The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-26

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black. A couple ofyears ago Makart was married
again to ballet-dancer-secrety, because he was
afraid public ceremony would be mobbed by the
multitude Of other women whom he had made love to.
AN English clergyman, dining one day with poor
family Of his parish asked the little veyearold son
to say grace He said the following which was i'm.
promptu:
10 Lord, be merciful
And keep us all alive:
There's ten of us for dinner,
And grub for only fve.i
SIMON CAMERON was once told by an acquaintance
with whom there dispute that he (the acquaint-
ance) had the advantage Cameron would be sure to
die first The two old men met not long since, Cam
eron being eghty-six, and twenty years the senior
They shook hands and smiled when the younger
broke out with the remark by Jove, Cameron,
see that am to be the first to go you're a younger
man than am" And So in all truth is the ex-Sen.
ator, who is about the halest specimen of old man
to be found on the continent
THERE is tale about General Butler in New
Orleans which has never been told in the North He
placarded the city with bulletins ordering this that
and the other, and the people came to know that
every order was certain to be enforced A Market
gardener of the suburbs drove in one morning with
his little son beside him on his wagon seat. He
placard on a fence johnny, read that to me, the
father said. !" Buy Leightons shirts the boyread
You bet will, first store we come TO- said the fa-
ther. Il don't want to have any trouble with the
Yankees
THE late Julia Brace of Bloomfield, Conn. was
deaf dumb and blind all her life but her remaining
senses were so highly developed that she acquired
fair education and able TO keep herself informed
of all current events It related that when she
at school at the asylum, when the girl pupils were
dressing in the morning, and took turns before the
glass to put up their hair she always insisted hav
ing her turn and would stand there put up her hair
like any else. No other place would answer the
purpose, though it could Of course, make differ
whether she before the glass in the darkest
corner of dark closet.
A IADY visiting near Blois, in France has Just
fallen victim to her avarice and belief in supernatu
raj agencies combined. She possessed considerable
fortune, but wanted to increase her riches and for
this purpose consulted sorceress. The latter went
to her residence, conferred with some invisible as
sistants by whose advice the lady told to place
all her money in certain drawer not to open it for
given time the charm would be broken and before
retiring to rest to throw a marvellous white powder
into the fire. these conditions were carried out the
fortune she was told, would be doubled They were
carried out, but the result was that while she abb
stained from opening the drawer the soceress empted
it at leisure; and when she threw the white powder
intot fire terrible explosion ensued she was very
severely injured and the house was set fire to-
THE Saratoga correspondent Of the New York
Graphic says: Lucky Baldwin and his young wife
are quite the sensation at the Grand Union Hotel,
though neither Of them seeks to attract attention.
She only about four feet six inches high aud very
slight in figure and childlike in manner wearing her
long hair in two braids down the back tied together
with ribbons. She dresses much less like q matron
than many Of the children here, who laces and
satins, while Mrs. Baldwin at hop viii appear m
short, white embroidered muslin, with broad pink
ottoman ribbon sash, and pink ribbons shoulders,
and tying her hair as above described Across the
front of her head above the curs her forehead she
sometimes wears in the evening wreath of natural
flowers, maiden-hair fern, studded with small pink
roses and tuberoses She looks the very embodiment
of the IDEAL childish simplicity so seldom SEEM"