The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-20
a store. postofice, graded streets. fishing tackle
factory and twentyeght cottages The place is three

factory and twenty eight cottages The place is three
years DID,
NJ HENRI MICHEL, the editor of one of the leading
journals of Paris, has chosen for his wife an Amer
GIRL Miss Grace Seligman, the daughter of an
American banker, Mr.. William Ssligman.
AT Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, the street-car
drivers and conductors welldressed and we'll
educated young men, and the people do their adverts
ing IL chalk on the asphalt of the pavements.
A GooD-LooKINe Alabama girl had mania for pho
togrsphs of herself. and she couldn't get that
disease until she had her father in debt $500 and
had been fed on bread and water for week.
OSCAR WILDE has written poem about his baby,
beginning with these lines:
20 baby boy! thine eyes are like mine own,
AS blue as heaven, as tender as the dove.
II SEE" said an opposing counsel to the late Emery
A Storrs, you hate to meet the truth in this matter
Il never do meet it." the prompt reply; 'the
truth and always travel in the same direction"
SENATOR PALMER, of Michigan, has shipped from
his old homestead, at Ashford. Conn. where he was
born, large assortment of old household relics etc.
for the furnishing of log cabin erected on his De-
troit grounds.
NINE CATHERINE GAMBETTA has died at Rome at
the age of 1O5 She is described as Gambettas aunt
but probably was his great aunt She was very poor
and got her living by picking up refuse the roads
and by the SAFE of eggs from three hens.
PROF HUxLEY's physician tells him that he must
reside in the genial climate of Italy and as
he draws pension of Sc 900 year from the
British government it is thought that he will be able
to live in cheap country quite comfortably.
No lady in Antwerp would wear her rich laces on
the street decorate her dresses with cheap ita-
ton of it. lace dress made in Antwerp is desr-
able possession not because it is very costly but be-
-
described.
GEORGE BANCROFTS most intimate friend in
Washington is A. R. Spoford, the congressional Ii
brarian They both of about the age and when
the two old gentlemen take their daily horseback ride
together they present spectacle seldom seen outside
of hippodrome
THEY tell funny story in Hartford. Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe speaking of the length of her residence
in that city, said: II don't remember when came
do not live by years" This being repeated to Mark
Twain, II wish" he observed, "the tax-collector
would adopt that principle"
Mr.. GLADSTONE does not get rid of his hoarseness
in Norway, but he enjoys himself and talks of study
ing the language of the country, having bought a
Norwegian English dictionary and a church service
book and book of communion for that purpose He
is almost seventy-six but not too old to learn.
AHMEDNUGGAR in Bombay, is afflicted by plague
of rats Rewards offered for the destruction of
the pests but after nearly two millions had been killed
the people recognized in the rodents the spirits of
their friends who persisted in the last great famine
and refused to permit any more of them to be killed
"HE most particular follow about his Clothes +"
writes Washington correspondent, speaking of no
less person than the Father of his Country land
of his brass buttons he had cast with his mi
tials. g. W., and around their top the legend Long
live the President Such button lies before as
write"
THE late Dean Stanley playmate of Mr.. Glad
stones at the age of ten twelve. One day the
future Premier then fifteen years old, asked him if
he had ever read Gray's poems. mo" replied Stan
ley. hen do so at once" said Gladstone, vehe-
mently and produced the volume. 1t was taken home
read and enjoyed.
MRS ELLA WHEELER Wilcox writes to a Toledo
friend that she has just completed romance upon
which she has been engaged for the past two years
In it she attacks the evils resulting from too great
freedom of the One of the greatest evils from
this freedom of the press has been in allowing Ella
circulate some of her questionable poems.
Mr.. j. T. TRowBRIDGE the author of that YER
popular poem, 1.-The Vagabonds," and of many read
able books, is fifty eight years old. He was an
active writer thirty ago, and is active
to-day. He is certainly prosperous of letters,
and his home at Arlington, near Boston, is of the
attractive features of that place. He settled Bos-
ton in 1850 after having worked hard and always
proftably with his pen and he brought into
prominence by the publication of Neigh5or lakewood
which was strong picture of life in New England.
FIvEChicago youths, of from twelve to fifteen years
returned last Wednesday from trip of $50
miles through Wisconsin and Illinois. The young crus-
made their five folding and shipped
them to Ocoromowoc Leaving home Aug IL they
started on their canoe voyage from Oconomowoc
ing down the Oconomowoc river thirty miles to Rock
river above the city of Watertown, and thence pro-
ceeded in their slight boats down the Rock river
through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois to
the Mississippi river above Rock Island having
rowed $50 miles in fifteen days. They padded their
canoes during the day and slept in them at night
shore covered with waterproof canvas.