The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-09

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surprise to him. He has NOT yet accepted the
position.
THE public curiosity as to what Tennyson has
to say about "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
will soon be gratifed. Locksley Hall, accord
ing to the celebrated poem, had good deal OF
structural weakness il the old days. 1t must
present melancholy aspect sixty years later.
THAT Scrbners Magazine is likely TO be sue
cess in England, as well as here, is abundantly
proved by the fact that Frederick Warne g. Co..
of London, who are to act as the agents for the
sale of the magazine in Great Britain, have
bought outright 10000 copies of the new maya
zine.
WHIsTLER's portrait Of Lady Colin Campbell
is the center of attraction in the British Art
Gallery. It is full length-a harmony il
white and ivory-and is the picture of
beautiful stately and graceful woman in
evening costume, holding up the train of her
dress.
THE bingham journal says that bingham
lady, who having complained of being unable to
tell her mince pies from her apple pies without
testing, was advised to mark them. She did so,
and com placently announced: This I've marked
IT. M-(Tis Mince) an that I've marked IT.
Militant Mincew
PHILADELPHIA oilbroker received the fol-
lowing businesslke note from a woman the
ObuoE ud1s tease Duy NE lU,UUU OdTrelS Vi OA
at 80 cents and sell at 81. 10 Remit me the diff
ference, less your commission. Upon the
promptness with which you execute this order
depends my future patronage"
TEN per cent. of the students in tie University
of Zurich are women. Twenty nine of them are
studying medicine, fourteen philosophy and two
political economy. There are forty eight female
students OF medicine in London. and in Paris
| l03 Within the last seven years eighteen
women have taken medical degree in Paris.
| A NEW York correspondent writes that Mr..
Jay Gould has got two sons right in the business
harness He had George study telegraphy, and
now he is expert; and Edward, the younger son.
is good steuographer. With these two boys
| the father can 60 anywhere, dictate his dis
| patches to Edward. and George will send them
| A LARGE and apparently vigorous woman en-
| tered a crowded horse-car in Baltimore. the
other day, and after casting whitening glances
on several gentlemen, and not getting seat
| exclaimed, 81 cannot stand up" and sank in a
| heap on the floor. This had the desired effect,
for gentleman at once arose and the lady was
| seated
THE following notice is in Montana news
paper "The night Of the 14th inst dark bay
mare, fifteen hands high, small white star in
forehead both hind feet white, was stolen from
! the stable of Ira Sampson, the undersigned /
will give the mare and $50 in cash for full and
reliable particulars regarding the funeral of the
thief. That's the kind of man l am"
THE cruel operation Of the laws permitting i'm
prisonment for debt is illustrated in New Jersey
in the case of Henry III. Barry, who is confined
| in Camden for q debt of $110 while his wife and
| children are verging on starvation through lack
| OF means. Barry, who was impoverished by an
| unfortunate but honest investment is thus kept
| by one relentless creditor where he can neither
| pay his debt nor provide for his family.
| THADDEUs FOWLER, whose death occurred in
a Connecticut town recently. was a prolific in
ventor. He invented a machine for sticking
pins in paper for manufacturing iron pins. for
sorting pins for making pins, head and all, at a
single stroke, for making needless for pointing
wire, for making horseshoe nails, for sharpen
| ing housekeeping machines. and for stamping
metal He also invented reaping and binding
| machine and the sewing bird used on ladies'
work-tables. Despite all this. however he died
comparatively poor, as he had little business ca
pacity.
| CHARLES DICKENS. in his choice Of names for
his characters, went on the. principle that
Truth is stranger than fiction and was wont
to pick his titles from the shop signs as he went
through the London streets. For instance.
| "Dombey q Son" Keep tailoring establishment
| on Cornhill to this day. 'Micawber' was gro
Ger in Rochester. "Copperfed" is an apoth-
ecary in Deptford, Kent, and on. But queer
est of all, cobbler in the Bowery has over his
| stall in large letters, ''Hurtkorn! practical and
anatomical shoemaker" That is trade mark
| with vengeance
JOHN CLINE once a celebrated rope-dancer
died at the Forrest Home. on Friday He came
to this country from England in 1928 He danced
| years under contract with Charles Gilbert for
| $40, 900 year. Once in Philadelphia he proved
too great an attraction for such stars as Wallack
| and Forrest and they PLAYED to empty benches
while Cline danced at the Chestnut-street Thea
ter. He was very popular with theatrical peo-
| pie, and they succeeded in placing him in the
| Forrest Home in 1880 Cline earned great deal
| of money in his prime, but lost $50, 900 by the
| failure of the United States Bank.
| MRS GEORGE W. CHILDss collection Of china
can only be described by ona wordsworth
Yet she does not rest con 1t, but is constantly
adding new gems. Agents abroad know that
they may safely send her whatever treasures
| they find, and the fashionable jewelers. in town
feel at liberty to hold for her order any very fine
thing in china that may come in their way.
| The King of Naples set, which is kept in glass
cabinet in Mrs. Childs's dining-room is said by
| Cesnola to be the finest in the world 1t cost
| $4,000 Mr. Childs had as competitor for its
| possession the South Kensngton Museum of
London, but, as his agent tad carte blanche
order. there was no preventing his obtaining it.
| FRANK HATToN, once Postmaster-general
now editor of the Chicago Mail tells how he en-
listed for the war He was but a boy, and
thought it would be fun to run away from his
home at Cadiz, o., and join regiment at
Xenia, in which his brother-in-law was a captain
| 1t was awfully rainy and muddy and after a
night in camp the boy had enough and asked
+he captain to telegraph to his father, saying
that he was in camp, ard asking what to do.
Frank confidently expected to get orders to re-
| turn home before he was sworn in; but, to his
| horror the telegram that came from his stern
| and patriotic father read. "Swear him in" and
he was sworn in and served four years with
honor
THE death is announced at Sutton, Surrey, of
George Thomas Doc, r. A. retired F. R. ST.,
the eminent engraver, aged eighty-seven years.
He produced in 1924 his first published engrav-
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