The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
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London publisher.
SECRETARY LAMAR is fond of taking long and lone
ly walks at night He finds it helpful to the Interior
Department.
SENATOR SAWYER has bought $65 900 tract of
pine land in northern Michigan to be held in trust for
his grandchildren.
THE English battle in ozone" This is nothing
more or less than seaweed stepped in boiling water for
hour before the bath is taken The bath is thought
to he most invgorating.
DR. MORTON w. EAsToN, professor Of comparative
philology in the University of Pennsylvania has
studied less than twenty-five different languages,
both ancient and modern.
CHARLES CROKER, vicepresdent of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, has given $31 900 to the
Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Francisco for the
construction of their building.
AFTER long chase, West Virginia man captured
an clipping daughter and escorted her to her home
only to be informed that his other daughter had left
| with young during his absence.
THERE young man of physique
Who for position did sique;
An idea he hit
Advertised for sit,
And got one in less than wique
BISHOP HUGH MILLER THOMPSON was recently
asked if women were capable of receiving what is
called the higher education equally with men. The
Bishop replied emphatically: there is no sex in in
telect."
MR.. GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, is still busily and profit.
ably engaged in the practice of law in Washington
and the Boston Traveller mentions the fact to correct
the round going that he is about to return to
Boston to edit the Traveller.
"IN the church-yard of Hughenden," says London
Truth, there is dilapidated grave The iron rail
ing around it is rusty and owing to the curb having
| sunk, is broken and crooked. Beneath this dirty
neglected and ruinous spot repose the remains of Lord
| Beaconsfeld."
GLADSTONE welcomed in Scotland with a
song composed for the OCCASION the chorus of which
For he's the king O. Iibral hearts
The conqueror proof ganst SANDERS darts:
Nae Tory loon, wi 1at'rin' ARTS
To max US turn agee.
| A STRIP of Arabian paper dating from the ninth
century and containing wood-eut with ornaments
and initials, has just been found among the papers of
the Austrian Archduke Rainier This relic shows that
the art of wood-cuttng was probably of Arabian orr
gin, that it was at all events known to the Arabs
in the ninth century.
THE New Orleans Picayune editorally records that
| the remains of an old colored woman named Fran.
chine were followed to the church and then to the
grave by prominent citizens respected ladies and love-
ly children representing of the most honored
families in Louisiana, who gathered around the dead
and showed genuine sorrow.
THE French government would like to give the army
the privilege of wearing boards but feels the necessity
of first consulting several high military authorities
| as the opinions the subject contradictory.
Meanwhile the press falls back history and finds
that the conquerers of all ages about equally d
vided between the shorn and the unshorn.
| A SHORT time ago little girl in Alabama wrote
note to the Emperor of Austria, congratuating him
upon the happy of his birthday which was
also her own. Last week she received from the EN-
| peror a foureafed clover in gold with diamond
dewdrop in it's center and inscribed From his I'm
| peria Majesty Emperor Francis Joseph T, to Char
| lotte Pollak."
THE melody of the sailors chorus 1--WE sail the
ocean blue, and our saucy ships beauty" in Pima
| fore is declared by F. s. Saltus to have appeared
originally buffo duet in 1.-The Burgomaster of
Saardan," written by Donizetti in 1927. Mr. Saltus
says he has addresseda note Sir Arthur asking him
if he had ever the of Donzetti's work. but
| has received no reply.
THE picturesqueness of the arsenal at Springfield
with its of FURNISHED guns that inspired Long
fellows poem, has been lost. The ordnance officers
no longer stack the muskets behind glass, to look
pretty and gather dust and rust but pack them in we'll
painted boxes, coated with petroleum paper. They
are then always ready for shipment, and suffer no
damage as time goes
1T is well known to the intimates of the Rev. O. B.
rockingham that the interview published some years
ago in the Evening Post practically attributing to him
a conversion to the orthodox faith has caused him
lasting dspleasure. Mr.. Frothinghams views as pro-
mulgated by him from his pulpit for many years
have undergone material change. he is at present
deeply immersed in literary pursuits, for which his
| tastes have long been congenal.
STEPHEN FIsKE's wife writes that she used to be
chum of Nelly Marcy, now the widow of General Nc
Cellan. She says; I'm those days Nelly Marcy used
to pray for all sorts of things and day when we
having sort of prophetic prayer meeting-just
US two-Nelly said Do you know dear that if We
ever to marry, our husbands the earth.
Let pray for them We went at it at once but
with this differences She prayed for him; prayed