The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-30

false and that he neglected to tell her that he
snored in his sleep They could not agree to set
fault against the other.
Six thousand letters Of Peter the Great have re-
manned under suppression. The Emperor of Russia
permits the publication of a selection.
THE Castle of Buda, home of Hungarian NOM
archy for centuries is to be completely rebuilt by the
Emperor Fancis Joseph at a cost Of SO, 100000
THE prayers of the famous Fulton-street prayer
meeting, in New York, have been asked for "a church
which is prospecting every way except spiritually"
A VENETIAN gondolier makes on an average four
francs about eighty ceuts) day the year round On
this he viii marry, family and put some money
away.
PRINCE LEOPOLD only son of the late Prince
Frederick Charles of Germany, has started on long
tour in the East The possession of 100000
enables him to do as he pleases
PROFESSOR o. c. MARSH, of Yale has an elegant,
mosscovered granite house Prospect street, New
Haven, and some of his friends speak Of it as
''Thy cold gray stones, o. c."
MONARCH, Engands champion bulldog. for which
a4OO had been refused has just died. He had taken
immense number of prizes, and was considered by
experts to be the best bulldog since Crib.
OSNABRUCK sent Prince Bismarck diploma Of
honorary citizenship inclosed in caske made of the
wood of bench in the ancient Hall of Peace in the
town-house in which the Peace Of Westphalia
signed in 1913
THE ex-Empress Eugene is making a round OF
European wateringplaces as the Countess de Pierre
fonds. The detective police of Carlsbad learning
that the assumed title fictitious reported her as
adyenturess
The Swedish Professor Warming the famous bot
anist has gone to the Norwegian coast to study the
is ahout HE will ha
perfume as the mere mention of the Professors
will be warming.
THE remarrying record has again been lowered
this time by resident of Webster county, Miss.
whose wife died ON Monday, and who buried her on
Tuesday took out license on Wednesday, and
espoused her successor Thursday.
THE Rev. Robert Laird Collier resembles Henry
Irving closely that, when in London, he was mis-
taken for the actor by intimate friends. Mr.. Collier
says that once member of the Lyceum Theater Com
pany talked an hour with him about dramatic mat
tiers. supposing him to be his employer
"MIKADo" is pronounced as if it written "Me-
kaw-dough," the accent being the second syllable.
Or, more precisely; the is the French with the q
sound, is like the in far and the final is long. It
is thought by etymologsts that the word is Japanese
compound from mi y honorable, august and "kado"
gate equivalent to Sublime Porte Mikado is the
ttuar of the Emperor of japan.
Miss LYDIA THOMPSON the burlesque queen will
appear this fall Miss Thompson is now forty four
years old She is still young looking woman, who
retains the pleasing stage presence and lively
that made her so popular when she first appeared.
She is native of London and began her professional
career at the age of eleven, making her debut as a
dancer at Z er Maiestys Theater London, in 1852.
Her American debut made in 'Ixion,' in New
York when she was twenty seven years old
A PHILADELPHIA bbliomaniac has collection of
nearly seven tons of newspaper clippings on every
conceivable subject. There are biographies of every
prominent man and woman in the world, anecdotes
about them. and editorial comments their failures
and successes. The clippings about Queen Victoria
would fill several goodsized volumes. He has thou
sand columns of material about General Grant 1t Is
of his daily pleasures to arrange this mass Of
matter in convenient form for reference. He ia
going to leave the whole collection Of the large
libraries.
THE Hartford Courant tells good story of the
great Snowman: A day or two ago Mr.. Barnum saw
some cattle in his grass at Park avenue and Park
place in Bridgeport and ordered them to be driven
to the pound When his farmers went out that nights
to milk there were COWS, and then the truth
out. The pasture had been changed without Mr..
Barnum's knowledge, and he had impounded his own
cows, and had to pay several dollars to get them out
THE Russian censor has defined the meaning of his
tory in Russia An author, in describing the tent Of
of the grand dukes stated that among its orna-
ments ''the portrait of certain actress" The
altered the phrase to "a large map of the thea
ter of war;" The novelist objected that his descrip-
ton was historical" whereupon the censorship
replied that Gin Russia nothing is historical except
what appears in the official journals"