The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-14

plees her forteth year of unbrokan service In one
family, gold cross and diploma bearing the mpe-
rial autograph signature During the past eight years
she has thus honored /, sc servants.
A RATHER novel conception of heavenly bliss has
just been promulgated by devout widow who had
been her husbands third wife The future she looked
for to be permitted sit at the feet of her be-
loved husband his other better halves sitting one on
his right hand the other on his left and all singing
psalms of praise.
THE King Sister" daughter of the late King
Mtesa of Uganda, central Africa, whose friendship
for Stanley and request of missionaries for his people
made him known throughout the civilized world, has
embraced Christianity Her brother succeeded to the
throne without bloodshed owing. it is said to the in
iuence of the missionaries
NO English peer peerless be arrested for debt,
need serve iures be called out in the militia and
they do not swear oath, bat honor except when
witnesses in any They can sit in any court in
England with their hats on, wear sort OF uniform
as peers, carry arms but not in their pockets,
and, if they commit treason felony they must be
tried by their peers.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS has in his study small paint
ing by the late Eugene Delacroix He refuses to sell
it for $40 OO0 yet he only paid the unfortunate artist
$lOO for it; and even then poor Delacroix warned
him that he was paying daring price. "AhF' replied
Dumas, you reckon with contemporary imbecty;
with future extravaganza"
A LATE way of robbing letters is to select those
bearing several stamps and after removing which
slit is cut in the envelope and the valuahes removed
The cut is then covered up and the stamps replaced
In letters containing money, and bearing than
one stamp, the French government recommends in
order just issued that the stamps be placed the
envelope about one-eighth inch apart.
ONE of the sensational pictures of the year in Lon
don will be Mr.. Colin Hunters Rapids of Niagara"
Last autumn Mr. Hunter went out to Niagara and an
nexed, pro tenn, an slet-a table of rock-which
stands out in the rushing water above the fall and is
separated by yard or two from Goat Island. There
he set up his easel, almost level with the water
and painted the waves they tumble against the sky
MRS. ALEXANDER Il. STEWART appeared in public
for the first time since her husbands funeral the
opening of the Memorial Cathedral at Garden City,
Thursday. She is said to have aged but little since
then, and her bright brown hair shows none of the
ravages supposed to be wrought by time and sorrow
She still dresses in deep mourning. One of the lay
incorporators says there is every to believe
leum of the Cathedral
1T has been the dream of Mr.. w. w. Corcoran's
life to build art school vacant lot back of the
gallery in Washington, but he cannot purchase the
ground. 1t is the property of Rear Admiral s. p
Lee distant relative of Robert E. Lee, who
manned true to the Union and was distinguished
naval officer during the war. He has mortal hatred
of all exconfederates. with whom he includes Mr.
Corcoran, and steadily refuses to permit the old gen.
tleman to purchase his property at any price.
ZEBEHR PAsHA, who has been arrested by the En- :
gish government for collision with Ell Mahd, is be-
ieved to have retained and safely invested several
million dollars of the immense wealth he possessed in
the days of his power at Khartoum. A year ago he
spurned contemptuously Gordon's proposition tomake
him Assistant Governor of the Soudan, prophesied
Gordon's destruction and the fall of Khartoum and
added: Sooner later shall return to the Soudan
Allah is great" He tken living in Cairo with
thousand Nubian retainers about him.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican has this adver
tisement: Come in out of the cold. All persons de-
sirous of being cremated in the Worcester Gold Bug
Crematorum should apply early. Treatment in the
order of cation, but Unitarians and Episcopaans
preferred Liberal discount to members of the Mas
sachusetts Medical Society and all graduates of Har
ward College. This is opportunity for ladies
and gentlemen of culture. No dead beats Methodists
book agents self-educated persons need apply.
This is the best yet devised for practical ap
pcaon of the doctrine of the survival of the fttest
Address Mrs. Algernon Winthrop Montgomery
Smith, Junior Stokeress and Secretaryess- n-chef."