The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-24

Three or four years ago General Logan was
taken to the Hot Springs TO be treated for lam
bago and rheumatism and derived such benefit
from the waters that his bill establishing mill.
tary hospital az the springs was his votive offer.
ing after recovery.
DETROIT Free Press Harvard professor
has made the calculation that If men were really
as big as they sometimes feel there would be
room in the United States for only two profess
o-s, three lawyers, two doctors and a reporter
on Philadelphia paper. The rest of us would
be crowded into the sea and have to swim for il.
WORD comes Of the death of the Due De Lewis,
aead of the oldest family of French nobility. In
his ancestral halls he had two paintings--one
representing one OF his ancestors bowling, hat ia
hand, to the Virgin Mary. who says to him.
"Couvrez vous mon cousin! and the other show
ing more remote ancestor shouting TO Noah, as
he entered the ark, "Sauyez les papers de la
Maison de Levis'
CONGRESSMAN LAwLER was overrun with call
ers AMI told the House door-keepers to bring him
no more cards Afterwards Mrs Lawler called
and was told she could not the memh
Cant see him. Why, I'm his wfe!" "Oh,
come now" was the heartless reply, you can't
work that racket here A hundred women to-
day have told me the same thing
Nor content with the great gift Of Chantlly,
the Duo d'Aumale has made over to the village
of Melville the site on which stood the chateau
in which ST. Louis was born. The building was
destroyed in the War of the League, but the
Due d'Aumale has had memorial statue of Sc
Louis erected on the spot. and has transformed
the grounds into beautiful park.
LORD DUFFERIN's health is in very unsatis.
factory state He has been more or less unwsll
for long time past. and it is admitted by his
physicians that his constitution cannot stand the
Indian climate There are grave fears that he
will be unable to complete his term of Office as
Niceroy. but he declares that he will remain in
India till he is literally compelled to return
home
GEORGE CARY EGGLEsroN writes home to the
New York Commercial Advertiser from IoG
Angeles that the present boom in southern Cali.
fornia, which has blown Los Angeles irto city
of $4,000 inhabitants in few months, has the
f1imsiest of supports-the hope of a steady in
flux of consumptves from the East. He believes
that that part of the world has fine future,
but that it will have to succeed collapse.
THE last week of November was singularly
fatal in the academical circles of Switzerland.
Three of its most eminent scholars, Prof
Johannes Scherr of Zurich Prof. Albert Burck-
hardt, of Basel. and Prof. Eugene Rambert, OF
Lausanne, were struck down on successive
days. Two of those, Sherr. 'tthe German Car
lyle and Rambert, the poet. novelist. critic
and biographer of Ninet were known through
out Europe.
Nor long ago man in Columbia, Pa, gave
as wedding present to York couple an eight
dollar clock, which he had bought the INSTALL
ment plan. He paid Sc, and was slow about pay
ing the other So. So tine. agent, who knew where
the clock was, went to York. scared the bride
into giving it up and then disappeared. The
groom brought suit against the agent. but he
could not be found and theN young man had to
pay costs He says when he marries his second
wife he wants no presents on the installment
pian