The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-12

variably takes long walk, almost always accompa-
MED by King Humbert. The afternoon she devotes
to her son, with whom she plays cricket and ball.
The Queen is passionately attached to her husband
and her son, into whose games she throws all her
spirits, sometimes devoting hours to him.
GOLDSMITH MAID at the height of her glory for a
Joke taken from her quarters through back
street led to pub place and put up at auction the
spectators bidding in good faith until the price was
up to $31 when some one connected with the
stable bid $35 the hammer fell and she was led away
SOUTHERN literary people are aroused by the an
nouncement that a new illustrated magazine, to be
known as Dixie will make its appearance in August.
The publication will have the development of the
South its aim aud it is said thet the staff of con,
tributors includes many names well known in South
ern literature,
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL lives in great mag
nitcence in his London home at Connaught place.
This quarter of London is called Tyburnia, for just
here stood the famous Tyburn tree gallows where
Jack Sheppard, with Nix my dolly, pals fake away,
was hung, we'll as many other malefactors of a
hundred years ago.
CHOLERA is said to have been carried to every
country the globe except the islands of the South
Pacific, Australia the Cape of Good Hope the islands
of the North Atlantic and the coast of South
America all separated from India by wide expanse
of ocean, and having commercial intercourse with
that country
VICTOR HUGO hated Goethe because the latter So.
verey criticised 'Notre Dame de Paris" when it first
appeared Goethe" said he to literary visitor,
"only produced really good work The Robbers
The visitor astonished at the apparent blunder
until Hugo added with a sheer And that one was
written by Schiller!"
Don't talk too much about the men. Do you know,
gentlemen, we probably have not in the American
Congress man 50 learned in the science of govern
ment as Harriet Martneau was? America has never
produced novelist great as George Eliot, and we
have never had poet equal to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning"
GEN. LEW WALLACE has two novels in prepa-
ration. The plot of one is laid in New Mexico and
that of the other in Constantinope. This distin.
gushed author has the widest range of contemporary
novelists. His greatest success has been achieved,
hitherto in representing the life of people in distant
ages and it, in either of his forthcoming works he
shall essay to give picture of phase of modern
life, that one will have a special interest
A SWIMMING collar has been devised designed to
assist those who are tmid in learning to SWIM 1t is
hollow tube of rubber about four inches in diameter
when inflated with air, and is covered by blue and
white red and white striped stockinet When the air
is out of it is fiat and be rolled up and carried in
the pocket, but when needed it is inflated by blowing
into rubber tube attached to it until it is full when
the tube is stopped off that the air cannot escape
This is fastened round the neck and aids wonderfully
in keeping the head out of water and avoiding the
panic and fright always experiences with beginners
when they have their mouth and nose filed with water
almost every minute