The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-15

lightning. before your Honor spokein On an
other occasion friend attempted TO banter HIM
on his fondnsss fer the lady whom be afssrsard
. charming lady We'll psaid M Rrauss.a-
what is that 20 mel" ssWhT.n said the other
IL - rumofsd that you are going to marry her.
Well said Mr. Brewster, what ia that TO
you" =
1t is related of the late A. T. Stewart that he
had given dinner and theater party. aud in
stead OF taking his guests to the theater in car
RACES, as they had expected he hailed a stage
and democratcally hustled them all into IT
Wnlie paying fares he dropped coin and kept
stirring the straw IN the bottom of the stage TO
find 1t until Judge Hilton. getting ont of pa
thence, handed the millionaire nickel and ex-
claimed, FOR heavens sake. MIR. Stewart put
this 10 your pocket, and don't kick up any more
dust with that straw
IN Se8 the Church of England leased to the
crown piece of land for 999 years, or on what
is termed perpetual lease The time has ex-
pired. and now the property reverts TO the
church Here is a document in force made
away back In the days of King Alfred com pass
ing millennium, less one year aud now after
this long period. the occupants must vacata
How strangely this event links the present with
the past, and what proof of the majesty of the
law and the stability of the English government
AlVa Adams. Governor of Colorado, has des-
ienated April q, General Grants birthday, as
Aroor day for that State. In his proclamation
he says: THE bslmy mildness of the morning
breeze which comes to us burdened with tha
breath of spring reminds Us that the time for
planting trees has again" Walt Whit
man never wrote anything fuller of the poetry
of realism than this alliterative sentence Col
orsdo people have committed it TO memory and
go about exclaiming: 1.-THE baby bilddess of
the bordg breeze which cabs to us burded with
the breath of sprig rebides us that the tibe for
plattig trees has cub aged
Mr.. RUsKIs's publisher has admitted that the
author of Modern Painters" has had to modify
&c 10 -. ~. 4
For long he insisted that they should be sold bv
Mr.. Allen alone, but now ths other booksellers
get 10 per cent. on each copy, though not as in
the case with the books of other writer's, thirteen
TO the dozen Mr. Ruskin does not find that
authorship spells pegeary. for his publisher
sends him $4,000 year. He has written in all
sixty-four works. The new editisn of '.Stones
of Venice" consumed ten tons of paper and it is
expected that twenty tons will bI required for
the new editlen of Modern Painters"
LORD SELBoRNE spent some weeks at Rome
not long ago and attended a royal reception at
the Quirnal The Chamberlain, in presenting
the distinguished EngIishman to the Queen of
Italy, announced him as Earl of Selborne"
The Queen, not quite catching the title gracious
" observed: .Ah, Colonel Selborne-iu the
Guaraa, presume" The rueful expression on
the facs of the enthusiastically minded ex Chan
cellor warned her Majesty that she had made
mistake. and Lord Selborne then explained that
he was not soldier. but had been Lord Chan
cellor of England In whose administrator
asked the Queen, anxious to show her familiar
ity with English politics. I'm Mr. Gladstones."
WAS the reply "Ah, then, you are Home
ruler" rejoined her Majesty, oblivious of our
sshisms It is nice for you that Mr.. Gladstone
is in Italy. hope he will come on TO Rome
aspiration which Lord Selborne the stanch
est of Liberal Uuionists. could not affect to
share.
The best known of the cannibal tribes on the
upper Congo the Banga1a. who yelled
smeat" very loudly when they chased Stanley
down the river. but who have conceived the idea
that their recent intercourse with the whitea
has given them considerable polish, and lifted
them several points higher in the social scale
than the neighboring tribes. For two years
past they have been utilized as Congo state sol
diers. steamboat hands and station laborers
They dress in Manchester cottons. carry gunsa
and have acquired smattering of the French
language. They used TO make war for cannibal
purposes. upon the people of Ngombe. and now
with q lot of Bangala on board. the people figck
down to the river and heap abuse upon the
ancient enemy with all the epithets at their
To this torrent of Congo bilingsgate
the Bangala have only one response. They col
lect at the PROV Of the boat and shout "Sav-
agssl savagesi" at the top of their lungs Tray
elers say 1T ia an interesting spectacle to see
these reformed cannibals thus Wanting their
superior civilization.