The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-11

SIMS REEVES says he is his own doctor, and knows
his throat the ills it is subject TO- and the rene
dies needed, better than any tell him. He
avoids reading books articles about the throat and
thinks that to study diagrams of the vocal chords
etc. would give him the nightmare.
GENERAL CLUsERET, of communistic notoriety,
generally believed and by hoped TO be dead, is
discovered to be living quietly in Constantinope and
is thought to be wholly devoid of all desire to partiei
pate in any revolutions. He protests to recent
interviewer that he did all in his power to prevent the
murder of the Archbishop of Paris
EX-SENATOR DAVID DAVIS has since his marriage
exhibited the sprightness of youth and ioval soci-
ability that is notable even in the Enthusiastically
amable and happy life of single blessedness which he
led for so many years. He greets everybody with a
pleasant smile, and talks as enthusiastically of the
brightness of life as does boy of twenty.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is noticed to the
extent of thirtytwo pages in recent number of the
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Soci-
ETY. of Liverpool" and the surprising statement is
made concerning him that besides the professorship
at Dartmoor, he founded and carried medical
school at fremont and had large private practice"
DO you ever expect to sit in the House of Com
mons, Mr.. Bradaugh9" asked Eagle representative
of the famous English agtator "If could find out
what Methussleh lived on 1 could tell you better,
was the cautious answer us it true that you are
willing to swear as the law requires3" Swear! Egad
man, I've been doing nothing else for the last two
years"
THE Empress of Austria is getting on in years but
she is still to be the most beautiful of the
royal women of Europe. She is proud of her hair
which is bountifully abundant and of her waist,
which is girlishly slender, and she maintains her
fresh clear complexion by going to bed betimes and
getting up early and by spending hours every day
horseback
THE Prince of Wales is said to be suffering Just
now under the periodical pressure of his enormous
private debts, which getting to be well up in the
millions But if Parliament ever is called upon to
pay them it would be than fair to consider
that considerable portion of the Princes debts
due to expenses incurred for entertaining account
of and in the of his rich but economical mother
CURIOUS fete is to be held at Pompeii at the be-
ginning of May The first day it is supposed there is
visit of the Emperor of Rome to Pompeii; there will
be circus games, chariot races, procession, and
number of shops will be decked out as they would
have appeared 800 years ago. On the second day
there will be marriage and funeral, with their
spective rites. The thEd day promised gladiator
ia games and gladiator fete.
THE Attorney general has given opinion to the
Secretary of the Treasury that under the tariff
act bicycles be included in the aegory of per-
sonal effects when they accompany the passenger and
therefore are to be admitted free of duty. This re-
former opinion of the Encouragement
which was, in effect, that bicycles dutable
carriages. The ruling has been adopted by the
Treasury Department.
THE latest device in incubators is that matches
out chickens by the aid of electricity. The nest
basket is filed with fine hay upon which the eggs are
laid. The cover is thick layer of soft down. at
tached to round box containing coils of wire. These
heated by electric current the temperature of
which is regulated by thermometer placed on the
cover When the heat becomes too great the rise of
the thermometer cuts the coils out of circuit and
allows them to COOL All the attention required is to
sprinkle and turn the eggs each day.
Miss GRUMPY writes: Mime. de Struve is not
only thoughtful, helpful woman in sick room and
model wife and mother but is also very intellectual
and is very witty in conversation She is thoroughly
acquainted with the English language well with its
spirit and idioms with its ordinary colloqual
phrases. At small dinner party one evening when
she appeared in lowneck dress she apoogized for
doing by saying that she obliged to attend the
Presidents reception afterward where full dress
obligatory But do not like this kind of dress my
self, she added looking down at her neck "for
think this is too much of display of Russia leather
COLONEL HIGGINsoN declares that it has always
seemed to him creditable to the brains of children
that they dislike what we call the study of history.
ut is surely unfair to blame them" he says 'when
they certainly like it quite well do their parents.
The father brings home to his little son. from the
public library, the first volume of Hildreths United
States and says to him, There, my son, is book for
you, and there are five more volumes just like it. ;
Then he goes back to his Sunday Herald and his wife
ing that they have done their duty to the child mind.
Would they ever read through the six volumes of
Hildreth consecutively for themselves
NEW fashion has found favor in certain Partisan
drawing-rooms AS the guests arrive in response to
an invitation for sorie dansante, they are met at
the door by young lady who gives small bouquet to
each person, and insists that the flower shall be
tached to the buttonhole of the gentleman the
sage of the lady Each gentleman is then expected to
seek out the lady who nosegay similar in every
respect to his own and he thereupon, after the
tomary sautatons becomes her partner for the rest
of the evening This compulsory coupling, when skill
fully organized, favors many intrigues promotes
matchmaking and affords good opportunity for the
display of spite by bringing unsympathetc persons
together.
THE Prussian people believe that Bismarck is super
stitious They say that he is awed by apparitions in
uninhabited castles shrinks from dining where thir
teen sit down at table, believes in unlucky days, and
adheres to the ancient belief of the influence of the
moon on every living thing. But according to Dr.
Busch this is all nonsense with the exception of sin
gle story which happened at Schonhausen (where the
Chancellor heard mysterious footsteps in the ante
chamber of his bedroom). 1.-THE jests about my su-
perstitions" he said a few months ago, are nothing
but iests or consideration of the feelings of Others
will eat at table with twelve others often you
like and will undertake the most important and seri-
GUS business on a Friday
THE late Wendell Phillips, just before the war,
while addressing a New Haven audience composed
largely of Yale men-not few of whom were from
the South-found accession illustrative of goodness
and integrity, to the name of Washington I'm
medately recalling his words, he said: Il will not
..no t1,o mama Of Wnshnrtnr Eathnr ,f iS