The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-27

throne by having . new coin struck that is to
represent her features as they look after the
wear and tear of q half century Of royal cares
RAY ALLEN, for long time travelling passen-
ger agent for the Grand Trunk railroad, and
lately in the same position on the ST Paul, Min
neapols 81 Manitoba road. has been licensed to
preach. and will go TO India as q missionary in
October.
A GRATUITY Of 100000 has been granted from
the Bavarian civil list to the widow of Professor
Gudden, OF Munich, the unfortunate mad
DOCTOR" who persisted with the late King of
Bavaria in the lake at Castle Berg. He left a
family of eleven children.
WHEN the Boston publisher of "Uncle Toms
Cabin" handed to the late Professor Stowe tho
$4,000 which formed the first installment of
profit on the sale of the book, the Professor
quantity observed that 1T was more money than
he had seen in all his life"
WHEN Bismarck goes to Gastein he always
stays on the upper floor of an old haberdashers
shop adjoining the Bade-schloss There is a
little garden attached to the house. and here in
tent the Iron Chancellor sits for hours with
his favorite dog crouching at his feet.
SAM JONES and Sam Small were to have occu-
pied carriage at the head of the procession at
the opening of the Cincinnati Exposition. But
Jones and Small have been freely attacking
the Germans lately that, it is said, German OPP
position will force the managers to drop them
out of the programme.
MISS MAUD HOWE thinks ''there is no room
in this country for the sport of fox-hunting."
There is lots of "room" for that matter but it
will take constant practice through several gen.
erations to make hunters like the aristocratic
Englishmeu, to say nothing about foxes that
understand being hunted properly
BISHOP COKE in his sermon at Buffalo last
Sunday said he regarded the speaking of Ba-
laam's ass as among the slightest of recorded
wonders. Tue audience Immediately caught
the point and each looked as though he knew an
animal two of that description himself. In
point OF fact, every man is an ass to somebody.
Mr. CLEMENT CARPENTER, formerly secretary
of the American legation at Santiago, Chill, and
just home from South America, says Chill is a
paradise for dentists, who live like nabobs in the
finest palaces, drive the finest equlpages and
stand high generally. The CHILEAN ladies are
wealthy and extremely vain, and as rule do not
have good natural teeth
THE queerest love story yet is related concern
ing the prospective nuptials of Christine Nilsson
Her willingness to wed Count de Casa Miranda
is said to spring from wish to become STEP
mother She dearly believes Mademoiselle Rosita
de Casa Miranda, the Counts daughter and her
protege. This young lady came with the singer
" Wucu SIG tttSb VlSlt6u butS Country
EMPERoR WILLIAM, after having been dieted
for years. is now permitted to eat what he likes
and when he likes. What he likes is shell-fsh,
and the intervals between the imperial meals do
not exceed two hours. It is significant COM
mentary on the change of regime that his Males
ty declares he has not felt we'll for years.
though his doctors are in terror whenever he
orders lobster.
A CAMDEN n j., man has invented and is
having built an ocean tricycle.. 1t will be made
entirely of iron and Steel except small platform
where the operators will stand The wheels will
be eight feet in diameter. and will be worked by
levers from the platform. which will be twenty
seven feet from the ground. The idea is to run
this machine out to stranded vessels when they
lie in water not over twenty feet deep. The in
ventor says that three miles an hour can be
made with the tricycle..
M. CHEvREUL will be 100 years old on the last
day of this month. Aged though he be, and spe-
clalist in the subjects of light and color he was
astonshed. the other day, when Chinese gem
tleman told him that he could read a book in a
perfectly dark room And the man. who was no
humbug. actually did it. Jerome Cardan, six
teenth century savant. was credited with the
same power. eve live to learn" says NJ Chew
reul, Who by the way, is in health and only
Sorry that he can't live another 100 years