The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-09


France which yearly 100 900 pounds of acacia
flowers, 100000 pounds of flower leaves, 49,
600 pounds of jasmine blossoms 10000 of tube
blossoms, and an immense quantity of other
material.
ELIZA HOWARD POWERS, of Paterson, N. J., who
spent fortune during the in caring for the
wounded, is an invalid and in dy circum-
stances She has asked the government for 50 800.
JEANNE DAVENPORT, who many years ago created
great Juror the stage and who forsook the drama
for her husband, Cen Lander lives in Washington in
little white house of two stories Capitol Hill,
block east of Ben Buffers stone mansion.
AN intimate friend of Miss Ella Wheeler the poet
in New Orleans says that young lady to be
married in early spring to Mr.. Yorke of New York
city, Miss Wheeler is thirty-two years old and with
her pen has earned and paid for lovely little home,
in which she resides with her mother and young sis
ter whom she has educated.
JOHN HABBERToN, famous as the author of 'Iel-
ems Babies who has been for many years an assoc
ate editor of the New York Herald is engaged upon
serial for The Current Mr.. Habbertons leisure time
for years has been devoted to gathering material
for this novel 1t is about completed and will be be-
gun in the columns of The Currant in April May of
the present year
REV. LEONARD WooLsEY BACON created a
ton by recently preaching in a Worcester Unitarian
pulpit. He preached in which it is alleged
he emphatcaly declared in referring by way of illus
traton to the history of Jacob and Esau that he
sidered Jacob hypocrite and sneak, and Esau, by
nature, much the best type of man of the two, and
Rachel a designing, scheming, unjust woman.
SPEAKER CARLISLE Yields the gavel with some list
lessness. He pounds though he afraid of making
too much noise and in this respect he differs from Kef
who made the spnters fly over the devoted heads of
the clerks below him He is a snoothl1y-sha man.
with two bullying bumps of intellectually his
eyes rather narrow forehead and when he speaks
his voice somewhat weak and severe frown
ornaments Or to put it BETTER disfgures his brow.
THERE is pleasant incident related of Mr. Phillips
which is not without basis. Many years ago, with
Charles Sumner, he called on two young ladies who
were to take the stage coach very early the next
ing. In pleasant spirit of banter the two galants
were challenged to be at the starting point at A. M
Mr.. Phillips punctual but Sumner oversight him
self. Mr.. Phillips married one of the young ladies,
and possibly the Senator might have found his mate if
Morpheus had not prevented.
IT is explained that 1900 will not be a leap year,
although is Invisible by four without remainder In
order to make calendar and solar time agree nearly
they can be got for many centuries to come, the
Gregoran calendar drops three leap out of every
four centuries, and these omissions are upon such
leap years will not divide by 400 without a
mainder though they can be divided evenly by four.
The year 1900 was leap year but 100 and 1900
were not, and 1900 will not be-
MISS LLOYD who is to go into history as the only
genuine ''Bunthorne's Bride is not only pretty and
talented, but rich that when she becomes Mrs Os
Wilde she and that poet of passion and of pain will
not (happy for them both) be dependent upon his
publishers for their bread and butter The story that
they to live in Dublin her present home is
tradcted and neither will the Grosvenor Gallery be
closed Mr. Du Maurier be forced to resign from
Punch by the loss of his best subject.
EARNEST LoNGFELLow said to a reporter in New
York: 1.-THE Longfellow Association desires to erect
monument in honor of my father, but it has not
money enough to carry out his wishes. 1t is antici
pated that the necessary will be raised but where
the monument will be placed is not decided upon. 1t
will not be at Mount Auburn My sisters abroad,
and will not return until next autumn We are hav-
ing made plain marble sarcophagus six feet long and
four feet high On the front of it is to be my fathers
and the back the dates of his birth and DEATH
This will be put his grave at Mount Auburn in
April next"
Miss ANTHONY says: II have been roundly abused
and ridiculed for allowing female clerk of mine to
send letter in which woman suffrage spelt 'suf
ferage and not corrected There is little secret
history about that letter that will be amusing to those
who are laughing at me and my female clerk, who can
spell suffrage. The fact is that my clerk made
correct copy of the letter, which l approved, and
which then sent to a male clerk, college gradu
ate, to make large number of copies Every copy
which this gentleman prepared read SUFFRAGE and,
what is still more startling, number of members of
Congress- in replying to the lester, adopted the
unique photography"
WENDELL PHILLIPs's lack of the pathetic power,
which has been generally remarked upon was
GREETED by himself. Upon occasion, during the
war, when Anna Dickinson had moved great audi
to alternate cheers and tears by the feryor and
pathos of her appeal for the enlistment of coored sol
ders to fight for the freedom of their race Mr. Phil
lips who had spoken at the meeting said to the
eloquent little Quakeress-as she then called
Gamma. would give much to be able to make people
cry as you do Why cannot do it," Il suspect the
is because you cry yourself was the
of the strongly emotional and magnetic woman,
who had often had occasion, during an impassioned
flow of words to brush the tears from her own eyes
with half-protesting, swift movement of her hand
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