss patriot in the
act of drawing his bow.
EXPERIMENTS have lately been made by the French
ious over 1t is described as made of steel, and
nearly thirty feet long and the tube is strengthened
with ten coils of plated steet wire milimeter,
.039 inch in diameter. The composition is such
that the cannon after few discharges, becomes
elongated by three millimetres. The weight of this
gun is fifty tons, and it projects shell Weighing 297
pounds capable Of penetrating armor plates nearly
six inches thick at range of and onehalf
miles.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is a prowler. He loves back
1t is unusual thing to him looking in
at the window of bric.a.brae store. On summer
days he often strols from Parliament to his house in
Harley street. interesting spectator of all that goes
around him. He is not well dressed. His trousers
generally baggy at the knees His tall collars
always familiar in caricatures He rarely buys new
hat. He has strong, hard bony face, powerful
forehead characteristic nose, firm mouth Ia little
too hard in its nes) Mr. Gladstone would strike the
most ordinary observer of great intellectual
physique.
LORD BRADFORD exercises careful guardianship
over the Royal Oak at Boscobe and discards as ridc-
ulous the story that it is not the original in which
King Charles was hid 81 have known the tree my
self he says, 'for half century, and it looks
very much it did fifty years since Nearly long
ago as that remember my father speaking of the alb
surd stories then currentas to the owl flying out of
the decayed tree, the present tree being
from the old one and My father used to say
that he had heard his father and think. his
grandfather, speak iu the senses and the recol
lection of the tree by his grandfathery greatgrand
father-woud easily reach back far 174O, which
would be less than ninety years after the King sat in
the tree"
The Registrar general of England has recently pub
lished the march of generation through life. He
says that of million born the number at the end of
five years will be reduced to 736,819. At the end Of
twenty-five years there will be 6S4 O54 of the million
left At the end of thirty-fve years there will be
568 993 left, and of the women two-thrds will be
married When forty-fve years have passed. 502,-
9l5 will remain. At sixty-fve 300 020 will still be
alive. When seventy-fve years have rolled by 161,-
164 Tor nearly one out of six will still remain. At
eighty-fve only 3s,575 will survive AT ninety.fve,
the million will be reduced to 2.153 The number
who will cross the line of the century will he 223
and 10S years from the starting point the last
will be in his grave