The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-01

father and his wife will bring him an income of S4o
600 year more, besides being heir to fortune
which in few years viii bring $3.50. 900 year. The
couple viii spend their at Sorgenfre CASTLE
near Copenhagen, and their winters in France.
THE beautiful Gladys, Dowager Countess Lonsdale
was married three months ago to the heir of the
Marquis of Ripon. The marriage was surprise to
society, which had already selected husband for her
several husbands in fact but especially the Earl of
Durham if he could obtain divorce from the beauti
full girl forced to marry him. 1t was opposed by the
family of young Earl de Grey, and their opposition
to have been justified by the fact that she has
just become another.
GENERAL w. T. SHERMAN, having been written to
for his views the subject of national mausoleum
for distinguished Americans, makes the following
characteristic reply II have neither the time ncli
nation or ability to discuss the proposition of an
American Westminster. once visited the catacombs
under ancient Syracuse. Our guide said there
million nterments but the contents of every cham
had been sold for I asked him if single
grave had been spared not AS it in the be-
ginning, is now, and ever will be. Amen"
A LONDON caterer, who provides for the inner
wants of operagoers has learned to distinguish nicely
the gastronomc desires of the admirers of the differ
ent styles of modern music. ION the nights" he
says, when they play Wagners music I sell FIVE
times as much lager beer as usual. On Mendelssohn
nights nobody any ham sandwiches, and as I
get S5 per cent. out of them guess don't think
much of Mr.. Mendelssohn. Strauss is the composer
make the wine so off. man feels well off when he
listens to waltz of Strausss and he orders his bot
tleof champagne freely"
ONE sometimes sees drunken man pitched violent
ly from horse and when the bvstanders rush to the
spot expecting to find him dead they are astonished
discover that he has been little injured In his Scram
bles Among the High Alps" Leslie Stephen tells the
story Of guide who. while drunk fell precipice
so deep that fall it seemed almost certain DEATH
and who yet sustained little injury Stephen accord
lngy gives his readers the advice either to fall
over precipice, or to get thoroughly drunk before
doing so. The reason of this immunity is that the
nerve centers are much paralyzed in the drunken
man as not to be affected by the shock of the fall
which, In sober man, would have acted upon them
violently as to stop the heart arrest tho circulation
and cause instant death.
IT related in the Philadelphia Press that the
Earl of Shaftesbury lost his watch while walking in
the New Cut, an unpleasant neighborhood infested
with vile characters He advertised his loss as he
valued the trinket for certain associations Within
twenty-four hours his. household was aroused by a
violent ring and knock at the street door, and
the wheels OF a vehicle heard rapidly dis
appearing in the distance. On opening the front
door sack found filled with something that
moved. On investigating the sack boy of the Artful
Dodger class was found, bound hand and foot and
gagged Round his neck the missing watch and
underneath placard with the words: ''Lock i'm
up mi lord. he's disgrace to perfession. he
order known how yer lordship free of the wud
Civ i'm five years ard. Yer Friends" The Earl did
not take the advice of Ibis friends" He reformed the
Artful Dodger, and eventually he became light of
the London shoeblack brigade
A GRANT memorial has been started ar Mount
Mansfield VT. without money without author.
ity, without design, without generalization without
oversight responsibility anybody part and
yet bidding fair to be important and interest
ing monument 1t is already far advanced to be
noticeable feature of the local scenery and will at
tain imposing proportions long before actual work
any other memorial is begun, but will not be finished
for generations yet to come if it is finished at
all. This structure is simply carn of stone, begun
almost by accident and contributed by the summer
visitors. The unparented suggestion that each new
should add stone to the growing pile has been
so broadly adopted that of late parties have been
formed in distant localities to make excursions to
Mount Mansfield for the purpose of laying tributes on
the cairn Some and curious stones have been
contributed and many bearing Inscriptions are daily
brought in.