The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01

volume % began with January, 1922, the change
being made that the volume might correspond with
the year of the century.
DIR. NACHrIGAL, the pioneer of German West Afri-
can colonization. is to be commemorated by a fine
memorial over his grave at Cape Palmas. lofty enough
to serve as a landmark for seamen. The Teutonic
geographical societies will provide the funds.
STGE0R DEL PuENTE, whose loss of money through
the errors of a friend (who committed suicide) has
been recorded, gave a nice little lecture on synonyms
when he said: For my money I feel sorry, but for
my friend 1 grieve. I can bear sorrow better than I
can bear grief"
A LADY living on the Blue Ridge, in Rappanannock
county, Va. had twelve stands of bees, which were
very..valuable until a ~distillery was started in the
neighborhood. Since it started the bees fly over there
and get very drunk, and are now of very little proht.
Too much peach and honey"
RIGHTEOUS wrath illuminated the face Of the Rev.
F. 7. Tonge, of Exeter. England, the other day when
at the wedding of Miss Bessie Brown, he stood up in
the pulpit, assumed a digni6ed attitude, and solemnly
rebuked that part of the congregation that had come
there ''only to see what could be produced by the
mandatory of art and the dressmaker's skill"
A PHYSICIAN says the idea of a teaspoonful is one
fluid drachm. This is, in fact, about the measure
ment of that article as used by our grandmothers.
but this. and the dessert spoon are now made so much
larger than formerly that they hold nearly two
drachms, and people who measure medicine by them
overdose themselves. The tablespoon remains as in
the old days.
PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales, having completed his
gunnery course on board the Excellent, is now stead
lily following the prescribed course of torpedo work,
but manages. Notwithstanding, to get a good deal of
amusement taking an active part in the yacht races,
cub-hunting with the Goodwood hounds, and going to
balls. He will soon be appointed as flag lieutenant to
his uncle. the Duke of Edinburg, on board the Colos-
SuS.
THE footmen who wait solely upon the Queen Of
Sweden and her daughter wear a very quaint uniform,
consisting of q tunic. a %petticoat and breaches edged
with gold lace. Their attire includes a wonderful
head-dress, consisting of a kind of embroidered skull
cap from which arises three ostrich feathers, none of
which is less than three feet high. A newspaper cor
respondent had to hide himself under a table in order
to sketch these magnificent funkeys at his leisure.
A MEMBER of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals having urged the society to Pc
tition the Queen on behalf of the deer. the secretary
in his reply makes the humiliating admission that "a
petition to the Queen would be of no service at all, for
the reason that she keeps a large pack of hounds for
the very purpose of hunting these animals; besides,
she would not dare, I think, to interfere with the
sporting people, which would make her very unpopu-
lar with the upper classes
M. PENALI, a portrait painter in Lyons, was en-
gagged to be married to Mile. Minnie Bernard, and the
day of the wedding had been announced. A few days
ago Penai said to his fancee; 81 hope you have paid
Difference to my antipathy and ordered all your
clothes without a hustle" The girl smiled and re-
piled: Sooner than wear a wedding dress without a
tournure | shall never wear any at all" The artist
earnestly protested, and finally begged her to choose
between him and her devotion to fashion. The result
was not in his favor, and he left the same evening for
Egypt.
A RUSSIAN paper tells Of a rich woman
who placed one thousand roubles in the
hands of a friend, the interest on which
was to be set apart annually for a pet dog. The dog
died, and the friend in charge took the money for her
self. But now comes another lady, who owns a son
of the pet dog, and therefore claims that her dog is
the heir to the income of the one thousand roubles,
nothing having been said in the will regarding the
disposal of the money after the death of the canine
heir. However, as the case is in court, the money
will go to the dogs one way or another.
POPE LEO has taken up his favorite autumn amuse-
ment, lark-catching in the Vatican Gardens. Accord.
ing to a description given by the correspondent Of the
independence Beige, this sport seems strangely cruel.
Numbers OF fine singing larks, it is said, are blinded
with a red-hot needle, and concealed in cages in a fine
laurel grove, where focks Of larks fly across from
seaward during their autumn migrations. The blind
%songsters decoy their fellows by their loud strains,
and nets are then deity dropped over the unlucky
birds attracted. The Pope himself often extricates
the birds, and kills them in the approved fashion by
crushing their heads between thumb and finger.
THE Coffee Pot Holder is the name of the leading
paper published in Coffee Pot Springs, I. II. This is
the way in which it gives a local color to the sketches
accompanying it's syndicate portraits of prominent
men: I'VE print to-day a portrait of King George /
of Greece, from an engraving made by our special
artist, after a carte de visite sent us by his Greekness,
who is a scion of one of the first families of Europe.
Old Coffee Politics cannot fail to detect in King
Georges pictured ~lineaments the dead spit of Billy
Divine, who ran the New Found Out saloon in this
camp during 18S3-S4, and was afterward called hence
while endeavoring to hold up the Tin Cup stage"
"RoCHEFoRT," says a correspondent of a London
Journal, "has a vast head, and the widest and deepest
chest of any Frenchman that I know. The bulk of
his frame diminishes Tin appearance) his stature. The
nerves are as exciting as the muscles are strong, and
he vibrates as readily as an Aolian harp. He produces
his best articles when he has put off work to the last
moment and printers are clamoring for copy The
brain then gets finely congested, and he covers page
after page, without exactly knowing what runs from
his pen, but is pretty sure that his readers will. like it.
In correcting the proofs he is in too great a hurry to
exercise his critical powers, and merely accentuates
what he has done to be very sure that it will tell"
In France there are publishing firms that have no
time to turn out anything but almanacs, and this fall
there are more than ever. The almanac for mothers
is one That mothers could not be expected to do with.
out, and the almanac for daughters is presumably not
to go into the hands of mothers. There are comic
almanacs and serious. almanacs Though not so many
serious ones), and a popular almanac counts its sale
by millions. Perhaps this is one of the things they
do better in France than in England. The almanac
for boot and shoe makers is quite as readable as our
trade journals; it is often more ~digestible than our
~banquets, and now and then is almost as useful as our
literary or scientific congresses. An English wit said
that if there was another flood, there would be a party