The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-19

without killing any The owner, unobserved.
saw the proceedings, ascertained the engineers
name, and sent him the latest hen in the flock
for his Sunday dinner.
LADY COLIN CAMPBELLs remarkable power
OF vivid and picturesque expression is said to
have made great impression the jury sitting
in the divorce case. Get ready with your dollars.
Here is another candidate for the stage.
NoRRIsTowN Herald: fashion item says:
'Bonnets will not be worn as high this year as
last" If this be true, all this talk about ''ele-
waiting the stage" may IS well be dropped. With
less lofty bonnets, the stage is high enough.
ONE of the novelties in Paris is a big wooden
COW built in front Of cafe The mikmaid
milks stream of milk punch into glass; and
placard proclaims the following astonishing
fact France has sent Bartholdis goddess to
America, and America gratefully sends in return
a miikmaid"
Two Boston literary women, Miss Nora Perry
and Mrs. Jane G. Austin, are much in request
as readers" by the publishers in their city, as
they are positive in their opinions and can give
decided reasons for them. But they are not un-
frequently Numerically opposed in their views
of manuscript
Mrs. WRIT SYKES, widow of the late consul
to Cardiff, but known to the world better as
Olive Logan" is one of the latest additions TO
Washington's permanent winter residents. Mrs.
Sykes has been occupying a house on Capitol
Hill since September. but in the spring will buy
or build house in the northwest end of the
city.
WHEN Kate Field lectured on Mormonism in
Washington, Wednesday night. she wore q hand
some French costume of dark red silk and lace.
One of Brigham Youngs sons, an intelligent
young man of thirty, was one of her most AT
tentive listeners, and a representative of the
Mormon lobby is said to have taken her remarks
in short hand
ONE woman wrote not long ago to Mr. Corco-
ran, the Washington philanthropist, that al
though her husband was worth $50.000 she
wanted to be independent of him, and wanted
Corcoran to send her enough money go that she
could live on the interest Another lady wanted
$4,000 to be used in European travel Another
wanted pink silk dress for ball. and another
wanted barrel of salt pork.
THE Russian Czarevitch will spend portion
of the winter at Cannes He will be accompa-
MED by his mother, the Empress. The Gear pre-
ferred the southern Crimea, but DR.. Firsch, the
court physician, declared that a stay there
would perhaps be more patriotic, but certainly
less practical" They will return by way of
Berlin and will also pay a short visitto the King
of Denmark father of the Russian Empress.
A SON of Claus Spreckels, the Sandwich Island
sugar millionaire, was deeply fascinated with
Fay Templeton while she was playing in San
Francisco some years ago, and he presented her
with numerous elegant and costly diamonds.
The town knew of his passion. One night the
funny man of the company approached Miss
Templeton on the stage and, wetting his fingers,
touched one of her largest diamonds and asked:
"PasteF" Quick flash she retorted: mo!
Sugar." The whole house in an instant the
point and a roar of laughter went up such as
never before or since has been heard in Frisco.
RECORD was recently made of the suit for
a $500 laundresss bill brought against Mile.
Jeanne Granier, the fayorite French actress, in
which Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff.
Another suit has been brought against her by
her costume-maker for an account of $3.50, on
which only 500 had been paid. 1t was put in
evidence that when the costume maker wrote
for the money Mile Granier replied "Send me
the blue satin brooches left with you for pat.
tern. could wear them in case of an accident
to my other pairs" and inclosed not The
court gave Judgment in full against the actress.
MRS. CLEVELAND says she receives letters by
the hundred and that more than half of them
contain advice, some on the management of the
White House. Occasionally / do get letter
from some good, kind-souled woman who really
writes because she thinks she may do some good.
Sucu letters always impress me, anu are very
full of suggestive thoughts OF course. don't
answer any OF them. did answer one or two
letters to persons who had written me about
something that fancied required reply, but
usually found my letter reproduced in the local
newspaper nearest the recipient. | now don't
reply to any unknown correspondent"
BILL NYE the we'll known ball-headed humor-
ist of the blooming West. confesses that he used
to try lots of remedies for bald-headedness
''Various people came to me-" he says, with
recipes for wooing the hair out of my glossy in
tellectual rink. Among them there came to me
a gentleman from England named Macrostic,
who claimed to have been royal taxidermist for
nine years, after which ne had &C ted as chiropod-
ist eXtrao1 binary for several years. removing
uncOrns from the great and small He said that
he could grow waving of tresses my
bleak and barren brow for f5. He now has the
E5, and still retain my broad sweep of brow"
THE Mayor of Madrid, received in audience by
Queen Regent Christina recently, informed her
Majesty that the one thousandth child since the
death of her late husband, King Alfonso. had
been baptized with that name. The Queen Re
gent, touched with this exhibition of sympathy
on the part of the Madrilenes. on the occasion OF
the birth of the ''tnou sandth" child, who was
the son of hardware dealer, sent il gorgeous
costume adorned with the most costly laces, a
silver goblet and little book in which writ
ten: ITO the thousandth Alfonso from
woman who has been made happy by two AL
fonsos'-her late husband, the King of Spain,
and his baby SOD, the heir apparent.
- @z...z.s.@s..-.s...@-@
Mrs. Bigelow's Heroine
New YorL otta