The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-17

{ nciency liz was composed, no doubt, like
hundreds of once popular jigs and ssbreak
downs by some old-time fiddler, as the Glasgow
| drayman composed the air, "Whistle and I'll
Come to Ye, My Lad" by practicing some musical
| phrase that he happened to strike till he got
used to it, and then fitting beginning and end
to it. The Traveller" was great favorite here
forty years or more ago. but there score
OF other dancing tunes as good, and good
many better. Tosso was the best yiolnist seen
here till Ole Bulls first visit, in December 1853,
when Patti then girl of ten or twelve
years, was with him, and sang Comm thro
the Rye" Tosso is remembered by very few
InGianapoltans now.
| Miss CLEVELAND, the Presidents sister, hav-
gone to New York to make visit, the report
was straightway put in circulation that she had
quarreled with her brother and would not re-
| turn The story being started on it's travels it
became necessary to account for the quarrel,
and cause was speedily found in the supposed
difference of opinion between the two on the
| temperance question. Full particulars Of the
/ difficulty had reached but small circle when an
intimate friend of Miss Cleveland, and herself
temperance woman wrote to a New York
prohibition organ saying, with an ap-
pearance of authority, that the lady
of the White House understood the
fact that she could not be a temperance
lecturer while presiding over the Presidents
| household, and saw no reason for giving any
public expression to her views while occupying
that position. This statement being supple
mented by an unqualified denial from the execu
| tive mansion that any quarrel had taken place
| should, it would seem, settle the question.
Readers of truly enterprising papers, however,
need not be surprised to see complete details of
the imaginary disagreement and subsequent
reconciliation. The tale which, as it stands,
bears marks of having originated in an ultra
| temperance atmosphere will naturally cause
Miss Cleveland to desire to be saved from her
| friends
| Some Swiss philosopher thinks that the explo-
| sion of the great volcano ''Krakatoar in Java,
| in August, 1853, was heard, through the whole
| body Of the earth, at an island directly on
| the other side in the Caribbean sea, and ne
proposes to investigate the exact time of the oc-
currence of the sound at one antpode and its
perception at the other. There have sbeen a
| good many wild notions of physical operations
this is about the least plausible of ALL unless we
| except the Frenchman's theory of volcanic ac-
| ton caused by the concentration of the suns
heat by the convex surface Of the sea, acting
| like convex lens, and the melting of rock, and
the evolution of infinite steam force to shoot the
hot lava out over the surface The two are
twins Of awful import.
in inc had
to June rose, expresses himself as loving best
that variety of flower which f1ourishes
| 'In old gardens of the West.
Whether about my thatch thou Irvine
Or hers that brown-eyed maid of mine
Who luls thee on her lawny breast,
royal Rose"
| This is very pretty, but shows clearly Mr..
| Dobson's utter ignorance of the West and its
costumes. If the young woman of the West
who lives under a thatch ever INDUCES in the
act of luling rose she luls it upon calico or
black alpaca breast with no 'lawny" accessories
to her toilet. Poetic license can hardly permit
| such inaccuracies as Mr. Dobsons
Mr. GLADSTONE's argument in favor of grant
| ing government allowance to Princess Beatrice,
on the ground that her marriage, like all the
others in her Majesty's family, is founded on
affection, seems to have lost its point in crossing
the ocean. Carrying out this theory to its logi
cal extent, the annunties allowed to these scions
of royalty should be withdrawn when the affec-
ton wanes This, if gossip is to be believed:
might bear little hard on the Princess Louise
and her forlorn Lorne, but it would teach the
others to assume domestic virtues, if they have
them not
| u Of thAraa-
bouts, wants divorce because he was 'entlced"
into marriage by bold bad beauty of Saratoga.
| Mr. Belt is an awful example to younger men
who fondly hope that at the age of threescore
| they will be out of danger from woman's wiles,
| and who sing with emotion:
when am old then shall be wise.
Then shall not care for bronze-brown eyes"
| A MICHIGAN man has attached twenty thou
sand dollars worth of the property of Cincinnati
man under suit for damages for having alien
ated his wfes affections. If there is one thing
which the Cincinnati man despses more than
another, it is this mercenary spirit which is be-
| coming so common in affairs of the heart
| A MAN has been discovered in Alabama who
is 1O3 years old, is living with his ninth wife,
and is the father ''he believes of lit children.
The old gentleman, it is perhaps not necessary
| to add, is a preacher by profession.
| EASTERN worshipers Of Shakspeareare evident
| ly of the opinion that Mr. Gunther, the Chicago
| candy man, is treating them to tafy when lie
| declares that he has book containing genuine
| autograph of the dramatist
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