The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-06

he visited wake in fashionable quarter Of Dublin,
umbrella tied its head while drunken mon lay
about all over the Wakes, he says, often last
four days. and he advocates the building of mortuary
chapels where the dead can be properly walked.
Mrs. MARK HOPKINS will spend upwards of ST.
900 900 upon her new residence at Great Barring.
ton. 1t is to be built of blue stone, will be 10 by
140 feet in Dimensions and will be finished in three
years. Those who have the plans say that it will
DO the most magnificent residence in the country.
QUEEN VICTORIA is 65. King Christian of
Denmark is GO, and his wife, the Queen, is year
older. The Emperor of Austria is Sd and his wife is
46 while King Leopold of Belgium, 40 years old, has
a wife aged 80. The Sultan of Turkey is Az King
Oscar of Sweden SIS, Louis of Portugal 40 Humbert
of Italy 40 and President Grevy of France II.
THE attention of Mr. s.. John is called to receipt
for the manufacture of Irish poteen by Matthew
Brady, Dublin dister. 1t is for ten gallons; Ten
ounces of prunes or French plums, and quarter
ounces of green tea, two of orrs root, one.
quarter Of angelica root onehalf of sui
phuric acid one-quarter ounce of cream of tartar,
tincture of vanilla, essence of almond" There is
nothing alcoholic" looking about that.
MANY British manufacturers entertain the notion
that anything is good enough for the colonies, and
Il have again and again had pointed out TO me the
vast superiority of American work to English. A
coach builder assured that he had long stood out
against American fittings but had at last to yield to
necessity. The English makers would not, or could
not come up TO the American lightness and finish"
APRoPoS of the colon following the abbreviation of
the first of Benz Perely Poore which his younger
journalistic brethren and the Intelligent compositor
at large do not always treat with becoming reverence
the Major successfully defends its by citing the
custom of the early fathers of the Republic and their
stately contemporaries whose autographs continually
found in such form the following; Geo: Wash
ington Thos: Jefferson ct al In his extensive col
lection he has hundreds of such autographs.
OF the two Alexander Dumases, pere ct fls Ed.
mund Yates tells the story that when the first
full novel of the appeared the elder to his
son, as though to stranger, congratulating him
his book, and adding that he ought to know some
thing about the difficulties of novewritng as he had
himself been guilty of several. Alexander fills replied
in the spirit thanking his correspondent for his
congratulations of which he felt specially proud,
coming from of whom he had often heard his
father speak in the highest terms.
MRS CowDEN CLAEKEs admirable concordance of
1t was in July, 1929, when Mrs Cowden Clarke was
sitting at the breakfast table of some friends in Som
ersetshre that regret expressed that there exist
ed no concordance to Shakespeare Eager in every
thing Mrs Cowden Clarke resolved then and there
that she would write this desired concordance. And
that very forenoon, while joining her friends in walk
through the fields she took with her volume of the
poet and pencil and jotted down the first lines af
her book under B. She says; II hada separate port
folio for each letter of the alphabet These portfolios
were ranged round in front of my writing la
BILE. opened my fathers copy of Shakespeare at my
side having two pages in view at time. 1 took the
first word that presented itself at the top of the first
page 1--WE will suppose this to begin with a) and
tered each word commencing with the same letter
the MS page which headed by the word, and
placed it in its respective portfolio. Going thus al
phabeticay through the whole of the two spreadopen
pages until every salient word therein duly culled
and registered"