The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-31

full gentle amiable warm hearted hiph-spirit-
ed generous, capable, industrious, uncomplain-
Inc, indispensable and altogether lovely women
In the world.
Walter Phelps, is said to closely resemble his
father, even to the bang which embellishes the
statesman's corruscated brow. John has just
left San Francisco on his yacht Brunhilde, to
round Cape Horn and finish the circuit of the
world.
MARX TWAIN is said to have met with disas-
trous failure in recent effort to ride bicycle.
The machine threw him with the promptness
and intelligence of an unbroken bronco, and the
spectators thought its performance even more
amusing than the jumping frog in "Innocenta
Abroad"
CRUEL iokers told predetermined youth in q
Canadian town that one of the graves in a ceme-
terry near by was his He visited the spot, and,
seeing stone bearing the name Erred" con-
cluded that that meant him, and began to open
the grave to free his body. a policeman found
him thus engaged and carried him to Jail.
NOTICING the recent statement that the favor
ite feminine exclamation, ''Oh, dear me" is act
ually an oath, being corruption of 'O> Dio
Mo- meaning 80 my God" correspondent of
is just as much of swear, being derived from
the Spanish exclamation, Deus meo, sanctus
Deus,r 20 my God, Holy God.n
Mr.. BURcKHARDT, one of the victims of the
Matterhorn disaster wrote his will with pencil
on card which was found IN the snow by the
side Of his body. It reads: 81 am dying on the
Matterhorn. / leave all possess to you, dear
sister. God bless YOU" That will ought to be
as binding as it would be If clothed in all the
legal phraseology known to Doctors Commons.
IF the Mexicans meet pretty woman on the
street." says latter in the New Orleans Plea
yune. although an entire stranger, they will
say to her. You are so sweet so pretty! I love
your No offense is meantand the lady is not
expected to notice it Such compliment was
paid pretty Boston girl in Mexico City and she
astonished her plain-spoken admirer by taking
her parasol to him."
ST. Paul Globes ibid you go to the cemeteryg'
asked Mrs. Dutiful to Mrs. Funeralgoer, refer
ring to a recent funeral in the neighborhood.
YES" replied the person addressed. How nat
ural he looked exclaimed the first speaker.
Just as if he was asleep" II hardly noticed any
thing. never enjoyed myself less in my life
why, what was the matterp "Well. it looked
very lnuch as though we would have a wind
storm, and I left the windows open at home. and
| was afraid IL would rain and spoil my new
carpet that did not enjoy the funeral as
should have done"
A NEW musical prodigy. boy of nine years.
by the name of Josef Hofmann, is exciting the
attention of musical circles in Germany. The
young artist who is a native of Warsaw. is said
to be "astonish;ngly mature" both as a pianist
and a composer He studied under the direction
of his father, an orchestral leader in Warsaw,
and boasts already of rensrtory including COM
positions of Beethoven, Weber, Chopin, Liszt,
Rubinstein, etc In Carlsbad he played Beethov-
ems concerto No. l and Weber's Polonaise in
E-dur with marvellous brilliancy," concluding
the performance with a romanza and a mazurka
of his own composition. The prodigy is soon to
be submitted to the test of Berlin audience.
THE Hartford Times says that the late Prof.
Calvin E. Stowe had more than a faith in life
hereafter; he had knowledge, derived from act
ual personal experience He was aware of the
reality of the spirit world and of its nearness to
the earth life through his own experience. To
him the veil was often withdrawn and he was
permitted to see and hold communion with those
who had gone before. He was entirely satisfied
that ne often saw and conversed WITH in the pri
vacy and quiet of his own home, those who were
no longer the occupants of earthly bodies This
gift of spiritual clairveyance and clairaudience
was potent to take away much of the sense OF
bereavement and to fix his thought habitualiy
on the higher realities.
THE ex-Empress Eugene has staying with her
at present two pretty neces, Miles. Antonio and
Maria Vegarno. She took them to luncheon on
board the Osborne, at Cowes the other day. She
was attired in black costume with short coat
of rough black cloth; her nieces wore short blue
coats, lcose-frCnted and open collars, outlined
with navy and silver cord and silver buttons;
their sailor hats of navy blue straw, and
trimmed with jaunty bews of navy ard cream
spotted ribbon. Princess Louise (Marchoness
of Lorne) was dressed in a cream serge gown.
with a loose overcoat of navy "blanketing,
trimmed with blue and gold braid; the hat, of
sailor shape, in cream straw. was trimmed with
knotted foulard handkerchiefs in blue and white.
The Duchess OF Connaught wore gown of navy
SERGE with lines of red intermixed, the waist
coat being of red surah; the sailor hat, of navy
straw, was trimmed with mixture of red and
blue ribbons.