The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-08

granted each 1000 roubles to enable them to
start in trade She was also in the habit of in
curing after needy tradesmen and sending sums
or money to their houses
THE fiftieth birthday of the first German rail
way has just been celebrated. 1t is little road,
three or four miles in length, and runs between
Nuremberg and Firth. 1t was completed a;
Christmas. 1885. and still pays good dividends.
A YOUNG Japanese lady writer, Miss o. Santa
San, has been taken on the editorial staff of one
of the best newspapers in Toxic She is the
hrst woman in the kingdom of the Mikado who
has been admitted into the circle of journalism.
Mr. GILBERT, the librettist. answers to the
full name of William Schwirk Gilbert. He is
credited with having said ''that husband can
hope to be hero in his wlfe's eyes only two
months-the month before he is married and the
month after his death"
GEN. G. w. CUsTIs LEE, president of Wash.
ington and Lee University, has still in his pos
session the family silverware bequeathed by
George Washington to his adopted son, George
Washington Park Gusts, of Arlington, grand
father of Gen. Gusts Lee.
WHEN Lawrence Barrett assumes the man
agement of Edwin Booths business, next season,
he is to pay the latter $3.50 900 for thirty weeks
work and furnish everything. He will arrange
to Keep his own and Mr. Booths companies in
uiuoTcut pdrCS Oh Inc country.
A MIsER who has just died in Canterbury,
England, is reported to have left an immense
sum of money and large number of valuable
paintings, including several Raphaeis and Van
Dycks. He had walled up many of the windows
or his house, and only one door was available for
use.
POSSIBLY John Ruskin has enlisted under the
Gladstone Parnell banner, but probably it is not
fruo Al - hna
pressed himself in favor of home rule in Ireland.
His position as poet laureate would prevent him
from holding opinions in opposition to those of
the Queen.
FIFTEEN years ago Mr.. Joseph Arch was a
farm laborer, supporting his family on 81 weekly
wages and he is now member of Parliament.
He is what is commonly called a self-made man,
but, as his wife taught him to read and write, he
may be considered a creditable specimen of do
mestlc manufacture.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, it is said is spend
ing his days somewhere in the West, laying
siege to the heart of widow, or more correctly
speaking, to the hearts Of two widows One is
said to possess 50. 000 900 in her right. and
the other &C. 000 900; but the Senator is still
decided which to choose.
CAPT. SAM PACKARD, of Maiden, Mass, who
celebrated his one hundredth birthday on Thurs
day, has lived under every President of the
United States, is pensioner of the war of 1872.
has been the father of twelve children, and is in
good health and condition, which promise him a
lease OF some years yet.
In Norway it is believed that wolves are
frightened away by telegraph lines. 1t is said
that, however hungry wolf may be, he will
never go into spot that is enclosed by ropes
stretched on posts. Since the first telegraphic
line was established twenty years ago, wolves
have never appeared in its neighborhood.
JOHN RUSSELL You've, in speaking of the
large amount of money received by Mrs Grant
from the book of the General says there is little
danger Of Mrs Grant ever being troubled for
the want of funds. He knows of several invest
ments which have been made for Mrs. Grant,
and so carefully made that in the event of fail
IRE of any kind she is secure.
LOUISE MICHEL says that before she con-
ceived such an absorbing pity for humanity
music was her passion, and that when young
she received from an impressario brilliant offer
to play at concerts But, her mother being
dead, her piano must be dumb for the rest of
her life. and she will only use her musical ac-
compishments to teach poor children.
WILLIAM RowLEY and gang of were
working in the gravel-pit of Biddeford, Me-.
when a cave-in began. All managed to jump
out except Rowley, who, as he was caught by
the falling gravel, threw his shovel as far as he
shovel was buried by the slide; but working
with Rowley's shovel and their hands, the men
dug him out not much hurt, but very badly
scared.
THERE is on the way from Alaska to Wash
ington cane for President Cleveland. It was
made by Dick. the native policeman Of Sitka.
and is of yellow cedar skllfully carved. The
carving represents the history and traditions of
the bear family, that animal being the totem
n KahtvvatOOS of he
two Indian families that constitute the popula-
ton of Sitka village. 1t is finished with a
ferule of Alaska gold.
Mr. HENRY NJ STANLEY, the African explorer,
relates that when he started on his tour through
the Dark Continent he took III his baggage a
large collection of books. But as the number Of
his men was lessened the books had one by one
to be left by the wayside, until finally, when less
than 300 miles from the Atlantic he had left
only the Bible Shakespeare, Carlyle's "Sartor
Resartus" Norie's Navigation and the Nautical
Almanac. At Zinga the Shakespeare was aban-
doned and afterward Norie. the Almanac. and,
last, "Sartor Resartus" were thrown down, only
the Bible going through to the end.
THE adopted daughter of Senator Sherman has
become great comfort to him. both for her af-
fection and her accomplishments His wife
heard her husband express the desire to have
some children to bring up, and she understood
that in New York were two fine children, the
daughters Of French couple who came to this
country and here the husband lost his wife. He
so disconsolate that ne refused to stay in the
| land, which he accused of having caused the
death of his partner. So he gave his children to
an institution, and hearing about them Mrs
| Sherman came over to New York, and it is said
that she personally, without assistance, carried
| those two infants 70 Washington in the night.
| One of them died before it was two years old.
| The other sent abroad to be educated aud
| while there some informing person told the girl
that she was not the child of the Senator and his
| WIFE 1t made her SO unhappy that she was
unable to stay in France, and insisted upon com
| ing home. The incident however secured yet
| more of the affection of her adopters, and they
are realizing as much joy in the object of their
| care as if she were their own
COMMENT AND OPINION.
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