The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-23

tempt of court. "A jury summons" said
the judge, takes precedence of everything
else. even the Shah"
The son of Millet, the French artist who
painted the "Angelus," says his father
painted the picture, but he was not able to
sell 1T. An American made an offer for it,
which was accepted, but the American
wrote the next day, stating that 1T was not
large enough for the price.
CHARLES b. NANCREDE. of philadelphia,
who has just been elected professor of sur
gerry in the Michi gan State University, is
noted Tor his text-bOoks on surgery and as
prolific scientific writer. His grand
father was French officer in the Ameri-
can army under Count de Rochambeau.
Mrs. ELIZABETH WELLS. who died in
Hartford on Wednesday, aged seventy-one
years, was the widow of DE-. Horace Wells,
the discoverer of anssthesia. Though this
honor was the subject of much bitter con-
troversy, a monument to DR.. Wells in the
Boston Public Garden records the fact that
he was the dlscoverer.
MALE members of the Amish sect of Som
erset, Pa, are not permitted to wear sus-
penders OF own buggy with folding top.
but if the. top is stationary it is all right.
stead of buttons on their clothes. This is
strictly adhered to by both sexes. No
female member is allowed to wear hat or
have any ruff1es on.
w. E. HASKELL and c. M. Palmer, of
Minneapolis, have started on a tour of ex-
ploration and pleasure through northern
Labrador. They will be gone four months
and expect TO visit places never before
reached by civilized beings. An artist will
accompany the party, and the results and
adventures of the excursion may be made
public when they return
THERE is no doubt that Queen Victoria
is in very bad health. Her rheumatism
has detied treatment and she has grown
very feeble. 1t is asserted that she wishes
to lay her official duties aside. Should she
do SO the Prince of Wales would read and
sign all state documents. In this case he
would assume the title of Prince Regent,
and would enjoy the use of Buckingham
Palace and Windsor Castle. Victoria
would retire to Osborne and BalmOral.
Mrs. HAGE. wife of Captain Herbert
Hage. isregarded by the eleven survivors
of her husbands lost bark Cupico as a
heroine and as the preserver of their lives.
Her courage, they say, never tagged; and
they were on the wreck for twenty days
before they were rescued by the bark Belt.
Mrs. Hage kept the courage of the men up
by her example, working at the pumps
with them to keep the vessel afiOat. Beside,
she prepared and brought their food to
them at the pumps, which they dared not
leave. These survivors are now in New
York.
REGARDING the daughter of the French
politician of the name of Clemenceau, who
is always making such stir, an exchange
says that her mother is American. but that
'the daughter is wholly French" There
must be reasonable doubt relative to this
conclusion, the moro so that the young
lady's mother was Wisconsin girl of the
name of Plummer. She met the French
man a young ladies' boarding school in
Connecticut, where he was teaching French.
Like some of the Bonaparte family, Glenn
enceau found his beau ideal of a wife
among the ladies of the American Republic.