The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-25

ment and then said: IL don't know We had &
rough passage coming and left all my
views and opinions IN q basin aboard the
steamer
JAMES ALBERT CATHcART, champion pedes.
trian. drinks nothing stronger than Lemonade
He says that man who wants to walk week
must indulge in weak drinks.
NINE. BARRIos, widow of the late President Of
Guatemala. is engaged TO be married. Her
fiance is said TO be an English robeman of high
rank. Nine. Barrios is worth several millions
of dollars-
The new minister from Greece to this country
is man . little below medium height With
bright black ewes, full black whiskers, a wells
knit frame and pleasing manners. He talks
English like . native
PRoFEssoR TYNDALL has decided that the
sky is blue. but the blue is not pure. He SAYS
"On looking at the sky through spsctrosccpe
we observe all the colors OF the spectrum; blue
is merely the predominant color
YoNKER's Statesman: Fair Matron-'.Won't
you let your wife take chance in this lotteryn
Husband-"O no. she never draws anything
worth having" .sWel you know, marriage 10
lottery, SIR" .'Yes--er-that is-well, put
her name down. -
OVER six feet in height, with manly face.
straight nose. bright blue eyes, and a mouth Of
remarkably delicate shape, fringed. not hidden,
by brown mnstache. skilled in all athletic
sports and famous at thirty -four-such Is q ros
cent description OF Mr.. F. Marion Crawford.
MADAME CARLoTTA PARTS residence Is Rue
Pierre Charlton in Paris, was destroyed by fire
on Feb. g. Happily. every one in the building
escaped unhurt. NJ. de Munck, the husband OK
the prma donna. managed to rescue his violon-
cello. some jewery, and some papers of value.
Mr. ALVIN J. CLARK has put the finishing
touches to the great Lick telescope, and has
come away from Mount Hamilton. He saya
that during the recent cold spell It was inpossi-
BILE TO keep the observatory warm. 1t was cold
or there. he thinks, than he ever found it in
Boston; at any rate. the quality Of the atmos-
phere made the cold more trying
A NOVEL and very successful method OF rais-
ing funds is practiced in the negro Sundsy-
schools at Hayneville, Ala. The scholars were
told that if they couldn't bring nickel they
might bring egg or two instead. The next
week that Sunday school bore a striking resem-
bapce to an incubatlng establishment, and tbs
farmers for forty miles around began to COM
plain at the scarcity of eggs
PROF. BELLS wife lost, at the Bayard recsp-
ton in Washington, last week. diamond pin
valued at $4,000. A reward of 800 was offered
for its recovery. day or two aft erwards IL
was picked up in the dressing room, where Mrs.
Bell had dropped il, by Miss Bayard. On rs.
ceving the missing jewel, Mrs. Bell sent a
check for 800 to Miss Bayard. with the request
that she would apply it in her own discretion
to charity.
A Jersey City man who deals in second hand
furniture found $500 in old lounge which he
was repairing. He was honest, so he sent word
to the man from whom he had purchased the
lounge. 1t turned out that the man who sold
the lounge had hidden the money in il when he
was drunk and forgotten all about it. Then he
had accused his wife of taking it, and the row
that ensued broke up the family and caused the
sale of the furniture.
The Hon. Robert G. Winthrop has given to
the Connecticut State Library the commission
of his ancestor, John Winthrop. to be magis-
trate at. Namecoke. New London. 1t is dated
Oct q, 1647, is in the handwriting of Edward
Hopkins, the second Governor of Connections,
and has on it the Oldest known impression OF
the colony seal. He has also presented the let.
ter of credit for f500 which Governor Winthrop
took with him when he won't as agent to procure
the charter for the colony in 1861. This docu-
ment is signed by John Talcott, who promises
to pay himself in default of the colony.
M Alexandra Dumas was asked the other day
why he did not write his autobiography. Il
don't write my memoirs" he said. s'because .
man cannot tell the story Of his own life with.
out writing of those of others. Those of whom
1 should write would rather were silent, and
have no desire to write about myself 1t is.
however. possible to draw episodes from ones
personal souvenirs which time has formed into
a whole, to which nothing more is to be joined,
which form one more lesson on the absurdities
of human life and which no longer hurt
do injustice to anybody" And there is the hope
among his friends that NJ. Dumas will under.
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