The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-29

quent1y considerable bewilderment among those
engaged in the case before the court whom the
Judge, looking up from his notes. observed, IF
the old Teller IS all right he had better go out
side and say so.@
THERE will be a veritable "man-milliner" in
in the new British Parliament in the person OF
Mr. Isaacson Tory member for Stepney whose
business alias is Nine. Elise. of Regent street
His millinery establishment is very fashionable
and profitable.
AN experiment to test the speed of the swal-
lows flight has been made at Pavia, In Italy.
Two hen birds were taken from their broods,
carried TO Milan, and there released at given
hour. Both got back TO their nests In thirteen
minutes. which gave their rate of speed at
eighty seven and a half miles an hour.
LITTLE boy playing in an old log house at
Richwoods, Mo-, lost marble through the floor
and crawled under the house to get 1t. He found
there tin pail full of gold and silver coin. The
amount proved to be 81, 000 1t was the property
OF an old gentleman Of the place, who had hidden
it there in 1864 and afterward. not finding IL
readily, thought it had been stolen.
lola, the famous French novelist, Is now
gagged upon a new novel, to be called 'Ia Terre,"
which will be devoted to an examination of the
life of the peasantry, with special reference to
their earth hunger. He hopes to have 1t ready
by the beginning of next year Afterward, II is
said, he will take up railways, the army, and
Journalism as the subjects of three more novels.
IT is on the bills that Lady Maud Ogilvie,
daughter of the late Earl of Airlie. of London.
England. is soon to marry an American. Since
the death of her father Lady Maud has spent the
summers in Estes Park, Colorado with her
brother, who owns immense tracts of lands in the
West, purchased by the Earl. The marriage is
to take place in this country and the dowager
Lady Airlle will come from England TO be pres
ent on the occasion.
ONE thing that gives, necessarily, a certain
-sarGeness to much circus music, says circus
band master, is the compulsory emphasis OF
notes in regular recurrent order, not demanded
at all for musical expression but very requisite
for marking the time for the horses In menage
act, or some other riding. If You do not thus
sharply accent the time the best trained horse is
liable to be all broken up and make failure of
his performance.
A CANADIAN journal relates that lively time
was experienced by apiarist one day last
week at Bruce township, Ontario. when sixteen
swarms of bees came off at the same time, and
beseiged branch of a tree, where they formed
a huge roll several feet in circumference aud
about five feet long He separated them find
ing out each of the sixteen queen bees which he
put into hive, and gathered enough bees to
make swarm, until he had the whole sixteen
quietly settled in new hives
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, the novelist, took the
law into his own hands at Sag Harbor, L. l., two
years ago, and severely punished a neighbours
boy who was mischief making on his premises
Ever since then Mr.. Hawthorne says, the neigh
bors have been in league against him; his own
cattle have died and strange animals have been
let loose in his most cherished gardens. Now
Mr.. Hawthorne ia to shake the dust of Sag liar
Dor from his feet ana leave the place forever
which is exactly what the neighbors want.
AFTER the ghost scene in recent perform
of Hamlet" in London Mr.. Wilson Barrett
went to the private box of the Prince of Wales
to pay his respects, and found, besides tho heir
to the English throne, modest man sitting IN
corner ALLOW me, said his Royal Highness,
ITO present to the fictitious Prince of Denmark
this real Prince OF Denmark--my brother in
law" If Mr., Barrett could have this incident
re enacted when he comes to New York his sue
cess in America would be assured The Prince
of Wales might be persuaded to come along and
bring his Danish brother in law.