The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-12

cation that shall supp1ant the salaried singers,
and to instruct the congregation and Sunday
school in chorus singing"
THE Duchess OF Hamilton Is one Of the most
notable sportswomen in England. She recently
followed the hounds-and closely-throughout .
chase OF three hours, covering twenty-five miles
of country.
epitaph upon Robert Emmett which in his dying
speech he asked that no man should write until
his country should take her place among the
nations of the earth.
THE Christian Union tells of a young man
who, in three months, gave his seat in a car
to ffty-nine women and girls, and every one
thanked him. We are sorry to see that even
religious journals are beginning to publish fc-
tion.
THE fact is suggested that M. Pasteur. not
withstanding his physiological and surgical work,
does not possess any medical diploma, and there
fore cannot personally operate upon a human
patient.
The new wife of the Chinese ambassador at
Paris is seventeen years old and the daughter
OF a first-class mandarin. She was sent over
from China, G. 0. D., on the order of the en-
passador, whose former wife died about q year
ago at Berlin.
IT is said that Gen. D. S. Stanley, now com
handing the Department Of Texas, is to be
transferred to the department of Dakota, with
headquarters at st. Paul, and that he will be
succeeded by General Potter, recently romoted
from the colonelcy of the Twenty-fourth In
fantry.
COUNT DE LEssEPs is laughed at for being
sanguine that he will live till 1889 and charter a
steamer, take his whole family, and, passing
through the Panama canal, return to France by
way of Suez. But the real difficulty by that time
may be to find a steamer that will hold his whole
family.
A CLERK, who is dismissed by his employer,
says to him when he is taking his final leave.
well, sir, this dismissal will cost a good many
people their lives" do you mean to threaten
meY' demanded his employer. mot at all.
IL simply means that l am going to become a
doctor"
They are now telling stories of Chief.iustice
Cartier, of the District of Columbia. The other
day, one runs, a lawyer was defining the powers
of the court. The court, he said, could do Ibis,
and the court could do that. sN-n-no d-d-doubt,"
remarked Judge Cartier; 'n-next ito the AL
mighty the-there's n-E-nothing like a &C court"
THE modern married belle, says the San
Francisco Argonaut, at a dinner is apt to be
dressed In white, with much crystal trimming,
with feathers in her hair, and with diamonds on
her neck and arms and a pair of long, brown
Swedish gloves drawn up to her shoulders; a
feather fan of ostrich feathers hangs at her side
by a ribbon or chain of diamonds and pearls.
The lorg, brown Swedish gloves are an anon
ally.
PRINCESS ~DoLGoROUKY, widow of the late
Gar. Alexander II, gives grand weekly recep-
tions at her splendid mansion in the Rue de Las
Casas. Her face bears the traces of an indelible
melancholy, which is dissipated only when her
eye rests on her two beautiful children, who are
described as living images of their father. The
boy is fourteen years of age and can talk on all
subjects in six or seven languages. The girl,
one year younger, is of charming beauty and
grace, q Parlsienne born on the banks of the
Neva.
DENIS KEARNEY keeps slanewhanging away
on the San Francisco sand lots every Sunday,
directing his batteries mostly against Coroner
ODonnell. He has one story about that worthy
that he is never tired Of repeating. 1t is that
the coroner discovered, in some way, in a China
town cellar. the skeletons of thirty-fve China
men, which were being prepared for shipment
back to China, as is the custom; and that he
confscated the whole lot, carted them to his Of
flee, and held a separate inquest and collected a
separate fee on each.
Won BULOw, the pianist, has an extraordinary
memory. No man living can approach him,
or piano score in his head. AT a recent series of
piano r~ecitals in London, he played the whole of
Beethoven's thirty-three sonatas. FIVE or six each
night; and he played them all from memory.
And when he conducted as maestro the four
night performance of Wagner's famous Niebe
lungen Lied, standing before the orchestra and
directing the entire delivery of that most volum-
NOUS and intricate composition, he did it with
out a scrap of print before him.
1.-THE reason that Shakers are decreasing in
numbers" said Elder F. ". Evans, of the Mount
Lebanon settlement, recently, lis that their best
energies have been devoted to cultivating their
lands and advancing their material prosperity.
Their lands have become so extensive that all
the time and labor of the settlements are needed
to care for their possessions. This is the root of
the trouble. We have just discovered that the
idea of the desirability of the acquisition of land
which we took with US from the world is wrong.
Land monopoly is one of the curses of the coun-
try. We must dispose of part of our farms and
devote more time to missionary work and spread
ing the principles which we believe to be for the
good of the people. We have gone wrong and
must correct our error"
PEACH BLOW.
In the spring the husband yearneth
For his other suit of clothes;
Here and there he s~earcheth, stumbleth.