The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-19

and sprang from his arms into the swift running
water. He instantly jumped in to save her and both
were lost.
Mr.. GLADSTONE having recently remarked that
member shakes his head in the teeth of his own
words Mr.. Labouchere afterward, in a speech, said
of the Prime Minister that he shakes his head, and
sorry to hear it,"
Mr.. WILLIAM H. WARNER, president of the New
York and Honduras Fibre Company, living at No, 145
West Fhteenth-street made the eleventh juror, and
the jury completed by the selection of Mr.. John
H. Reid. a retired tea merchant
Mr.. CHILDs of the PHILADELPHIA Ledger SAYS he
will leave his paper at his death to the son of A. ].
Drexel when was young" he says, "NIr. Drexel
came forward and offered to put money in my paper
and interfere in no way with it."
SENATOR EDMUNDs is allowing his patriarchal
beard to go somewhat untrimmed and the unkempt-
ness does not make it appear any fuller His leg
seems to be made of clothespoe snapped in the mid
die and united again by very rusty hinge
MRS CoRNELIA BALDWIN CHrTTENDEN whose
death occurred in Brooklyn time ago. was one
of the few descendants of the great Benjamin Frank
lin known to this generation. She is described as a
woman of wit tact, learning and unfang urbanity.
Mrs. CATHERINE BAKER, of Taylorsvlle Va, who
has just entered her hundredth year attributes
her longevity to her lifelong persistence in the of
strong coffee, of which she drank dozen cups daily
and she publishes the statement as an encouragement
to timid coffeedrnkers.
IT is related that when Lady Duffern first went TO
St. Petersburg it was necessary for her to be received
in audience by the Empress. At the time appointed
she arrived and ushered in the room. There she
found lady very plainly dressed, who approached
and asked her: 'Did you my daughter before you
left England? Excuse me" said Lady Dufferin,
"but who is your daughter9' MY daughter is the
Duchess of Edinburg" said the plain lady, who was
other than the Empress.
THE famous slayer of panthers, NJ Bombonnel is
having so brisk experience in Algeria that Mr..
Barnum should capture him. One night, while hiding
in the brushwood during pouring rain he male
panther trying to carry off bait that had been
laid for him. The white throat of the handsome brute
cleaned in the darkness and soon received fatal
bullet Presently another beast appeared, and was
similarly welcomed 1t a female, and in the morn
ing the riAeman thanked st. Hubert for night that
all that hunter could desire"
PROF. HINKEL, of Vassar College, has the inestima-
BILE good luck of being popular with the young ladies'
They admire his sincerity and frank simplicity. He
had long been in the habit of calling upon his pupils
to recite in alphabetical order beginning at the
mencement of the ROLL but morning he surprised
them by saying, in pathetic and grieved tone: II
understand that you accustomed to learn your les
son only when you think your tnrn will to recite.
1 must put stop to this, young ladies' Next time
shall begin at the other end of the class"
GENIUS" said Anthony Trollope to DR.. Donald
Mcleod day. sis but another for the
length of time sit" The Doctor says that
it was comfort for any editor to have Trolope
writer, for there never any anxiety to copy
being Forthcoming at the appointed time We re-
occasion of our first arranging with him for story,
he asked, How many words do you wishp On
what day do you wish copyl was the next question.
jotting then taken of the agreement and it
observed by him to the letter"
In 1868 George Eliot wrote in an unpublished letter:
Il of those people, perhaps exceptional whose
child dreams have been far less happy than those
which the realities of life have given them" In the
year, describing her home life with Mr. Lewes:
I'VE love too much associated studies and solitude
to let the world have than one day week.
Society here is, moreover, what it everywhere is
empty. The English world is extremely like what it
when you left, conversation less trivial
and little sincere; the literature of the moment scarcely
better and politics than either or the other"
GEORGE w. CABLE spent last Sunday with friends
in thomson, Mass, and attended the Congregational
Church and was invited to talk to the Sundayschool
in the afternoon In the course of his remarks he
raised his hand, expanded the digits and said: II
have so many children at home. How many is thatl"
Five piped up youngster promptly. And half of
them girls continued the speaker staggering his
audience with his apparently reckless disregard of the
truth. "How much is half of fvel" asked Mr. Gable.
1.-TWO and half reproachfuly replied little miss
in the front pew YES" said the novelist with be-
nignant smile he that his reputation for verac-
ty was fast slipping away. two and half of them
girls and the other two and half too-fve girls
oh gasped the little miss with a look of relief and
then there a ripple of laughter.