The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-23
ENTHUSIASTICALLY CHAT.

Mrs. GRANT, the widow of General Grant. is
to pass the summer at West Point.
ACCORDING to the Brooklyn Eagle the editor
of the Voice, a prohibition paper, gets drunk on
his own editorials.
Mrs. LANGTRYs latest bonnet, according to
the Buffalo Express is an inspiration based on
view of a lobster salad.
MRS. CLARA ERsKINE CLEMENT WATERS is
the leader of the Buddhist sect in Boston. She
is said TO bear a strong resemblance to Queen
Victoria.
Louis RIEL's widow lies at the point of death
at ST Vital. 1t is said that she never rallied
from the shock of her husbands execution, and
dies broken hearted. "
DIR. SoHLIEMANN writes that in the coming
autumn he will begin unearthing the strongholds
of the Atride at Micen@. The work will prob
ably last three years, and will be his final under
taking.
A PosTHuMoUs poem by Victor Hugo will be
published in Paris on the 22d of this month
"La Fin de Satan" 1t was written between
1854 and 1860
SOME of the English Tory papers are amusing
their readers by showing that Mr. Gladstone is
the "beast" of the Apocalypse, because the let
ters of mis- name in Greek foot up 666, the num-
Der of the s'beast."
PORTSMOUTH members of the crew of the
famous war ship Kearsarge at the time OF her
battle with the Alabama are planning to cele-
brate the two-hundred- and twenty first anniver-
sary of the fight at Boston June IL
GENERAL GRANTS widow, who has lived in
close retirement since her husbands death, will
go to West Point early in June to stay most of
the summer, and will be accompanied by Colonel
and Mrs Fred Grant and their children
JOHN BoYNToN HILL, a very distinguished
lawyer in Maine, and the man who drafted the
original Maine liquor law, recently died. He
was ninety years DID, and was a classmate of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, being graduated from
Harvard College in 1921
AT the diocesan conference the other day,
we'll known London clergyman stated that the
lowest stratum of society was represented by
sweep who said. Il allus makes it rule to wash
my face yunce week. vether it wants it or not
Chicago Living Church.
GovERNoR HILL, of New York, does not
smoke and does not drink. He says: 81 cannot
see any sense in drinking. 1t does not meet any
want that have AS for smoking, l tried it
once-smoked through whole campaign -but it
did not agree with me, so quit it,
UNTIL very lately only copy of the first
edition of 1.-THE Pilgrims Progress" was known,
but recently'two copies more have been picked
up in London at sixpence each. One was imme-
diately sold to the British Museum for f65, and
the other to London publisher for f25
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE's new book, ''Tr-
1mphant Democracy" has already reached its
fifth edition, though it has not yet been pub
Eshed month. Editions will be issued imme-
diately in England, France and Germany, and
Italian and Hungarian translations are now
preparing
A BLAST furnace and rolliug-mill have been
erected lately in Bogota TIE machinery was
bought in the United States, and it cost the own
ers as much to carry this machinery from the
head of navigation. 600 miles up the Magdalena
the purchase money and the ocean freight
combined.
Don ALFoNso's christening robe, long pre-
served as precious relic has been given to the
Queen Regent by Queen Isabella 1t is of Malnes
lace, trimmed with watered ribbons embroidered
with Bourbon lilies and the new baby would be
proud if he realized how pretty 1t is. The work
is said to be exquisite
THE passion of ill-making, which is not so
uncommon as one might suppose, was INDUCED
in by Charles f. Werishoffer the New York
broker who took great pains to have several
drawn, but finally died intestate. The lawyers
tell of citizen in New York who has spent
$40, 900 in having wills drawn
THE POWER OF FLATTERY
Two beaux had the beautiful maiden
Two beaux she had waiting upon her;
One vowed that he loved her, the other praised
And the one that praised her won her.
Boston Courier.
THE marriage Of Hon. John d. Long and Miss
Agnes Pierce. lately teacher in the high school
at bingham, took place at Attleboro. VT, yes
terday in the Univorsast Church, in which the
late Rev. Joseph Pierce, the father of the bride,
has officated for twenty-five years The rela.
tives and immediate friends of the family only
were invited. The bridal party proceeded at
once to Washington.
NINE. GREvrLLE, in a recent letter, gives some
glimpses into the vcissitudes of her American
tour. II lectured twice at girls college near
Philadelphia. The eighty two young ladies inn
mediately fell in love with me. and never miss
an occasion now for sending me their eightytwo
loves Such nice little dears! gave them my
eighty-two autographs. and never saw pretter
sight than all these young bright faces looking
at me so kindly while | was writing IN their
little birthday books
'.THEEE has just dawned,' says the St James
Gazette, "a happy day in Mr.. Gladstone's life
Dr. Croke published to the faithful of Tipperary
and the world the fact that he has deemed the
Premier worthy of place in his private picture
gallery Never before has the archlepiscopal
collection been sulled by the presence
of an Englishman. Now the Saxon hereto,
life-sze. is most prominent in the right
reverend prelates most prominent room
To appreciate the compliment at its
full worth, Mr.. Gladstone must remember
that Dr. Croke has Just subscribed to memo
rial fund in honor of the three Manchester mar
tyrs' hanged in 1867 for the murder of Police
sergeant Brett The Archbishop OF Cashe pro-
nounces them innocent, and observes that Ire
land does we'll to perpetuate the memory of their
chivalrous bearing on the scaffold and of their
unfinching fidelity to faith and country
A PASSION play was performed at Nice on
Good Friday in the Theater Francois. 1t was
arranged in seven tableaux. The first was the
Lords Supper, the second the Palace of Gaia
pnas, the third the Garden where the arrest was