The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-22

Is OF pale green broeade &nd the toilet articles
are all in embossed silver. Brushes combs and
powder boxes are collected or scattered about
in profusion.
OMAHA World: Landlady--l nope you are COM
Portable, Mr.. Blank see your stove feels nice
and warm. Mr. Blank-Yes the suns been shin
ing on it.
IT is now said that James G. Blaine once
tertained desire TO become actor. He often
goes to the play, and is very fond of Witnessing
athletic contests He has large number of ac-
quaintances among the "stars" it is said
Mr.. HowELLs's promised paper in The Youths
Companion will describe his early life ia Ohio.
1t is said to bring out, with many exquisite
touches the life of a sensitive and poetic boy in
Western log cabin 1t is to run through three
numbers.
81 AN already grandfather" said the Able
Roussel in Paris lately to the Queen of Greece.
Up went Queen Olga's eyebrows. "I mean"
laughed the Able Roussel, that many of my
apprentices, whom call my children, are mar
ried and have children of their own"
IN 1910 one operative, working thirteen or
fourteen hours a day, turned 5000 yards of
standard sheeting year; in 1886 an operative in
the same mill turns off nearly or quite 10000
yards per annum In 1886 the mills hours are
ten In 1910 wages were $l75 per year; in 1886
they are $285 per year.
the "bogus butter issue is not confined to the
United States A similar agitation is taking
place in India, and bill, dealing with the adult
Grafton of ghee or clarified butter, introduced in
response to the urgent demands Of the native
community, has recently been passed by the
Bengal Council.
A STORY originating with the Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore American is Great
ing considerable amusement. 1t is to the effect
that just before the election small circus found
its way to crossroads town in North Carolina.
in which, to the horror of the manager, who had
had a bad season. Senator Vance was booked to
speak the same night In his dilemma
the Snowman applied to Vance, with the result
that the Senator was that night added to the
regular attractions of the show, making polit
ical speech from the top of the lions cage in the
center of the ring after the regular performance.
One of the most fashionable promenades in
Europe is in litigation. Everyone who knows
Rome knows the Villa Borghese. Lying outside
the walls of the city, beyond the Porta del Popo-
TO- its grounds are to the Roman aristocracy
what the drive past Hyde Park corner is to fash
ionable London. The death of Prince Borghese
has caused the division of estate valued at
more than 800, 000,0 600. The litigation which
has been going on now for some months is be-
tween the family and the municipality of Rome
However it may ultimately end, it is not proba-
bic that the Romans will lose their favorite
drive.
OUsPENsKY, popular Russian writer, recent
~ found a river steamboat in the Caucasus
piloted by youth Of seventeen, who, although
he was possessed of remarkable intellectual quail
tiles, had abruptly abandoned his studies for
manual toll, with intent to put Count Tolstols
doctrines into practice. Many Russian families
people of standing and education-are taking
their children from school, abandoning the de-
lusions of so-called civilization aud retiring into
remote country districts where they propose to
realize some vague ideas OF primitive simplicity.
This strange movement is vigorously supported
by Count Tolstoi. The Count divides each day
into four periods. separated from one another
by meal and ne INDUCES in hard labor and
in literary work alternately. He has thus be-
come accomplished in boot-making, expert in
wood-splitting, aud a very decent agricultural
laDorer Wherever he visits his estates he
assists his farm hands in blowing, sowing, and
getting in the crops.
IN the majority of cases the Russian priest is
the son of a priest sometimes he comes from
the small shopkeeping class or from the peas
antry. He passes six years at the diocesan
seminary, where he is taught theology, the
Scriptures, and very little Greek and Latin.
Those only who satisfy the examiners are or
damned as priests, the remainder receiving the
inferior degrees of deacon and psaltnist. The
members generally of the Russian clergy form
CLASS apart anu are mover IuVlLeu 0lLu6r 10 Inc
castle or the house of their middle-class parish
toner's except for official purposes. In money
matters they are exactng. One of them, a very
honest man, and in intelligence above the aver
age said recently: 'The year has been a very
bad one for me; there were few births and mar
riages. There were plenty of interments. but
people pay more cheerfully to be married than
they do for burials." Sacraments sometimes are
refused to dying persons whose friends cannot
afford to pay the usual fees.