The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-09

favor of four days leave. Ny wife has away with
another man. o, Lord! how truly magnificent He
had previously asked for increase of salary, "as
Providence has iniudicously conferred upon me the
cares of an increasing family"
VICTOR HUGO has been giving his worshipers
other historic saying. Writing of art to banquet
committee, he remarked: Italy is its mother and
Greece its grandmother Victor Hugo once wrote,
Paris is vast hospitality" which some one remarked
was as pertinent if he had said paris is buttered
muffin" similar slit might be made on this
last aphorism. However, it will please the won
shippers
Mr.. HENRY f. JOHNSTON the Baltimore banker,
who died in New York Tuesday was the husband
of Harriet Lane, the niece of President Buchanan.
who survives him. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston two years
ago lost both their children two boys, within few
weeks of each other. From this sad and sudden be-
resvement neither of the parents could entirely rally
In memory of their two children they have endowed
two hospitals for training nurses and the otha
for girls.
Il SEE" says Mr.. Labouchere in London Truth
that discussion is going on in the United States
respecting the manner in which Washington Irving
wrote his books. remember visiting him at his
country house the Hudson about thirty years
ago. He then told that he had acquired ease and
elegance in writing by careful study of the essays Of
Addison. He used, he said to read essay, then
write it from memory and compare his phrases with
those of the original"
LEGOUvE, the dramatist who lives in a dark old
fashioned house in the Rue St. Marc Paris, is ittlS
shriveled old man, constantly shivering though he
keeps his room always at tropical heat, and so sw
that his coat if it would drop every moment
from his shoulders He beneath the height of most
women and though his face is covered with wrinkles,
his nose is 80 well cut and his mouth has so much
preston that YOU forget how weary and his
eyes look He speaks with the greatest contempt of
the present literary school in France and has written
little since his "Medee, in which Ristori achieved
great success
AN undertaken in Newcastle-on-Tyne in the north
of England inserted, recently in local newspapek
the following advertisement: why live and be mis-
cradle when you can be buried in comfort for three
pounds ten?' Comfortable sculpture is one of the
chief objects in life of the British proletariat. Ths
Irishmans passage to the grave is softened by the
pros pect of what the Shaughrauns mother calls "a
mighty grand funeral" The French ouvrier alone de-
spises this and lays by much money as will give
his daughter a modest dowry, The British workman.
if he wishes stand well with his fellows belongs to
a burial society.
1T Is impossible for undergraduate at Oxford
Cambridge to get under 81 600 q year though the
term time is but twenty-four weeks But in Germany
say in Gottngen. he get where the semesers
eight weeks, for $500 Rooms cost 1921; breakfast.
consisting of coffee eggs and bread and butter, II
cents dinner at restaurant consisting of soup, two
courses of meat and stewed fruit, 26 cents day;
supper about the same The matrcuation fee is $5,
and the charge varies between So and $40 for the
courses of lectures. Then in the way of amusements
for stall at the theater where variety of operas
and plays, excelently rendered heard the charge
is 33 cents.
Mr.. RUsKGN has the finest collection of agatcs in
England and is assisting the British Museum in that
department. He has diamond on exhibition at the
museum which is unique in capitalization and for
which he gave IS, 900. In Mr.. Ruskns bedroom,
preserved among his choicest treasures. are twenty
of Turner's most highly finished water colors repre-
senting his whole carecr-from one which he executed
when boy to which he painted late in life for
Mr. Ruskin. As things stand, In case of Mr. Rus
ns sudden DEATH this group of Turner pictures will
go to Oxford but he expresses himself as uncertain
whether that is the best disposition to make Of them
and he may make change with view to having them
still more of service to the public.