The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24

color of a man who is in perfect health and who
is not overworked. His blonde mustache is
hardly more than in the face of a man Of twenty
five.
SINCE the accession of Pope Leo XIII forty
four cardinals have died. OF the cardinals Gre
ated by Pope Plus TX twenty six are still living.
The remaining thirty-four were created by Pope
Leo XII
SoME English political economists are said to
be getting frightened at the growing tendency
toward simplicity in the dress of women. They
say that il women should dress all alike, COM
merce would be ruined.
Both the Rhode Island Senators come from
Providence; both the Georgia Senators come
from Atlanta, both the Louisiana Senators come
from New Orleans. and both the California SEN
ators come from San Francisco.
SECRETARY BAYARD's home is now presided
over by his third daughter, Miss Mamie Bayard.
She and her sisters are striking looking girls in
their simple mourning garb, and the Secretary is
greatly interested in their housekeeping efforts.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER, in recent letter to his
friend for more than half century. Edwin
Thompson said: 1.-THE long, hard winter has
left me very poorly in health. 1 am glad to see
that thy pen is still busy. For myself, dread
to touch pen and paper
in the Oregon, their fortune of $40 600, 900 would
have gone over to various institutions of char
lty named in the will of the late Ex-Governor
Morgan, whose heirs they are. But. fortunately,
there's many slip twixt deaths bitter cup
and the lip.
THERE will always be found people in this
world who seem anxious to do unusual things;
and that was novel performance, last week.
In Geneva, N. Y, when funeral procession
stopped in the street long enough to allow the
corpse of a little girl to be taken into gallery
and pl Geographical
Miss KIN KAro of Japan, is attending the
Normal School at Salem, Mass. She is the first
woman scholar sent here by the government of
Japan and ia to be educated at it's expense, with
the intention that after her three years course
she shall return, to be placed at the head of the
normal schools in Japan.
MRS. MARIA LoNGwoRTH NICHOLS, widow of
the late Col. George Ward Nichols, of Cincin-
natl, was quietly married at her residence, at
Walnut Hil last evening, to Bellamy Storer.
The groom is a we'll known lawyer and the
bride. who is daughter of Nicholas Long
worth, is reported to be worth $30O0,0O0
THE ex-rebel General Prestonsaid to an in
terviewer: .'Once when Sir Garnet Wolseley
asked me at dinner party at Montreal if the
South could not have held out longer replied:
AS mere matter of physical endurance, yes;
but do you know, sir, that, in the four years of
war through which we passed, the South alone
with its few millions of people, lost more men
in battle than England did in all its wars from
William the Conquerer to Queen Victoriap'
Miss THURsBY received the money for her me-
mortal concert in New York one morning in a
very novel way. She was invited to breakfast
by number of ladies who had directed the IN
cert, and an omelette was given her to serve On
cutting it she found that she really had before
her the famous golden eggs for the omelette
was made of twenty dollar gold pieces. crust
of cotton separated them from the real omeette
above them. 1t was rather an opulent sort of
breakfast dish and was worth s., 800.
SECRETARY MANNING is not fond of going
out He goes occasionally, but he is nearly al
ways represented by his wife. Mrs. Manning
has gone everywhere. She is lady of good tact,
excellent social presence aud the uniform polite
ness to people of all grades which makes her very
popular. Her success has shown how much a
clever woman do to help her husband on at
Washington. Mr.. Manning is popular in Wash
ington society largely through the agreeable
ways Of his wife