The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18

Medical Missions. She is the traveller Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson recently pOked fun at
there was nothing fit to eat in Japan.
A MONTREAL dispatch says that son of
the Prince of Wales will accompany Sir
George Stephens to Canada next month.
and make an extended tour of the Domin-
ion and the United States.
1T was considered by many women pres
ent at the inaugural ball in Washington
that the most graceful and beautiful toilets
displayed were those fashioned in princess
style, with Neogreek draperies.
The Emperor of Germany's little boys
have harder time of it than the average
little boy, as their lessons begin at o'clock
every morning. What is the use of being
prince If that is the way you are treatedf
THOMAS EWING SHERMAN, son of General
Sherman, who is completing his studies at
the Georgetown University, will be or
dained to the Catholic priesthood by Arch
bishop Ryan.in the Philadelphia cathedral,
next July.
THE death of Henri Tamberlik, the
famous tenor who sang in this country six
teen years ago. is announced. He died in
Paris. He is said to have been the only
singer who could sing the tenor score of
F1dello" as 1T was written.
THEY use electricity in India to prevent
| the intrusion of snakes into houses. Wires
| are laid around the house, and when a
snake attempts I'd crawl over them, he re-
ceives a shock that either kills him or
| causes him to beat a retreat.
PRINCESS MARIA THEREsAs two ruling
| passions are an almost insane love of cats
| and an equally strong craving to be always
on tho 60. She is unmarried, of course and
4 WhpnaVar IPQVao IfQl
| takes small menagerie of pets with her.
| NOTWITHSTANDING his great age-eighty-
eight years-Count Won Moltke is as de-
| voted as ever to musicfand seldom misses
| court concert or any musical entertain
| ment OF Importance. But he rarely now
| touches the piano, upon which he used to
| be a flrst-rate performer.
| JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE returns to his
early literary love and has written novel,
| the scene of which is laid in Ireland in
| 179S The opening chapters are Unionist in
| sentiment, but the closing ones incline to
home rule, a fact which will cover many
| sins which the Irish have laid up to him.
| COUNT FRANCIS CLARY died few days
ago in Paris. in his eightieth year. He was
the nephew of the wealthy Clary, tho Mar
settles merchant, one of whose daughters
married Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of
Spain, and another General BernadOtte,
who became King of Sweden and Norway.
| JEAN INGELOw has made enough by her
| writings to be able to give herself many
luxuries these days. She has a London
| house in Kensington which is beautifully
fitted up, and has fine cOnfervatory. Miss
! IngelOw is so fond of flowers that she does
most of her writing when in London in this
| conservatory.
WILLIAM s. JACKSON, the husband of the
late Helen Hunt Jackson. better known in
the literary world as III. H." was married
to his third wife in Colorado Springs, day
| or two ago. He is a prosperous banker in
that city, and is well known as a shrewd
| railroad manager. The former name of his
| bride Is not given.
Miss ROSE PORTER, the well-known
writer of religious books, is most remark
able woman. Although an invalid, and
forced to dictate from her bed, she has al
| ready written some fifteen books, all of
| which have had extensive circulation. She
lives in pretty brick house in New Haven,
and is much thought of in that city.
'g IN the October number of the Young Man,
jim answering the question, "Shall we
smoker" DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes re-
plies, Certainly not. Smoking is liable
to injure the sight to render the nerves un-
steady, to enfeeble the will and enslaye the
nature to an imperiOus habit, likely to
stand in the way of aduty to be performed"
THERE is curious story about Secretary
Noble and Cyrus Bussey, who has been
named Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
Bussey was colonel of an Iowa regiment, in
l which Noble was lieutenant. Bussey pro-
| NOTED Noble to be Q major, carrying him
| right over the heads of several captains.
Mobiles gratitude for Bussey's kindness has
been manifested after a long lapse of time,
4 but generously at last.
il STRIPED and plaided materials are still
arranged with great ingenuity, and all
monOtony is thus avoided. On some of the
new striped bodices the darts are only taken
in the lining, and by bias adjusted of
many of the fine wool fabrics they are
smoothed and drawn over the lining to tit
the form to perfection, without the aid of
the usual seams and darts. Pointed waists
are in high vogue with empire and Direc-
toire skirts adjusted to the sides and back,
these falling straight and fiat. or shirred or
plested, the kits bordered with bands of
very elegant passementerie.
COUNTESS TOLsTOI, we are told, is the
daughter of Moscow physician, who mar
ried the Count nearly thirty years ago
when shewas very young. She has borne
him thirteen children, and was this year
nursing the youngest, as she had nursed all
its predecessors. Upon her rests the whole
burden of the management of the house.
hold at Moscow and at Yasnaia Poliana.
She controls directs, manages everything.
To the Count the possession of a house
superior to that of q peasant is a sin. In
his eyes his family lives in culpable luxury
because they have servants to clean their
boots and cook to prepare their food. He
lives in their house, as it were, under pro-
test The Countess has done all that she
could to meet hts views. They have SIM
plited their existence.
THE Critic, of March 16, contains an ar
ticle entitled "Washington's Church, 1889
1882" by Bishop Perry, of Iowa, histori-
ographer of the Episcopal Church in Amer
lea. The Bishop is, naturally enough, a
jealous churchman, and takes pride in the
fact that 1.-THE church of Washington" has
taken such seven-league strides since the
day, now o century past when the first
President, after taking the oath of Office,
walked to ST. PauPs Chapel in Broadway,
to attend service conducted by the first
Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York,
one of the chaplains of Congress. He re-
sents the imputatiOn that the sO-called
Church of England in America was luke
warm, if not actually hostile, to the cause
| of emancipation from the mother country,
and finds abundant gratifcationin the story
of it's Phenix-like rebirth after the cessa-
tion of hostilities and its vigorous growth
up to the present day.
COMMENT AND OPINION.