The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-01

and she and her intended husband began to put down
carpets in the house they were to occupy. She wanted
them laid one way. he another. They quarreled and
separated. He died shortly afterward, and the lady
never married.
AT a recent marriage in Ohio, the bride, a Miss
Morris, wore a dress that was imported from Paris in
1742 for a wedding, and has been in the family ever
since, being used only on such occasions. It was worn
again in 1776 as a wedding dress, but not again till
the other day, when Miss Morris donned it. Not a
stitch has been altered or added to it, and it is in as
good condition as when new.
MADAME ADELINA PATTI will be married to Signor
Nicolini in June next-that is to say, in the legal
period of ten months after her divorce from the Mar
ouis de Caux. Nicolini's real name is Ernest Nicolas,
and he belongs to a humble French family. His wife,
from whom he has just been divorced by mutual con-
sent, and from whom he had been separated many
years, is an Italian lady named Maria Annata.
IT having been stated that Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Bright had pensions. an Accrington correspondent
wrote to the latter, who, in reply, says: Il have no
pension; Mr.. Gladstone has no pension. When in Of
fee he received the salary paid for the office. Lord
Beaconsfeld had a pension after leaving Office, and a
salary when in Office. Liberals have not invented
pensions; they have reduced them in number and
amount"
WHEN war was declared by France against Ger
many, Won Moltke was seriously i'll. The King got
the news late in the evening, and went to consult the
Count, whom he found asleep. The Count was
aroused, when the King informed him that war was
declared. with whom?" asked the General. with
France" was the reply. 1.-THE third portfolio on the
left, was all the Count vouchsafed to say, and he fell
asleep Immediately.
EL1zUE WRIGHT, who has just died at the age of
o;cb+r,. ann oroa 1yoo GAO on q het from Daniel w eD-
ster. 1t was in this wise: A political letter signed by
Mr.. Birney had appeared. In a public conveyance
Mr.. Wright denounced it as a forgery. Mr.. Webster
made the bet on its truth. 1t proved to be a forgery.
The money was paid, and Mr.. Wright then paid it to
Appleton, the publisher, who but three days before
had subscrito cd to the Webster fund.
DIR. SCHLlEMANN, the Homeric explorer, is q man
of sixty-three years, full of energy and vigor. He
takes pleasure in continuing his researches. He is a
plain, unassuming man. His house at Athens has
been built for him of solid marble, in the most excel
lent taste, and the view is one Of the finest ever seen.
The windows command a view of the Acropolls, the
bay and the intensely blue waters of the Agean sea.
The fiat roof is adorned with numerous marble statues.
S. B. ELKINs. who was in Augusta, Me-, last week
to see Mr.. Blaine on business matters in which they
are joint Y interested, says that Mr.. Blaine is wholly
devoted to work on his history, the second volume OF
which is to be out in January. He is in better health
than at any time in fifteen years and weighs 19l
pounds. His book, Mr.. Elkins thinks, would never
have been finished if he had been elected President,
and its preparation occupies his time so completely
that he has little interest in politics.
EDGAR A. POE wrote a remarkably legible hand,
with q steel pen, and was extremely careful to intro
duce all the needed commas. semicolons and other
punctuation marks. Each page Of the manuscript was
a small 12mo., pasted carefully to the next page as
soon as finished, so that the result was a long sheet of
10 after which looked like a scroll. A gentleman well
known in New York city has a beautiful example of
Poe's penmanship, which he prizes highly, and for
which he has been offered a large sum.
lola, the French novelist, is described as carrying
a face combatiYe, pert, logged, egotistical, with thick,
sensual lips, a t~urned-up nose, a conspicuous chin and
a good, broad, intellectual brow, with short and bristly
hair atop of it. When lola speaks, though it be only
to say, What fine weather we are having, he man
ages to convey the idea that he is uttering wisdom and
being listened to by one who is presumably an ass.
His life, his home, his face, his habits are those of an
orderly, methodical RENTER. In his youth he suffered
privation and poverty.
HENRI ROCHEFOaT, anent the difficulty between
lola and the French government over s'Germinal, y
relates an incident Of the same sort which befell him
self in the time of the empire. NJ. Plante, the work
ing delegate of the responsible head Of the depart
ment, sent for him one day, and informed him that
there was one passage in a vaudeville of his, just sub
mitted for examination, which could not possibly be
allowed to stand. One of the characters was repre-
ented in a particular scene as exposed to the jeers
and abuse of an assemblage of r%ustics, and he was
made to exclaira, What answer can one give this
foule d. imbeciles?" you are too intelligent" re-
marked Plante to the dramatist, mot to understand
what a very serious matter it would be to permit the
utterance<of such words on the boards of a French
stage" Howe" exclaimed the other; Il see nothing
in them offensive to either morality or to the consti-
tuted authorities Come, sir; no triaing," said the
censor sternly. "Foule d imbecile-the expression is a
direct insult to one of the Emperor's Ministers" And
the author had to substitute 'tas dimbeciles' for the
words in which this unconmonly keen critic had de-
tected a reflection on NJ. Fould.