The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-21
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CHAT.


A TRAvEsTY on Ozark Days" has appeared in Lon
don. 1t is called Much Darker Days, and processes
to be by A, Huge Longway, author of "Scrawled
Black"
IT probable that Mr.. H. D. Lyman, Second As.
sistant Postmaster-genera, will resign his office with
in short time and accept position with the Bell
Telephone Company.
IT is said that Durers famous portrait of Hierony
Holzschuer till lately preserved in Nurnberg by
the Hozlschuer family, has been purchased for the
Berlin Museum. for 1, 2500 francs (S250,o0o)
Mr.. STANLEY, explorer, has received seven titles,
twenty-f four decorations ninetyive resolutions of
thanks and one hundred and fifty complimentary din
ners, but there are times when he has to borrow
postage stamp.
1T is said that Philip Armour, the Chicago pork
packer has of the best private libraries in the
countr. He buys all the best books including lead
ing foreign publications. 1t is said that he reads
several languages.
REV. H. CoLCLAzER, who died in Philadelphia on
Thursday was the first Methodist preacher to intro
duce instrumental music in the church service in the
West act which caused the conference of Michigan
to challenge his sound Methodsm.
STEPHEN CoLERIDGE second son of the old man,
alleges as his reason for coming this country that
he wishes to visit Ellen Terry but more likely he
to dispose of cheap wines which his brotherin
law, Adams asserts he sells on commission.
BULLET with which Henry Southern, of Green
vile, s. c. was wounded in the neck, at the battle of
Gettysburg has just been taken from beneath his col
lar-bone by surgeon. The bullet not disfgured,
and looked as new as when it entered his neck
THE spot where the gunboats lay when bombarding
Vicksburg is bank of sand, the course of the
river having changed materially and it is feared that
the city will be left inland the old bed of the
stream close to the bluff having become stagnant
lake.
Mr.. STURGEON cannot be brought to believe that
smoking is wicked, and an admirer has sent him
carriage fitted up with cigar trays and handsome
lookingglass. With the aid of the looking-gass he
may be able to deceive himself that he is smoking two
cigars instead of one.
MARK TWAIN is declared to be the richest subscrip-
tionbook writer in this country, though James G.
Blaine is giving him close rub. Mrs. S. l.. Clemens
brought Mark considerable estate, and the two to
gether worth more than million, which Mark
poets to double by further writing and by public
readings.
NEW diredtons for making an artificial dimple are
available only to women with soft pulpy cheeks or
chins spot is smeared with colorless glue and then
the flesh is pressed in with the point of pencil The
stfened indentation retains the shape of dimple.
Care must be observed in smiling suddenly lest it be
fractured.
BISHOP CANNON will probably be in the future the
head of the Mormon Church. He was born and
brought up Mormon. He is fanatic who would go
any lengths TO sustain Mormonism. He had when he
in Congress, four wives. He owns in Salt Lake
City whore he lives block of ground. On each cor
ner of the block is a house for each wife and her
children In the center of the block is private
schoolhouse for the twenty-sx children who at the
latest accounts called Bishop Cannon father. 1t
the rule of the amiable Bishop to spend week.
each month with each family. In the period of four
weeks the like face of Bishop Cannon revolved
around the entire block occupied by his many fam
lies
THE Washington monument will not long enjoy its
pre-emnence the highest structure in the world
An iron tower of the astonishing height of 900 feet
is to be erected in the grounds of the French exhibit
ton in 1889. An elevator, the safety of which is
guaranteed will communicate with the summit, and
visitors the exhibition will be taken to the top for
small fee. Those who have the courage to make the
ascent will enjoy an almost interrupted view for
nearly hundred miles all round The tower will
also be utilized for astronomical and meteorological
observations, for experiments in optic signaling,
for the investigation of certain problems in expert
mental phys and for various other scientific pur-
poses.
NINE DE CAssIN, the most prominent figure in the
rregular section of PGr;s society-that is the peo-
pie who make pretense of being better than they
are-has snug fortune of about four million dollars
for most of which she is-or should be-grateful to
the late M. Petit the contractor who built the Boue
ward Haussman. Her mansion on the Rue Tilset
facing the Arc de Tromphe is described as marvel
of taste and luxury and contains splendid collection
of paintings including Bonnat's first Salon picture
which she bought in 1866 for 5000; Henri Regnauts
Salome Fortunys Marriage Espano and other noted
works. Her receptions are attended by many of the
most eminent painters. poets musicians and journal
lists of France who declare that her salon is of the
very few places where the almost lost art of
ton still fourishes.
PRoF. SYLVESTER, the great mathematician, who
has lately been recalled to England from Johns Hop.
kins University is triHe absent-minded. Once re-
turning to Baltimore from vacation in England he
got as far Philadelphia when he missed paper on
which he had made some important calculations
Turning on his heel he went Immediately back to En-.
gland for it, and just leaving the steamer at
Liverpool when he found the missing paper in the
pocket of the coat he had been wearing all the time
He had not noticed it there before because he had
been deeply absorbed in the problems how to turn
hollow sphere inside out without breaking the sur
face and how to separate interinked rings without
cutting Them both of which feats he claimed would
be possible if mathematics only dealt with four dmon
sons instead of three.
AN Arab doctor, who served in FL Mahdis army on
its march from FL Obeid to the Nile relates the fol-
lowing Shortly after my arrival in camp the Mahdi
sent for and asked me whether knew how to am
putate. L told him that had not the necessary in