The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-25

Firm TRENDS your days TO cheer;
trusting heart that knows art,
And a soul that knows fear.
Los ANGELES and San Diego, Cal, are rivals
bitter as Minneapolis and st. Paul.
JAMES G. BLAINE, JR., is studying hard at
Augusta, Me-, to prepare himself for entrance at
Harvard College next fall at which time he will
be eighteen years old.
MONTE CARLO is very rich in salads and peo
pie who have lost their money at the Casino can
enjoy, perhaps, the finest grazing in the uni
verse until they receive their remittances.
THE Queen has disguised English artists gen.
orally by kniehting Mr.. Oswald Briefly, who is
described as acourt turnkey whose only talent is
for the painting of royal yachts in impossible
situations.
SENATOR EDMUNDs keeps four horses in his
stable. He lives quietly but extensively.
When he first entered the chamber, it is said,
he was worth less than 50,000 but his wealth
now is placed at 100000,
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON will soon make
her appearance writer in the columns of the
Youths Companion, Boston monthly Her
first contribution to literature will be prose
essay entitled "A Music Lesson"
Mr.. MURFREE. the father of Egbert Craddock,
the novelist, is tall, patriarchal Tennesseean,
who cannot heip betrayinr bv his looks the par.
donable pride he feels in his daughters success.
Mrs. Murfree is pleasant little elderly woman.
THE faith cure prospers in Sweden, where the
Hotel Lion does thriving business at Stock
holm, and another hotel keeper advertises
''rooms where one may be alone with God. at
the lowest price, including service, cure and
board"
SIR HENRY ALFRED DOUGHTY TICHBoRNE
will come of age and enter into possession of his
estates next May, and, in spite of the 5000, 900
spent in opposing 'the claimant" he will be a
rich man, his rent-roll amounting to more than
$140 600 year
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS says of Parnel
He is, indeed, an uncrowned king, and should
he die there is no one to take up his scepter No
fabulous monarch of Tara's Hall. no lord of the
round towers, no wild Celtic chieftain was so
powerful ruler"
Mr.. JOSEPH H. WHITTINGToN i5 a young
Louisianian scarcely out of school. who eighteen
months ago started strawberry farm at Arcola,
in that State, and boasts that he has produced in
this month of December an open-aired ripened
crop of fine Strawberries.
SITKA has a newspaper called the Alaskan.
Among the advertisers are three lawyers a
goodly number of saloon-keepers and restau-
rateurs, butcher and two brewers, one of
whom offers his beer Exclusively for medicinal,
mechanical and scientific purposes"
CHICAGO is to have daily paper printed in
the form and style of volume of "Loyelrs Lii
brary" The advertising space will be around
the reading matter and between the lines. 1t is
to have Geographic and cable news all served up
in Chicagos lveliest STYLE and is to be called the
Philistine
Mr.. W. ". CoRCoRAN, the Washington phi
lanthrophist, will celebrate his eighty-seventh
birthday anniversary next Sunday. He is in ex-
cellent health. and attends to business regularly
every day. His gifts to the public up to date
are said to aggregate considerably more than q
million dollars.
THE lady secretary of the Administration
League, of England, argues, in letter to NJ.
Pasteur, that cuaterizaton removes ali danger
of hydrophobia. Her son once and she herself
fveor six times have thus escaped the malady
and both offer to be bitten by any mad animal
in NJ. Pasteurs laboratory condition of being
allowed to treat the wounds themselves :
1T appears that Victor Hugo's father was, dur
ing the French regime Of Joseph Bonaparte in
Italy, the general who was the military gov
ernor Of the province of Aveiino and, as such,
ordered the hanging of FRA D1avolo,p as the
brigand colonel Michael Pozzo was called
This took place in 1906. when Victor Hugo was
little boy, living with his father in Italy
RALPH WALDO EMERsoN's study in the pleas
ant old Concord residence is kept just as the sage
and poet left it. Over the low mantel hangs
fine copy of Michael Angeles "Fates" There is
curious old Egyptian IDOL choice engravings on
the walls, and busts of celebrated men here and
there about the room. On either side of the fire.
place two doors open into the sunny south par
Tor. In the center of the room is large table
1t is piled with books. On one side lies the lit