The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-04

ton of all parts of the building will be made and
taken to prevent further injury. The great
est pains will be taken in restoring the Rtersaa of
Otto-Heinrch and the Friedrichsbau the most beaut
full specimens of German renaissance which the castle
shows
MATTHEW ARNOLD was treated to his first mess of
-buclwheat cakes on his visit to Senator Payne in
Cleveland, the other day He didn't like the first
plateful very well but before he got through with the
fourth he concluded they We're not so bad they
looked.
A LAWYER pleading before Sir J. Byles recently de-
ceased, said II would refer your lordshp to a work
in my hands-'Byles on Bills " HAS the learned
author given any authority for his dictuml If not
would not heed him. know him we'll" interrupted
the Judge,
THE letter from Earl earns ustifying his sons de-
serton Of his betrothedis lawyer-lke and marked by
an utter absence of sympathy for the He of
fered her first $1,000 and then e5 900 to settle the
matter still later offer of 900 was made but
that has been withdrawn.
FLORENCE and His Little Ratchet" are meeting
with much success the road. He recently re-
ceiyed letter from a Brooklyn Sunday-school super
intendent threatening his salvation if he continued to
play piece which excused the vice of lying and
made humorous a subject blamable and repulsive."
A PRETTY fashion is to announce birth by sending
to friends handsome illuminated cards, properly in
scrbed. In Paris the color of the card denotes the
sex, pale blue card emblazoned with dark blue and
silver letters being for boy, and pale pink with
and silver for girl. In the left corner the faith
ers coat-ofarfns and monogram, and the particular
sign of the zodiac dominant the time of the chds
birth.
HENRY VILLARD's proposed trip to Europe for the
benefit of his broken health has apparently been post
poned and he appears down town again in New York
His wife still retains the $3.50 900 place on the Hud
from the wreck of her husbands fortune and the
family still occupying their great house in New
York. the interior of which is said to resemble an
italian palace 1t would seem that the wreck was not
so complete after all.
ONE of Mrs Carlyles letters, recently published
throws light on her personal habits: 81
spend my life, she writes chefy in writing letters
smoking cigarettes, and loving the devil out of a
Yorkshire kitten; credtable anaccount of oneself
my husbands, anyhow, who spends his life, he writes
, to me, chiefly in sleeping and in drinking new milk
under new FORMS Very bilious work that, should
say; but every to his mind
A CORRESPONDENT of the Hartford Times writes
that Stewart of Texas is the tales in the House
of Representatives, measuring six feet inehes
Tillman, of South Carolina, never overcoat;
'Richeieu" Robinson, of New York, has not cut his
hair since last session and says it not to be cut
again until Ireland is Free McAdoo, of New Jersey,
the tightest fitting clothes in the Houses John
s. Wise, of Virginia-born in Brazil-parts his hair
in the middle and Cannon of Illinois, is the only rep
resentative who always gesticuates with his left
hand.
ANDoRRE, Andorra, is not only the oldest repub-
lie, but the Oldest state in Europe. Its present or
ganzation dates from the end of the eighth century
! yyhan lie inst he
Moors, conferred the privileges of independent
! government on the inhabitants of the Andorra valley
midway between France and Spain, for their fidelity
and devotion in conducting him through the passes of
the Pyrenees. One of its two chief officers is named
| by the French government another by the Bishop of
Urge in Spain; and it is in connection with the bsh
ops nomination that difficulty has arisen which
threatens to bring about crisis in the affairs of the
microscopic repubie.