The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-12

tinted paper with silver style and shows freedom
of design astonishing in a child.
MADAME DEMoREs, wife of the cattle king of the
Bad Lands, with lady friend and retnue of at
PENDANTS is going into the Rocky mountains to hunt
bear. She is expert and daring a great rifle shot.
| and has killed all kinds of game in the Western
country.
LITTLE knowledge is dangerous thing among
| the Nevada Piute Indians They recently killed
squaw and her little boy because she could speak
French which they thought the language of
witch. Her husband assisted at the sacrifice of his
wife and child.
THE famous Nine. Tussaud has already made
wax fgger of the royal bride Beatrice, and visitors
to her exhibition the marriage group the
Princess Beatrice in fac smile bridadress and Prince
Henry of Battenberg attred in the uniform of the
German cuirassiers.
| Mr.. JAMES E. SCRIPTS has generously given the
proposed Detroit museum Murillo and Claude Lor-
raine but the published price paid for the two So OO0
must be typographical error unless Mr.. Scripps
| bought them in Bremen where very fair Rubens
can be furnished for fifty cents.
PROBABLY the best circulated documents of all tho
prints and badges presented to the 200 people
that viewed General Grants remains, as they lay in
state, leaves of the New Testament untringly
handed out by young evangelsts who stood along
Chambers street. More than one hundred copies of
the Testament delivered by this single-sheet
process.
| NELLIE ARTHUR is enjoying the summer up at
Sharon, hamlet of Ltchfeld county, Conn The
old soldiers Of the country round dedicated modest
war monument the other day in Sharon, and Miss
Nellie joined with the village maidens in singing
patriotic melodies Nellie is prettier girl than she
in her White House days. She looks stronger
and healthier.
GREAT as Daniel Webster was there must have been
times when he felt that Mrs Webster was the bigger
person of the two Some recent "reminiscences of the
Sage Of Marshfeld reveal the fact that it not
uncommon thing for him to take his son aside and
observe: Fletcher my son. let us go Franklin to-
morrow. Well have good time and leave the old
| lady at home"
| FRANK auckland, the naturalist, a remark
able illustration of inherited aptitudes. His parents
both had strong scientific tendencies his father Dean
auckland, being naturalist and geologist of high
reputation. Young Frank showed his bent very early
At four years of age he began collecting specimens of
natural history. A clergyman brought some fossils
| toDr auckland to find out what they were. They
| arc the vortebre of chthyosaurus" lisped the
child, who could not yet speak plain.
| HUGHES BoGY, of Geneva, Swiss diesinker, has
made, perhaps, the handsomest and most artistic
medal of Grant. 1t appeared in 1868, and is valued
at 500. The diverse presents fine military bust
of Grant On the appears the warriors cee.
brated dictum: Il intend to fight it out this line
| if it takes all summer" inclosng these words
Patient of toll
Serene amidst alarms,
Infexble in faith
Invincible in arms.
IN order to have Mrs. Vanderbilts dresses fit we'll
her dressmaker has found her double. She says:
will +bof atio aof ba
fitted herself, when in town, and it at her
own suggestion that duplicate of herself
ployod On her order we sought and found perfect
counterpart-a girl who working in cloakshop
connected with our business-and she has served in
lieu of Mrs Vanderbilt for nearly year Not only in
dimensions is she suited to the requirements but in
movements and carriage she is wonderfully like her
employer and is possible for the latter to her
self as others see her-in the matter of dress"
ONE day last week, reports the Lewiston Journal,
Senator Frye gave sailing party to thirty Squirrel
island people They went out to Seguin in a large
yacht. The brownest and most sailorlike person on
| the boat Senator Frye. When he arrived at
Seguin he was the busiest person there well as the
brownest. Captain Day. the fa hful old keeper of the
lighthouse who was delighted usual, to
mainland folks got wind of the fact that Senator
Frye in the party. So he accosted bronzed man
you please point out Senator Frye to mel Yes, sir,
I WILL said the bronzed with the watermelon.
my name is Frye. How your
The reconciliation of the Prince of Wales and Mrs
Langtry and The dining of the Prime Minister and the
Marchioness of Salisbury and the Duke of Cambridge
with Mr. Levi Lawson, the proprietor of the London
Telegraph, the leading topics of talk The Prince
who is morbidy jealous 'of any interference in his
love affairs has long cherished bitter longing for re-
venge against the gallant who supplanted him. which
he has wreaked in wiping Sir George Chetwynds
name since the Hyde Park encounter off the list of
guests at Marlborough House. and his making over.
lures for renewal of their former relations with the
fair subject of much sacrifice who seems to ex-
change her lovers with the carelessness as her
gloves.
NJ. j. KERGovATz a chemist of Brest has discov-
cred mode of disposng of the mortal remains of hu
mainly which he considers preferable in every way
both to inhumation and cremation His system is an
an.iseptc one of simpler character and much less
expensive than the old process of embalmment All
that necessary is to rub the body over with solu-
ton of plumbagine and then plunge it into a copper
bath But copper being rather an expensive mineral
zinc may be substituted for it in the of the poor
On the other hand persons of luxurious tastes may
silver gold if they please the effect being the
same. The dscoverer has tried his system eleven
times on the human subject and on hundred dead
animals, and he has never once known it to fail
Among the manifold advantages which would result
from the adoption of this system NJ Kergovatz men.
tons which, if generally avaed Of will strike
death blow at of the fine arts. BY simply prolong
ing the duration of the bath the body is rendered as
hard and indesructble granite and thus the coun.
try is provided with ready made statues of its great
men and the state and the communes will be saved in
future the considerable expense which our present de-
pendence the statuary art for memorial purposes
imposes on them.
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