The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-08

london Truth, is a good man with the cue, but If he
really beat Vignaux, we must conclude that the skill of
the latter is not confined to the board of green cloth.
Louis XIV. made q man a minister because he always
allowed lie Grand Monarque' TO beat him at bill
lizards.
IT is interesting to notice the different pronuncia-
tons of the word hero by the congressman from the
different sections of the country. When the roll is
canedthe Western mau shouts here boldly and
openly, and the 'r" is distinctly heard. The South
erner answers "heah" or yeah and the New Eng
land Yankee murmurs a cross between the two.
THE members of the Mexican Congress wear fault
less suits of black. A great many of them also wear
white nockties and white gloves, so that the House
looks like a full dress party. A recent visitor in Mex
leo says that almost all of the members arc of middle
age, with black eyes and black hair. Hardly a gray
haired or bald-headed man could be discovered
among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA, who has been photographed sew
eral thousand times. kindly consented to sit once more
at Darmstadt, and was the center Of a group which
included her daughter, granddaughter and great
neutrality-suspicious. generations in the female line of
that most prolific family, and the fifth may appear be-
fore the Queen is ready to hand down the crown TO
the waiting Wales.
ASoUTHERN sportsman has invented an improve
ment for the fish hook. About midway Of the staff of
the hook he has placed a straight projection, which
serves three purposes: 1t prevents . fish from swal-
lowing the hook; second, when a fish bites at the hook,
if his mouth strikes the projection, he involuntarily
closes it and is thus caught; third, it prevents bait
from slipping ND the hook.
THE glaciers of Mont Blanc, which had been in a
continuous process of retreat since 1916, have entered
upon a new phase. Prof. i. A. Forel, who has been
engaged in unwearied observations of Mont Blanc,
aaSerfs that tho advapca M fha rlocia-s d,rinO tha last
four years is now a fact placed beyond dispute. He
specifies as those in which the change is most observa
bic, the so-called Mer de Glace, the Blossoms, Argen-
there's, Tour, Brenva, and TRENT.
THE london Truth says that at a royal marriage in
England some years ago the bridegroom was q German
Prince. Only members of the royal family were pres
ent at the ceremony, with q few of the chief officers of
the household. When the bridegroom came to rspeat
the words, With all my goods 1 thee endow,' an in
dignant exclamation was heard from the royal circle,
Good God the very shoes the follow wears are not
paid for!' 1t was the old Duke of Cambridge who
had blurted out this awkward truth In one of his fits
of abstraction.
THE following inscription will be placed on Charles
Reade's tombstone, 1t was written by himself:
Here Lie, BY
the Side of his Beloved Friend. the Mortal Remains of
CHARLES READE,
Dramatist, Novelist and Journalist.
His Last Words to Mankind are on this Stone.
l hope for a resurrection, not from any power in ma
ture, but from the will of the Lord God Omnipotent,
who made nature and me. He created man out of
nothing, which nature could not. He can restore man
from the dust, which nature cannot. And | hope for
holiness and happiness in a future life, not for any
thing that have said or done in this body, but from
the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. He has
promised His intercession to all who seek it, and He
will not break His word; that intercession, once
granted, cannot be rejected; for He is God, and His
merits infinite; a mans sins are but human finite.
Him that cometh to me, l will in no wise cast out
kIf a-- -c, 80 $3.50 IN-.n No.. 800 It'll A. To
ther, Jesus Christ the Righteous, and He is the pro-
~pitiation for our sins"