The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-10

Corporations
some of these places
CANON FARRAR went away with the best wishes of
the American people. About 25, 900 q those wishes
bore the monogram of this Nations.
THE river Euphrates has spread out into marsh
below Babylon, the channels entirely choked and
it is anticipated that the desert will swallow it up
YOUNG poetess told her 'secret to the sweet wild
rose" This was imprudent. Soon the sweet wild
rose will blow" and then she'll wish she had kept her
secret.
THERE 10000 workmen employed the
Croton dam and aqueduct, New York. Whom COM
pleeG the city will receive per day 800 900 900 gal
Ions of water.
THREE wedding dresses are needed for every
Frenchwoman. One is for the civil marriage the
ond for the contract singing and the third for the
Egious ceremony.
THE Prince of Wales's increasing fondness and in
innate connection with the turf said to cause his
royal mother and the Princess of Wales considerable
anxiety and dspeasure the Queen in particular being
much vexed with the Prince
THANKSGIVING Alfred Taylor of Westpond. Conn.,
celebrated the seventy fourth anniversary of his we'd
ding, and his ninety fourth birthday. His wife is
ninetytwo years of age and he has SON OF seventy
one and daughter of sixty years.
THE Earl of Dysart who married Miss Florence
Newton few days ago. does not of age until he
is forty but he has allowance from his trustees of
100000 year. which will be multiplied by four
when he has his income in his own hands.
THE Argus of Monterey, Cal says the brig Natalia,
in which Napoleon made his escape from Elba,
wrecked in 1884 near the harbor of that town, and
the hull can still be at low tide Several frag
ments came ashore the other day in storm.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the Birmingham nail and
hardware manufacturer who is the Radical leader in
the House of Commons. wears in his buttonhoe the
most costly flower raised, the orchid. Lord Beacons
field wore the most common flower in England, the
primrose.
AN increase is noted of exactly 100 per cent. of the
number of women registering in order to vote for
members of the school committee at the Boston
nicpal election next week. The number this year is
2,23S. Last year it ,119. and the gain is larg
est in Democratic wards.
Miss CoRDELIA S. WATERMAN who died at Bridge
port, Conn, a few days ago, was worth 100000
in her right and controlled property to the value
of So 900 600, made chiefly in California. She left
direct heirs and the property goes to a score
more of nephews and nieces.
ABOUT fifty young ladies have applied for admission
to the new American School of Opera in New York
They will be able to become prime donne under easier
perhaps when they have graduated the public demand
for opera will have increased to meet the supply.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY believes that there is an ocean
1900 miles in diameter round about the pole that
freezes and conectures that the pole itself is
the center of ice-capped land, covered with ice
from l, 900 to 1000 feet thick These conclusions
rejected by prominent arctic authorities in Eng
land.
SETH kINMAN, the California hunter, who present
ed unique chairs to Presidents Buchanan, Lincoln
johnson and Hayes will next spring honor President
Cleveland in similar manner. This chair is made of
elk horns is curously and deliberately constructed
and is said by Mr.. Kinman to be ''the best cheer
ever did make
Don CARLOS, the Spanish pretender, is handsome,
dark compexioned well-built man. His father was
not. There is no divinity that hedges in king so
far scandal is concerned, much less royal pre-
tender So his father is reported to have been a
gypsy. who displayed some military talent in the
ice of the third Don Carlos
THE EZRA of Jeffersonian simplicity" that was to
dawn upon Washington with the advent of Demo
cratic administration has failed put in an appear
Each of the Cabinet ministers Except Attorney
general Garland who can't afford t) lives in house
worth good round fortune has stylish turnout
and lives generally in very swell manner
SYRACUSE paper mentions a remarkable histor-
ca fact, to the effect that Commodore Vanderbilt
shook hands with engineer on the New York
Central road and remarked: II am not ashamed to
shake hands with such you are" For the
benefit of generations yet unborn it is to be regretted
that no report was made of what the engineer said.
AN item is going the rounds to the effect that the
Sultan's personal expenses $4,000, 600 year.
This is evidently the work of another correspond
emit who has been unable to get military The
Sultans expenses for the S 900 persons who belong
to the court and harem about 81, 900, 900. The
balance any, remains unpaid and cannot be classed
as expenses.
THE total cost of the liquor drunk is 1857 800 900
per year and the average expense per head of
tire population would be $40. Last year 1916 OOO-
900 worth of beer consumed, and there was
more money sunk in spirits by $346. 900, 900 than
paid for boots shoes and cotton goods. The
amount expended ON drink yearly would sustain g.
600, 600 people.
DAVID PORTS, coal miner has commenced suit
zleton Pa, to compel them to the body of
his fatherin-law, who persisted by accident in the
mine Although the body known to be at the bot
tom of pool of water in the mine effort was made
to recover it. and the pool was afterwards filed up
with debris from a brcast-work.
IT has been discovered that General McClellan's
article on Antietan, which announced some time
ago to appear in the Century of the SERIES
far completed before the authors death as not
to prevent its publication. Manuscripts have been
found which constitute in fact, consecutive nara
tive and they will be printed. They discuss the with
drawal of the Army of the Potomac from the James
river and describe McCellans relations with Lincoln
and Haleck and the condition of the army from the
time of Pope's retreat until Mcclellan took command
part of the article containing tribute to the Army
of the Potomac will be printed in fac smile.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
Nothing that General Black reports explains
the Democratic hostility to the Union soldier
Detroit Tribune