The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-15

has 6nce heard Like Tom, she seems oblivious
to everything else when listening to music or
playing the piano.
How good 1t is to belong to the royal family
Of Saxe-Coburg. The young Braganza- Orleans
couple are to have pension Of $4,000 a year
from the Portuguese civil list. The late don
Fernando had $l00. 900 year
MRS. LANGTRY has become the possessor OF
one of the finest sets Of Russian sables in the
world. It took years to collect, and it is valued
at 81 200. 1t is used as trimming of collar and
fiounce to long coat Of black velvet.
IT is still positively affirmed in Washington
that the last time Mr.. Henry Watterson was in
that city he called upon Secretary Endicott and
sent in his card which was returned with the
remark that the Massachusetts, statesman had
never heard of him.
SOMEBODY who is said to know reports that at
nothing in America has Madame Henry Gre
vile been more astonished than the readiness
with which every Boston woman she met pulled
from her pocket or handbag poem or essay
composed in her honor.
f. MARION CRAWFORD, who is still honey
incoming in an elysium on the shore of the Bay
of Naples, was met at the foot of Vesuyius by an
American traveller, the other day. Crawford, :
says this traveller, sis tall gentlemen, not yet
thirty two, the very picture of manly health ana
beauty"
THE late III. Prosper Giquel, of the Chinese
Mission of Instruction in Europe, was once a
French officer, and distinguished himself at Sc
bastopol and at the taking of Canton. Later he
entered the Chinese service and built the Foo
chow forts and arsenal which We're lately de-
stroysd by his countrymen
A MILL man from Maine being asked il the
Knights Of Labor affected his business unfavor-
Cd A.. IL h
left eyelid: '.Oh, no, not at all. When they
wanted to start lodge in our town l joined
1t with all my overseers, and we are running it
in very satisfactory manner for all hands"
HENNER, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists
In Paris who sell all their pictures for good
prices in hard times as we'll as good To friend
who admiringly remarked to him that he must
be making $40 900 year, Very likely" he said
II keep ne account of it. But might earn still
more * were not bothered aud hindered. These
bourgeois are such cattle!"
SINCE the accession of Pope Leo XIII forty
four cardinals have died Of the cardinals Gre
ated by Pope Plus TX twenty six are still living,
the remaining thirty four have been created by
Leo XIII There are now ten vacancies In the
sacred college. Cardinal Newman is the oldest
of the cardinals. There are now l,20S dignita-
ries in tho Roman Catholic hierarchy.
THE word "reclusion," which occurs occa-
sionally In foreign dispatches, is applied to new
and terrible form of solitary imprisonment in
hicted on criminals In France. A Paris journal
list, who recently murdered his paramount. was
sentenced to seven years recluson, solitary con-
fnemert in a darkeued cell, deprived of all en-
ploymenS Apparently there is room for prison
reform in France
ALEXANDRA DUMAS will make the speech of
welcome when Lecomte de Lise is admitted to
the Academy, notwithstanding the fact that they
are ''bad friends" Not long ago they met in
society for the first time. On being presented to
the author OF Ola Dame aux Camellias' the old
man remarked, with the vague smile OF uncon-
scious innocence: alexandra Dumas! Why,
thought he was dead"
A HUGE California hawk swooped down ON
sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the other day, and
bore it squalling and scratching high in the air.
When about Ave hundred feet high the hawk lost
its grip, and the cat came down with fearful
velocity, but the hawk caught il again just be-
fore it struck the earth. and carrying it of,
when suddenly both fell like lead to the ground.
The cat had bitten through the hawks head, kill
ing it instantly, and the fall killed the cat
THE best decorated man in Prussia Is the
Crown Prince of Germany, who has seventy two
orders and decorations to plant on his breast
which make him look as though he wore a
breastplate Count Puckler. the marshal Of the
palace, comes next with fifty one; Bismarck fol-
lows with a modest forty eight; Count Per-
voucher. marshal of the court, forty-six; Count
Won Motke, forty -four; and so on down to a
humble thirteen, which Count William, Of Bis
marck. wears.
In the Chinese language there are sixty char
acters and meanings to the syllable Ling, seventy
10 Sing, ard seventy-fve to Ing. The Chinese
child has pretty or endearing nickname given
it soon after its birth Then the boy has
school name when he goes to fchool, marital
name when he takes q wife. business name
when he goes into business, an official name if
he takes an Office, and death name to be put on
his tombstone and to 60 down into history. The
Chinese prefix 'Ah," so common in this country
is an endearing diminutive, equivalent to
Sammy, Johnny, Tom my in the English Ian
guage.
THE President goes to Presbyterian church
about once month, looks bored during the serv-
ices, but stands them out determinedly. Sec
rotary Bayard is seen at an Episcopalian church
at long intervals. Secretary Whitney is also an
Episcopalian. Mr. Manning was once Catholic,
buS just now finance takes up his attention to
the exclusion of other matters. Mr. Lamar is
seen at Methodist church. with far-away look
in his eyes. Mr. Endcott goes to an Episco-
palian church, but not so often as to cause COM
ment. Mr.. Villas is said once to have entered a
Presbyterian church, apparently by mistake,
when the services were half over.
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