The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-28

that point. He has now attracted the attention of a
European sportsman, and the days of the creature are
probably numbered.
The young men of st. Patrick's Church, Quebec,
have been informed that they must quit keeping com
pany with young women of a different religious per.
suasion, and the young women also have been ordered
to throw all sweethearts overheard if they do not be-
long to the Roman Catholic Church.
MoNsIGNoR CAPEL, with his European ideas of di'
vision of labor and the kind that falls to the people, -
is said by the Washington Republic to have provoked
the s%cornful laugh from the high-school pupils in that
city by asking how many of them expected to be do
nestle servants, and how many to carry hods and
mortar.
THE Babu Kesab Chunder Sen had the personal
characteristics that fit a man to be a leader. His coun-
tenance was impressive, his form majestic, and he wore
that wrapt expression which of itself exerts an almost
irresistible influence over impressible minds. His ora
tory was swift, kindling and poetic. He spoke English
with hardly the suspicion of a foreign accent.
Col. F. D. MgssEY, son-inlaw of Governor Foster,
and recently his private secretary, is negotiating for
the purchase of the Cincinnati News journal, whose
politics viii be changed from Bourbon Democratic to
Independent Republican, if the transfer can be effect
ed. Colonel Mussey had a wide reputation as a cor
respondent prior to taking office four years ago.
The uncertainty of human life is well illustrated by
the fact that Herr Lasker, just before his death, wrote
to a Berlin friend to say that he never felt better.
His health, he said, had been greatly improved by his
American trip, and he hoped soon to see his beloved
Berlin, rejuvenated in body and in mind. The poor
man had no suspicious of the soft spots that were de-
~stroying his brain.
AMONG the features of the cookery exhibition Just
ended at Vienna wa a so-called Polish lunch, - which
consisted of twenty-eight courses. One of the novel
dishes which were offered fresh every day was a bear
steak. Visitors also had an opportunity to test the
flavor of lions flesh, upon the preparation of which
one of the best cooks in the city had expended the re-
sources of his art.
HoLLowAY's splendid charitable benefactions were
entirely at the instance of his wife. She thought that,
while the rich could take care of themselves and the
poor were largely provided for in existing endowed
hospitals, many of those who came between the two
were left out in the cold, and that it was especially
difficult for women of this latter class to command
superior advantages in education.
AN old friend of Archbishop Whateley, who was
with him at Oxford, went, after many years absence,
to visit him at the palace in Dublin. On entering the
grounds he spied an old man digging despite a pitiless
storm of sleet. Il shall venture to rebuke the Arch
bishop for this said the visitor to himself. He
should show more consideration for his servants. -
Presently, on going into the house, he found the de-
crepit old digger was the Archbishop himself.
THE other day a priest in Kerry, says the st.
James's Gazette, went to his Bishop; Il want you, -
he said, ito give me a general dispensing power for
cases of perjury" For perjury" said his Lordship.
What do people want with thatl" "Fath!' an
swered the good father, ''they can't get on without it.
For, first of all, the Moonlighters come to them and
swear them that they must say that they didn't know
who they werei and then there's the Arrears act, and
+bav ba-e 10 ta1a AZ oa+l +I,o,iro ~o4 ,uon4l ea.4l
ing; and you know in the Land Court they can't get a
reduction till they say they can't pay their rent. In
fact, my Lord, the poor people have to periure them
selves at every turn"