The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-22

and about one-third Of those were professional and
other deadheads.
IT decided that Battenberg and Beatrice shall
pass the first few months Of their married life at Bal
moral. in the Scotch Highlands. where the Queen
board them cheaply on haggis and oatmeal
THE Durham divorce case cost Lord Durham in
lawyers fees 81. 500 day. The fees on the brief
alone marked 81 $50 for tho leaders and 81 $50
for the juniors with refreshers. Lord Durham paid
the costs of both sides.
THE magnificent cathedral at Garden City, n T.,
begun by the late Alexander T. Stewart during his
lifetime viii be completed this month. and opened
April 8. The funds for the building have been
furnished from the Stewart estate.
THE London Sportsman Of Feb IL contained the
following advertisement "wanted--A cultured
gentleman, capable of milking goats. univer-
sity preferred. Applications with testimonials
as to proficiency, to be addressed" etc.
The apathy in Boston upon reception of the new
date of the end of the world recalls the reply of Theo
dore Parker when informed by Millerite Of the pend
ing destruction of our planet 'That does not concern
me-" said Parker, 'for live in Boston"
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, in his novel, Love; or.
Name which begins in Outing for April, files Wig
orous protest against what he calls "that dreary
slavery-womans rights" He declares that If
woman did not stay at home and mind her own affairs
home would cease to exist.
THE new paper bottles are said to withstand the
ton of water wine and alcohol 1t is thought that
druggists will be able to furnish them free of charge
just as they provide wrapping paper for dry drugs
The cementing material of the bottles is mixture Of
blood, albumen, alum and lime.
MRS. MAcKAY has given to the Papal nuncio mag
nfcent cross, In remembrance of the marriage Of her
daughter to Prince Colonna. 1t Is studded with dia
monds and sapphires In the inside of the cross is a
place for relics, which be inserted by pressing a
spring which connects with tho movable back.
IT is not generally known that nutmegs are poi son
ous but DR.. Palmer writes to the American Journal
OF Pharmacy detailing the of lady who nearly
died from eating nutmeg and half, and he points
out tho fact that the toxic effects Of the drug
sciibed In both the National and United States dispen
satories
DIR. JOHN DE FOREST Of WATERFOWL Conn.,, who
died last week, left $50 900 each to four nephews
$10,O 900 each to the American Missionary Society
and Home Missionary Society, So 900 to the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
$4,000 to the American Bible Society. So 600 to the
Connecticut Bible Society, 81 500 to the American
Tract Society, 81 500 to the American Searrens
Friend Society and 81 900 to the American Female
Guardian Society.
Question in England Mature, Jan. 15). calculates
that at the present rate of increase of 600
per annum the coal of Great Britain will be exhausted
in 261 years, or about A. D. 2145. But if the popu
aion of England continues to increase at the present
rate and the output of coal to increase at the
percentage it has done since 184O the total supply
will be exh austed in about LOG years from 1884,
about A. D. 1890.
MN hair 10 ~ az nf ho1s al
strength the story of Samson having given rise to the
notion that hairy strong physically while the
fact Is that the Chinese who the enduring of
all races. nearly bald and to the superstition
that long and thick hair is sign token ntellectu
atty, all antiquity all mad -houses all common OBJ.
servation, against it The easiy-wheedled Esau
was hairy; the mighty Cesar was bald. Long
haired mon generally weak and fanatical and
with scant hair the philosophers and soldiers and
statesmen Of the world.
DURING lecture in Ithaca recently Chaplain Nc
Cabe referred to q call he had recently made upon
Gen. Grant. The Chaplain said: "After conclud.
ing my business with the General was about to leave
knowing that his time was valuable. Don't hurry,
Chaplain; take seat, remarked the General Il will
If you will talk about the war; Gen. Grant smiled
and asked: What especial feature Of the war do
you refer TOT We'll, want to know whether you
took Lees sword when he surrendered. I've seen it
stated in print that you did and that you did not;
now want to know from your own lips did not
take Gen. Lees sword replied Gen. Grant"
THE grandson Of Macaulay's New Zealander may
possibly. If he lives to ripe old age hear the last
hitherto unpublished" Lincoln story" Until then
such anecdotes will spring unfailng from the para
graphers pen. Here is the latest up to date given
currency by the Press Of Philadelphia. When Prince
Napoleon (Plon-Plon) visited the White House: .You
are the son of Lucienf' said tho President. The
Prince shook his head. 'Of Joseph theni' Again
the Prince expressed negative. "Oh, I remember
now. said Lincoln, "of Jerome of course" After
the reception was over he turned to Seward. '.The
Bonaparte family history is mixed, said the Pres
dent that it's impossible to say with certainty who
the father Of any of them"
MISS SARroRIUs, in her book on the Soudan and
Egypt, says EVERY village has its pigeonhouses.
looking like great mud cones and in the evening the
owners go out and call them in. But when man
wants to get hold of extra pigeons instead of calling
them he frightens the pigeons way. They do not
derstand this, keep crcling above. and swoop down
now and then toward their houses. Other pigeons,
seeing this connection join them and as soon as the
there enough he hides. The whole of the
BIRDS old and new, then go into the house. and the
man, returning, shuts them in. This would be fine
business il it not that all of them do the same
thing, and therefore, each gets caught in his turn.
They know this perfectly WELL but Egyptian
fellah could resist the temptation Of cheating his
| neghbor."
APECUILAR musical romance characteristics the low
sandy banks and marshes of the Pascagoula river and
is accounted for by the inhabitants of its shores in
picturesque, if not practical Upon calm,
moonlight nights a mysterious music has been heard
to issue, at intervals from tho water and floating
its surface for time die away in soft melodous
fragments" poetical observer declares that it
comes from grottoes below the bed Of the
stream and ascending from the water in volume Of
sound it curls under the very keel of the traveller
boat and reaches the like the strains Of thousand
distant Golian harps. To the wholly practical mind