The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-11

lecture; but, as the bill poster never had heard
of Mr. Cumback, he took it for granted, when
he was given the announcement s'Will Cumback
Dec. IL, /" that Mr.. Carleton was coming back; so
he fixed the old bill after the new one, thus
ssWill Carleton Will Cumback Dec. Ii"
A NEW YORK Assemblyman has introduced q
bill into the Legislature providing for the estab-
lishment in every assembly district Of Russian
and Turkish baths "for the benefit of the labor
ing classes the baths to DO free, and to be pro-
vided with physicians and attendants.
PRESIDENT ELIOT says that, under the elective
system, students do not, as a rule, choose only
the s'soft" courses of study but a very fair COM
bination of soft and "hard' studies. The tend
ency of the elective system, he says is rather
away from scientific studies, and towards art and
the languages
MISS FRANCES HEAUNELLr, q native of Dali
malta residing in San Francisco, has not spoken
for seven years, though in full possession of her
vocal powers. The cause of her singular freak
was quarrel with her family concerning lover.
The only thing she takes any interest In is cod
liver oil, which she swallows eagerly.
Mr.. BALLENTTNE (M. c. from Tennessee) to
the President: Any Democrat who comes here
and tells you the party is pleased with your ad-
ministration does so either because he wants
something of you or because he is a born liar
can say to you that there isn't Democrat in
my whole district that is satisfied with this adj
ministration.
The Rochester prizes for essays on the "Red
Sunsets were awarded as follows "First prize,
5000 in gold, Prof. X. l. Kiesling, Hamburg
Germany; second prize, $3.50 in gold, Prof. James
Edmund Clark, York. England third prize, $50,
Henry G. Maine, Rochester N. Y. (sun-spot
philosopher Of the Democracy; third prize, $50,
Rev. Serene E. Bishop, Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands"
ONE day last week, the Boston Record tells
an old Boston gentleman went into the studio Of
Mr.. Hurbert Herkomer to look at the latter's
portrait of the architect Richardson. Knowing
the original we'll. he sat for some time in silence
before the picture, and when he had done study
ing it and rose to GO he lifted his hat waved it
toward the portrait, and, bowling low, said:
Good evening sir, and walked out.
Mr.. LoNGFELLow, as one learns from the new
life by his brother Samuel. once wrote to Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, concerning the poem Evan
gelne," thus: ST thank you for resigning to me
that legend of Acady This success 1 owe en-
tlrey TO you for being willing to forego the
pleasure Of writing prose tale which many peo-
pie would have taken for poetry, that l might
write poem which many people take for
prose-"
A MAN six feet high and forty years old is liv-
in an open field on the line of the Pennsylvania
railroad, three miles east of Columbia. He re-
fuses shelter, which has been repeatedly offered
him, but accepts food He has long black hair,
extending below the shoulders, high cheek bones,
and resembles an Indian. He takes to the woods
at the approach of strangers. During the recent
severe weather he refused to leave his present
quarters, and insisted on sleeping in the field.
He has been living thus for about two months.
A GOOSE farm is one Of the curiosities of agri-
culture on the eastern shore of Virginia. With
in an area of about 900 acres live 5000 geese of
several varieties, attended by herders. and regu-
larly fed with corn, etc. The object is the col
in about six weeks pluckng takes PLACE Only
the breasts and the sides under the wings are
plucked and it requires the yield Of nearly one
hundred geese to weigh pound. The raw
feathers are sent to Philadelphia for cleaning
and sorting