The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-25

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A JOURNEY of 1000 miles on the tandem tricycle.
has lately been accomplished by Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Pennell, the authors of the Canterbury Pilgrimage"
T%ricycling is well appreciated by English people, who
are exploring regions forgotten since the days of the
stage coach.
LOYAL Europeans in Simla were recently terribly
distressed by a report that the Queen was suffering
from hydrophobia- Ultimately it turned out that a
careless telegraph clerk had mistaken the word
"MQueen" for 'Queen," and "Hyderabad" for Thy.
drophobia."
A NEW feature of the Boston Cooking School this
year lisa school lunch-room, opened at the request of
the mothers. AT little round tables boys are furnished
with substantial soup (the thin soups being considered
not desirable}, with cocoa and chocolate, rolls, sand.
witches, gingerbread and plain cakes.
In the last century they really turned criminals to
some practical account in England. In 1867 John
Benham, under sentence Of death for burglary, was
pardoned on condition of undergoing the amputat;on
of a limb, ito test the efficacy of Mr.. Pierce's styp-
tics" The limb off, John was to be considered free.
NINE. ITURBIDE has given up her house in Wash
ington, d. c., and resumed with her son to the City
VI 0ueAlCO. IL houses OF Cn6 lCufOlU6 estate, near
the storied castle of Chapultepec, have all been painted
a deep crimson. During the young masters resi-
dence in Washington he became very skilful with red
paint.
MRS. A. T. STEWART is credited with ingenious
charity in employing a number of poor women to
clean her marble palace daily. They work four hours
and receive 50. so each. Other women are employed
to clean silver at $3 a day, and men who brush the
statuary get 30 a day. These latter are said to be old
s%culptors, past other means of earning a living.
WHEN The late Lord Shaftesbury was Lord Ashley.
by which title he was long prominent, there were
some 400 peers, and probly 200 had grown-up eldest
sons; and yet, out of this large body of men, his is
about the only name standing out as that of a noble
man who gave his time, energy, money. and the pres
tige of his position to the cause of benevolence.
THEATRICAL circles in Paris are lamenting the re-
tirement of that charming actress, Mile. Croizette,
who is about to sacrifice herself at the hymeneal altar.
By her marriage the dramatic world lose a brilliant
actress, and tie bridegroom gains a beautiful wife.
She is t~hirty-two years of age, and possesses a charm.
ing figure, brown eyes, and teeth the envy of every
Parisienne.
NINE. ANNIE LOUISE CARY RAYMOND, while at the
Atlantic House, in Scarborough, Me-, last summer.
learned of a little girl in town who had a hip trouble
that threatened to cause permanent deformity. Mrs.
Raymond had the child sent to the Maine General Hos
pital, where she maintains a free bed, and under the
excellent treatment there the little patient seems like
ly to be entirely cured.
CHARLES SUMMERS Washington home, his only
ONE during the later years of his life. now belongs
0 William w. Corcoran. No traces of it's former
i~llustrious occupant remain. The furniture, selected
with much care. has been scattered far and wide
under the hammer of the auctioneer. His pictures
are all gone, aud there are few things at the capital to
remind one of the upholder of the Union.
THE vAssAR GIRLS DRILLING.
Hark! that sound! it's the bugle's blare
And the roll of the mastering drum;
Now hear the call: Attention, there!
Remove your chewing gum.
Forward march! come, girls, no pranks:
Be still! no talking in the ranks
Right shoulder shif-chemise!'
Boston Courier.
A PHOTOGRAPH has been received in England of
the oil portrait of Beethoven, recently discovered at
Freiburg. The painting is in an excellent state of
preservation. The Dutch origin of the composer is
evident, and the piercing black eyes. which look
straight into the face of the spectator, Justify the as
sertion ofathe photographer that they were 'the
special feature of the face, and it was in them that the
earnestness and sincerity of his character beamed
FORTH
IF the corners of the mouth are h~abitually drawn
down in a frown and the brows wrinkled in perplex-
ity, those features will gradually assume an aspect of
repellent seriousness. On the other hand, the man
who smiles a great deal will acquire a pleasant ex-
preston. A Yankee has invented an apparatus to be
worn at night, which he fancies will not only lend an
agreeable expression to a face that has not yet become
set, but will obliterate and rearrange the unpleasant
lines that time and circumstances have established.
THE popular old ballad of "Bilee Taylor is said to
have been written in honor of one Hannah Smell, who
lived in the last century. She pursued her lover, not
to kill him, but to tie him firmly to her apron strings.
She married Jim Lums at Mapping. Lums was a
Dutch sailor, who squandered her money and then ran
off and left her. She donned mans clothing and Dur
sued, enlisting as a marine and doing valiant service
in Admiral Boscowen's fleet. Learning that her hus-
band had been executed for murder, she returned to
Mapping, and long kept a public house there.
A DISPATCH announces that the widow of the late
Charles w. McCune, of Buffalo, and proprietor of the
Courier, of that city, has given birth to a son, who be-
comes heir to the larger part Of his estate. Mr.. Nc
dental campaign last year, and his death occurred last
March. 1t was his second marriage, he having been
divorced from his first wife, who lives in this city and
has the comfortable income of $25, 900 a year. Mr..
McCune's estate, to the principal part of whichhis in.
FAINT son becomes heir, is worth about 500, 600.
An Appeal from Democratic Soldiers,
NEW YORK, Oct. 24-At a meeting of the
Cleveland and Hendricks War Va+ararc A osoo;o