The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-23

on time. and explained that on the previ-
ous evening he had been celebrating his
approaching marriage. Another date has
been fixed.
EDWARD w. Box. who receives $4,000 a
year as editor of the Ladies' Home Journal.
is only twenty-five years of age, but he has
already won n wide reputation as an au-
thor. He drifted into literature at the age
of nineteen. and later established the we'll
known Box syndicate, which furnishes ar
ticles to the press of America and Europe.
!. EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany is hav-
ing two new crowns made for himself and
the Empress. His will weigh three pounds,
have a large sapphire at the top and glisten
with 100 diamonds. His wife's crown is to
contain 1900 diamonds and eleven large
pearls. 1t will thus be seen that the latest
fashion In crowns places them beyond the
reach OF poor people.
JEAN INGELow is nearly sixty now, but
does not look half her age. Her eyes are as
bright and her cheeks as rosy and rounded
as a girls. Of late years she has written
very little. and ever what she does she
rarely publishes. for her theory is thar a
poet never writes any immortal, verse after
he or she has passed fifty. and she may very
Justly rest on the laurels she won for her
self before she reached that age.
The rumOr that the Prince of Wales is
suffering from Bright's disease seems to be
confirmed. There is no doubt that the En-
glish royal family is plunged in gloom and
that Victoria is worried about the success
sion. According to the latest reports the
Princes physicians have informed him that
he has not more than two years lease OF
life. His trip to Egypt will be undertaken
to relieve, il possible, bis mind of its pres
ent despairing tone. He has always had a
presentiment that he would never be King
of England. and he is now convinced that
his forebodings were correct.
The Gear and Czarina have at last safely
returned to their country place at Gatchina.
after their little picnic to Berlin. A ve-
racious correspondent of one of the West
ern papers. who was present disguised as a
royal duke, reports that when his Majesty
had let himself in with his latch-key. dis.
Cossacks and winked mysteriously for his
secret police to withdraw, he removed his
bullet-proOf overcoat. locked himself into
his bomb-proof boudoir, and gaily remarked
to his wife: well. ~Alexandrovna, there's
no place Xix home, after ALL"
NJ. OSIRIS. who gave the prize of 10000
francs for the most useful work in the OK
hlbltion. has a mania for statues, and pro-
poses to erect many in Paris. The statue of
Alfred de Mussei. given by him. is very
shortly. to replace the little fountain in
front of the Church of st. Augustin, in the
Boulevard Malesherbes. But he will not
hear of putting up an efigy of any one
whom he has not known personally. The
representative of the Voltaire statue COM
mittee. who interviewed him concerning
his proposed statues, proposed that n of
them should be that of Racine; but M.
Osiris would not hear of it, and declared
that if he erected statues it was chiefly be-
cause he liked to meet in his walks the
well-known faces of his former friends.
AREcKLEss young man named Cclquhoun
Once took a ride in a balluhoun.
Ii suddenly dropped,
And the place where he Topped
Was stained a bright, lovely maruhoun.
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