The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-14

lily disapprove the use of such whistling aid
laughing songs as were used in our church at
the last session of the G.. Fl. III. convention.
Done by order of the church, in conferences as
sembled.n
PRoF. JOHN DICKINSON, brother of Miss
Anna Dickinson. has accepted the chair of geoI-
ogy and mineralogy and curator of the museum
in the University of Southern California, at Los
Angeles.
THE latest craze in book bindings is crocodile
skin, rivaling in appearance the best morocco.
AS it was used ages ago upon the banks of the
Nile for coverings for the rolls OF papyr OF the
ancient Egyptians, It has the honor OF age and
responsibility.
Mr. TILDEN once made admission of timidity,
thus: 81 have never faced an audience or rose
in court but that stage-fright seized me. Some
times my tongue has stood stupidity still and
seconds of hesitancy have dragged along like
hours filed with horrors. I've tried endless de-
vices to cure myself. but it cannot be done"
AFTER q somewhat checkered career the
Great Eastern seems at last to have fair
chance of q green and useful old age Her ca
reer at Liverpool floating temple of amuse-
ments has proved so successful that she is to
become peripatetic variety show. and will be
taken about the British coast, and finally to the
Australian colonies.
made from thin layers Of, gold alloy upon an
ingot Of brass, formed while it is hot On the
ingot cooling it is forced between steel rollers
into long. thin ribbon. each part Of which is.
of course, still covered with the gold alloys, in
calculably thin. but which wears for years. and
can be nodded into any shape
A CLERGYMAN who has recently interviewed
Cardinals Newman and !, Manning, describes
them as being plain, simple men, with little
pomp about them. Cardinal Mann ing was
emaciated. and his face had several bad gashes,
as If he had shaved in the dark and in haste.
His fingers were all bone," said the clergyman.
''and the ring slipped up and down upon it as he
spoke. He would almost brighten you Cardinal
Newman presented the appearance of a very old
man, with his teeth gore, but his face wore an
expression of repose. Hewould rather impress
you as sweet character"
OLIVE LOGAN writes thus of Robert Louis
Stevenson: about thirty eight years of age,
and Of exceedingly delicate health he Is so slight
and short of stature that.he has the appearance
of youth. His costume aids this fiction He
wears short coat almost like an Elton boy
roundabout, and visorless soft cap; pale,
und-shouiGered, and much muf11ed about the
throat. from whose slender column a cough fire.
quently escapes. He married California lady,
a widow, who had some name, though forget
what that name was, in local literature She
ilVeo IN OAKLAND, opposite San FRANCISCO, Wnere
she owned o cottage and had a son OF ten or
twelve"
THE TRIO.
A squashlet sent it's rootlet down into the clay;
A buglet idly wandering CHANGED to pass that way.
"Oh, rootlet! Tender rootlet" l heard that buglet
s'You just bet you bootletI will make you fly"
Then he went at it with toothlet and vigor good to
see;
That buglet had feastlet unseen exceptby me;
He stuck there by that rootlet until he had lot,
Then he wiped his mouth and went away; the squash
let went to rot