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

trying Of the dyes on the dog to learn It's sfess
before using it. The box Of dyes was quickly put osd
of the way.
The two richest women in America are probably
Mrs. A. T. Stewart and Mrs. Mark Hopkins Each
is worth about thirty million dollars.
OLD SPoT, the horse that General Grant used al
Vicksbrg sold last year for $11 by order Of th
quartermaster, and has now joined circus. -
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOVES white hair ID
bound with ribbon of black. Gray curs droop te
her eyes, which keen aud clear and often twink
ling with happiness.
WASHINGTON society is in state Of distress at the
loss of the Iturbde family. Nine. Iturbde offers
her handsome house for sale and proposes to return
with her son Augustus, to Mexico.
MAJOR Powell, of the geological survey has dis
covered in New Mexico, near California mountain.
what he pronounees to be the Oldest human habita.
tons upon the American continent.
WALTER BENTLY WOODBURY. whose name Il r..
miar in the Photographic printing process known al
the Woodburytype, died recently at the age of fifty.
one, at Margate from an overdose Of audanum
which he was in the habit of taking to procure Sleep
WHEN ladies find the color of their dresses In.
jured by watering place lemonade they usually try
to restore it with hartshorn. If after making this
application they will rub little chloroform over the
spot they will generally obtain much more salts
factory result
DOCTORS say that mothers who take pride in the
weight of their newly-born children should weigh
them soon as possible after birth Children lose
weight during the first three days of fe ard the loss
sometimes amounts to twelve ounces II
takes them nearly week to regain the weight they
had at the time of birth.
SENATOR WALKER, of Nevada was attacked by a
band of coyotes Wamsley gulch, recently. and
was obliged to take to tree to his life He had
rifle with him and killed number of the animals,
which were quickly devoured by their comrades. He
remained in the tree all night closely watched by the
coyotes but was rescued in the morning by party OF
hunters.
THERE was jolly Butler once,
workngman loved he
But when he couldn't get his votet
He lashed him terriblee.
And this the matter of his speech: .
''He hath no brains l see;
care for workman no. not l.
For he don't care for me-"
Boston Budget.
A VERY elaborate and impressive service in memory
of General Grant recently held in the hall of Con-
gress in the City of Mexico There was a beautiful
setting in end of the hail. one side of which
a deserted battlefield with the debris living
around in confusion, and on the other side was the
same field in time of peace. In the center mag
nfcent funeral pyre with funerares burning around
it. The building packed with Mexicans and
American visitors.
Cost of telephone subscriptions in the principal"
cities and countries: London, $50; Paris a24; Riga
and Odessa, 425 Austria, SO to 915 Germany,
from $40, with an increase of go rs for every 100
mile two; Italy varying from ga LIS to 81 with
the towns Norway ga to So according to distance:
Sweden, Sc IS to $40 16s Holland 91O Portugal, q
SIS for traders and s7 for private individuals;
Switzerland ga to e1O; New York, SAC g year:
Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia Baltimore and ST
Louis, $50. Cities of average of IS 600 to 1OO-
900 population, $50 year. Little towns with fifty
or sixty-fve subscribers, $40 year.
GEORGE ", when Prince of Wales found Brighton
humble little fishing village and left it an aristo>
cratic and splendid city The second empire in France
virtually created Trouvile and Biarritz and the late
NJ Blanc, disguised with the meanness of little Mo-
naco, created Monte Carlo. Lord Brougham, driven
from Nice, where cholera was rife went away and
was the making of Cannes; and half dozen pretty
and smiling settlements sprang up with gourdike
suddenness round Norwood and Sydenham almost az
the Crystal Palace had reared it's glittering
head Trieste, again. was virtually created CITY, de-
signed by crafty, maevolent Austrian statesman to
ruin the maritime trade of Venico while Leghorn was
equally the creation of enlightened Florentine
Grand Duke. who was resolved that in his dominions
there should be at least city of religious tolera
ton.
BISHOP SPAULDING saw most pronounced case OF
dandy drag itself inertly past The fellow had all the
symptoms Of acute idiocy markedly visible that
there installing the social disease Anglo
mania that had pitfuly altered him from the healthy
vigorous, sensible young fellow that he might other
wise have been. "Well, here's Thoughts for COM
fort the Bishop is quoted saying II happen to
know who he Is. His family wealthy and very
fashionable. He has been brought to think that
work is not for him to think Of and that his life is
destined to be perfectly idle In that vew don't you
comprehend the best for him pursue is the
one that is most harmless and what could have less
actual vicousness in than the of an assduous
fop9 Just think of it. He might be gambler, q
brawler. sensualst; he might even take to
burglary, arson, murder. Oh, yes. if young man ID
bound to be nothing useful then by all
age him to be an innocuous dandy"