The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-21

which fled two columns Of vassys paper, Ind gave II
stupeudous beat on ali its contemporaries. TWAS
the talk Of Paris for month.
FoR some time before mis- DEATH Gordon ". Burn .
ham. the aged New York millionaire was engaged to-
be married to Miss Sanborn grand niece Of Daniel
Webster. She is wei known in literary cirsIes Her
father was DR.. e. d. Sanborn, professor sf bellies
lettres In Dartmouth College. Miss Sanboz lis the
author of THE English Poets" used as tost book.
She has travelled extensively lecturer aad uistil
this year taught English literature in Smith College
for Women, in Northampton, Mass She Is thirty
eight years old 1t is said that Mr. Burnha has sss
tied between $500 and 100000 on Miss SAM
born. She tenderly nursed him to the last
The Russian Emperor, shamod perhaps, by tho
recent brave conduct Of Kings Hubert and Alphonso
IN the cholera and earthquake catast-ophes, has
tured to display little personal courage at St Peters
burg He took part in assisting at two disasters that
recently occurred The was at the EARNING of tina
city bank, where he showed great energy aud cool
ness and the other the occasion Of the cavingin
of an immense building occupied by a number Of
tenants. His Majesty mounted to the top of ladder
that was suspended from the crumbling wall ard at
imminent risk helped to the lives Of the inEslGs
1t is pleasant to kings and cmperors at last maxi
ing themselves useful
fEOPLE VINO Lay down carpets across the pavement
for the convenience of their guests will do well to nota
the case of Watson against Ellis, decided in England
by Lord Coleridge and Mr.. Justice A. l. Smith, ON
appeal from the Bloomsbury County Court. Colonel
Ellis gave dinner party in Portland place and laid
strip of carpet from his house to the no dway for tho
benefit of those hidden to the feast Mrs. Watson fell
over the carpet and hurt herself and jury awarded
her $50 damages The Colonel appealed. but the de-
csion was upheld, the Lord Chief Justice remarking
that the public had uncomfortable right to the
highway and that those who laid down carpets thereon
must take the consequences. AS Lord Coleridge OBJ.
served, this adds terror TO dinner parties or
rather to the responsibilities Of those who give the
DUKE CHARLES of Brunswick who died in 1874,
the most despicabe figure in the most scandalous
chronicles of our times" is the subject of most
readable paper in the last number of Temple Bar.
visit TO the Diamond Dukes famous hotel in the
Champs Esees must have BEEN to say the least of it,
exciting. spring was touched. an armchair pre-
sented itself, and the caller whirled round and up
into the duca ante-chamber. This and the bed.
chamber were in solid from the very bed was iron.
minute vioetshaped aperture in thewa was the key
hole of the recess where the Dukes stronghold CON-
tanning precious deeds and documents, hung over .
well many yards deeper than the first foundations Of
the hotel The cellars strongholds like those OF
the Bank of France. There we're iron ceases crammed
with guneas, Golfers untouched since Waterloo con-
tanning gold pieces of eight generations Of dukes and
there thousands of ten thaer pieces which had
been put into circulation. He kept kitchen,
for cook necessarily poisoner in his eyes. He
mixed his morning chocolate himself; his milk was
brought from suburban farms in sealed silver can.
He left his millions to Geneva