The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
H0CHEP0T.

Written for the Indianapolis Journal.
"OUIDAs' motto is ''Contre fortune, bon
ceur"
MINIATURE painting on ivory is about to be
revived.
THE faring Gainsborough hat is declared ban
ished from good society
one of the new styles in hair dressing is pie
turesquely named 1.-The doughnut.'
IL Servia. eating three apples grown ON the
same Dough is considered an infaHble cure for
consumption
THE ruins of AIelrose Abbey have been restored
by the Duke of Buccleueh; not restored too
much, but just enough.
PENzANcE produces other things besides pir-
ates, 1850 hogsheads of sardines having lately
been shipped from that port.
THAT poetieal institution, the Paris rag-picker
is threatened with abolition in order to give the
Partisan dust-contraetor a monopoly of all rub
Dish.
WOMEN are reported as being more unscrupu-
lOus in cheating at cards than men; which will
not injure the sex much, as the impossible is
never, by any accident, the possible
THE Pail Mall Gazette publishes the astonish-
ing statement that in America fencing has be-
popular part of woman's education.
America would like to ask when and where!
In Scotland, any one throwing orange peel
or anything else productive of danger to foot
passengers-on the pavement, is liable to fine
of 40 shillines, OF fourteen days Imprisonment
AN English Eli Perkins publishes the menu Of
a luncheon alleged to have been given Lord
Chief justice Coleridge in this country, in which
were fffty-six varieties of fish, game and other
meats.
An anxious inquirer, in Boston paper, wishes
to know where he can find the poem in which
Far from the madding crowd" appears Co. get
thee to fifth reader Any Indiana schoolboy
would be ashamed to ask such question.
HENRY JAMES, in the American, makes an as
tonishing and amusing blunder The dowager.
NIarquise de Bellegarde is described as having
been married.forty years while her eldest son,
the Marquis de Bellgarde, is reported as being
fifty years old
STATISTICS from all parts of the world prove
that woman has greater tenacity of life than
man; more men die than women, and more girls
are born than boys. The conclusions derivable
are that man is likely to become scarce, and,
therefore, cannot be too highly priced by the
other sex.
n ChIsftIElD man DOuSuu al Olu pIStuIS III q
dealers shop for five shillings. After he had
cleaned it up it began to dawn upon him that if
it was not real Turner it was an exceedingly
good copy He sent it to Mr. Ruskin, who inn
mediately pronounced it genuine Turner, and
one of his early works. All for five shillings
AN Englishman claims to have discovered that
the songbirds of that country sing as constantly
in winter as in summer and that the contrary
has been supposed simply because poets are not
much given to country rambles in cold weather.
He protests against the calumniation of the
thrush and the skylalk as purely summer war
blers.
A FAMOUS tree in Paris is about to disappear
the fourier of the National Library 1t was plant
eda century ago in the grounds of the library, and
was interesting as the alleged identical tree in
which Robinson Crusoe passed his first night on
the island. 1t is now to be felled to make way
for the enlargement of the library building, and
Partisan journals are loud in protest against
this municipal vandalism.
THE Liverpool Post records the arrival, at
that port, by the steamer Queen, of the youngest
young lady that ever crossed the sea alone, a
baby girl only four months old The little
speck of travelling humanity lost her mother in
grandmother in Liverpool, in the care of the
stewardess Of the vessel The little mite had
been nursed and tended with great care, and
was an object of solieitude to all on board dur
ing her passage What an interesting story she
will have to tell her grandchildren.
LIVES of great men all remind us that it is as
possible for great to be selfish as for small
err types. 1t is related of Baron-laureate Ten
nyson that during his cruise with the Prime
Minister, in Sir Donald Currie's ship he made
to have the smoking room solus, alone, all by
himself, for one hour every day Immediately af
ter dinner This was considered understood
but one day "a member of the company, himself
the owner of title forgetting the arrange
ment slipped into the smoking room with book
in, his hand, and sat down in a corner to read
not pereeiving that anyone was present. In a
few moments, whimpering voice. proceeding
from dense bank of smoke in remote part of
the room, was heard to remark that 1T was
very hard indeed, that people would break
through arrangements already made, etc. OF
course the intruder at once apologized to the
disturbed genius and took himself off. The cap
tain raked fore and aft by the bard for the
distressing incident, and, thereafter, every day
couple Of sailors kept guard at the smoSing-room
door during the hour in which it was sacred to the
muses..
Kind hearts more than coronets."