The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-21

these figures appear little larger than life. On
pilasters, are two cherubs with their wings
| spread like canopy over the holy-water vase
modelled after the "scollop SHE'LL" the old badge
of pilgrim; and from the entrance they look
like plump little babies of two three years old,
covering marble saucer. When one stands be-
side them he finds they are full seven feet high,
| so complete is the ocular illusion of the grand
proportions of the church. Our Liberty will show
| to her best advantage where she can be seen
| overlapping the masts of passing ships.
| M. BARTHoLDI is very fine gentleman, and
deserves great credit for the success he has at
tanned in the completion and delivery of his CO.
lossal figure of Liberty, and it is with unfeigned
| regret that we learn that he has gone and taken
out letters patent on the statue and pedestal.
Those families throughout the West, who wanted
to build statues of their own, cannot do so now
without employing M. Bartholdi, or paying him a
royalty. A statue of the size of that brought to
the United States in the 'Tsere" would probably
cost several hundred dollars though made hol-
low. while if constructed of solid bronze it must
of course, cost much more probably too much to
|
adoption. The friends of M. Bartholdi
will doubtless explain that his pat
emit is simply meant to cover the
design of statue and pedestal so as to give him
control of the sale of statuettes in imitation.
We are charitable enough to think they mean
well; but all the same the suspicion obtains
that he is unwilling that every family should
have 'lifesize" one of it's own. 1t is to be
| hoped the Washington monument is not patented
| ENOUGH wonderment and admiration has been
expressed over the democratic spirit manifested
by the Princess" Dolgorouki, who has defed
precedent by playing the violin in a public con-
cert in Berlin, and for pay. 1t is hard to under
stand why this pseudo princess should put on
any airs over pleOeians. AS is we'll known, she is
the daughter of the woman who had no husband
| but who consented to be the mistress, by cour-
| tesy called morganatic wife, of the lat) Gar.
People west of the Atlantic, at least, can see no
| reason why the princess" should not fiddle, or
even do the work of a small family, for liveli-
| hood. In the United States she would be little
| ''off COLOR" and would be treated accordingly
AS an artistic she might draw, but that done, she
could hope for nothing else, any more than Sarah
| Bernhardt could. Fiddling is no better than
cooking Indeed, good cook is far preferable
to an Indifferent violinist. The Princess should
| be given rest
| The periodical discovery that Milton plagia
| rized his Paradise Lost" and his Samson
| Agonistes" from an almost unknown Dutchman
| named Van den Vonde, turns up this year with
the locusts 1t is probably about seventeen
years since the last fool Of literary grubbers
turned it up One needs only to read the ely
cidas," or "Comus," or 'Penseroso" to see that
the others had all the material and skill of forma
ton they needed in the same brain. But the
world will never be empty of convulsive little
ambitions that work for notoriety by startling
absurdites, like Della Bacons ascription of
Shakspeare's plays to Lord Bacon, which Mr.
atlantis" Donnelly has backed by his 'cipher"
fiddle; and so shall go on to the last, teazei.
if we have not sense enough to laugh, at the con-
slant developments of honors paid to great names
with no desert.
GAN Indian boy on Major Ellis's plantation,
| near the boundary line of Yazoo and Sun1ower
counties, Miss, being missed, the lads father
started with some friends to search for him. He
had been killed by panther, which they discov-
The animal was killed and found to measure ten
| feet from nose to tail"
The purpose of measuring this animal is not
quite apparent. OF course, there may be some
satisfaction to the parents to know that no ordi-
nary beast lunched off their boy. Almost any
real enthusiastic boy would not object to being
eaten by an animal ten feet long, if the average
length Of such creatures was but FIVE feet. But,
hrr4 l,o
feet long lends encouragement to the hope that
the boy was not eaten at all, but swallowed
whole. 1t was a pity to kill such magnificent
panther.
ONE must have been deeply impressed by the
self-devotion of the lady who was engaged to
Mr.. G. p. Reed, Of Ohio recently, and replied to
him when he wrote that This health was so bad
| that he thought it unadvisable to marry" "She
would marry him if he didn't live three weeks"
AS he died in twenty four hours after she had
married him and gave her bequest of a large
property, one is led to wonder if she might not
have thought of that when she was so prompt to
insist on the marriage. When the fancee of
Captain Dacres, of the Gucrriere-we think it
was--was told by him that 'hs wounds had left
him the wreck of a man" and offered to release
her from her engagement, she said ''she would
marry him if there was enough Of his body left
to hold his soul" Is there difference herel
If the revision of the Bible is ever generally
adopted, and its language replaces that Of the
old revision, what will hard swearers do for
word to replace the obsolete ''helll" They will be
as badly off as the fellow that spilled the ashes
They ''can't do justice to the subject "Sheol'
is nothing. 1t has no energy and no meaning.
''Toothache" would do just as we'll as mode of
profane expression. Think how funny mad
bully would look shaking his fist at his enemy
and yelling ''sheol." 1t is pretty safe to predict
that the new version will never displace the pro-
family prostituted from tie old one.