The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-13

historian Of England is promoted to seat in the up
per House, for which his great learning makes him pc
culiarly qualified.
LIZ the scheme 10 dry up the Zuyder Zee in Holland,
which is agained revived is carried 10 completion it
viii add to Dutch territory province twice the size
of Utrecht. This predetermined land has already
been named "Willemsland."
THE Indian names of Boston, according TO Profess
scr Horsford are: Accomonticus meaning Beyond
thehilliittle-oove;" Messatsoose Massachusetts,,
Great Kill mouth Moshanwomuk, Canoe place,
and Shawmut. 'Near the neck"
Ex-AssIsTANT PosTMAsTER-eEEERAL Brady has
just sent from his seat near San Francisco two car
loads of antique furniture bricab rac ETC., for his
establishment in Washington. His purpose is to add
to it, so as to give it the most attractive interior in
the city
Captain Alfred Taylor of Westpond, Conn, will
celebrate during Thanksgiving week his ninety fourth
birthday and the seventyfourth anniversary of his
wedding His wife is aged ninety two. seventy
one, and daughter sixty. They have scores of de-
scendants who will be present.
THE painted rock of Santa Barbara county. Califor
na is 100 feet high and upon many color paint
ings in good state of preservation that thought
to be the work of Indians. There are two caves in
feetup, and in each of these pictures of animals
ONE of the griefs of Americans in London, dilated
on by has been the housing of the
United States legation That grief is no more One
of the first acts of Minister Phelps Mr. Smalley
was to give his landlord in Members Mansions notice
OF his intention to quit and now, for the first time
within living memory" our minister and the secreta-
ries have comfortable quarters 1O3 Victoria street.
Westminster.
ALL that is left of the house in which Shakespeare
resided during the latter portion of his life and in
which he died is part of the foundation. The last
owner, revengeful parson, pulled the house down
because he thought he being taxed higher than he
considered due He also cut down a mulberry tree
which was planted by the poet in order to rid himself
of the annoyance of people coming from all parts Of
the world to look at it.
ONE of the remarkable men Of Maine is Mr.. D. P.
Livermore, of Hallowel who is probably the oldest
telegraph operator in active service in the world
is in his eighty first year. and has been since 1850
manager of the Haowel Office, where he has Just
made out his four hundred and twentieth monthly
report. When he first took charge the Office
did a business of but two messages day and when
the European steamers arrived at Halifax, the wire
was entirely given up to the which they brought
PHILIPPE DARYL, brilliant French essayst and
critic devotes three columns of the Temps to very
| complimentary notice of DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everybody who speaks English the planet" he
says, has been enjoying for the past thirty years the
superior productions of this Boston Frenchman. And
yet the Latin world remains ignorant of him. After
other similar remarks, M. Daryl gives large number
of extracts from the "Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table" which he pronounces the best of Dr. Holiness
works.
TIuh osn -
with styles of hair dressing that do away with false
hair. 1t says: 1.-The Puritan style of hair cutting
close all over the head and shaped in bang
the forehead. which quite favorite with sport
ing ladies, has been eagerly adopted by our pretty
shop girls, perhaps because it time This style
is net worn in Europe, and the it is dscoun-
tenanced here the better for the looks Of fair
trywomen. Front coifferes are worn in pompadour
STYLE"
NOT many years ago the late Lord Strathnairn was
staying in country house in Yorkshire. Among the
guests in the smoking night were some
young cavalry officers, who narrating tales of
various skylarking adventures in which they had
lately been engaged. The veteran took himself off
to bed, and, his room being overhead. they shortly
after heard the furniture in that apartment being
moved about The next morning some alluded to
this at breakfast. "Ha hal said Lord S. Il was not
going to let you youngsters say you had drawn
field marshal, so put the chest of drawers against
the door" He seventy at the time.
GENERAL BADEAU. formerly American consul at
London, writes thus about Queen Victoria: 'She
still exacts for herself the punotlo of former centu
ries. Men and women of the highest rank knee to
her to-day; Cabinet ministers kiss her hand She re-
fuses to receive any personal service from mental
except at table. She opens door directs
letter Dukes and duchesses cloak her in public and
commoners become Honorable for life because they
have waited On her Majesty. At garden party
have duchess walking behind her to carry
bouquet standing at the entrance Of tent while
her mistress went within to rest or refresh herself
The soveregn's daughters arrange her robes
when she opens Parliament the Prince of Wales pays
homage subject on the occasion her chill
dren must be presented at court upon their marriage
In the early part of her reign she visiting Louis
PHILIPPE, then King of the French at his Chateau
Eu. and one day asked for glass of water 1t was
handed her by servant, but her Majesty declined to
receive it; whereupon the King directed one of his
to offer the goblet which then graciously
accepted"
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