The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-14

Small and slight, and handsome, only twenty
eight years OF age. she has mastered thoroughly
seven languages, all the sciences, and won the
right to stand beside any professor on earth as
president of college.
SYRACUSE STANDARD: A young lady In Ithaca
has nearly thousand silk worms suspended in
paper cones upon the wall. all busy spinning CO.
coons and emitting peculiar rustling noise
Ike the sound Of rain upon autumn dried leaves.
RECENTLY at public dinner in one of the
leading hotels of the continent. an Englishman
declared that since the home-rule scheme had
been proposed the Irish question had become so
dlstasteful to him that he was unable to eat po
tatoes.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, when asked the other
day whether the chances of young lawyers
success are good now in New York as fifty
years ago, replied: just as good. Legal sue
cess has always been difficult What is needed
are brains attention and vitality"
A WRITER who heard DR.. Holmes speak in
Cambridge says he has ''rich and mellow voice,
lowered by nature with that peculiar timbre of
sensibllitv which seems to caress and win the
ear" This evidently means in business Ameri-
can that the Doctor has pleasant voice and peo
pie like to hear it
In the Christian Commonwealth of London, a
clergyman asks for "small. contributions from
sympathizing Christians who would be willing
to help woman who has been abandoned by
her parents because of her Willingness TO
marry man who was below her station In life.
The woman is of excellent character. and her
ofense was simply that she married her groom,
and is now largely destitute"
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, chief of the Birming
ham caucus and leader of the Radical dissidents
in the coming Parliament, has dudish look,
the dogmatic schoolmaster manner which be-
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glass which he perpetually carries has an antag-
onistic air. He does not create sympathy as
speaker, but he is close and cutting. He is won
derfully boylsh In appearance, and though
turned fifty might well pass for thirtyfv with
his light, active figure and gay dress, decorated
invariably with a rich fresh orchid.
THOMAS N. PAGE, the author of ''Marse Chan"
and 'Meh Lady" is a lawyer, and resides at
Richmond, Va He is thirty three years old,
and is greatgrandson of Gen. Thomas Nelson,
slenerof the Declaration of Independence, for
whom he was named. He proposes to issue his
short stories in a volume as as two or
three, yet imprinted, shall have been published.
He has almost completed a story of post bellum
Virginia life, much more pretentous. as well as
much longer than any of these, which he is I'M
able now to finish, owing to illness On account
of sickness he will very soon sail for Europe.
THERE is trouble in the First Methodist Prot
estant Church of Camden, N. j. Steward
Drummond was checking off the weekly sub
scriptions of the congregation when Trustee
Guthridge entered the church and asked where
a certain fve-dollar subscription was. Drum
mond said he had not seen it. Guthridge called
him liar The steward tried to restrain his
temper but the trustee kept p!ing on the hard
words until forbearance ceased to be virtue,
and Brother Drummond went for Brother Guth-
ridge. Mrs. Drummonds restraining hands on
her husbands coat tails was all that prevented
the trustee from receiving thrashing. The re-
suit will be a regular church trial
PRINCESS BEATRICE and her renovated hus-
band are to celebrate the anniversary of their
marriage in the Isle Of Wight, where they were
welded year ago on the 2Sth of July. The En-
glish people, who take deep interest in domes-
tic felicity generally and in that of their own
royal family in particular, are reported as being
disappointed in this alliance, as it by no means
comes up to their expectations. The pair may
he as happy as any AIRY and 'Arriet, but moth
ing is limited Of it. and they are never seen In
public together. So. all considered the loyal
Britisher thinks the Battenberg love match some
what of fraud. 1t is very dull. colorless at
fair, that makes one wonder why it happened at
all, unless for the good reason that opposition
cooks most of the matrimonial plans in every
grade of life.
A MADRID paper narrates series of fatalities
to which three members out of family of four
fell victims in that city, and the story is that
seems as if it might have happened in New York.
The family were flies, brother and three sis
ters. They were in search of food The eldest
sister alighted upon a sausage and ate heartily
The second satisfied her hunger on some -four.
the third drank with avidity from pitcher of
milk. Then they essayed to fly, but in few
moments all three fell dead. The sausage had
been given its fine red color by means of poi
sonous aniline dye. The -four contained fatal
percentage of plaster of paris The milk had in
it so much chalk that no well-regulated fly could
drink it and live. The unhappy brother, seeing
himself surrounded by the corpses of his dear sis
tiers. In his grief determined upon suicide. He
launched himself upon a gray sheet of paper
bearing the inscription, ely paper-sure TO
kill, and sucked its deadly poison greedily, but
in vain. The more he took of it the better ne
felt He was doomed to live. Fly paper was
also falsiied
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COMMENT AND OPINION.