The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

think it pollution to bring any Yankee
thing upon the alleged sacred soil of the
Old Dominion.
GEORGE PARSONS LATHRoP and his wife,
formerly Rose Hawthorne, have q private
bath-house on the beach at New London.
Conn.,, fitted up as q study, in which they
do most of their literary work. Mrs. Lath-
rop wears short skirts. biouses and stout
boots during her country walks.
w. BYRD PAGE, son of s.. Davis Page. the
champion high jumper, has Just made an
extremely rough bicycle trip from Altoona
to the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs.
de CROSSED sixty-nine creeks, eighteen
mountain ridges and swan two rivers with
his wheel. The whole distance was $50
miles.
Mrs. MARIA NJ. DEAN is a homeopathic
physician. who took an office in Helena.
NJ. T., three years ago. Her income last
year was in the n~eighborhood Of $4,000.
She is a graduate of Wisconsin University
and from a Boston medical school,. and also
studied medicine in Berlin. She is thirty
years old
ANEW use for rabbits has been found by
the physicians of the Birmingham. England,
Lunatic Asylum. A number of wild rab-
bits nave been turned loose on to the. fields
adjoining the institution, so that the In
hiotCo viii uc duluScu Wy bCCluS tuO AduuIto
run about, and to divert the minds of the
patients is one of the great objects OF the
institution.
THE Venus of Milo" in chocolate is one
of the curiosities of the Paris exhibition.
1t is to be sought for in the department of
Italian confectionery. Some think it con-
trary to good taste to allow one of the most
perfect specimens of ancient art to be re-
produced In the form of a huge sweetmeat:
Fortunately, it is classic Italy and not
frivolous France that has done the deed.
THE very last story about the Shah that
is going the rounds deals with a picture.
This ~potentate some time ago produced a
work of art, in which a camel in the back
ground was inches bigger than a tree in
the foreground, and a dog in the left corner
quite gigantic compared to a house in the
right corner. The majority of the cOurtiers
went into raptures over the gem, except
S Sns; whe l Rsia the the l sSsh Eq in this penalty %ssssr fS OF
proportion.
THE popular Crasus of Spain has just
died in the person of the Marquis de Ur-
QUITO. His executors have paid into the
Spanish treasury succession duties amount
ing to f96, 900 on his fortune, which exceed
ed five millions sterling. This was gained
In nifty years. The owner had begun life as
a Basque village lad, and died q Senator,
grandee, and ex-MayOr of Madrid. He left
t;Hs UpoI In oeq1ests to charities nSitS :, in his ma;
himself, and 100000 for masses for himself.
THE Hartford Courant says the late S. L..
NJ. Barlow is best known in New York as
the target of one of 'Billn Travers's best
jokes: "L-look th-there!" excitedly ex-
claimed the suffering. wag, halting the
friend with whom he was navigating Wall
street, and staring ~intently across the way.
What is it'll | don't see anything" said
the friend. "Wh.why. th-that's B-B-Bar-
loMp. 81 Yes es, l see it is" said the friend; but but
He's g-got his hards in his own p-pockets."
Miss ANNA SMYER, who took up q home
stead claim in Dakota five years ago. was
warned recently by q county official to
pay her poll-tax, which drew forth this re-
ply: II have just found out that last years
assessor has charged me with poll-tax. I
think it is funny, and if You want to men,
ton the fact that 1 object to working out
pOll-tax unless I have the privilege of vot-
ing at the next election Won nay /
don't know whether the man did it through
spite or through Ignorance; If it was igno,
rance some one else may learn from it: l
am past twenty-One and don't deny il. but
/ want the privilege of voting as well as
of working. Dress this up to suit yourself,
and send me q map OF our blessed Dakota
BILL NYE had a good time in London.
Wilson Barrett breakfasted him at He'd
bingham. Brandon Thomas invited some
kindred spirits to meet the American
humorist at the Savage Club. At Mary
Moore's tea, in the Criterion Theater, a
well-known actor said to Mr.. Nye: "a few
months ago / was playing in a farce at this
very theater. A fine old fellow in the
stalls, whom most OF Ms in the company
We sent a stage hand to the Charing Cross
went up again we had the satisfaction of
seeing our friend in the stalls stare with
Amusement at this telegram: That's
you'll be a long time dead. (Signed) Bill
Nye."
MARCEAU, whose dust is now enshrined
in the Pantheon, after being buried on the
battlefield, was disinterred by order of Gen.
Hardy, Governor of COblentz. and his body
reduced to ashes. These were placed in an
urn, which was deposited in q tomb. and
there left open to the public gaze. In 1904
some thieves opened the urn, and left the
ashes on finding that the tomb contained
no valuables. The authorities forwarded
the ashes to Marceau's sister, who divided
them into three portions, one of which was
sent to Marceau's bride. The latter, on
marrying later. sent the ashes back to the
generals sister. Another urn was given to
the city of Charities, and was inferred in
the foundations of the monument erected
to Marceau's memory. The third. urn was
kept by Marceau's sister, and buried with
her remains three years after her death, in
1834, at the instance of the French author
tiles and the consul at Nice.
WHEN Justice rides and rascals walk,
When fools keep still and wise men talk,
When all men pay fer what they buy,
The millennium Is surely nigh.
Time