The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-17

all in ruins. and inside it looks quite dread
full. One of the cushions, however, is still
good; here and there splashes of mud are
on it.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT CRAWFORD, u. S.
N, has been selected for the head of the
great Williamson School at Philadelphia.
He was born about forty-ive years ago in
W~ashlngron's old house at Valley Forge,
and was at one time Q workman In the en-
CINE shops at Altoona.
KATE FIELD has written q letter to the
California Viticultural Association resign
ing her work of introducing American
wines in the United States. She complains
that the Governor of California has at
tacked her in order to secure the support Of
the Prohibition party for his reelection.
The Princess Louise. granddaughter of
Queen Victoria, will receive q vast number
of magnificent wedding presents. The
Rothschilds will give her q diamond and
Persia will present her with a gift even
more valuable. Her father will give her
away.
WHEN j. Wells Champney painted Prof.
Maria MitchelPs portrait, some years ago.,
she insisted on literal fidelity to her ap
p~earance. You cannot make a beauty Of
me- she said. This recalls Oliver CrOm-
wells incorporating words to his portrait
painter: Paint me as / am. If you leave
out the scars and the wrinkles, l will not
pay you a penny"
at Huntsville. Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
where began IN 1726 the great educational
work of the Presbyterian Church in this
country. will be fittingly commemOrated
on Sept. 3. Appropriate exercises will be
held, and President Patton and ex-Presi-
dent McCosh, of Princeton, are announced
to deliver speeches.
The latest about Robert Louis Stevenson
is this. via San Francisco: Robert Louis
Stevenson chartered the schooner Equator
in Honolulu a couple of weeks ago and
has sailed for Gilbert islands; thence he in
tends going to the Marshall islands and to
this risky journey is to become more fully
acquainted with the habits of the less civ
ilized South Sea islanders. He is accom-
panied by his wife, j. d. Strong, the artist.
and Mr.. Osborne. He is in very bad health"
THE oldest man in the world, in all
probability, is Macy Ference, of Barcas,
Hungary. He was born IN Hedrahelz 121
years ago. Twenty years of his life he
spent as a soldier and he fought against
the first Napoleon in several famous bat
ties. Early In life he was crossed in love
anu mas Deen u m1SOgynlSC ever since. he
has used tobacco for 14 years and has in
dulged more OF less in beer and wine. He
is in perfect health, has all his faculties
and can recall events of his childhood read
lily. He likes to gossip and his converse
ton is very entertaining.
CHICAGO.
A man dug q hole
To make room for his soul,
But lol it caved in and buried the digger;
The whale, o the whale,
He swallowed his tail,
And fondly imagined he made himself bigger.
Lew Dawson.
Fl VAIL OF H DYING.
We are feeling pretty bad
At this time, at this time.
We are feeling pretty mad
At this time.
We our jobs expect to lose
And a fellow can't enthuse
While expecting to be called on to resign, to re-
While expecting to be called on to resign.
We will have to live on hash
For q time, for a time,
And be very short of cash
For q time.
But four years will soon slip by
And our hands again we'll try
And the other fellow call on to resign, to resign,
And the other fellow call on to resign.
Washington Post.