The Indianapolis journal., 1884-08-09

JOHN KELLY Is said TO nave done mason work on
quite number of solid structures that stand in New
York. To-day he of the finest residences in
the city, is worth $500, 600, and is the sachem Of
Tammany.
QUEEN KAL1zA, the coal.black African potentate Of
Italys new colony Of Aesab, now lionzing at Turin,
though only sweet sixteen is the mother Of two young
prune-colored princes, respectively seven and five
years Of age
THE English Chancellor Of the Exchequer got rare
windfa by the death Of the late Duke of Buceleuch
as the succession and legacy duty paid by his eldest
son in respect to the Scotch properties alone amounts
TO 1920, 900.
ONE Of the most accomplished writer's and artists of
England has recently been spending short period at
Holloway jail as an imprisoned debtor in order to
pose the gross iniquites of English law under which
debt is still treated as a crime.
s'CI4ARA BELLE writes from Newport that the girls
are OVERRIDING gymnastics, claiming that men do not
take to muscular maidens. Any married man knows
this isn't so says Fritz, and asks: How is puny
wife going to chop wood and bring up coals'
THE fiber of silk is the longest continuous fiber
known. An ordinary cocoon of wellfed silk-worm
will often reel 900 yards and reliable accounts are
given by Count Dandolo of a cocoon yielding 1895
yards, or fiber nearly three-quarters Of mile in
length.
THE didactic divine who, about a quarter Of acen-
tury ago figured as the glow-worm of season. under
the pen-name of Country Parson, is about to pub
lsh another volume Of essays, which purport to be
consolatory and domestic, under the title of Our
Little Life"
THE little four-yearold Princess Wilhelmina, upon
whom the succession TO the throne of the Netherlands
has been settled WILL if she outves the in6rm old
King her father be the richest woman in Europe,
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well as to the riHe of & 900 900 left by her brother,
the late Prince of Orange.
THE ancient Holmes mansion on Holmes Place,
Cambridge built many years before the revolutionary
war and celebrated as being the headquarters Of Cen
eral Ward in 1875 and later the residence of Rev
Abiel Holiness his son Oliver Wendell having been
born there has been purchased by James Hilton and
is now in process of removal to Murray street,
the Cambridge car stables.
A sNAPPER-UP Of unconsidered trifes points out
that twelve years ago novel entitled The Bread
winners" was published in Boston. Like its later
double it was anonymous; but the writer who figured
the titlepage lady Of Boston, subsequent
~ discovered to be Miss Susan D. Nickerson
Twelve years hence it will be in order to tell who
wrote the last 'sBreadwinners."
The following notice was recently put up In the
schoolhouse Of Prussian village: "On July 10.
next, at P. M, public bids will be received by the
Board Of Selectmen regarding the orphan girl Eliza
beth Kreutzke who for purposes of education, cloth
ing and general care is to be adudged to the lowest
bidder AL persons desirous of competing hereby
invited to appear. The right Of adjudication is
servedD
ONE day at breakfast the Emperor Napoleon, having
eaten the wing of chicken la Tartare. turned
towards de Cussy, his cook. saying: "The deucel I
have always hitherto found my chicken meat fat and
insipd; this is excellent" Sire. if your Majesty
would permit would desire to have the honor of
serving fowl every day in different fashion
'What you are then master Of 365 different ways Of
dressing fowlgn Eyes, Sire
THE Rev. j. N Dalton makes a plea for the organ
ization Of all the English-speaking members of the
British realm into one federal union. According to
his IDEAS there would be central representative
Parliament for all the selfgoyernng colonies in union
with Great Britain local questions being relegated to
local Parliaments. The example of this country is
pointed to as powerful argument that the imperial
government would be strengthened by such fedora
ton.
A CHILD in Leominster Mass, placed in the garden
snail piece of looking glass in upright position,
and for week sparrow has spent three hours each
day capering in front of it, It viii stand and peck
away at its reelected self until it gets thoroughly
cited; then back and forth along the fence then
return to its attack and continue it until it falls
hausted and apparently dead. On recovering it flies
away, only to return at the hour the next day
and renew the contest.
APHoToaRAH of rather pretty young woman is
posted up in one of the hotels in Gettysburg It is
picture of Jenny Wade young lady aged twenty
years. who was killed by stray confederate bullet
during the memorable Sd Of July, 1868. She was
buried with Union honors the following day. Her
lover was Corporal johnson H. Skelly of Gettysburg
BE was wounded and taken prisoner at Charters
Woods, near Winchester Va, on June Is, 1868, and
died on July IL Of the year quotation at the
bottom of Miss Wade's photograph says Lovely
and pleasant in their lives in death they were sep
arated.n
THE HEweightest compliment yet paid to that charming
actress Miss Ellen Terry is the fact that Mr. Henry
Irving was compelled to close his Lyceum Theater be-
cause of her illness. She had been playing Viola in
sTwelfth Night but owing to the consequences of
vaccination was unable to continue her appearance.
She would have been as much missed as Beatrice in
.Bluch Ado About Nothing, and it was Mr.. Irving,s
great good fortune while in America that his per
formances were not subjected to SO severe test No
biographer or critic of the celebrated English actor
has yet made adequate recognition Of his indebtedness
to the woman whom he is fond of calling his sister
artist"
THE Los Angeles Cali Herald prints the following
curious letter. Editor Herald: have just read in
your local columns that ]. A. Reavis and Laura
Bridger were licensed to be married. Now, whilst j.
A. Reavis has my most unlimited license to make
fool of himself, he has never had my consent, nor
never will have to make Ii application for marriage
license for himself and My impression is that
the next application to be made by Mr.. J. A. Reays
ought to be commission in lunacy to examine into
his mental condition. am afraid that his great pos.
session in Arizona and the heat of that climate has
very much muddled whatever little brains he ever
had. Laura Bridger.n
Mr.. LABoUoHERE thus gossips in his paper, Lon
don Truth Charles Wyndham was telling me re.
Gently how he was interviewed in America The ener