The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-09
THE 1rDIANApoLs JOURNAL, TUESDAY NOVEMBER o. 1886

eret the presentation Of any national testimon-
ial, even if the desire sprung from feeling
widely spread, which feeling do not think ok
ists.p
TIE Methodist Church in Canada has three
local preachers who are milionaires-W. E.
SANFORD, of Hamilton: John Macdonald, of
Toronto and G.. A. Cox. of Peterboro
MUNKAcsY has accepted an invitation to come
to this country, and viii! probably sail on the
steamer Champagne, which will be due in New
York Nov. Is. when his famous picture, "Christ
before PLATE, will be ready for exhibition to the
public
Mr. FRoUDE defends his course in regard to
his life of Carlyle as follows: II never wished
TO write it, and only undertook it at the sacrifice
OF all my arrangements for my future work, and
Of time and money which could i'll spare. Mr..
Carlyle gave me absolute discretion and entire
freedom in dealing with his letters, journals,
etc, and it is therefore unfair now to produce
against me prohibitions made previously"
SCIENTISTS have found that blonde hair is the
finest and red the coarsest. This is not 6 very
important contribution either to physiology o
to tonscogv, but nevertheless, in order to prove
it, Germnn psychologist has counted the hairs
on four heads of equal weight-brains, bone. ct
cetera excluded-with the following result: The
red head contained 90 900 hairs; the black, 103,
THE letter "I' has not always had its dot. 1t
is not seen, for instance, in the ancient manu-
scripts written in Roman characters. The addi-
ton of the dot dates from the adoption of Gothic
characters. Two SIS" could then easily be mis-
taken for a ''u," so they were distinguished by
accents written from left to right, and this
practice extended to SIS" which occurred alone.
The accents were diminished to dots as late as
the sixteenth century.
sEN =
spcuous in the troubles with the employees at
the stockyards, is described as weazen-faced,
plainly.dressed man, who whites a stick almost
constantly and who is as democratic as man
be tottering under the load of several million
dollars He was the first man in the United
States to get large beef contract from Europe.
He was fortunate in securing the influence OF
Emmanuel Rothschild.
JUDGE NICHOLAS LoNGwoRTH, of Cincinnati,
lately of the Supreme Court of Ohio, is an en-
| thusiastic canoeist, and much given to travelling
on the water in other ways Judge Longworth
and his friend DIR. J. A. Henshell, author of
several piscatorial works. about to proceed
by steamer from New York to Havana There
they will engage private yacht and cross the
Atlantic to England. Thence they will cruise
| down to and through the Strait of Gibraltar and
up the Mediterranean.
COUNT DE LEssEPs, when in Washington the
other day, was thus pictured by writer on the
Post: 1.-THE Count was in the best of form.
His gray mustache was well waxed and drawn
out at the ends as fine as needle point The
Count has a great nose, which runs nearly the
whole length of his face, like rabbits nose, and
when he smiles much. which is very often, the
nose overshadows everything else. and his little
eyes peer out peculiarly from focus of wrinkles
which seem absolutely to revel in the fun which
brings them into play"
THE day before he received Prince William of
Prussia, at Brest- Litovsk the Gear ordered his
Prussian uniform to be placed in readiness for
him to wear on that occasion. It was discov-
cred that it had been left behind at st. Peters.
burg. But telegram was at cnce sent, and
courier came on with the uniform, on a
special engine, getting there just in time The
run of $50 miles made in the easy 70 of
thirteen hours, but they were hours of or TX
iety to the Cars subordinates. who sawd zee
and punishment impending if any mishas de-
layed the courier.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION is now growing old, and
his friends persuade him. like President Grevy,
his successor, to take rest His straightse set
form on his Arab steed from Algeria, where he
first won his sword and spurs, used to be one Of
the features of the Bots de Boulogne on gala
days, but is so no longer, His wife, who is
much younger than the Marshal, has receptions
twice week during "the season" and che is al
terprises of ''vvacious Paris" Lieutenant Nc
Mahon, son of the Marshal, is one of the favor
ties of General Boulanger French Minister of
War.
THIS man Clanrcarde, the ''noble Marquis"
who obstreporously persists in posing proudly as
the most unreasonably bad English landlord Ire
land has had, was the second son of the late
Marquis. The late Marquis was person of no,
torious vileness, conspicuous in divorce scandals
and gambling swindes The oldest son was like
him, and would find his ittest bographer in
lola. On his death bed he asked his doctor how
long he had to live. 1.-Two hours 'Then
wind up that music box on the table and keep it
playing till die" The present repre- sentative
of the line promises to be ''true to the traditions
of his race" as Ouida would say.
JEROME HOPKINS cannot be accused of falling
to think highly of his father, the late Bishop
Hopkins. He has recently written to Balti-
more paper 10 say that Bishop Odenheimer fire.
quently pronounced my father to be one of the
greatest intellects of the nineteenth century,
and it is certain that no other American Episco-
palian prelate has thus far given evidence of
learning and polemlc ability equal to those dis
played in Bishop Hopkins's Answer to Miners
End of Controversy Controversial and in the
famous exposure of the late Dean Stanleys ig-
noraace of elish ecclesiastical law at the time
of the Pan Anglical Convention. when the Amer.
lean bishops were shut out of Westminster Alb
hey to please the notorious Colenso, who was
warm friend of the Dean
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