The Indianapolis journal., 1884-06-13

contained enormous congregations and among those
who listened to his oratory there always numbers
belonging to other creeds.
A LONDON cable says: A comical scene was wit
messed at st. Pauls Cathedral Ten Maori chiefs were
taken to the cathedral to attend morning prayer They
listened with appearance of interest to the mu
sic, but when it to the sermon they could evi-
IDENTIFY stand it longer and the entire ten fell
asleep and snored scandalousy throughout the dis
course.
A LONDON scientific paper says that very simple
and effective way of cooring meerschaum bowl is by
painting it while you are smoking and after it be
comes warm with the creamy surface of good milk
with cream, by means of common hair pencil, which
brings out the brown and yellow colors beautifully
and as by magic
NOTHING is under the SUM- Twenty years ago
there noseless organ which perambulated Lon
don and delighted the people with its ''unheard
music" and there is a panin silent piano,
invented, which allows the player and those in his
immediate vicinity to hear its discourse, but is in
audible at little distance.
Mr.. LABoUcHERE being asked by an interviewer
in the lobby of the British House of Commons, the
other day, what he thought of General Gordon, re-
piled: "Oh think he is q religious maniac, and
ought never to have been sent to Egypt he and the
Mahdi well matched, each wanting to smash the
other. / would not be surprised at anything Cor
don might do perhaps he will join the Mahdi in the
end!n
MR.. WAYNE MAcVEAGH rolates that just after his
admission to the bar he got client rich old man.
Il felt fattered, he says for, naturally, thought
that he had selected me for my legal acumen Fancy
how much my soul was panied by the reception of a
note from him saying: My dear young man-Be kind
enough to go out and select for few punches of
-haada oh 70 al
services"
THE hanging of a California murderer useful to
the science of surgery His arm had been fractured
week before in effort to escape. After death it
found that the initial process of healing had be-
gun and that this effected by the organization
of the blood which poured out around the break at
the time of the injury. This held the bones in place
and proves what not known before, that prompt
adjustment in fracture is essential
IN Swansea, Wales, during recent bank scare, an
old woman drew $3.50 from the savings bank and hid
it in sack Not long after the sack became filled with
wheat and was taken to the mill Then she remem
bered that the gold was at the bottom of it, and rushed
franticaly after it, reaching the mill only in time to
hear the miller profaney wondering aloud what allied
the wheat that it clogged the stones The maehin
cry stopped and all the gold recovered, though in
a much battered state.
Mr.. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has arranged to
take horseback trip this through the mount
aims of North Carolina. The iaunt, marked out for
him by his friend Professor Chickering who has
spent several summers there botanizing and fishing
will occupy about a month and extend over $50 miles
Mr.. Warmers holiday may possibly result in some
interestieg studies of life in that region. He will
leave about the middle of July, and will be accompa-
MED by of the Yale professors
andt &c etar cd To tha aaffac hat
the daughter of the late Ole Bull inherited her faith
ers genius and is to appear the stage vio
lin vrtuoso" etc. Miss Olea Bull is a sunny
faced child of thirteen, in feature and form true sci
of the Norwegian race; she displays already much
intellectual power and literary ability and has written
charming short stories but she is only about
likely to follow her father public violin player
she is to emulate her greatgeat-a dozen times great
-grandsre and be a viking
THE late Henry Clay Work, the song-writer, was
says the Hartford Post, "a phanthropist and Aboli
ZIONIST whose convictions led him to suffer in many
Southern prison. He was man of considerable
culture and wrote antslavery book that had wide
circulation. 1t is probable that the song-writer in
herted his literary ability from the paternal side of
the house although his mother-who is still living and
terrible sufferer in her old age from this sad blow
is lady of no mean attainments. The deceased was
not q Wanuefefi IN Une unfortunate sense OF tnat
word but he was an extensive traveller both in this
country and abroad. He very careful to visit To-
calities concerning which he had it in his mind to
write. In this way he became acquainted with the
genius loci and always able to put his whole soul
into his songs These brought him fame than
money but he cared little for this; his was to ben
eft the world, not to amass fortune
OSCAR WILDE contributed poem to the new
Shakspearean book, which has recently appeared in
England, and the following are sample verses;
Beautiful star with the crimson mouth!
moon with the brows of gold!
Rise up rise up, from the odorous south!
And light for my love her way
Lest her little feet should stray
On the windy hill and the wold
o beautiful star with the crimson mouth
o moon with the brows of gold!
o ship that shakes on the desolate seal
o ship with the wet, white sail
Put in put in, to the port to me!
For my love and | would go
To the land where the daffodils blow
In the heart of violet dale
o ship that shakes the desolate sea!
ship with the wet. white sail!