The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-14

ing his book, "A Ride TO Khivan The marriage
was not ahappy one. and previous to the Colonels
death they were living apart She has an IN
come of $50, 600 year.
THE cost of suppressing locusts in Cyprus since
the British occupation amounts to over $3.50, 900.
But the government engineer states that large as
the expenditure has been it is certain that 1t has
already been recovered by the island many times
over in the value of the crops saved.
THINGS one would rather have left unsaid:
Tomlinson Goodbye. Miss Eleanora' Miss
Eleanora: 'But you've already said gc' bye to
me, Mr.. Tomlinson." Tomlinson twho ways
ready with some pretty specify "HsS real
ly2 Well, one can'tdo pleasant thing "a ,ften,
you know
KING THEBAw is sweet on tarts; his wives pre-
fer chops and steaks, and plenty of them. We
are told that one of his wives was charmed on
her arrival at Ranipet with the delicate exhala-
ton of bottle of gin. The coveted prize De-
came hers, and until it was dissipated in scent
ing her person was source of exquisite JOY to
the lady.
THE Audubon Society. taking its name from
the great naturalist has been established for ths
purpose of fostering an interest for the protec-
ton of wild birds from destruction for millinery
and other commercial purposes The headquar-
tiers of the society are at 40 Park row, New Y ork
every part of the country.
THOMAS CARLyLE's admirers have put up
memorial tablet as guide to pilgrims 10 the
Chelsea shrine Carlyle lived at "a Cheyne row,
but that house is Tin chancery," and as permits
sion could not be obtained to put up the tablet
there. his admirers compromised upon 49 Cheyne
walk, and this house will, therefore, become the
venerated Carlylean shrine.
Mr.. WILLIAM T. WALTERS, of Baltimore. en-
phatically denies that he purchased the Morgan
peach-blow vase. All of the New York papers
price paid was $4,000 He says that he only
bought one picture. THE Fortune" which was
credited to Mr. Charles A. Dana There is an
impression that the vase was bought in by the
Art Society, which sold it to Mrs Morgan.
THE widow of the late Col Fred Burnaby, who
was killed in the Soudan campaign, is engaged
to be married to Prof j. F. Main. The mar
riage will take place at Berne. Her marriage
with Colonel Burnaby was the result OF the ad-
miration she entertained for him after reading
his book, ga Ride to Khiva" The marriage
was not happy one and previous to the Colo
nels death they were living apart She has an
income of $4,000 year.
THE best decorated man in Prussia is the
Crown Prince of Germany, who has seventy
two orders and decorations to plant on his
breast, which make him look as if he were
breastplate. Count Buckler, the marshal Of
the palace, comes next, with fifty zone; Bismarck
follows with modest forty eight; Count Per-
boucher, marshal Of the court, forty-six; Count
Won Moltke, forty-four; and so on down to hum
BILE thirteen, which Count William of Bismarck
wears
THE poet Longfellow las one learns from the
new life by his brother Samuel), who stood in a
| pre- eminent degree as the poet of America,
knew very little about America. He had trav-
eled very little in his own land, and that little he
regretted. He had stayed long in Spain, he had
wandered on foot through France, and had sat
urated himself with the feeling and color of Eu-
rope, but he knew only little spot of his own
country. His knowledge of Acade, where
Evangeine was born, was derived wholly from
books
THE Hon. Hannibal Hamlin is said by the
Lewiston Journal to be an inveterate and invine-
| ible player of ''high-low-jack" s'Almost every
afternoon. in his long tailed coat with his neck
| tie carelessly knotted, and his thick, wavy hair
bristlfng from his head like the Crcassian girls
| the esteemed and venerable statesman sits down
amid the luxurious velvets and bronzes, the
| rare paintings and engravings, the Royal Wor-
cester vases and all the glitter and richness of
the Tarratine Club, and lighting another cigar
| as soon as one burns low pursues his favorite
amusement till the shadows are thick. In his
| game Mr. Hamlin often unites the daring of
| youth with the caution of old age He begs less
frequently than any other player in the club,
and it is fun to see the promptness with which
he saves his jacks He apparently takes many
risks, but seems to have intuition as to where
| the cards lie. and seldom loses. They don't get
| his tens away from him very often. He is pretty
| sure to count all there is in his hand"
| In Rev. Samuel Longfellows life of his broth
err the poet is given the following sonnet, never
| before published:
MEzZo CAMMIN.
Boppard on the Rhine, Aug. Is, 1912,
Half of my life is gone. and have let
The years slip from and have not fulfilled
The aspiration of my youth. to build
Some tower of song with lofty parapet
Not Incidence. pleasure nor the fret
Of restless pas 10 that would not be stilled,
But sorrow, that almost killed,
Kept me from what may accomplish YETI
Though, halfway up the Hill see the Past
Lying beneath me with its sounds and sights
A city N the twilight dim and vast,
With smoking roofs soft bells and cleaning lights
And hear above the autumnal blast
The cataract of Death far laundering from the
heights.