The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-19

greatest living general, at the age of sixty-six
| was comparatively unknown. Young men
| should not be too impatient for the rewards OF
| fame.
those who getting tired of .'truly rural" as q
cure for stammering the following is respectfully
| submitted: Pronounce rapidly s'She sells sea
| shells; shall she sell sea shells"
DANBURy, Conn, comes proudly forward with
prodigy Little Minnie Van Vert. of that
town, is only two years of age, but knows her
| alphabet. is able to spell simple words and
| counts MP to 100 readily enough.
THE Countess de Chambrun, one of the lead
| ers of French society, gives novel receptions.
| The guests first conducted to private
| chapel, and after short prayer by the chaplain
| sacred concert is performed by the organ
| choir.
| PRoF. ARTHUR T. HADLEY, of Yale, in
ticle in the last number of the Quarterly Journal
| of Economics on the interstate commerce law.
| says the commission has done more in making
| and settling questions of railroad law in seven
| months than the English railroad commission
/ did in twice that number of years.
WORK is rapidly proceeding on the mansion OF
| Mrs. Searls formerly Mrs. Mark Hopkinsl at
| Great Darlington. Mass. The great organ is
| nearly finished, the decoration OF the rooms is
| approaching completion, and during their pres
| emit visit to Europe Mr.. and Mrs. Searls will
| der much of the furniture.
A SOCIAL cynic remarks that women among
| the teaching and other professional classes who
| earn decent salary had better keep it
| dark that the same class of idle men who
| have formerly been won't to attack actresses on
| the matrimonial side turning their at
| tention to women in other professions
| Mrs. TRACY. the handsome widow whose
| stage name was Agnes Ethel. is making
| spurge in Buffalo society She entertains mag
| niicently, and is very popular with the younger
members of the fashionable community. At
| luncheon which she recently gave to debutantes
| the floral decorations were the finest ever seen
| in Buffalo.
MISS BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, writes from
| Stuttgart that she is writing novel, keeping
| house, educating family of nieces and nephews
| nursing several cases of diphtheria and scarlet
| fever, supervising the translation of one of her
| books into German, italian and French improv-
| ing her memory according to SYSTEM and
| learning to use a type writer.
THE visit OF the Sultan of Morocco to Algiers,
| in order to communicate by cable with his rep
resentative at the Madrid conference is an event
| of some historical Importance. For years the
| Sultan opposed the laying of this cable as he
| did not wish to bring Europe any closer to his
| domain. 1t is fifty years nearly since Sultan
| of Morocco has deigned to set foot in Tangiers,
seaport town polluted by the presence of many
| Europeans.
| GENERAL SHERIDAN has four little children.
| who are his constant companions. In Washing
ton not long ago two of the children were walk
ing along with their father while the two other
little Sheridans trotted along just behind him.
A gentleman stopped the little girls of the
guard and asked: Are you all General Sheri-
dams chidrena" sob, no." exclaimed one of the
girls demurely, and pointing TO the children
walking with the General, .'they are General
Sheridan's children. We are the twins"
HESTER MORRIS. of Wyoming Territory, was
the first woman in the United States ap
pointed justice of the peace. She was tall
woman, with a profile which closely resembled
J It'll
in Office she terror to certain class
of evil doors. Yes" the half nebriated rough
would plead on his arrest. Il been a beatin' my
wife again. know it; but don't send me up
fore Mis- Morris. / rather go fore ten men
than tibet woman I rather be tried by man."
NINE. CHRISTINE NILssoN-MIRANDA has pas
sion for tapestries and fans. Her collection of
tapestries is very choice Her fans chiefly
gifts from eminent persons. One, given to her
by a Russian Prince, is copy OF the famous fan
of the Queen of Dude, made of white silk, with
sticks of ivory and gold, set with diamonds,
emeralds, pearls and rubes. Another, given by
the Empress Eugene, once belonged to Nine
presented by the city of Venice, is of silver fill
gree and point lace. The finest of all came from
the Thakore Sahib OF Morvi. It is made of gold,
| gems and feathers
CONGRESSMAN MARTIN, Of Texas, who has
persisteatly denied that he blew out the gas in
his hotel room on reaching Washington, is
again in trouble Since he found abode of
his at the capital he has had great difficulty
in remembering the number of his house. A
number of times he entered houses in which he
was looked upon an intruder He finally tied
piece of red flannel to his own door-knob.
Some Jocose Congressman who knew the mean
ing of the red signal removed Martins land
mark and placed 1T on door-knOb of a house
inhabited by staid and elderly maiden She
is now anxious to know what Mr.. Martin meant
by entering her house without ringing the bell
Mr.. ROBERT G. MORSE, the graduate of Yale
Theological Seminary who was rejected by the
American board because he entertained the
hope of future possible salvation for the
heathen who have never heard of Christ, we Mt
to Kansas and began work for home mission
ary church there AT the instance of that
church. council of Coneregationalist ministers
and laymen in the State was called, and he was
ordained. the council being large representa-
tive one. Then the church for which he had
been working applied to the Kansas State COM
mittee on homo missionary aid. who recon-
mended his case in the usual way to the Ameri-
Home Missionary Society in New York.
That society, the great Home Missionary Soce-
ty of the den omin alton. considered the case and
passed it without dissent. granting aid.
Boston Courier: eyes," said the young man.
as he threw himself at the feet of the pretty
school teacher, 81 love you, and would go to the
worlds end for you" .'Y on would not go to the
end Of the world for me, James. The world or the
earth, it is called, is round like ball. slight
ly nattened at tue poles. One OF the HrSt ieS-
sons IN the elementary geography is devoted to
the shape of the globe. You must have studied
it when you were boy" .Of course 1 did,
but" "And it is no longer theory. Circum-
navigators have established the fact" .Iknow,
but what meant was that would do anything
to please you. All. Minerva. if you knew the
aching void" There is such thing a
void, James Nature abhors vacuum; but adj
| hitting that there could be such thing, how
| could the void you speak of be void if there
| was an ache in it?' well. at all events" ex-
| claimed the youth, 1--WE got pretty fair bal
| ance in the SAVINGS bank, and want you to be
| my wife Therew We'll. James, since you put
| it in that light, l."
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