The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-30

| derby calls them. They term them ''jawsmiths. !"
ALDERMAN GLEASON, of Long Island City,
has resigned in order to getmarried, his intend
ed refusing to be married so long as he was q
member of the board.
Mr.. JAMES G. BLAINE is now entertaining as
a guest at Augusta, Me-, Miss Rachel Sherman,
daughter of General Sherman, and the house
warming of the new cottage at Bar Harbor will
| be early in June.
PEAoHBLow pales before Lord Dudley's three
pieces of Sevres of the Rose du Barry color,
| which cost him $50 600, and are shortly to be
sold at auction. The largest of the three pieces
is nine inches in height.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN, in her Washington house
has an old-fashioned rag-carpet on the stairs
and picturesque Indian blankets for portieres.
One of her parlor mantels is a lambrequin made
of South American mulberry tree bark
THE president of Wellesley College, Miss Alice
f. Freeman, is still young. Her executive ca.
| pacty is marked. Her faculty of extempore
| speaking, it is said has excited admring sur
prise in England. She is graduate of Michi-
gan University
NEwBERRY gave Chicago nearly SO, 100000 for
library purposes Enoch Pratt gave Baltimore
upwards of 81, 900, 900; Mrs Fiske gave Cornell
81 SOC, 600; Judge Packer gave Lehigh University
O,OOO Professor Horsford gives Wellesley
nearly $3.50, O00
|
pound package Of yeast cakes in the freight
house in Middletown on Sunday, and few hours
| later, when the yeast worked, the noise of pop
ping rats was heard. and their fragments strewed
| the neighborhood.
WILLIAM BLACK, the novelist has fitted up
| canal boat for summer residence, in which he
intends to make tour of England with his fam
| lily. canal-boat is cheaper than steam yacht
and much safer, but one has to confne ones self
| to a limited area of travel.
Mr.. JULIAN HAWTHORNE and Mr. George
Parsons Lathrop will shortly enter the newspa-
per world. the former as the literary editor of
| the New York World, while Mr.. Lathrop will
give the greater part of his time to the literary
| department of the New York Star.
| A BUFFALO parent, in order to encourage
early rising among his offspring offered prize
| to the one who got up first in the morning The
| day after this offer was made diplomatic in.
FAINT Of three years appeared at his bedroom
door, claimed and received the prize, and tran
GULLY went back to bed again.
A LAD who was learning his Sunday school
lesson with the words, Consider the lilies of the
field how they grow; they toll not, neither do
they spin and vet say unto you that"-here the
boy paused, forgetting the next word. and then
| proceeded with prominent voice-"Sullivan In
all his glory was not arrayed like one of these"
PHILIP ARMOUR, the Chicago pork king, gets
down to business at o'clock. Recently one of
his clerks who had been making a night of it.
concluded to go direct to the Office instead of to
| bed, and when Armour came in ne was 80
pleased with the young mans punctuality that
| he presented him with an order for new suit of
clothes.
Miss ALICE JORDAN, the young lady student
in the Yale Law school, will not be able to oh
tain the degree of bachelor of laws from the uni
versity upon her graduation next month. Prof.
Dexter being asked, said the matter had not
even been considered by the corporation. and
added: "The corporation has never granted a
degree to woman, and l don't think it ever
will"
MARK TwAINs famous collection of brickbats
was no sillier than has been a man of Berlin,
who, they say. has succeeded, after many years.
labor, in collecting one thousand heels from boots
and shoes worn by people more or less eminent.
They have been mounted in glass case, while q
carefully prepared catalogue gives the date OF
acquisition and the name of the former owner
of each heel.
THERE wouldn't be much chance for an An
archist paper in China. A Chinese newspaper
writer named Wongtz was recently sentenced to
be CHARTERED, because in a scientific article he
had enumerated the names of several dead EN-
perors, an act contrary to court etiquette. AT
forwards his punishment mitigated to de-
capitaton. His children will be put to death in
the autumn for the sin of their father.
THE late Rabbi Mardochee, who died recently
in Algers, formed remarkable link between
civilization and barbarsm. Born in Aka in
Morocco, he travelled overland, journey of six
ty days, from Fee to Timbuctoo, traded there,
and afterward repeated the visit for the purpose
of scientific Investigations. He made reports in
Hebrew to the Alliance Israelite in Paris, by
whose secretary M. Loebl they were translated
into French. He esta blshed the Jewish origin
of the Daggatoun, tribe of white men enslaved
by Africans, and described a warllke class of
Jews in the Riff district of Morocco.
A WRITER in Mr.. Laboucheres Truth (London)
pronounces Mrs r. Ogden Doremus Of New
York "the most astoundngly fne-looking and
attractive woman" she met, and wakes
most enthusiastic over her hair which NJ Au-
guste, the leading Paris hair-dresser, was badly
fooled by. He was called in to dress it. 81
shall take the liberty" said he ''of remarking
that madame has charming little face but the
load of hair she wears dosent suit it. It's ridic-
ulous to crowd on false braids to that extent. !"
And then as he let down coil after coil and found
that every hair grew strait out from the scalp,
ne fairly gasped with wonder.
PRESIDENT GREvY, now nearly eighty years
of age, lost his first tooth the other day. The
Paris journals mention the fact as an event, and
the Voltaire regards it as an affair of grave
political significance. Good teeth says the Vol
taire, are essential to good digestion, and bad
digestion has played great role in the history
of kings and rulers. ut is lucky for us" it con.
tinues, that President Grevy has such sound
teeth To that fact must be attributed his un-
changing calm. the perfect equilibrium of his
physical and intellectual functions, which have
made him the most prudent of statesmen and
the most constitutional Of Presidents"
IT is worthy of note as sad coincidence in
the history of the family of George r. Pendle-
ton that the brother. in-aw Of that gentleman
lost his life more than twenty years ago in a
manner almost similar to that in which his wife
died few days ago--a runaway accident. Mr.
Pendleton's sister was married to q very wealthy
gentleman named Bowler, who lived in ore of
the finest suburban residences of Cincinnati
On the 4th of July, 1864 or 1865 Mr.. Bowler
was driving to the city in his buggy, when a
team of omnibus. horses that had beer Frightened