The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08


ment, and has been in receipt of about $50, 600 a
year for several years.
KRoM PRA RAJAwANG BovARA STHAN MoNGoL
is dead. Mr.. Mongol has been for some years acting
as King in Siam. The other monarchs have not yet
met to pass resolutions.
BARON OSCAR DICKSON at an elk drive given by
the King of Sweden during the visit of the Prince of
Wales, killed seven eks in seven successive shots-a
hitherto unprecedented feat.
AN old woman whose husband was attached to the
court of Napoleon l. has just left $4,000 to the
present Prince Imperial Victor. He receives many
such donations. large and small.
PRINCE GEORGE, of Wales probably merits his re-
cent promotion to ieutenancy for he has served in
the navy for now more than eight years. His uncle
Edinburg got the promotion in four years.
IRA DAVENPORT, defeated for Governor of New
York, is a memberelect to the next Congress. and
not having resigned when he offered for the higher
honor, will be in the House next winter.
|" NAT GOODWIN, the actor. received West
Point cadetship from John Morrissey, and remained
at the institution about FIVE weeks. Four weeks of
that time, he says he spent in the guardhouse Then
he left.
MEDzIBoR, the splendid Slesian estate left to the
King of Saxony by the late Duke of Brunswick, has
just been sold by his Majesty to Baron BudGen-
brock for ST. 500 600. 1t is of the finest forest
estates in Europe
PRINCE BISMARCK lately said he never knew but
one Frenchman whom he esteemed-"that poor Mon
sieur THEIRS. Being asked why he accorded him such
harsh terms in 1871 ne replied: mot l, but his mis-
fortune accorded them"
Mr.. ARTHUR ORTON, who still amuses himself and
his immediate friends by calling himself Sir Roger
Tichborne is living quietly at Sheerness, and is die
tatng to professional writer romance which he
will call his autobiography.
AN amateur water-colorist of Paris, who is by
courtesy called lady, caught while offering to
an exhibition in Versailles water color by the late
Henri Baron; from this she had erased his name in
order to substitute her own.
ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE has concluded contract
with Colonel Fred Grant. by which the diary kept by
President Grant during his tour round the world will
be published complete in the North American Review
1t will be edited by Colonel Grant.
JAMES D. FISH is the secretary of the chaplain at
Auburn prison. This is rather easy position, but
the public will hardly begrudge him the rest involved
in it, the humiliation of his imprisonment being quite
sufficient to answer the purposes of justice.
ACCORDING to NJ. Lagneau the Unknown statisti-
clan, there is lower rate Of mortality among bach
elors under twentytw years of age than among mar
red men. Above that age the contrary is observed,
and married men live longer than bachelors. Among
bachelors SO per 600 criminals, among married
men 8 per 1000.
MUCH of the talk about Mrs. Mackay's lavish ex-
penditures is sheer bosh. Instead Of her throwing
away half a million year it is said John OILY
allows her 81 600 week, and she has to scrimp
along on that AS for her daughter Eva, the Nevada
papers insist that she is just the sensible Amer
lean young she was before she ever saw Paris
QUEEN VICTORIA has not passed night in London
for fifteen months and in the exceedingly depressed
state of trade in the metropolis her absence exctes
unusually indignant comment A Tory paper, the
City Press. lately urged that the Trade Depression
Commission should make special representation ON
the subject to the Queen but they would not dare
do So
WAGNER, when composing "Siegfried." the
"Meistersinger." arrayed himself in medieval garb
Gluck composed best out of doors in a meadow, with
his piano and bottle of champagne Sacchini
worked surrounded by pet CATS Paesello composed in
bed; Sart in dark room; Meyerbeer, during thun-
derstorm; Auber. horseback at full gaop; Adophe
Adam, buried under an eiderdown quilt and Sir
Arthur Sullivan takes Bass's ale and the sofa.
ONE hundred and five years ago Nicholas Thomas
and Lucy Somes lived in Mt. Desert Me-. and wanted
to be married. There was no minister within thirty
miles, and 80 they married themselves. On the town
records, under date of 1880 is the contract which
they drew up and signed-agreeing in "the presence
of God the angels and these witnesses to love, to
cherish and nourish," and to '1ove honor and obey"
as husband and wife, so long as God should continue
their lives.
THE president Of Magdalen College, Oxford,
the presidency of which is the blue ribbon of such ap
= L IL
ed head of the house-about thirty-fve The place is
worth ST. 500 year. with spacious residence and
certain commssariat allowances. The founder of
Magdalen, William of Waynefete, the first head
master of Eton It is about the best endowed college
of Oxford Addison and Gibbon were both of Magda-
len as was also Oscar Wilde
HELMBoLD, of buchu fame who was got out of an
insane asylum by ex-Judge Curtis, looks we'll and
hearty, though showing signs of increasing years
One of his alleged freaks the erecting of mast
and spar over his store. Observing the same thing
over wellknown sporting resort up town. he quietly
remarked IF that chap had any money mis- relatives
would make that ingenious and novel style of advers
ing an indication of insanity He ought to get up a
fuilrigged ship. though, while about it'
A CUSTOM of the days gone by still obtains in the
District of Columbia courts. According to an old
Maryland law the foreman of each jury is presented
with pound of tobacco rendering the verdict in
each As this is far in of the demand for
the weed the cash equivalent of 81 is substituted
The tobacco fund amounts to considerable sum dur
ing term of court, and is usually devoted to the
purchase of for the foreman bouquets for the
judge, and minor comforts for the jurors
LONDON Life tells anecdotes of Lord Tenny.
sons peculiar gruness. On one occasion he was at
garden party, and somebody offered him sandwich
He laboriously munching this when the hostess
rushed up to him with anxious inquiries about his
health and entertainment. THANK you, madam " he
said, Il am eating sandwich. Are your sandwiches
usually made of old boots, may I ask!" Another
time he asked to read of his poems at a house
where there was party of young girls. He Dlankly
refused. Il shan'tr' he said. Presently he noticed
that of the girls was deeply disappointed that
the tears stood in her eyes, He laid his hand on her