The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-19
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CHAT.

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THE gift of the Grand Duke Sergus to his bride was
parure of daisies costing 100000
THE Rev. DR.. Rulison who was elected assistant
Bishop of the diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania at the
recent Episcopal convention has accepted the call thus
given.
MrLLAIs, the painter, is rich enough to rent exten
sive shooting and salmon preserves in Scotland, and
will spend the rest of the summer and part Of autumn
in hunting and fishing.
THE King of Cambodia has sent to the Buddhist
Pail College Ceylon, brush made of his Majesty
own hair to be used for sweeping the room in which
i the image Of Buddha is kept.
! MADAME ADAM will visit America to study its in
situations and learn what there is to be learned here
and win probably publish book of her impressions
The date of her visit is not yet fixed.
Mr.. T. B. ALDRIcH, in Difference to the prevailing
Boston Anglomania is now abroad to secure British
writers for the Atlantic Monthly WHILE per CONTRA
the London World especially praises the current
i American magazines because they more American
than usual
BOTH in this country and in England the eldest
of the Prince of Wales is called in the public prints
Prince Albert Victor but by the members of the royal
family he is invariably called Prince Edward and
when he ascends the British throne he will be known
| as King Edward.
i BosA BoNHEUR keeps her name as much as posi-
bic out of the Paris newspapers and lives very quietly
| and happily at By, which is by Fontainebleau When
she consents to receive visitors she puts with pride
| the dress on which Eugene, with her own hands,
pinned Rosas decoration of the Legion of Honor.s
AN anecdote is related that Mr.. Emerson would pay
| Mr.. Alcott visit in the morning, when they would
converse and in the afternoon Mr. Alcott would re
turn the visit and repeat the words Mr. Emerson had
said to him in the morning when Mr.. Emerson would
|
Il READ, yesterday, !" observed Biggs to his land
lady as he strolled down stairs to late breakfast
that no matter whether the Emperor Napoleon rose
at 8 or IL o'clock, he always found chicken
ready for him, hot and done to turn "Ah!p re-
piled the landlady, without turning hair, suppose
Napoleon usually paid his board in advance, Mr..
Biggs"
A DISPATCH from fashionable Newport says that
the first disappointment of the season the announce
ment of the postponement of the marriage Of Miss
Alice Coates daughter of Mr. James P. Coates to
Mr.. Theodore Frelnghuysen son of the Secretary of
State. No reason is given to the public but it is
assumed that the interested parties know their
business.
In declining now for the third time, the title of
Mus. Doc, Mr.. Dudley Buck follows an illustrious
example. When Handel was living in London, one of
the English universities wanted to confer degree
upon him. He fatty refused to accept it. What do
want of their degreel There, he cried pointing
shelf laden with his great compositions there is
4 my degreel
MINNIE HArK had forty-six boxes when she ar
rived in England from this country and it took the
custom-house officers day and half to examine
them. Among the contents were several dozen little
stuffed alligators which she took presents to
her friends, and it only after rigid investigation
4 a. ffad nd
not with dynamite that they allowed to pass,
THE French are specializing about the new divorce
law. eff, says French newspaper critic, "a man
gets divorce from his wife and marries another after
year two, and in the meantime the mother Of his
first wife gets divorce from her husband and marres
the father of his second wife who was widower he
/ has the motherin-law that he had before and
doesn't derive any benefit from the law at all
4 At small French village named Auberine, in the
! Department of Isere, lives woman named Marie
Durand, whose age is said to be 123 years What is
claimed to be the certificate of her baptism declares
that she was born March 16, 1851. She belongs
to the peasant class and lives public charity She
has been widow for SO years and is, therefore prob
ably the oldest widow of which there exists record
DIR. KLAczKo, of Vienna, suggests powerful pre-
ventive of cholera in petroleum or parafine In Ga
cia says he there are many petroleum wells and here
has been observed that the work-people have always
enjoyed perfect immunity from cholera even when it
has broken with great viruance in the district
around them. This fact the peasants themselves at
tribute to the emanations from the petroleumladen
SOIL which, they say kill the pestientia germ and all
kinds of insects.
/ A COMMITTEE of which NJ de Lesseps was chair
man, was appointed by the French Academy to nves,
tigate the claims Of Claude Marquis de Jouffroy Of
i SC mn
cluson arrived was that while Papin according to
the French tradition conceived the idea of applying
steam as motive power to navigation the practical
! application of that idea first realized by the
Marquis de Jouffroy. In 1885, it is alleged he built
a boat 140 feet long, which steamed up the river
Saone at the rate Of two leagues hour. This was
called pyroscaph term which still survives in the
i Italian language.
4 FRANCIS GALToN, who has been investigating the
heredity of genius concludes that the brain of child
naturally tends to develop the faculties more or less
i equally commingled of both its parents This gen
era rule is however, modified in the first place by
the superiority of sex over the other. In some
families the influence of the fathers intellect or want
of intellect, is conspicuous in all the children and
prevails altogether that of the mother In other
4 families the positions are reversed and in many
instances of the children resemble one parent
and some the other sometimes they are like neither
parent but uncle. aunt some other collateral
i relative.
DR. LISTER noted for his researches in medical sci.
ence thinks smallpox caused originally either by
of the bite by eating of creature The
i American Indians cherished different theory, pos
sibly Of equal value imagining the disease ito pro-
coed from the invisible darts of angry fate pointed
against them for their young peoples vicious conduct
Under date of 1907 Southev notes that 'sthe Bavaran
government commands all parents to vaccinate their
children before they three years Of age unless
they prefer to pay fine, which increases annually
with the age of the child" In 1911, it would seem
"the edict removed why is not stated. ut had