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

Ell MAHDI, the false prophet, sleeps during Vo
day and transacts business at night. just like the
sewspaper man, except that the newspaper man does
Hnot sleep during the day.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL has undoubtedly
done a great deal for suffering ireland, but he has
also been well paid for it. He has received from his
admirers nearly 5000, 900.
If you're told to do a thing,
And mean to do it really,
Never let it be by halves
Do it fully, freely.
TON HUGHES Tom Brown) is about to confer a
zeal favor on American boys generally and his own
sugby boys particularly by writing a bright "mcen-
tive" biography of Peter Cooper.
Sitting BULL has an enormous head. He wears a
No. 7a4 hat, larger than Daniel Webster. He receives
a salary during his present engagement-S2oo q
month. He shaves with a pair of tweezers.
POPE LEO XIII intends, it is said, to break a ven
cradle tradition, and appoint a Swiss cardinal. Mon
signor Lachat, the recently deposed bishop of Berne,
is named as the man who is to receive the honor.
AFREND of the Claimant" has settled s10o per
! annum on him, so that he will not be entirely depend
/ ent on the contributions of sympathizers or on his own
e~xertions when he is restored to liberty on Oct. "a.
PHg humorous Mark Twain must feel that the Ital-
ians have got the best of him just once. A Florence
publisher announces a translation of the works OF
Marco Duo, further translated as Samuelo Langhorne
Clemensini.
Mrs. HALEY ROGERS, a Boston widow, after be-
~aueaehing her modest fortune to a few surviving rela-
siyes, adds to her will: And hereby give and be-
qresth to the Home for Aged Colored Women in Bos-
ton my cloak and red flannel gown"
A CHORUS of lamentations over the perplexities Of
Che servant-girl question comes from all parts of the
esuntry, and even from the South arises the dirge
Shat a mans domestic relations don't bother him
hxls so much as the relations of his domestic"
LADY MARION Afford is about to publish a book
On "Needlework as an Art" The volume will be
aedicated to the Queen. The book will treat its sub
iecs on a broad basis, and will deal generally with ar
+isfic finger work-that is, work done by needles, bob
bins and pins.
BARoN ALPHONsER OrHsCHILD, ofParis, purchased
Rubeas's two great pictures from the Blenheim col
lection. The price paid was $3.50, 000. The history
of The Rothschilds is being written by a member of
4he house, who is well known in Paris for his literary
tastes and talent.
An eighty-fve-year-old lady attended a Newport
yaiuaer party, the other day, in & dress of electric blue,
crimson stockings, blue shoes, crimson fan and rib
Sons, with a bow of combined blue and crimson in a
~soint-lace cap, which was fastened with diamond pins
10 her now-whi hair.
TIE Tichborne claimant, Arthur Orion, has been
NFBAo6u III P@OO III VI SAuioNho NUM- 1NA .
moved with great privacy from the Portsea Prison to
Pentonville, where he resumed the convict garb, and
will wear that uniform till his final release, which will
be within a few days now.
LORD DUFFERIN has adopted the rule of appointing
no married men on his staff in India. The position of
aiae-de-camp in royal or viceregal households, says the
London Truth, is extremely analogous to that of foot
men, and it is quite enough to have a large establish
ment of such functionaries, without adding their wives
to the strength of it.
THE Princess Dolgorouki, the widow of the late
Car, intends in future to make Paris her principal
residence, and the comptroller of her establishment is
looking out for a suitable house for her. The Princess
possesses an immense fortune, which the late EN-
aperOr invested out of Russia in order that it might be
ssrtain to fall into the hands of the person for whom
q was intended.
THE King of Siam has sent to President Arthur a
Malay kriss of the finest temper, with a solid gold
Hit, and encased in a gold scabbard, and also two
spears of quaint Malay fashion, with gold sheaths for
the beautifully polished blades. They are sent in ac-
acknowledgement of some gifts by the President to a
Sianese Caiah, who treated some shipwrecked Amer
leans with great kindness.
BIZ. GLADSTONE has a very sweet tenor voice, and
sings English, Scotch, and Irish ballads, az well as
negro melodies, to which he confines himself, with
great TASTE anu lt6HllSj u N4lCA LS 5OSo III NhoAOo ~
country houses he insists on singing duets with Mrs.
Gladstone, who is very much in the situation of Col.
Bardwell Slote. 81 sing, but those who hear me say I
don't, and the business becomes a bore.
AMERICAN ENJOYS extraordinary are apt to grum-
bic at the salaries paid them and draw comparisons
between their pittances and the noble emoluments
received by English diplomatists. 1t will be some
consolation for them to know that the late Lord
Ampthill, British ambassador at the Court of Berlin,
,Ras always obliged to spend $4,000 a year be-
yond his salary to maintain the dignity Of his posi-
Sion.
'SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE," says Truth Oondon),
Notwithstanding his hundred years, is still as keen
as ever in the management of his affairs. Only the
other day the old Baronet, whose memory is wonder
Sully good, reminded his private secretary that the
agreement between them for a three years engagement
was on the point of expiration. we will renew it for
another three years, if you please said the cen
Separian."
AMERIcAN inventors have a wide field for the ex-
ercise of their ingenuity now that Europe is ready to
profit by it. One of the best appreciated of these in
ventors is HiramS. Maxim, whose system of electric
lighting has been introduced into England and
France, and whose machine gun is pronounced by the
london Times, which calls the attention of the British
naval authorities to it, as worthy of use wherever
5aachine guns are applicable in war.
THE Wises OF Virginia have been noted for genera
sions as a dueling family, but they have not always
accepted the challenges sent to them. 1t is related Of
Henry A. Wise that a minor politician named Finney
challenged him, the message reaching him while he
was playing cards. He looked up from his hand, took
the challenge, and after glancing over it, said, CON
temptuously: mo, tell Mr.. Finney I will not fight
him. would as soon shoot at a poor blind girl"
WHEN on a reading tour lately, the novelist,
George w. Cable was a little late in getting to the
hall, and his manager got very nervous. Finally he
started out to find him. On his way he met the
novelist sauntering leisurely along, and he opened
upon him with considerable vehemence. Listening to
the complaint that he was late and that the audience
WAS waiting imnatientlv. the nnintar of creola charan-