The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-14

which a child can adjust the tone In his
factories it is computed that for every hour Of
the day a piano Is finished and sent out.
PRINCESS I~sABEAU, who recently inherited
81. 0Oo, 900 from her mother. keeps in her Paris
ian palace twenty dogs and twenty cats that,
being fed to the full, agree very happily togeth-
or. She is going to found a nome for the aged
and INDECENT of both races.
THE man who holds Lamar's seat as United
States senator from Mississippi is General Wal
thall, "a tall, thin, ruddy-faced man, with long
iron-gray hair, which curls into a half-roll as it
kisses his old. fashioned Henry Clay collar" He
is a great friend of Jefferson Davis.
THE Prince of Wales scarcely passes more
than four months of the year at Sandringham.
The rest of his time is spent in London and
Scotland, paying visits and travelling. He has
three Observation-Disclosures, Marlborough
House and Abergeldie in Scotland.
THE current description of General Early-a
a venerable-appearing man. his long white beard
reaching to his waist, and his bent figure indi-
eating the rapid advance of extreme old age
suggests a picturesque figure to give an air Of
alleged responsibility to a lottery concern.
New York Tribune: The immortal "Jim'
Belford. erstwhile a congressman, but better
known as the Red-headed Rooster of the Rock
les. is now said to be interested in gold mines in
Central America. We tender to the Pride of
Colorado our most distinguished consideration,
with the hope that he will strike it rich.
BATH. where Mr.. Parnell is taking the waters
to nerve himself for the great coming campaign.
Is resuming all it's ancient glories Of the days of
Beau Nash, which have been obscured for the
last nall century. 1t is a most delightful and
most Salubrlous spot. Labouchere and other M.
P.s are there with Parnell, and much plotting is
going on.
AN Arizona editor thus begins a leader: 1--WE
really don't want the postoffce, but we under
stand that a few influential friends are working
for US. We have only to say that our concep-
ton of our duty to our country will not allow us
to decline any Office. especially a postofice. Now,
let the skunk who runs the opposition paper put
that In his pipe and smoke it."
GREAT is the Commander of the Faithful
Recently he took a notion to have an artificial
lake made in the Yildiz Kiosk park, that he
might take his favorite sultana sailing in a
steam launch. So he had the huge basin pre-
pared and the whole water supply Of CONSTANT
nople turned in; and all the city had to go dry
for a day until the lake was full.
THE whole district of Aroma, in New Guinea, is
ruled by a remarkable man who might pass as
the ideal barbaric potentate. He towers over
the heads of all his subjects, his physical
strength is enormous, and his face is distinguish
0A " - AaAShOJ Oh&0 hOoSs OA0 ia
valor are chronicled by numerous tattoo marks
upon his back, each signifying an enemy over
come and slain.
IT is strongly indicative of the weakness of
territorial influence in Scotland that the Duke
of Buccleugh, who owns 432, 347 acres in No th
Britain, and whose father was probably the most
popular and respected nobleman in that country,
saw his eldest son defeated last month by over
1000 majority, when standing for Dumfriesshire.
in which county the Dukes property is assessed
at $3.50. 900 a year.
T~HAcKERAY's old school, the Charter House,
was, some fifteen years ago, removed into the
country, and now the whole establishment is ad-
vertised for sale, and the old ''cods" whom Col.
Newcome has made so famous will live where
they please, and receive pensions. This, at
least. is the present idea. A similar course was
adopted in the case Of the Greenwich pension
ers, but Chelsea Hospital continues on the old
lines.
L-ABoUCHERE. the licensed lampooner Of Lon
don. seems to have a spite against the Queens
youngest daughter. Says he, in a recent edition
of Truth: princess Beatrice has much to learn
before she can hope to succeed, either at public
functions or in society. She never appears at
ease on such occasions, and she certainly has
not acquired the art of making her neighbors
comfortable, nor has she the family accomplish
ment of saying the right thing in the right way
as LORD Beaconsfeld expressed it"
THERE is a professor in Trinity College, Dub
lin, a Mr.. Mahafy, who is never more in his ele-
ment than when playing lackey to some great
man, and who exhibited this trait largely on a
recent visit of Lord Carnarvon, the Lord Lieu
tenant, to the university. There is another pro-
fessor, DR.. Haughton. of different mold, a fine,
manly. and very able man. The boys" got hold
of him the other day, and insisted on his max
ing a speech. Commenting on the Viceroy's Wis
it, DIR. Haughton said: II never myself could
see why Providence made princes and empe-
rors, and these kind of people, but having made
them | can quite understand why it made Great
ures like Professor Mahaffy to dance attendance
on them"
The sharp sayings of Gen. W. T. Sherman, if
collected in book form, would make a large vol
ume. Sometime during the latter part of the
war, or just after it, the society people Of the
South were in a habit of turning up their noses
at "Old Tecumseh" as not blue blooded. In sun
port of their charge it was reported and pub
ilshed IN the Southern newspapers that he had
once kept a corner grocery. Some of the Younger
members of the family wrote to the General. in
closing a cutting from a Southern paper to this
effect, and asked him to deny it. The old war
rior wrote back that he did not think there was
any necessity for a denial, because, for nv
part, l think a corner a very good place to keep
a grocery"
GENERAL SHERIDAN has just been presented
with a gavel, to be used by him as president of
the Army of the Cumberland, which is some
what unique. 1t is made of wood from a tree,
still standing. which marks the spot where Gen.
Lyle, of the Army of the Cumberland, fell NOR
tally wounded. A musket-ball, shot from an
old Springfield rife, still remains imbedded in
the gavel. General Lytie will be recalled as the
author of that remarkable poem, Antony and
Cleopatra" Richard Realf was then a soldier
in the Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, and at
the time was serving with General Lytle as or
derly. They were friends, and the night before
the Brigadiers death Realf wrote to him one of
his most spirited sonnets. 1t was found in
Lytls's vest pocket, shot through and stained by
his blood.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
AN immense fortune is awaiting the man who
will invent a machine to clear railroads Of snow