The Indianapolis journal., 1885-10-18


participation in the revolution of 48. he was confined
for several years in the dungeon of Rasadt and the
diversion which he found in observing the ingenious
work of these aradnes endeared them to him to de-
gree most remarkable
AS Mrs. Whitney is now the wife of prominent
member of the Cabinet, and to be one of the con-
spicuous entertainers at Washington, writes Lenox
correspondent, is proper repeat pretty compli
ment paid to her at recent lunch, that IF the word
lady had never been spoken it would have been
invented to describe Mrs. Whitney"
EMILE ZoLA, the French novelist, has been writing
his "reminiscences AT one period he says, he was
very pushed for money and lived in garret. scarcely
having food to eat Suddenly idea struck him.
He set trap the roof and caught sparrows. of
which he made most dainty dishes, these birds form
ing his only animal food for months.
DR.. A. w. Ross, the apostle of antivaccination in
Montreal entering railroad train to leave the city
for few days compelled by the health authorities
to show his arm, like the other passengers. The inter-
esting fact then to light that the apostle had
just been vaccinated in two places. resorng to the
very remedy against which he had been arraying the
prejudice and violence of the mob.
WHEN Dixon FL. Lewis of Alabama was fourishing
in politics. forty years ago, he elected pres
dent of big mass-meeting in his county and "three
cheers for Lewis proposed and given with vim.
But some darkies who were acting as servants the
platform understood the proposition to three
chairs, which they Immediately produced, Mr.. Lewis
being very large mantle largest in the United
States Senate. David Davis by means excepted.
GEORGE H. BOXER, president of the Philadelphia
Union League, and author of that excellent drama,
Francesca da Rimini," is handsome, and very
popular. It reported recently that he had been
taken suddenly ILL and friend rushed excitedy to
the house to learn mis- condition. "They tell me
George is dangerously sick" he said to Mrs. Boxer
who met him at the door. "Oh, no." the lady
answered composedly; ''if he were, you would see
every pretty servantgirl in the block crowdng the
sidewalk"
BARON and Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild have
been entertaining large party of relatives and init
mate friends at Ferreres which is the finest modern
mansion in France. It is magnificent place.
crammed in every corner with old furniture, china
pictures and treasures of all sorts and descrip-
tions The house is an immense pile something in
the style of Mentmore but much larger. The kitch-
ems detached, and connect with the house by
| underground passage which is traversed by tram
way which the dishes conveyed. Ferrieres is a
place of considerable historical interest.
KOLSCHITzKY-not an euphonous name to Yankee
ears, yet zone of the few immortal that were
not born to die" He coffee.house keeper in
Vienna in the seventeenth century and rendered good
service during the siege His the first coffee
house opened in that capital and it has been
maintained to the present day. Now fine bronze
statue has been placed in front of the place. represent
ing Kolschitzky disguised Turkish uniform and
holding in his right hand coffeepot and in his left
cup 1t was thus that he got through the besieging
lines and established communication between the city
and the Duke of Lorraine.
PROF. AGAssIz, who recently declined the superin-
tendency of the coast survey obtained his large
ber of shares in the Calumet and Heca copper Mines
from which has his great wealth, the course
of poker games with college chums. The young men
had spent in assaying the mines for the
owners, and received payment considerable num-
Der of shares which were then practically worthless.
During the following winter at the university these
employed in default of negotiable currency,
to assert the virtue of three bobtail fush
and gradually the most of them found their way to
young Agassizs scrap-book.