The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13


Stephen thinks unnecessary as well as impossi-
Bile. /; then, am too impatient to refute care
fully such theorists"
THE Queen of SPANS baby is not fine child,
but small and puny. His complexion is fair and
his eyes are blue. It seems supremely ridicu-
lous that king should within an hour of his
birth be served up on silver salver like an ante
dinner cocktail or sherry and bitters to gather
ing of illustrious FOSSILS Yet such is the Span
ish custom. His newborn Majesty very sensi-
bly,, we learn, resented the proceeding and
screamed Justify.
STORIES with morals are numerous as straw
berries at this season The latest is from Mil
ford, Pa. A girl was regular attendant at
church there. Some Of the lady members of the
church wrote to her that they preferred she
better dressed. She afterwards stole some ar
ticles of personal adornment was caught and
sentenced to four months in the penitentiary.
D. WARREN LOWE, alias Winslow, the Boston
forger is. according to the Buenos Ayres Stand
ard, languishing in Jail in that city, with almost
no other friend but a woman whom he had Sc
riously wronged. The Buenos Ayres Herald,
hitherto conducted by Winslow, was closed up
few weeks ago because of some financial irreg-
ed by new journal. in other hands. that will not
pursue black mailing as a means of livelihood.
AN Indian funeral procession in eastern Ore
gon is thus described 1.-THE defunct had been set
upon horse and a stick had been dashed along
each side of his body to keep it in upright
position. The head was not supported in any
way, and as the horse trotted along the body
seemed bowling IN every direction aud the head
shaking in a horribly grotesque manner. The
widow. dressed in her mourning paint, trotted
along behind on a lazy mule, to which she kept
vigorously applying the whip"
SIR SIDNEY WATERLow and his lady are
among the notables at Washington. Lady Water
low was California girl, daughter of George
Hamilton, and when she met Sir Sidney she was
occupying the position of society editor of the
San Francisco Examiner and doing her work
well. Her husband is ex Mayor OF London.
sixty years DID, and very wealthy. The young
lady was pet of the Mackays and Stanfords,
and before they would sanction the match they
made the love-laden foreigner show his papers
and pedigree.
Few people will accept the remarkable views
on opum-smoking expressed by Mr.. j. g. Scott,
the traveller, in his book on Tonquin. He as
serts that opium used moderately is at least no
the opium pipe is positive blessing after hard
days march. or in countries where fever fumes
rise thick out of the marshes and jungle. He
says that vt is only when a man puts himself to
sleep with a half doZen or more pipes that it be-
comes curse. The opium habit is very pre-
valent among the French soldiers in Indo- China.
THOMAS BROWN of Worthwhile, in the Adiron-
dacks rests his claim to fame upon the alleged
fact that he is the only living man who remem-
bers George Washington. He was brought I'D
In Concord, Mass, and while he was very
small boy his father (who had been Revolu
tionary soldierl was honored by a visit from our
first President when the latter made his tour to
Boston and its vicinity. Mr.. Brown says that
the old hero spoke to him SO kindly that 1t made
an impression which remains fresh at the pres
ent day. though he is now in his ninety-sixth
year
THE Empress Eugene has invited Lady Bur
ough. After the Empress escaped from Paris
and reached Trouvile. under the protection of
tooth carpenter Evans, Sir~John Burgoyne gave
her his yacht. the Gazelle, to cross the channel.
Sir John granted this favor only after much per-
suasion, violent storm was raging; but Lady
Burgoyne more courageous than her husband.
insisted on facing all hazards. and embarked
herself with the party. They reached HYDE
after dangerous passage.
NORMAN B. REAM, John Cudahy and N. s.
Jones constitute the Chicago syndicate of brok
ers which is just now attracting the attention of
the country by its immense operations in wheat
we're poor men. and all of them have become
rich within thatdime. In 1879 Ream borrowed
5000 with which to begin business on the
Chicago board Cudahy was superin tendent of
working on salary. Jones is the "plunger' of
the syndicate, delighting in daring and appar
emily reckless operations
IT is said that of the six full generals appointed
by the confederate Congress only two survive.
These are now Joseph E. johnston, now United
States commissioner of railways, and G. r.
Beauregard, Adjutant-general of Louisiana Of
the twenty Lieutenant generals appointed to
the provisional army several are living K.
Kirby Smith is professor OF mathematics in the
University Of the South. in Tennessee: James
Longstreet is keeping hotel down in Georgia,
and d. Fl. Hill was, until recently, president of
the Agricultural School. of the State of Arkansas
Mr.. w. III. P. ARDEN, descendants of Mary
Arden, the mother of Shakespeare, writes to the
London Standard that "Shakspeare's genius was
inherited from mis- mother, who showed when
young most wonderful poetical imagination.
and it was she without doubt who inspired her
son with that spirit which has placed him on
pinnacle so far above his fellows The Geneai-
from the old family records OF the Ardens,
proves, indirectly certainly but still clearly,
that 1t was by reason Of his methers social DO
sition and extraordinary mind that Shakespeare
became the iadminded bard sublime"
COLONEL CONWAY. who has been for twelve
years in Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and New
Mexico. says that all the noted desperadoes that
he saw wers blondes. He says "Masterson,
the famous sheriff of Dodge. who had killed
twenty-seven men when he was twenty seven
years old, has Ii light hair aud blue eyes. So has
Doc Halliday. exiled from Arizona for trying to
kill all Of Tombstone in one day. The Erp
brothers could Join q Lydia Thomson troupe If
yellow curls went for anything. Luke Short,
notorious throughout the entire West, is little
fellow of blonde cast, ard that is the complex
ion Of Mark Duggan and Jim Kinney. two very
bad men of great renown in Colorado"
SOME solid men Of Boston have been made
sadder and wiser by an oily-toneued gentleman
who canvassed for mythical directory of New
York. Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and
other cities. He took advertisements for this
work at low figure, and the advertisers signed
an agreement in book of blank forms, to paw