The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-08

FACT AND FANCY.
Mrs. LABoUoHERE, wife Of the Homs-ruls
member of Parliament made her debut last
week as public political speaker. She Is both
eloquent and witty
The Mikado of Japan has issued an edict
against what ne calls the pernicious game Of
baseball. which foreigners are attempting 70
introduce into this country"
IT has Just been discovered in Austria that
one OF tho four state executioners 10 . woman.
She is large and muscular. has heavy voice.
and has adjusted the moose for twenty-six
victims.
1T is the opinion of the Savannah News that
there is only one living writer who correctly re-
produces in print the dialect peculiar to the
Southern plantation negro, and that he is Joel
Chandler Harris
NORTHERN man bought an old, worn
Miss. two years ago. and this year ne has sold
$40. 600 worth Of Strawberries. Brains is the
thing to pillow into the Southern soil.
BILL NYE welcomes the establishment OF
department Of journalism in Cornell He thinks
it will give the aspiring sons of wealthy parents
q chance to toy with journalism without inser-
feriug with those who are actually engaged
in it,"
IT IS reported that General Logan's body will
be moved the latter part Of this month 70 the
Soldiers Home Cemetery, which is right across
the road from Rock Creek Cemetery, where the
body now lies. The site was selected by Mrs.
Logan.
THE Prince Of Wales has donned the tall
white hat asa portion Of the fashi enable mans
summer attire. AT the Derby II. R. II. and his
eldest son both wore black silk hats. cutaway
coats of rough material, vanished boots, tan
colored gloves and . red caruation.
THE Prince of Wales has invented . velvet
dress coat. This revolution IN war-paint has
been accomplished by degrees. The Prince be
gan oy appearing at certain fashionable Fat
homes in q velvet lounge coat, and that gar
ment has gone through . progress of sartorial
evolution, and is now OF the correct orthodox
claw-hammer shape.
NJ ALEXANDRA DUMAS lives by measure and
weight He rises at half past 6 in the summer
and at in the winter. His first breakfast in
variable copsists Of glass of milk The second,
which be takes at noon is a very plain meal.
Dinner occurs at Z, aud at 10 he is in led He
walks three miles every day, and never works
after in the afternoon.
WRITER in recent book about travelling in
the East, Yelling OK the slow pace and multitude
of animals required In caravan travelling makes
the calculation that SAe Israelites, when they
went from Egypt under Moses. must have had
q caravan at least two hundred leagues long and
must have employed six million camels. What a
parads for the youthful Egyptian a. he saw it
pass.
WOMAN suffragists should make q note Of the
that bill now before the lower house Of
Congress prohibits the enlistment Of mar led
men in the army except with the consent OF
their wives. AS many men who never run away
from the enemy have run away from their
wives, this measure is expected to shut up one
of the favorits refugees Of deserters from do
mestcity
ASIA BOOTH CLARKE was laid at rest beside
her father, Junius Brutus Booth, in the Booth
family lot In Greem0uut Cemetery, Friday.
N her and har brot VII
Booth, were among those present at the burial.
Mrs Clarke's peculiar frat name was given her
| by her father in remembrance of the country
where God first walked with mar"
| MIS-. CONTENT SWEET BURLINGTON Is the
name OF lady ninety eight years old, who lives
| at Dorchester. Mass. When Mics Sweet was
! girl her schoolmates reversed her surname and
| called her 'Sweet Content" because of her hope
full SUNNY disposition, and that name has chung
| to her all her life. The old lady SINGS duets
with her daughter and lie noted for her girlish
| vivacity and cheerfulness.
LEWISTON Journal When we hear of that
old Indians skeleton found at Waterville Thurs
| day, with its thirty-two perfect teeth, perfect
even after the owner had been done with them
for two or three centuries, the conviction forces
itself upon the mind that the aborieiues were
ahead Of as in some respects. Many people who
arc not yet twenty years old would think them
selves fortunate with half as many sound teeth.
Two young ladies Of South Chester. Pa, went
l
and the proprietor asked them to try il, Each
grssped pole Of the battery and wondered
why no shock was felt The proprietor sug-
eested that thew kiss each other They did SO.
| and then there was . shock indeed One of the
1 young womsnsshreked and fell backward The
other made no sound but tainted. Cold water
brought them both around, none the worse for
| the kiss
THE wife of Gen r. A. Aleer, Of Michigan,
who has been In New York recently. with her
49, ~ = ~h -. a. l.
tion She IS homo woman, gentle and re-
| fined. with group OF boys and girls growing
no around her in whose welfare she takes her
great delight She has a positive horror Of poll
| tics which she does not hesitate 20 express en-
phatically, but with the gentleness of gentle
| woman, on every proper occasion. One Of her
objections to politics Q the invasion Of homo by
| the press that accompanies candidacy for public
Office Yet shs is Loyalty anxious for her hus
bands success in any undertaking, either in
! politics or business, and with her gentle and
winning waye, is no small factor In his popu-
lArity.
BEFORE PHIL was ten he rscsivsd . surrender.
This was from the old schoolmastsr, Patrick
| MeNaily. Who was right good schoolmas ter.
but merciess disciplinarisn. not 70 say despot.
For once Sheridan. who had Jared i'll with the
| preacher, came to school earlier than the rest
He made his promptness count By arranging a
| way that the next conner, who was sure to be
Mr.. Mentally, Was cruslly doused After the
| enraged teacher had shaken satisfactory evi-
dence Of innocence out Of all the pupils ~ they
| entered the sehool-roon. q Judgment OF convic-
ton Was passed on the only one yet to appear
the little Sheridan boy The judgement was
not wiped out until the master bad chased Phil
all the way home and there had been in turn
chased up an apple tree by the bad boys big
| Newfoundland dog. After i've minutes OF
negotiation and dickeriuR. the shiverins and
ehattering master made al unconditiopa, sur
render. and the boy called o6 the dutifnl dog.
Sheridan afterwards said that McNslly kept
his word with him strictly. bnt he had hence
forth 70 take two vhippipes FOX every ofenss
] committed In thsthn11 IL