The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-09

education. the general progress of cultures and
the introduction of milder tonics gradually work
beneficial changer
A PENNSYLVANIA geoogist declares that
the oil fields Of that State have passed their
meridian, and that the supply of natural gas is
limited.
LORD ABERDEEN lately had the bad taste to
invite Lord and Lady Rosebery to gathering
which turned out to be a meeting for the con-
version Of Jews to Christianity.
THE Judge: Mrs. Wells (about to hire new
servant) Now, in regard to going out visiting.
L" Servant (interrupting): "Och, go out whin-
liver yez loikes: you'll not find Bridget O'Murphy
harrud, mum, or dictatorial loike."
To ex-senator Mcdonald is credited a word
on the Washington newspaper correspondents:
''You tell one fellow anything and all the others
find it out 1t is as il they were all telephones
attached on single wire and circuit"
A MAN in Marietta, Ga. filled keg in his barn
about half full of water, and put in enough cot
ton-seed to cover the surface of the water, and
then sprinkled meat on top Of the cotton seed
Next morning he emptied out 100 drowned rats.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who is going
back to India this month, has lived in England
ever since the annexation of Punjaub, thirty
seven years ago. He says his pension of $l25-
600 year is not enough to live on in fitting style
in England.
LARTIJo, the chief bull-fghter of Madrid,
claims to have killed 345 bulls without being
personally injured. During the last year he
made Sic, 900, which would indicate that bull
fighting in Spain is almost as profitable as slug
ging in this country.
Two ministers of the East Pennsylvania Con-
ference have made public confession of the use
of tobacco One of them smoked to cure tooth
n nh hn M fnN Wnnt frny1h m
conference excused them, and an epidemic of
toothache among the ministers is feared.
DR. ONoNTIYoH, who was lately graduated at
the Buffalo Medical College, is a pure -blooded
Mohawk Indian. twenty six years old He will
be known by the more civilized name, Peter
Martin. He has uncle named Oronyetekha
who was graduated at Oxford, and is now
medical practitioner in Canada.
REV. THOMAS r. BEEcHER of Elmira, N. Y,
is out in a card in which he says: "Alas for Ell
mira, because of offenses. 1t must needs be
the offense cometh." The particular offense
which troubles Mr. Beecher is that he has just
been defeated for the fourth time in his attempt
to be elected mayor of Emira.
In Philadelphia where gastronomic entertain
ments are the chief amusement of society, "kitty
dinners" are the latest diversion. A big cat,
made entirely of white flowers, reposes a
floral mat in the center of the table; ice cream is
served in papier mache "kitties," and the menus,
cards, favors, and all appointments possible are
arrayed with pussy-cat decorations.
REPRESENTATIVE HENDERSON, who has been
prominent in the pension bill debate. is one of
the handsome men of Congress. He was born
in Scotland. but has lived in this country since
he was six years old. Enlisting in the Union
army at the age of twenty-one, he was discharged
in 1868 because of the loss of a leg in battle:
but he returned to the ranks and fought through
the war
THE long-suffering wife of Methodist minis
ter puts in plea for furnished parsonages in the
New York Christian Advocate. 'An itinerant
ministry may be a good thing" she says. but
nothing but absolute necessity can justify fur
nture itinerancy. In simpler times when one
wagon would hold all the furniture supposed to
be necessary in a preachers family, the burden
not so heavy But the parsonage must be
furnished similar to other homes, and this now
makes preachers moving very laborious."
LADY MILLAIs, wife Of the English artist. Sir
John Millais was formerly the wife of John
Ruskin, from whom divorce was procured A
London correspondent says that, Besides being
a clever. thrifty. and yet a handsome woman,
she is full of Scottish Pride. She scars. She
has mind above buttons. Earls. countesses,
lords, ladies, judges, generals, baronets bishops
she deigns to consort with, but not mere painters
and sculptors even if they have r. A tagged to
their names"
THE old Duke of Cambridge. commanderin-
chief of the British army, and cousin of her
Majesty the Queen, is fond of attending ban.
quets and making after dinner speeches. He is
also fond of champagne and sometimes mis-
takes the white shoulder of the lady next him
for pillow. to the amusement of the guests and
the bewilderment of the lady. At banquet
given few days ago to the retiring Spanish EN-.
bassador, the Duke woke up and extolled the
courage of the Late King Alfonso "amid the pop
ulation of Madrid and other circumstances. such
as cholera and earthquake the Madrenos
will probably be equally surprised at finding
themselves described as circumstances" and
sandwiched as plague between cholera and
earthquake.