The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-17

now had not the government suddenly discovered that
the article in question was an extract from Mscau-
lay.
AMONG those who went down on the Inflated steam
ship City of Florida was Miss Alice Bowie, twenty
eight years of age, who was on her way to her home in
Scotland from Providence. r. l., to be married to the
young man to whom she was engaged. Miss Bowie
had sent no word of her coming to her friends at home,
intending to surprise them.
IHE work of demolishing the Judengasse of Frank
fort goes on, and among its latest victims is the
famous house "zum rothen Sehilde," in which the
founder of the Rothschild family was borne in 1743.
The Rothschilds have piously endeavored to preserve
their "Stammhaus, )" but in vain, the court o f final re-
course decreeing its destruction
Mr.. HENRY CHASE, of Oil City, Pa, has just COM
pleted the smallest locomotive every made; it being
only eight inches long, aud weighing a pound and a
half. He has devoted three years to its construction.
The tender is 81 inches long, gig inches wide, and 2
inches high. The metals used in its construction are
brass, solid silver, gold and steel.
JOHN +. SLATER, the Norwich cotton manufacturer,
left 5000, 900 to his son-inlaw, Francis Bartlett, of
Boston, and 81 600, 900 to the same person in trust
for the latter's daughter, a child Of ten years. Mrs.
Bartlett died nine years ago. The remainder of tha
estate goes to the t~estators son, William A. Slater.
who, unmarried at twenty-eight, thus falls heir to
about 3d. 600, 900.
THE large fortune, at least a million of dollars, left
by the late Henry E. Johnston, the husband of Har.
riet Lane, is placed by his will in trust for her during
her lifetime. Ather death it will go to the Harriet
Lane Home for Invalid Children, an institution
founded in memory of their deceased boys. This en-
dowment is alone liberal, and is outside of what she
may ~bequeath to it from her private fortune, which L.
quite ample. 't
IN Ireland it is common for one person to put spells
on another, and to influence those at a great distance;
thus, if any of the friends or children be travelling on
Friday. the Irish mother does not brush or comb her
hairthat day, or else they would surely wander andlose
their way. Some people do not wash on Friday as a
cure for t~oothache, and many wear little bits of folded
paper sewn in their clothes as charms against the
same affection. There are charms and spells for
other illnesses, and half the old women wear
blessed rings of brass to preserve them from rheuma.
tism.
RUBINsTETN, who has bAer lately on a visit to Stock
holm, has told some amusing stories of his sojourn at
the different capitals in the social circles of Stockholm,
where he has been received with much enthusiasm.
Why do 1 sit as if 1 were asleep when I play2' he
said, in reply to a question; Il will gladly tell you
how that is. Some five years ago 1 gave a concert in
London. My audience seemed very interested, and L
myselfwas well disposed. As was playing Beethoven's
Appassionata, without thinking 1 looked around, and
there at the other end of the piano I saw lady gossip
ing as fast as possiblel 1t was like a douche of ice
water. 1 closed my eyes at once, and since then I
have never dared to even cast glance at an audience"
THE late Charles OConor was tall and erect, his fig
ure always clad in black. His features, framed in the
silver of thick, flowing hair and whiskerskept, back to
the very edges of his face, betrayed his Celtic origin.
His eyes were dark and piercing, his forehead broad
and high, his whole expression keen and Intellectual.
He was abstemious to the last degree. His profession
al income at the time of his active practice was among
the largest in New York, but his mode of life was un-
ostentatious, his tastes were simple, his-charities large
and secret. He held to his opinions with the grip of a
man who came by them honestly. He was tenacious,
persevering, logged. and yet he was often impatient
of results. In religion he was a sincere and earnest
Roman Catholic; in private life a man of purity in
word and action. In all his long life there is not a
deed of which he had need to be ashamed. He leaves
no children to bear his i~llustrious name.
Boston merchants are rivaling one another in
rather questionable advertising devices. A elothier re-
moved all the goods from his show window, and put
in their place a big, live monkey. For days the side
walk was blocked with spectators, and policemen had
to be detailed to preserve order. The free menagerie
became such a nuisance that the mayor, deciding it to
be in the nature of a show, suppressed it as a place Of
unlicensed amusement. Another clothier turned his
windows, which were very spacious, into a wax works
exhibition SURPRISING in horror the objects in the
crypt of the Eden Musee. This drew immense multi.
tudes- aud, as some of the exhibits were decidedly ob.
jectionable, the proprietor achieved his object in be-
ing talked about by the whole town. A third man at
traeted attention more pleasantly. He converted the
plate glass of his store front into immense mirrors, in
which gazers simply saw themselves more or less sat
i~sfactorly.