The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-02
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


EDWARD EVERETT HALE reiterates Bulwers
ton that three hours OF daily brain work ample to
get from the best that is in him.
A RESIDENT of New Orleans has been convicted of
lunacy because, when, twice year he changed his
high silk hats, he had the fashioned after
the styles of ten years before.
AT Ocean Grove they have put up notices reading.
Young women who battle are expected to dress
modestly as at home" And yet very few young
wear bathing suits when they battle at home.
PRINCE WALDEMAR, youngest son of Christian OF
Denmark will keep up the reputation of his family for
brilliant matches by wedding the Princess Marie. cid
est daughter of the Due de Chartres one of the
wealthiest young women in Europe.
THOMAS STEVENS, who traversed America on a
bicycle tour around the world, and has now crossed
Europe, writes that the good country roads the
exception in this country but in the parts of
the old world through which he has passed.
THE Uzardes have lost their suit against the ex-
Queen Isabella of Spain and the Duchess of Mont
penser for the $3.50 loaned by their ancestor to
Ferdinand VII of Spain. fifty odd years ago. The
court decided the claim to be barred by the statute of
limitation.
Doctor LoEwE, who will edit the memoirs of Sir
Moses Montefore," for the publication of which
ample provision has been made by the baronets will
has been in the service of the great Hebrew
tary for fifty years, and always accompanied him
upon his travels. Doctor Loewe was at time
librarian to the duke of Sussex.
A MICHIGAN girl outdid her companions in a craze
for autograph albums by having about 100 letters
from the same number of men bound in a volume for
her parior table, AS the mssves represented her ex-
tensve and unusual sentimental correspondence since
she had arrived at the age of chirography the coec
ton proved very interesting to callers.
MADAME GARCIN, who in her religious character is
known as Sister ST. Cyprien. has been appointed
Chevalier of the Legion Of Honor. She is the Su-
peror of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine at
Marsees. She has attended the sick during all the
epidemics of cholera typhus fever and smallpox
which have visited the hospitals since 1912.
THE discovery has been made that Mormon mis-
sonares do not let their foreign converts know of the
polygamous doctrine of the Latter Day Saints until
arrival in Utah A full set of Mormon books and
tracts, used in England by preacher contained no
mention of plurality of wives and marriage service
in publication included the familiar proviso of
wife to one husband
ROW of stores have show windows opening
hotel veranda at Saratoga In of these the
central object is chense 1t is delicate and intr
production of loom and needle work 1t is part of
the trousseau of forthcoming BRIDE who is gen.
orally identified the prospective of the
admired garment that her is commonly men
toned in connection with it.
AURELIEN ScHoIL: A Russian friend of mine who
in frequent attendance the Emperor Nicholas
told me that this savage monarch was so thoroughly
bued with the idea of personal power that in speak
ing of Russia he used to say: my climate, my snow
my thunderstorm Of last autumn" One morning
he was looking out of the window he said my
clouds hang very low this morning"
prize-fght arranged between two young
women in Australia. The pugilists came up defiant
and jaunty for the first round, which ended in a
mutual knockdow each receiving blow squarely in
the At the expiration of the allowable interval
the referee called Time !" but the antagonists had
lost all VIM and both weeping the possible
dsfgurment Of their facesa calamity compared with
which the loss of the fight was nothing
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain is declared by COR
respondent to have become simply tub-hke in figure.
The wart her says the ruthless chronicler
more prominent than ever and altogether the sover
egn to whom the Pope sent the golden looks
sadly like the Belle Circassiene exhibited at the Neu
lily Fair If she would only hide her deformty-if
she would high dresses and long sleeves, walk
decently and keep her rowing eyes they are much
inAamed I notice. in check little-one might be
blind to her obesity; but she persists in thrusng her
fat upon you. She low dresses. as though she
girl of twenty and her eye when it lights on
favorte Of the hour has awful resemblance to that
of ogre. She fairly devcurs the unfortunate she
sares him out of countenance In vain he may affect
to be a free man.
In Japan girl at the age of nine begins to wear
her tresses tied up with crimson scarf bound
around the back of her head. The forehead is left
bare, with the exception of couple OF locks,
each side. When she is of manageable age, she
combs her hair forward and arranges it in the shape
of fan butterfly decorating it with silver cord and
ball-topped pins of varied colors An inconsolable
widow cuts her hair short and goes in for adorn
ing whatever; consolabe widow wears tortoise-she
pins set horizontally at the back of her head, and
twists her hair in loose coils about them. By all these
simple means much confusion is avoided. This last
mode is most adopted by American ladies; there
FORE while its significance would be Greek to
American gentleman it would have the above sign6-
canoe to Jap visitor.
THERE has just died in Devonshire, in his ninety.
fifth year, says the World (London), the Rev. H. J.
Ellacombe rector of Clyst st. George, who was the
greatest living authority church bells. He origi
nally studied engineering with Sir Isambard Brunei,
but, desiring to take orders, he ordained in the
year following the battle of Waterloo. His church,
one of the most beautiful in Devon, was restored
under his own supervision and largely by his own
hands the work having been in progress eleven years
His singular artistic and mechanical powers were
unique and only month before his death he had
superintendent mural work. It is said that there
not belfry in Devon in which he hao not been,
and he a vouminous writer and constant con.
trbutor to the leading scientific and technical jour
nails. He is said never in his long life to have made
an enemy