The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-27

purse is not well supplied as in Fisks palmy days
Since Stokes killed Fisk and went to prison for it, he
has never spoken to the woman whose fatal fascna-
tons led him to his crime.
AT the age of eighty Julia Smith, tina Connecticut
woman who refused to pay taxes because she couldn't
vote married in the face of strong opposition and
predictions that she would not be happy. Recently
she has emerged from domestic life for brief period
to state that she not disappointed in the life she
then entered.
Miss SWEET, late pension agent at Chicago, writes
in censure of some idle gossip II am not married-l
never was married. never expect to be. | am en-
gagged. but it is strictly business engagement that
interests me- and until my enterprise is perfectly
and successfully established shall have no time to
think of matrimonial projects"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHILDs says: Prob
ably every who has been exposed to the shafts of
malice can truthuy say that ne has found his bitter
est enemy to be the upon whom he conferred
his choicest favors. Still. it is foolish man who
would let the ingratitude of one or one dozen men
render him callous to all the rest of the world"
MAX MARETzEK, to convey the idea that the mana.
gers always have the money says that the great sing
demand their pay in advance before going on the
stage. Aban used to put her money inside of her
SET alleging that her notes out easier, and
Badiali always stuffed his into his stockings and
brought up his beautiful baritone from the
depths.
MIR. w. D. HowELLs boasts that he has the model
for his best female characters at home and that he
does not need like Goethe Balzac and many liter
airy artists, to in order to pluck out the
mystery of their hearts for the establishment of his
fiction 1t is also remarked by the general reader that
the fiction of Howels differs in many respects from
that of Goethe and Balzac.
EMORY STORRS enjoyed an income of $25, 900 to
$50 900 year. earned at the Chicago bar and yet he
was always out Of money and in debt It is said that
he habtually drew on Samuel w. Alerton, million
aire friend, who never failed him in his frequent
emergencies This friend helped him out of the
dilemma, when, at the time of sitting down to din
to Lord Coerdge, unfriendly sheriff seized the
viands.
THE nine now living ex-senators who members
of the United States Senate at the beginning of the
war; and who took their seats at the memorable first
session of the Thirty seventh Congress, July 4.
1861, are Willard Salisbury, of Delaware; Lyman
Trumbull, of Illinois; James Harlan. of Iowa. Sam
uel G. Pomeroy, of Kansas; Henry M. Rice and Nor
ton s. Wilkinson, of Minnesota; Daniel Clark, of
New Hampshire; John Sherman. of Ohio. and James
r. Doolittle of Wisconsin. But Mr.. Sherman is not
a ex-senator.
AMONG the papers or the late CnarleS PACKARD, OF
Brunswick, Me-, hitherto unpublished letter of
Daniel Webster found It written to his life
long friend James H. Bingham. whom he addresses
as his dear old classmate roommate and friend"
''You are STILL" he says. "the same James Hervey
Bingham, with your old bass viol, with Laus Dec
painted upon it, hope you have got it yet and am
the same D. w. whom you have known at Exeter, at
Lempster at Captain John McCure's at Hanover.
at Charleston at Salisbury, at Alstead at Ports
mouth, Caremont Boston and Washington.
FATHER BoNoMI describes the False Prophet as a
man of towering stature. with fat, round face and
hard unquaing eyes-unquestionably fanatic, hon
estly believing in his mission to restore the pure
Islam. His authority over his adherents was SRlim
tied. He prohibited singing except in homer of the
Prophet and also smoking and transgressors OF those
edicts punished with hundred stripes from a
whip of hppopotamus hide first theft was punish.
able with the loss of the right hand and second with
that of the left foot. Father Bonom says that he
several of these cruel amputatons for petty Of
fenses.
THE late Earl of Dysart of the most eccen.
trio of nobemen. Though he had splendid park
drantham and very great, not to say unbounded
wealth, he chose to live in two rooms the second
floor of house Norfolk street. Strand where he
allowed nobody to his face Indeed it is said that
of st. Crispin who supplied his lordshp had to
his teet the outside Of his sitting room door
the noble legs to which they belong being thrust
through the door-panes. The entire house of Tolle
mache. of which Lord Dysart was the head, is and
has long been notorious for its eccentrcities The
house which his ordshp inhabited is now turned into
hote which is called 1.-THE Dysart."
WOMAN with passion for the horrible is the
Princess Hohenlohe. wife of the new Governor of
Asace-Lorraine. of whom authoritative CORE
spcndent writes: "She is of the planest women
in Europe. She is tall, gaunt, has wild blue eye
gray mead, unfinished upper lin. too short to hide
her central teeth is naughty and dresses in peculiar
manner. For couple of she staring
dress of two colors, neither of which is when alone
Overwhelmingly: black and white One could
always see her at long distance. Her passion for
blood and stories of crime urges her to attend the
assize court trials. Whenever some brute is up
there for numbering woman and cutting her body in
pieces to make away with it the Princess Hohenlohe
in foremost place, with her head cranng for
ward, and her mouth half open. Before the judges
take their seats on the bench the Princess gets an
usher to show her in detail the material evidences of
the crime which ranged table well in view of
the jury box"