The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

with separate accoznt for every new work For his
recent poem Englauds navy, however the Laureate
has received more hard knocks than pounds sterling
MILE. CoRIaS, who the prize for beauty in the
Paris show. is only twenty, and all the theater.
museum and musical managers calling Corln
to secure her for exhibition.
AFTER Henry Irving, Mrs. Livermore, of Boston,
has been permitted to speak in the Sanders Theater
the first woman allowed to publicly address a
Harvard assembly, and more wonderful STILL they let
her speak Total Abstinence"
In the year 1777 considerable interest was mani
tested in announcement that six stoves had been
completed in Philadelphia. The annual product of
the stove founderies in that city is now valued at
81 600 0o0 and the industry supports about IL 900
people.
Now comes from some gossiping correspondent the
fearful disclosure that the real Prince Colonna is
Neapolitan sixty seven years old, and that the
who married Miss Mackay is simply the son Of the
younger brother of the Prince Galatro and is merely
Mr.. Somebody -orother.
DIR. FoRDYCE BARKER, one Of General Grants
physicians expresses himself in strong terms about
his enforced notorety in connection with the Generals
illness. He is doing what he for his ilustrous
patient he says and is very distastefu to him to
see his name in the daily newspapers 1t is of the
penalties of the situation.
Mr.. RUsKIN has once more resigned his professor
ship of fine art at Oxford 1t is now nearly sixteen
years since ne was elected the Slade professorshp
After his severe attack of illness in 1876, Mr. W. B.
Richmond held the post for time, and delivered some
of the lectures from 1879 till 1882, at which last
date Mr. Rrskn resumed the office which he
signs.
PROFESSOR HENRY DRUMMoND believes that the
ivory of Central Africa will last about ten fifteen
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the period the supply will hold out because he says
the native African will not devote himself the develop
ing the natural resources Of the country long
can find tusks. The sooner the ivory is all gone,
therefore, the better for Africa and the Africans.
THE short story" says Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
's to literature what the oralis to jewes-simpy the
most delightful or the drearest of things The real
opal lover will examine thousands of specimens be-
fore selecting what when he has it, he would not
change for any stone in the world. The difficulties in
the way of in the short story of sort in
applicable outside of the craft and invisible in proper
time as they To writer who never al
lows brief magazine story to press less than from
two to three weeks Of hard labor intelligent and
intimate friend said: Those! Why, supposed you
got those things off in two or three days"
The municipal authorities of Paris are still pushing
with their great encyclopedias each page of which
is a street, each paragraph house. Some of the
latest inscriptions which the Project of the Seine has
recently submitted for approval to the Municipal
Council before they published, bear the of
the following: rs Rue de Federstenberg the painter
Eugene Delacroix. born at Saint Maurice,
April 26, 1898, died in this house Aug. Is, 1865"
$50 Rue de Rchelieu Diderot philosopher and man
of letters chief of author the encyclopaedia born at
Langres, Oct. S, 1713, died in this house July 81
1884, '42 Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin: Mirabeau;
died in this house April 2. 1791."
DICKENS has been much criticised for his apparent
acceptance of the fact of spontaneous combustion,
but Sir w. Gull lately testified to surprising case
before the committee of the House of Lords intern
perance large, bloated man, who was suffering
from difficulty of breathing and great dstention of
the venous system, died at Guys hospital. At the
post-mortem of the following day there was no sign
of decomposition, and the body was believed to be
distendsd with gas When punctures were made
in the skin" said Sir William, land lighted match
applied, the gas which escaped burned with the ordi
nary fame of carburetted hydrogen. AS many as
dozen of these small flames were burning at the
time.
A PENSION, which has been regularly paid for 500
years, has just come to end in Switzerland and
the cantonal government of Soleure the paymasters
much regret its extinction that they are adverts
ing for an heir. In 1882 Count Kibourg marched to
the assault of the town of Soleure against which his
ancestors had long entertained reasonable designs
But one Hans Roth, peasant living in a neighbor-
ing village the alert and carried to the towns
people intelligence of what browning and Soleure
saved. For this very substantial service Hans
rewarded with annuity to himself and his heirs
forever. The inheritor, the JUICE de patz Roth has
lately died. and all the Roths in Switzerland are now
looking up their pedigrees