The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
PERSONAL AND IMPERS0NAL.

PERSONAL AND IMPERS0NAL.
Nine. Adam is on the eve of visit to the
United States
Elsa is the favorite name now for newlyar
rived daughters of the admirers of Wagners
works.
Mrs. Judge, of New York, has Sunday evening
receptions at her elegant home where the only
guests are the little cash girls from the large dry
goods stores.
Mrs. Matthew Webb, widow of the swimmer
swamped at Niagara Falls, complains that she
never has received the So, 900 known to have
been subscribed for her benefit by friends of her
husband in England
Among his recent American "reminiscences
Newman Hall records his establishment at being
asked ia St Louis if he was going West hav-
ing no idea that the city he was in was but the
gateway to the great West beyond.
The wife of George McCreary of Waterford
N. Y, presented him with quartet of girl
babies at one birth, on Sunday. He now thinks
that there are occasions when even q small pair
would DO better than four of kind.
The old friends and neighbors of William Cul-
len Bryant, at Roslyn, Long Island, intend to
commemorate the anniversary of his BIRTH Mon
day afternoon, by planting trees on the public
grounds opposite the village postotfice.
Clara Louise Kelloggs father, the veteran
photographer, taught the prma donna. in her
childhood, phonetics and articulation, which he
she speaks, and her facility in the requirement
of foreign languages
The reading Of Captain Marryats novels while
in school preparing for the army, is said to have
made a sailor of Admiral Courbet, the French
commander in China. Marryat was an English
man who hated the French, and he has not
added to the glory of its navy.
Mr. P. Smith. of Deadwood 'grass wild
over" serves this notice on the world: my
wife Sarah, has Shot my rancho. When didn't
boo thing Too hur an l want it distinctly I'm
derstocd that any man That takes bur In an
keers for hur On my account VIII get himself
pumped so Full of lead that Sum tenderfoot will
locate him fur a Mineral clame. A word To the
wise is sufficient an orter work on fools. 4"
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, as the chatty gossips have
learned. is going to plant on his place at Rari
tan, n. j., branch from the willow at Mount
Vernon, where the bones of the great George lie.
Years ago some person who did not realize the
yawning gulf between Washington, the liberia
tor, and Napoleon, the enslaver, brought q
branch Of willow from St Helena, Napoleon's
tomb, and the Mount Vernon tree is the Bona
parte branch grown big.
George Alfred Townsend contributes to the
Current of Nov. q paper on THE German
Conquest Of America, in which he gives many
facts, from statistical records, to show the mag
nitude of the German immigration. and the in
huence of people from the Land of the Rhine
upon American manners and customs. He does
not neglect the opportunity to enter upon the
Germans are among our best immigrants.
One of the most notable of the many interest
ing objects in Prince Bismarcks castle at Fried
riehsruhe Is q large bronze cast of the Nieder-
wald "Germania" monument, which stands on
an oak cabinet in the smokingroom and to
which is attached sheet Of note paper, bearing
these lines in the Emperors or, hand; Christ
mas, 1883 The keystone Of your policy; eere-
mony which was chiefly dedicated to you, and at
which you could, am sorry to say not be pres
ent.-W"
A certain Clergyman, who would probably
classify himself as an 'impressiouist" happened
to be passing shop of parishionsr, and being
DESTROYS OF emphasizing great moral lesson,
bounds lightly in through the door, emitting a
wild whoop. Naturally the parishioner starts.
You didn't expect me--you weren't prepared
for me2' questions the clergyman. II was not"
'Then suppose had been death-where would
you have been, ehf yells the clergyman, and
vanishes
Prof D. 8 Jordan, of the Cornell class Of ~.
now of Indiana University, was detailed by the
United States government to explore such river
and lake systems of this country as have been
little examined, in order to complete as nearly
as possible the collection of the fishes of the
United States which the Smithsonian Institution
will exhibit at the Cotton Centennial at New
Orleans next winter. The unexplored region
was that of the great plains and Texas With
several trained assistants, he has been busy dur
ing the summer and fall with his seiues, and has
succeeded in finding thirty five species new to
science, besides amassing much information in
respect to their distribution. He has now
pushed his personal explorations into nearly
every important water system of the country.
I believe, remarks Labouehere, that, legally,
letter belongs to the writer and to the writer's
heirs 1t Is pity. therefore, that the love let
tiers of Lord Lytton to mis- wife have haen a.,
lowed to see the light Such letters are gener-
ally exceedingly silly, and. when hundreds of
them are collected to gether, the effect is singu-
larry ridiculous. For woman to receive love
letter and show it is unfair as it is for man
to kiss and tell Lady Lytton very likely had
good deal to complain OF on the part of her hus-
band. but I cannot see how her case has been
bettered by the publication of several hundred
pages of Lord Lytton's amorous gush to her
written at time when, it is evident he was
desperately 10 love with her. Both are dead
and it would have been far better had their dis
putes been buried with them.
The London Truth tells this story of Frank
Power a we'll known English newspaper men
gifted with vivid imagination: "a little while
before he went to Egypt he was sitting with some
friends. You know, lie said that once held |
high rank in the Austrian army The friends |
said that they learned this for the first time and
he proceeded: We'll, went back few months |
age to Vienna and went to see q play AZ Che |
Burg Theater. The Empress of Austria was |
Seated in box. surrounded by her ladies and |
gentlemen She recognized me at once and sent |
3 chamberlain to desire me to come up to her |
l found her Majesty alone in small retiring |
room, behind her box, and she pointed to seat |
Then he paused. Go on with your story said |
a friend Gentlemen, he continued. AS an |
officer and gentleman, you must allow me to
say no m0re.P
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