The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-22

Leg and at last got the bone In" to the music Of the
boys lusty screams Didn't the setter do IL wellg"
asked the cheerful old lady. tho pair hied home
ward. YES, he did, mother" said the lad "but was
ma sic a fool as to gle him the sair leg"
LORD LYTToN at the time Of the declaration Of
Queen Victoria Empress Of India and the striking
of the splendid medal honoring the event impudent1y
bought one, altered the inscription to Victoria
Empress OF the Arena" and sent IT, richly set to an
equestrienne.
HORACE HOWARD FURNEss has given 81 900 to
establish at Vassar College the Kate Rogers Furness
Prize Fund" The income is to be divided into two
prizes which to be granted to two successful
pettors in essays Shaspearean or Elzabethan
subject. The competition is to be limited to the
senior class.
AFARMER's wife in Bollinger county, No. left the
baby in his care while she went to town shopping
The father, being busy blowing nailed box to the
plow-beam, in which he placed the baby snugly and
thus the industrious and ingenious father proceeded
with his work to the satisfaction and amusement Of
the little one.
LADY WILDE, in her ''Driftwood from Scandina-
VIA says that in Hamburg she saw more pretty faces
among the middle classes than she had ever come
across before. 1.-THE serving maidens of Christians
are tall and slender young pine trees, darkhared
and exceedingly pretty, with splendid teeth flashing
through merry smiles.
THE year 1885 finds four English judges still
actively pursuing their judicial abors after attaining
the Of fourscore years They Vice Chancellor
Bacon. who is in his eightyseventh year; Judge
Petersdorf, in his eightyffth; Judge Hutton, in his
eighty-third; and Judge Bayey, of the Westminster
County Court, also in his eighty-third year.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx is said by some newspapers
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vertigo several years ago in Washington which his
physicians declared to have been brought on by ok
cessive smoking being cited as proof of the assertion
The fact is however, that Mr.. Colfax left off the use
OF tobacco entirely over dozen years ago.
MRS. EUGENIA MARKS, of Frankford Philadelphia,
whose death is announced was a slave of Thomas
Jefferson and was at his bedside when he died. She
took great pleasure in telling that while at Washing,
ton she cooked nice breakfast for General Jackson
that he went to the kitchen to compliment her and
accompanied his compliments with q So gold piece
Mr.. HENRY G. PEDDER, formerly the confidential
employee of Arnold Constable & Co., and the largest
stockholder in the Manhattan Magazine who lived in
royal style at costly villa in New Jersey, and who
disappeared suddenly is said to he living now in St
Kits, of the West India islands, where he was
born, and living in good STYLE too but that can be
done in ST kits. it is said, with $50 month.
The death of Rev. DR.. A. A. Scott, an honored
Presbyterian, of California who was made doctor Of
laws by the University Of the City Of New York since
tho war; is striking reminder that this is not an age
of vindictive memory. Dr. Scott was the Oldest
Protestant minister of the Pacific coast and when the
war broke wrote proslayery letters for San Fran
cisco paper, prayed in his pulpit for both Abraham
Lincoln and JEFF Davis and his congregation hanged
him in egy Dr. Scott left the city, but returned to
San Francisco after the war; however and has since
done good service pastor of the ST. Johns Presby
terian Church