The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

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entered, walked the length of the table, spoke to
each and passed out.
THE last shot of the war was fred by a confederate
soldier named Cosby. 1t was at a hog that strayed into
the lines and brought Cosby's mess a good dinner.
COUNT Won MoLTKE is in very poor health. He
will not live till winter, it is said. Bismarck, who
was dangerously Ill last summer. is dangerously well
; again.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard University, was a
widower when he heard Grace Osgood sing at a pri-
vate concert. He fell in love at sight, was INTRODUCED
next day, engaged the next week, and married the
next month.
A CORRESPONDENT who recently saw Gen. Schenck
says he looks old and grizzled. Old age has added
seams and wrinkles to his homely features, and given
him no grace to compensate for them. He has passed
his SEVENTEEN year.
The Medical Review, IN an editorial on ''triplets, "
says that plural births occur most frequently in
Russia, and that, when they do occur in this country,
the fathers and mothers are generally found to be Of
Russian birth or descent.
KAISER WILHELM is not only the Oldest officer in
the German army in point of age, but in point of serv-
ice as well. His commission as major-general bears
date of Marth 80, 1918. and he joined the army as
an ensign March %, 1907.
! Miss JULIA FLETCHER, author of "Kismet," has
been living in Rome for the past twelve years, with
her mother and stepfather, Mr.. Eugene Benson, the
artist. She is a handsome young woman. with large
dark eyes and beautiful teeth.
The Princess Beatrice and her husband will prob
ably always maintain an i~ncognitio when travelling in
Europe, as the courts of Berlin and Vienna, certainly,
will not recognize Prince Henry as a royal highness,"
nor grant him any precedence.
DE-. WHARTON, the Attorney-general of the State
Department, IS suffering from a peculiar misfortune
occasioned by the duties of his office. He has lost his
voice, and it is feared that he will have TO resign in
order to gain the rest needed for his recovery.
Ten copies Of the new ordinary addition in fac
simile of the Vicar of Wakefield and ten copies of
the large paper edition have been bound in wood from
the panels of Dolly's Chop-house, where Goldsmith,
johnson and Garrick were accustomed to meet.
AN anxious pair of clippers, in their search for a par
son to complete their union, went to a cemetery when
a funeral was in progress, seized the minister the mo-
ment the services were concluded. and, leading him
away a short distance, were married on the spot.
LORD TEIGNMoUTH, who died. in England recently at
four score and ten, could remember seeing Percival,
Canning and Sheridan together in the House of Com
mons. He was a man of much culture, and was in
teresteG in philanthropic and religious movements.
AT the end of a favorable criticism of a new tenor.
in a London paper, appeared this astonishing ali
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s~ervitude, so that society will for some time be freed
from the infection of his presence The printer got
a criminal case mixed up with the criticism.
THE Duke of Portland took a house at Doncaster
this year, and entertained, during the recent race
week, a party of twenty-five bachelors. 1t is thought
that they hadn't a bad time. With youth, health,
a15o, 900 a year to spend, and a dukedom, his Grace
manages to struggle along this vale of tears.
ELDER L. +. HURST, grandfather of the noted Miss
Lulu Hurst, the electric girl. predicts the end of the
world in 1882. He declares that the next year will
witness symptoms of the coming event, after which
startling Developments will follow rapidly, such as
the moon turning to blood, the sun Withholding it's
light, and a general arrangement of things.
MRS. ROGERS. The cattle queen of Texas, inherited
from her first husband a herd of 40, 900 cattle. The
widow managed the business, and in due time married
a preacher twenty years younger than herself. who
had seven children. She attends to her estate herself,
rides among her cowboys on horseback, and can tell
just what a promising steer or COW is worth at any
size or age
FROM six to twenty bridal couples visit the White
House daily. The President has resolved to revive a
custom once prevalent there, and to present a few
choice flowers to each bride that calls upon him. The
necessary orders have been given at the conservatory,
but it is not known how the custom will be carried
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President that they were brides.
REPORT comes from Turin of the death, aged
seventy-seven years, of Father Giacomo. the friend
of Cavour. For years he was the dispenser Of that
statesman's charities, and when the Count lay dying
the priest went to receive his last confession and adj
minister the last sacraments. 1t was his privilege
then to have addressed to him the statesman's last
words in this world: Brother, a free church in a free
state"
AN eminent Southerner. says the Augusta (Ga.j
Chronicle, who had never been north of New York,
recently took an extensive tour through New England.
He said it was a miraculous revelation to him, not only
in an industrial but a social sense. He calculated that
$500 might be absorbed. and yet he spent only $1.37.
You may talk of your hospitality he CALCULATED,
"but l never knew the full meaning until translated
into a Yankee dialect"
IT is remarked in The World Non@pn) that one cpl
sode in the late Lord Shaftesbury's life has hardly
been dwelt on at all. viz: tho historic interview in
Grosvenor square between the veteran evangelical
leader and DR.. Pussy, when the former said to the lat
ter, as to their joint protest against the Essays and
Reviews, " 1T is time for us to shuttle off this immor-
tai coil when men attack the Bible" Yet Lord Shaftes.
bury lived to see Bishop Temple translated without
a murmur to the see of London.
A CORRESPONDENT writes from Hamburg: ssThe
Empress OF Germany and Princess Bismarck have
been staying here. This place is a very dream of fair
women, and the early hours and healthy life have
done wonders to many fair faces that two months
back one remembers a little worn-looking, after the
fatigues of a London season. Miss Winslow never
looked so lovely as now. nor the celebrated Miss
Chamberlain, and there are four fair sister COM
patriots of theirs, the Misses Walker, who are taking
all hearts by storm. Anything so exquisitely and
delicately beautiful as these four sisters can only hail
from the land of liberty
COMMENT AND OPINION.