The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-18

cannot make you young again. eNo, doctor don't
want to be young again, but want to continue to
grow old"
PARIS barely missed great sensation a short time
since. A lady gave ball and asked each one of her
guests to bring living animal but almostat the last
moment she happened to think that it would not be
easy dispose Of the creatures while dancing and re
yoked her request
BLASTING paper is a recent Austrian invention. 1t
is described as being unsized ordinary plotting pa
per- coated with mixture Of prussiate Of potash, Of
charcoal, saltpetre, potassium chlorate and wheat
starch On it's being dried it is into strips, which
are rolled into cartridges.
DANTE's Beatrice, who has already been reduced to
theological abstraction in the Vita Nuova" is now
declared to be poetic invention. This is the
opinion of Professor Bartol of Florence and he pre-
sents array of arguments to show it in his vol
ume on Italian literature.
A PARIS correspondent says: II met Mrs. Kate
Chase-Sprague at a recent reception. She still has
the same handsome face and bright intellect as in the
old days when both shone brightly in Washington
society. Mrs. Chase is living here quietly, studying
painting, if I am not mistaken
ELIZABETH CADY STANToNs daughter, Mrs. STAN
ton-Blatch, made her first appearance in London
speaker last week She is described in London let
ter once pathetic and sympathetic her look far
away, as dreaming dreams of fairer futures her
thought both poetic and clear, her childike
in it's simplicity.
MARION HARLAND's Common Sense in the House
hold to be drawn upon acaendar which the Scrb-
ners are to issue next year receipt for pala
table dish will be given each day, and the card,
mount" will be ornamented by a portrait of Mrs.
Terhune and a view of her workroom, reproduced
from photographs and sketches
Two young girls of Easton, Pa, named Snyder, ran
away from home some time ago. remaining away for
week and sleeping the ground. heavy rain
drove them home and their mother, to punish them,
dressed them in male attire, made them cut wood and
at night made them sit the front doorsteps where
they could be plainly seen by all passers by.
A SINGULAR custom prevails in France of taking
the body of an executed criminal to the gate of
etery as though to make believe that interment
to take place. and then transporting it to the dssect
ing room. Thus the corpse Of Campi, in whom
both living and dead extraordinary interest has
been shown was at 440 taken down from the scafold
then conveyed to the cemetery and thence to the lab
oratory where several scientists awatedft.
TRADEsMAN in the north of France, on opening
money-drawer, found scraps which, on examination,
turned out to be the paper of the Bank of France.
Five notes. of thousand francs EACH had been appar
emily destroyed and it asceraned that the cuprt
could only be mouse. A trap was set to catch the
thief the remnants in the drawer were carefully col
lected and an hour later the nibber taken. I'm
medately themouse was conveyed to veterinary
geon, put to death and dissected. Its stomach
tanned the undigested meal of paper The pieces
matched and gumned together.
No two men could be in greater contrast than the
two Peels in the House of Commons-the Speaker and
Sir Robert. The appears sombre, pedantic.
model of propriety and decoru, while the other has
the air of Bowery tradegian who had lived fast and
furious, and with mind vagabond to be beyond
all rules of restraint The other day his brother
pulled him up being out of order when he turned
on him. scarlet with rage at rebuke from younger
brother and looking Defiance in voice broken with
passion, said: II know what am about" He then
deliberately repeated the offense. The younger
brother did not prolong the scene.
FRANCIS CATION who has been investigating the
heredty of genius concludes that the brain Of child
naturally tends to develop the faculties, less
equally commingled of both its parents. This gem
eral rule is however modified in the first place by
the superiority Of one sex the other. In some
families the influence Of the fathers intellect
of intellect is conspicuous in all the children and
prevails altogether that of the mother In other
families the positions reversed and in many in.
stances some of the children resemble parent
and the other Sometimes they are like neither
parent, but uncle, aunt, or some other collateral
relative.