The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-01

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HUBBARD Bros, Philadelphia, have in press
campaign life Of Blaine by his intimate friend, II. j.
Ramsdell the Washington journalist with of Lo-
gan by Ben: Perley Poole. The book will be sold at
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! THE London Standard announces by authority that
owing to the innumerable INNS. and letters sent to
him. Lord Tennyson wishes it to be understood that
in the future he cannot undertake to the let
tiers return the MSS.
1T has recently been proposed to prevent petroleum
fires by placing bottle of ammonia in each barrel Of
the oil ignition by accident otherwise, the bot
tie would break, and the effect of the ammoniacal
vapors would be to extinguish the flames.
THE greatest English mezzotint engraver of our
century, Nj. Samuel Cousins R. A., has says the
Pail Mall Gazette, been obliged at last to retire from
his profession He has just entered his eighty fourth
year. and he finds at last that his wonderful eyesght
! is failing"
GRAPE, for the first time since it was built muffled
the doorknob Of the Vanderbilt palace Fifth ave-
this week. little grandchild only two years old
of the soontobe Millionaire William Douglass Sloane
r. had succumbed to fatal disease in Lenox and the
| palace the simple home of mourning.
! Mr.. SAMUEL FEssENDEN the newly-elected secre
tary of the national Republican committee is genial
Connecticut Yankee close personal friend Of Mr.
Blaine and strong and efficient organizer. He is
known all over New England and the East Genial
Sam Fessehden" and Big Sam Fessenden."
The Mahdi insists on his warriors wearing uni
form. It consists Of white smock decorated with
three coored squares in front and three behind with
loose sleeves, and having fancy border round the
sleeves and the neck. The waist4band supports
large sword and tarboosh. blue cross covers the
skull.
Nor 50 very long ago Paris policemen prevented
good Catholics from placing flowers the pedestal Of
the statue of Joan Of Arc as kind of protest against
the centenary of Voltaire and now M. Paul Bert-of
all mencomes forward in favor of an annual fete III
the Maids honor, he having discovered that she
lay martyr to patriotism"
NJ PAsTEUR has been furnished with an opportun-
ty Of testing his theories concerning rabies upon the
human subject. One of the servants Of the Paris &
Lyons railway at Tarasconsur- Rhone. having been
bitten by undoubtedly mad dog has placed himself
in the hands of the illustrious savant The result
will be watched with interest.
The British consul in Galveston has a word Of
warning for neer-do wells intending to emgrate from
England to Texas He says: Young men from
desk in Office unacquainted with country life and
unaccustomed to manual labor had better stay at
home. find many such are induced to come here,
scend in the social scale
THE portrait of Mrs James K. Polk, as she looked
when she mistress of that mansion has been add
ed to the collection in the White House, which now
contains pictures Of Mrs Washington, Mrs Tyler and
Mrs. Hayes. The new picture represents a lady of
perhaps thirty-fye years. with fresh complexion,
dark eyes, and black curs. She is dressed in velvet
robe of crimson cut very decolette and her hands
laden with rings. Drury is the artist and the picture
is presented to the nation by the ladies of Tennessee
through Senators Harris and jackson.
THE Athen@um Club of London is thought by some
Of its rreverent members to be rather full Of the
Episcopal element. When the United Service Club is
under repair its members sometimes seek refuge in
the Athen@um. When the Athenmum visits the
United Service. it imparts ecclesiastical character
to the latter Once the first night that the Athen@um
members arrived there. aged warrior descended the
stairs at midnight ard wentto the stand for his
brella. It had vanished, and thunderstorm go
ing on. t'Gone! roared the ferocious veteran; of
course II is gone. This comes Of letting in those
bishops
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT, the novelist,
is Familiarity called by her Washington friends That
Lass O. Lowries, from the book which has brought
her the greatest fame. Though English by BIRTH she
has resided long in this country that she looks upon
it almost her native land. Mrs Burnett is still
young, and wears her blonde hair in such tangle
that it is impossible to tell which end grows on her
head DR.. Burnett her husband, has dark hair and
eyes, very fine features and an expression instinct
with intelligence and goodness Their two children,
boys Of about eight and ten, are beautiful beyond
compare with starry brown eyes and hair like tawny
gold. They live in the open air like young Arabs,
perfectly untrammeled.
THE most mouldy and neglected spot earth is
the Dublin Mansion House. It was only the other
day that the portrait by Hamilton, of John Foster
the great Speaker of the Irish House Of Commons,
the upright asserter and able defender of the rights
and liberties of the Irish nation was unearthed and
renovated. The picture had become covered with
coating Of dust that had become mpregnated with the
varnsh and the result that it was absolutely lost
to view. The renovation has brought to light all the
beauties Of the work The details stand out with all
the freshness and brilancy that the painters hand
impaired to them in the studio. In the background
are portraits Of of the leading members of the
House, which give it special interest
The Russian cemetery at Sebastopol would be con-
sdered handsome metropolis anywhere The men
are laid away in patches in great graves but the Off
GERS lie separate ones The tombs in many instances
are veritable monuments. Among them are a column
and bust over the remains of Prince Gortchako com.
mandern-chief Of the Russian forces in the Crimea
who died in Warsaw in 1861, but who desired to be
buried among those defenders of their country who
did not permit the enemy TO enter their fatherand
further than where their graves stand But the
most conspicuous object in the cemetery is magnf
cent memorial chapel of granite marble and bronze
in the form Of pyramid, over 100 feet high the
walls Of which, inside and out covered with the
of all who took part in the defense Of Sebastot
pol and for whom prayers are daily offered up.
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