The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-16

erect position. tumbled him violently upon his
nose, whereupon he has commenced suit against the
inventor for $40 900.
COLONEL IvANHoFF. whom the Russians threaten
to turn loose in Afghanistan is still young man.
very tall and handsome, with fair compilation
and full thick beard. This beard has won him
the appelation of Sara-Sakul Tura, The Yellow
bearded chief, and the natives of Turkestan mover
speak of him nor address him by any other name.
PRAY, what do ladies find to think about besides
dress and partiesG" said a fnelooking army officer
who has been doing guard duty in Washington for the
past seventeen years. The remark addressed TO
the assembly but it taken up by Miss Cleveland.
'They can think of the heroic deeds of our modern
army officers, she said smiling pleasantly The officer
subsidized.
CoLoRED people are more successfully photo
graphed rule, than white people are. says ex-
perienced photographer, the medium mulatto making
the finest photograph in the world. Light complex
ions are hardest to take and ltcolored clothing
does not look we'll in pictures. In taking pictures of
animals the instantaneous process is the best Cats
the best sitters.
MADAME HURTRELLE a wellknown society belle
in Paris, was arrested for drunkenness. In defense
she stated that she read that the way of pre-
serving furs from moths was to place them in an
empty spirit cask She accordingly purchased one and
in it put her cloak The weather being chilly, she re-
quired the garment and the alcoholic fumes produced
ntoxication. She was acquitted.
Mrs. BUTLER (nee Thompson) has completed a
painting entitled after the Battle which shows the
opening morning of Tel-elKebir at the moment when
the field definitely decided, and Lord Wolseley,
riding up with his staff cheered by the High
landers. In her desire for realistic expression the
artist spent day in study of recently shot horse in
farmyard, and also endured the piping of real
Highland piper long enough to get the action of his
facial muscles.
MRS. GEORGE w. CHILDs is said to have the finest
collection of table china in the country Her dinner
plates include Sevres Worcester. Derby, Dresden,
Minton, and Copelands; no two, as rule alike,
and each gem. Many of her plates have cost sew
eral hundred dollars a dozen. She gives orders to
people of experience to be the lookout for very
rare specimens. It is said that for a dinner of
twenty persons Mrs Childs can without any difficulty,
set table the decorations of which alone will repre-
sent an expenditure of $50, 900 or $40, OO0
THERE is still living in the north of Scotland old
lady who give the curious visitors who sometimes
drop in on her an interesting glimpse of Lord Byron
When the century was young she accompanied two
three holiday makers to Gamis Castle then thrown
open to visitors and at the entrance fear fell upon
them. BY and by o handsome cavalier with club
foot evidently guest at the CASTLE sauntered the
walk and took in the situation at glance. He put
his around the prettiest girls waist. and drove
the others giggling up the steps and into the hail.
where he signed their in the visitors book
for them. Gray the locks through which the
poets fingers wandered; but the only survivor of the
little incident loves to recall how George, Lord Byron,
looked on that sunny May morning.
TIMOTHY HOPKINS, of Great Darlington, Mass,
born in 1928, the grandfather of Brigadiergen-
eral Timothy S. Hopkins, Of Amherst N. Y, who
served under Major-genera Hall during the war of
1912. The children of the elder Timothy were born
prior to the Revolutionary war; and all their
did not find place upon the town church records
The question to their exact number and names
having caused much perplexity to gentleman who
is engaged in preparing genealogy of the various
branches of the Hopkins family the matter was
finally and definitely settled by adopting authorta
tive the following lines which have been handed
down to the descendants complete list The
arrangement of the names was made about one hun
dred and twenty five years ago
Ehud, Ichabod Dorcas and Tim,
Sarah, Mary Jemima and jim"