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


amount. 1t may be excellent plan that the execu-
tive should be in the hands of the arstocracy but
| cheap it is not These Brahmns know how to take
| care of themselves and their relatives.
THE wife of General Sheridan was born in an adobe
house at Albuquerque N. M. The house in which she
first saw the light contained small grated window.
mud chimney in the and heavy door hung
| on wooden hinges. Major Rucker, her father,
quartermaster of that military post at the time, and
the infante years of Mrs. Sheridan passed amid
the rude scenes of frontier army camp.
THE late NJ. Perrin, of the Coincide Francois when
young betrothed to remarkably beautiful
| young woman. She fell i'll with smallpox and was
disfgured for le The first person to visit her when
she was allowed to receive any one, was NJ Perrin.
"Ah' said she, with smile, you have to
be set free from your engagement" II have come"
| said he, to hasten the day of our marriage"
| CALCUTTA paper published on the 18th of Octo-
Der this refreshing notices with the consent of our
| readers, propose taking our annual holiday of
| fortnight. The whole country now enjoys respite
from labor and readers will not grudge
Us our annual holiday during this of rest and
relaxation The next issue of our paper will accord
| ingly appear Saturday, the 18th of November"
| THE death of William FL. Vanderbilt revives the
story told William r. Travers, the New York banker
| and broker. The demise of money king was the
subject under discussion in the Windsor lobby, when
somebody turned to Travers with the question: 'How
much did he leavel" II dd-on't know h-h-ow much
he left, replied the banker in his hesitating way.
"b-b-ut I'll b-bet he left every - dollar he had
GEORGIA lady has a suit of clothes in her posses
sion that is 1O3 years old Her grandfather cut out
| and made the suit with his own hands. The suit is
made of flax, and the buttons are cut from a gourd
and covered with cloth The trousers are of the old
pknee-breeches STYLE and the coat is old fash
| Toned sack. pair of flax stockings, made at the
same time, completed wedding suit 103 years ago.
MR.. RoUTLEDGE, the publisher, states that the
cheap novels Of the late Lord Lytton reach much
higher sale than those of any other author In one
year 80 600 copies of the sixpenny editions Of Lord
| Lytton were sold. Harrison Ainsworth came next
with 620OO and Captain Marryat followed with
10000, while the tales of Dickens published at six
pence reached $4,000. The other well-known au-
| thors much below these figures.
THE men and women of their day in Europe al! have
their price in catalogue of autographs published by
a clever French dealer M. Clemenceaus handwriting
is TO be had for four francs; NJ Rochefort and NJ De
Freycnet rank together at ive Louis Michel is down
at eight francs and the Inflated Ferry is still worth
ten. Mr. Gladstones autograph costs twenty francs;
Prince Bismarck thirty francs for sgnaur alone,
and 100 for aletter all in his handwriting.
MISS LOUIE HowARD;is the ''angeI' of Burlington
Vt. She has given the Howard Relief Association
$50, 900 and part of the Exchange Block. She has
also isted several young in the high school and
in college-several depending upon her charity
Her home has always been hospitable one and
their names hundreds that have enjoyed her gen
crosby. She is now confined to her room only wait
ing for the end, being of frail constitution.
THE insignia of Knights of the Garter are very
$4,000. In the case of royal parties the English
government pays their bills with the understanding
that the insignia to be returned upon demise of
the knight The government however rarely sees the
baubles again, which the noble and royal relatives
uay keep for their own USE The garter of the late
Gar for instance. is in the hands the leg of
member of his family who already had one of his
own. He wanted pair like other people.
TIME out of mind, big white stone at Woodstock
in Talbot down the eastern shore of Maryland has
been used carrage-blo in front of moss-coy-
cred dwelling. The other day along geologist
played tune of joy upon the stone with his Ialle
and astonished the townspeope by telling them that
Agassz would have gone into ecstacies the prize
For indeed the geologist said the stone is piece
of white rock picked up by iceberg, in the
Patapsco river and carried clear across the Chesa
peaks to the fiat lands of tidewater Talbot.
In recent speech in his cathedral city the Arch
bishop of Canterbury abiding to tho preposterous
notions prevalent among the peasantry In England
to the advantages they to reap from disestabsh
ment, said There is parish where there is de-
voted clergyman, whose family constant in their
attention to the sick and sorrowing One of them dis
covered that many of the cottagers she visited
in favor of disestabshment. She asked several
'Why?' but could get no answer. At length man
WaI1 kpo &c n;tv but;t bo
very convenient to have We do want cow
num-"
In st. Gless house, the ancestral home of the Earl
of Shaftesbury. there is monument to which the
late could hardly point without emotion. This
is large bust Of the Earl Presented to Emily wife
of the seventh Earl of Shafesbury by the operatives
of the manufa curing districts of the north of Eng
land, token of their esteem and regard for the
persevering and successful efforts Of her noble hus
band in promoting by legislative enactment limta-
ton of the hours of labor of children, females and
young persons employed in mills and factories Aug
6, 1850" On this occasion thousand persons
are said to have kissed the Earl's hands.
The London Athen@um states that the story of
Goldsmths arrest by his andlady and Johnsons sale
of the 'Vicar of Wake6eld' in danger. 1t is i'm
possible that this account, received from johnson
himself, should not be substantially true; yet in his
lntroduction 10 Mr. Stock new smile OF the hrst
edition. Mr.. Austin Dobson shows that it will have to
be reconced with certain inconvenient facts He
holds that the book, as early the 2Sth of October
1852 became the property of three persons, of
whom was Benjamin Collins, the Salisbury printer
This exonerates Mrs. Fleming, Goldsmths Isngton
landlady, from her traditional asperity Goldsmith
at that date, had not gone Islingon; and it
some time anterior to October 1862. for the com
position of the book which a point hitherto in
some obscurity.
COMMENT AND OPINION.