The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-08

any claim to beauty of countenance though concedng
her superb yet delicately nodded figure and dis
| tinguished manner. She Is blonde.
The London knowledge sharply denounces the pres
ent classifying of history which is caused by England
continued sending forth stamps to the world on
which picture of girl of nineteen appears as the
likeness of q lady who is great-grandmotherl do
the officers who responsible for this asks our
temporary, appeal TO a supposed barmaid type of
vanity in their sovereign by representing her of the
same age as her own grandchildren"
HENRY WARD BEEcHER's lecture in Dover on
Evolution on Monday night" says the Times, of
Smyrna Del, sis considered by Chancellor Sauls.
bury and other leading citizens of the most harm
full discourses in its effect upon the minds of young
that has been delivered in that town." The
good Chancellor, who thus in Orthodox fashion
rebukes the bold man of Brooklyn is other than
the Willard Salisbury of senatorial fame.
AN interesting memento of DR.. Samuel johnson is
still to be found the spot that was the site OF
Mrs. Thrales garden. 1t is an oak tree, dead, but
tremendous still in DEATH" Indeed nothing remains
but the hollow trunk about ten feet in diameter, and
within it lusty young poplar tree is growing but it
once doubtless veritabe forest king, dating its
birth back almost to the Conquest, and within its
shade the great photographer often sat- and growed
and moralized, and---drank tea.
ALTHOUGH Mr. Gladstone has been in poor health
recently he does not to be careful not to expose
himself to the elements. One Sunday recently he
walked from Hawarden Castle through the village to
church. distance of nearly half mile, during ire
mendous northwesterly gale accompanied by a
drenchng rain without the protection of umbrella
This seems to dsprove the popular impression that
going to church a rainy day is at least twice
dangerous as going to the theater.
GENERAL HENRY M. STRONG. who commanded q
brigade at Gainesville, is graduate of the class of
40 at Union College, where he was catalogued as
'Strachan," pronounced Strong" and he afterward
made his name correspond in spelling to the pro-
nunciaton Previous to serving in the volunteer army
he was clergyman He is a man of much cultiva-
ton, and is said to be in extreme poverty, though
entitled by service and wounds to pension for which
he has resolutely refused to apply.
MOST persons are laboring under the impression
that Mr.. Jefferson Davis lost had captured
stolen from him during the late unpleasantness all of
his private papers, letters etc.. but this is not the
case. Mr.. Davis informed the Baltimore Sun
respondent that he has in his possession copies of all
the letters he wrote during the war; including his
messages. These valuable records were saved for him
by Catholic priest, who recovered and hid them for
him until after his release from prison.
PRIZE of ten guineas offered by the Pail Mall
Gazette for the list of the ten greatest living English
men, divided into ten classes. Some fifteen hundred
persons sent in their judgments The greatest
unity found in the of Mr.. Irving who heads
the poll with 1897 votes; Lord Wolseley, greatest
general came next with O6O Mr., Sala, as journal.
list, Mr. Millas painter, each received between 800
and 900 votes. Mr.. Ruskin, writer, received 568
votes. The voting on the others scattered.
None of the rest received majority of the votes
corded.
JAMES CARLYLE, brother of Thomas, has much of
the latter's nature. He is taciturn and unsociabe,
and expresses profound contempt for almost every
body and everything. To visitor recently he said,
speaking of a school inspection they had just made:
"Ye make terrible TODD about eddicaton nooadays,
but what was the when young. The day
at the schulz when nine years auld, my teacher
was hearin' me say my catachers, and said He be-
leves instead O He believeth.' He knocked doom
and pu'd my legs and bangit me the desks; and I
DOT an lay at the fit o hedge among the dokens
and nettles for three hale days"