The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24

the Indian societies, and the Look Up Legion, ETC.
Besides discussion on these subjects the magazine
viii condense the annual reports of the principal char
table societies and the leading State institutions of
charity.
ALPHoNsE DACDET is said to be sadly changed. He
has shut himself up at home a sufferer from the
rheumatism and from that popular malady known as
nerves, and lives the life of recluse receiving al
most no He has worked too hard and taken life
too seriously, and now he pays the penalty.
Il HAVE heard" writes Mr.. Labouchere ''of an
agricultural laborer to whom an asprant for his
was pointing out what Mr.. Gladstone had done for
the country and who replied: 4 never heard of the
gentleman but be you friend of chap called Col
ms who's going to give three of land and free
muckF"
BISHOP F. d. HUNTINGTON writes that a good
Sunday issue of a newspaper keeps vast numbers of
both sexes from churchgoing by counter attraction
1t turns the scale adversely with multitudes who
hesitate 1t takes up agreeaby the unoccupied hours
1t is easier than church going and costs less" This
the Bishop regrets.
MERIMEE, French w.t. referring to NJ. Viennet
of the Acadamy, observed: I'VE must not speak i'll
OF his tragedies. At the siege of Lepsic he had
on his mind that he intended for Talma. cannon
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saved him. The missile had not strength enough to
go beyond the third act"
E. P. Roe, whose famous novels, Barriers Burned
Away and The Opening of Chestnut Burr, " have
had an aggregate sale of nearly 400 600 copies has
written short story. 1t is Western story and has
for sub title "a Log Cabin Tragedy" S. S. Mcclure
has secured the story for syndicate Of newspapers of
which the Journal is member.
The Empress Eugene arrived at Carlsbad last
week and will stay there for three weeks cure after
which she is going for fortnight to Arenenberg her
picturesque villa the Untersee, near Constance
The Empress will to Scotland when she returns to
England to pass month at Abergeldie Castle, which
has been placed at her disposal by the Queen.
LONDON journal, quoting statistics to back it up,
presents as moral paradox the statement that the
most poorly paid working girls in the metropolis are
those engaged in the work of sewing and binding
Bibles 1t adds that for every heather abroad who
can be induced to the sacred volume for anything
else than gunwaddng dozen of these girls are driven
to perdition at home"
THE Sandford QF1a.) Journal is responsible for the
statement that resident of that place has a water
melon vine in the waterwOrks yard that is growing at
the rate of quarter of inch hour; that by act
ual measurement has grown ten inches in forty
hours. This beats the Georgia variety which has
entirely chastise Jack and the Bean Stalk"
THOMAS b LEY ALDRICH is said to be a of
strong dislikes and prejudices. In his work he in
cines to things that naturally bright loves pretty
women jewels flowers and the daintiest romances of
the dantest chimes In appearance he is somewhat
thick set, blonde and of the middle height. He has
features that lend themselves easily to the humorous
play of his fancy and the pointed ends of moustache
treated somewhat in the French manner accentuate
with certain chic, the quips and pranks which so
often issue from beneath it.
AMONG the things which thrty-fve years ago went
to make up the crime of high treason in Italy the
possession of Bible which in the list of revolu-
tonary and forbidden books and for man to own it
was to subject him to prison. the gaeys and even to
death. Now Bible depots established in every
Italian city, and tnerant vendors circulate the book
freely. In conspicuous store in the Corso Rome, q
whole window is filled with copies Of the Italian
sion of the Scriptures. The New Testament can be
purchased for five cents and separate gospel for two
NINE. MODJEsKA has house in every civilized
country Besides her chalet in the Carpathian mount
aims, she has a substantial winter residence in
Cracow In England her husband owns house and
estate of extent Hereford, and in fishing
vii age the Cornish coast Nine Modjeska owns a
little stone cottage whose garden down~to the
sea- one ana aer husband nave long lease of
house in London Northwest beyond St. Johns Wood
In America she a ranch of 500 acres in the
vicinity of Los Angeles. fine place in the suburbs
of Posen completes the list. Eventually she may
take up her residence in New York.
AN Englshwoman just home from America sends
to the Pail Mall Gazette her opinion that an influx of
highly-cultured Englshwomen into Canada and the
United States would be great boon to those coun
tries as it would be relief to Great Britain. cal
though the ladies in the older cities of the North
American continent are she says, with scarcely
any exceptions, superior to English gentewomen in
brain power, n clearness of mental vision in common
sense, in practical, sound judgment, and in general
intelligence, yet miss in them that indefnable
charm which always clings to cultivated European"
She has been assured by the government officials in
Canada that if superior women between the ages of
eighteen and twenty-five would come there from Eng
land, and submit to the position of domestic service
they would almost be sure to marry we'll within a
short time of their arrival especially if they go far
West. She gravely advises her educated country
women to do this.
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