The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17

button the size and shape of buttonwood ball. to the
light-colored outward dress. are of the style made
FAMILIAR by the pictures of oldtme poets. His voice
is full and strong but he talks with hesitaney
and searching forthe word TO fit exactly his idea"
PROFESSOR TYNDALL told this anecdote in the
course of his third lecture on 1.-THE Sources of Elec
tricity" in London He was working with a battery
equivalent to fifteen large Leyden Jars, in Of his
former discourses and by chance he touched the
of the machine 1t had long been his earnest desire
to the effect of this force upon human being and
he must have felt peculiar qualification in expert
menting upon himself The whole charge was in
stantly poured into his body and nobody knew any
thing about it except himself. He found that. how
ever his nerves were so curiousy affected that for
time his limbs seemed to him to be separated
from his body; otherwise he felt nothing at all
ToURGUENEFF bore his last illness with great forti
tude. ut seems may linger twenty years with my
ncurable illness. But is such life worth ivingg
cannot walk cannot stand; can only sleep thanks
to morphia and lie only on the left side. But enough
if ever get better, you to hear it at once
Remember Goethe, ne said at another time. "Was
he not saturated with every human blessng2-great
fame. loved by women, hated by idiots; his works
translated in Chinese the whole of Europe rush
ing to kneel before him. And Napoleon said to
him, Cest TN homme' Well, and with all that. when
he eighty-two he declared that during all his life
he had been actually happy only quarter of an hour!
So, you see we must not grumble." In December,
1882, he wrote: II repeat am not losing heart till
l did not give up all hope it was much worse am
sixty four. have enjoyed my life. and now must
shut up But how wish could go to Russia" In
the published volume of his correspondence, the last
IN unit nlr duip hand
is addressed to Count Leo Toltoy and is dated June
%, 1888. He died on the 22d of the following
August.
1T was in Pttsburg, and Mr.. Irving was playing
Shylock when from the gallery "a voice fell like
falling star, Great goshl It fell from country
man from Noon township, who, when the play
went to The stage door and wanted to thrash the
actor But he didn't. Later at a hotel he asked
If he saw Shylock. eyes, 1 him, said he "and
it is not the first time, either" when did you
him beforeY" why 1 seen that fellow in Moon
township last week, peddling notions. It's the same
Jew, and you can bet hundred if he comes out
there again will not split hairs with him about
pound of flesh, for Frank McGinnis and I will skin
him alive" ''You certainly mistaken about the
man." 'No, SIR He was trading cuff, buttons for
wool. and he had the same pair of scales and the
same ugly look.' "But that Jew on the stage was
Henry Irving the celebrated English actor" That's
enough you can't fool me-. know my man. and I've
been in the same fix myself as that young antonio.
That young fellow, Antonio, had been out log-roll
ing, and having fun with the boys and that
Sheeney Shylock had lent him some money, and then
wanted the EARTH and he would have killed the young
fellow with that if hadn't been right there.
Critics will please again say that Mr. hyings
representations are mot natural"
THE Emperor of Austria is described by Count Vas
sili finding his chief in shooting in the
Salz Kammergut mountains where he gets up before
daybreak to stalk deer track the cbamois and shoot
the woodcock From taste and duty he constantly at
tends barrack drills, military parades, reviews and
sham fights. His entire energy runs in these two
cupaons because out of love for his pepe he has de-
barred himself from all others. He would have liked
head armies on battleGelds and dangerous expedi-
TONS with superb stats in attendance, but he early
resolved to be the constitutional arch of feders
as empire and defeats that humbed his pride forced
him to make his remuneration of personal power
plete. His remuneration cost him q great effort and
saddened him profoundly. He had to step down from
the rank of Kaiser to be bureaucrat without inita
tive or salient function. From in the morning he is
often kept until late in the day signing official papers,
which he ventures to make observations. He
that he constantly has his desk hastily laid break
fast. The parliamentary system has never fourished
in his empire, in which there is longer place for
Cesar. 1t is impossible for him to be popular his
life being too isolated but he is dhearted and all
those who approach him know that in being charitable
his left hand ignores what his right hand gives away