The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-16

of loneliness placed In ac.osed carriage and driven
to the apartments of the bridegroom, who was won
dering what sort of companion his relatives and
friends had selected for him. He of course had
seen Ter.
WHEN John Ruskin was fourteen years of age his
parents were divided between wishing him to be q
bishop and wishing him to be a poet laureate. The
rising genius of Tennyson did check their aspira
tons in the latter direction The boy at that time
was prolific writer Of rhymes the most Of which
have been preserved to the present day
The pawn-brokers of Boston are considerably ag
tated and fear loss patronage consequence of
order issued recently by the police commission com
pelng them to send to headquarters at the close of
each day description of each article presented to
them, the amount of money loaned on the same, to-
gether with the and description of each person
offeringit.
LITTLE strip of sidewalk, about Eve feet wide in
front of the United States courthouse in Boston, is
constantly the refuge of the street pedders of bou
quets who wish to evade the payment of the license
fee which the city ordinances require As the strip is
the property of the United States, they here bid
defiance to the police but it not infrequently happens
that their eagerness to sell lures them out and them
if caught, they are brought to court and fined
Mr.. EDMUND YATES, in the last number of his
World praises the new society" device whereby at
balls the hostess protects herself and guests against
what he calls the walLfower masher or the supper
hunting young men of the period, who are common
In New York in London. She hands to the dancers
blue ticket emitting them to champagne supper,
but to the walfower pink ticket as case of ''no
waltz, no supper" allowing him only lemonade and
biscuit.
JAMES R. OsGooD & Co., of Boston. are publishing
book for General Hazen, entitled "a Narrative of.
Military Service" An advance notice Says
1t is not too much say that it will be read eagerly
alike by his friends and his enemies and by none more
eagerly than the whom he led at Shiloh who held
the crest Stone river who stood firm under his eye
Chlckamauga who hoated with him by night under
the shadow of Lookout Mountain down to Browns
Ferry who received his order to climb the face of
Mission Ridge, who helped to take Atlanta, who
marched to the who swarmed the parapet of
Fort McAllster, who made the triumphant campaign
OF the Carolinas and passed in review before the
President 1t is their proud history that he has here
recorded, and, In doing so, he has written his own
AT the late meeting of the California State Teach
ers Association A. L. Bancroft delivered lecture
proposed new alphabet The Sacramento Union
Says Previous to the address charts were distrib
uted showing the proposed San Francisco Alphabet
for Revised English Spelling, 1884, This shows
a scheme of thirteen vowels, four diphthongs. and
twenty-four consonants. The system may be summed
up particularly in tho statement that it is short
hand written in long way. The characters apart
from the ordinary alphabet resemble ordinary letters
now in generally MIR. Bancroft explained the
chart at length and claimed for the San Francisco
alphabet variety of advantages.
In his Boston lecture the other night, g. A. Sala
told of his experiences at the coronation of Alexander
ILL., 1t was necessary to wear a uniform to gain ad
mission. He accordingly wore plain one that did
not gain HIN any particular attention, but his
tary held some civilian appointment at London the
chief perquisite of which the right to wear
uniform, Sin comparison with which Solomon in all
his glory the smallest of potatoes" To his paper
he sent dispatch of seven and half columns. How
to get it ahead of other correspondents guam
Diary. But intrusting it to his secretary, what
the latters surprise as he neared the door in his
flaming raiment to the entire guard present arms
while he marched through. His dispatch was sent
two hours before any other correspondent got away
from the ceremony.
IT appears from account of Viennese society
publishing in Paris that there are no less than
seventy archdukes and archduchesses belonging the
House of Hapsburg who all marry into the royal
CASTE form clan among themselves, and do not
ciate intimate terms with the highest nobil.
ity. The London Spectator asks: "Who maintains
all these princes and princesses2 They have, pre-
sumo, all claims upon the patrimonia estate of the
House of Hapsburg and the estate is large; but the
subdivision is becoming extreme. If the number of
claimants should in fifty years be doubled as it very
well may be- the family will be compelled either to
give up its pretensions to solitude and mate with
milionaires, to pass rule like that of Dutch
families that only certain number shall marry,
to initiate the example of the Delhi princes who all
lived together in the great palace of them upon
allowances barely sufficient to sustain life."