The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-03


Whereupon the honorable Georgian gave the
slave girl S. for it. and handed it down to his
admiring posterity.
A SCIENTIFIC authority explains the close fol-
lowing of cold spell on the days Of unusual
warmth for the season by comparing matters
with fire in stove-the fiercer the flame and
the stronger the draught up chimney, the more
pronounced the draught of cold air along the floor
of che room
THE Rev. Joseph Cook has given his hearers
list of novels which will bear reading 1t in
cludes Jean Paul Richter's Titan" Goethe's
wilhelm Mester," Victor Hugo's Lies Miser-
ables," Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves "Uncle
Toms Cabin" Dickens's best novel, to be
selected by the reader, and George Eliots
sRomola."
THE brain of Gambetta was recently consid-
cred by the French Anthropolog;cal Society NJ.
Duval stated that it was small in size weighing
only l, l61 grammes as compared with l,629 OF
Cuvier's and 1900 of Cromwells and notable
only for great development IN the circumvoiu-
ton commonly assigned as the seat OF the ora
torical faculty.
FRED DOUGLASS writes to the New York En-
terprise on the question of negro emigration
from the South: recent developments of lynch
law, rapine and murder in the Southern STATES,
have inclined me to listen to any proposal of
quiet emigration from the South to such States
of the Union in which they may not be treated
as outlaws"
JAY GOULD has developed a taste and talent
for photography On his recent yachting trip
he carried camera and all the rest of the needtu
apparatus along, and visitors at his downtown
Office are treated to an exhibition of pictures
whose duplicates are not to be found outside of
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Mr. Gonlds possession. They are all OF subjects
aptly chosen. and the workmanship shown in the
point is worthy of man equipped to earn liv-
ing at the business
NJ. Maspero reports from Boulak that good
progress is being made in the excavation around
the Sphinx of Gizeh. 'sThe face" he says.
raised fifteen meters above the surface, is be-
coming expressive, in spite of the loss of the
nose. The expression is serene and calm. The
breast has been good deal injured, but the
is in beds of sand which have not been disturbed
since the first centuries Of our era"
AFTER careful study of the subject, Prof P.
d. Penhallow concludes that the formation of
the socalled annual rings of growth in trees is
chiefly determined by whatever operates to pro-
duce alternating periods of physiological rest and
activity. In cold climates the rings are an ap
proximately correct but not always certain, in
dex of age. In warm climates, however. the
growth is more likely to mark period of rain
fall than the yearly hot season of summer.
THE story is told that in his younger days,
when q Bradford election was proceeding in
which every vote was of Importance, Mr. Wm
E. Forster, who was at the Liberal committee
room, was informed that some voters were being
detained at public house and being so primed
with drink that they would soon be unable to
articulate. He went Immediately cleared one
n he G.
at three bounds. and. finding the door closed
against him. jumped through the window and
exercised his homely eloquence so effectively
that he led the bbulous electors triumphantly to
the poll.
The Duke Of Braganza. heir to the Portu-
guese crown, is related to an unusual number
of royal families. He is nephew of King Hum
BERT of Italy, and also of the Princess Clotilde
and therefore counsn of Prince Victor Napoleon
His grandmother Maria de Gloria. niece of
the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte His
grandfather. Dom Fernando. was cousin of Queen
Victoria. and thus the young man may claim re-
latonship to the roy al families of England and
Belgium, and all the connections of the prolific
SAKE Coburg- Gotha tribe He is, moreover
grandnephew of Dom Pedro. of Brazil, and thus
related to the Neapolitan Bourbons. And now
he is about to marry into the Orleans family.
JOHN HAY. according to the Washington
Hatchet, looks as if he were too languid men
tally to even PROFOUND the question, Ills life
worth livingp All of his literary ambition
seems to be gone and he appears content to let
one tiresome day drag after another without a
care as to what happens or whom it happens to-
In his case the leisure for work which was the
consequence OF wealthy marriage has not been
improved. He takes no interest in the time or
its questions and fulhlls none of the promises of
his early days. He has a beautiful home in this
city, which he has adorned with rare taste, but
he is restless and disconnected. He is sick
physically az we'll as mentally, and it is to be
questioned whether there is more miserable
man in literature.