The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26

sons debase their intellects by composing
sham letters in bad English. fortune-tell-
ing. and such like trash are unworthy of
countenance. When we need money to
meet current expenses lot us raise 1t like
Christians"
THE redecoration of the famous corridor
in Windsor Castle has been completed at q
cost of many thousands of pounds. The
work has been constantly in progress all
the year except when the Queen has been
at the castle. One set of rose china. in q
single one of the cabinets in this corridor,
is valued at 10000 tSl50, 00Ol. At tie upper
end of the corridor is a bust of Gordon,
close to which is his pocket Bible, inclosed
III crystals.
The Woman's Club in New Orleans has a
sewing department, which is superintend-
ed by q Mrs. Speer and four assistants. 1t
finds sewing for sixty-ive women each day
who either work at the club. go ont by the
day or take their work home. Such n prac-
tical method of helping two classes of So
~ciety-the women who sew for n living and
the women who must ave their sewing
done for them is worthy of q more than
passing thought or comment.
PROFESSOR ADAMS, of Cambridge. Eng
land, whose serious illness has been report
ed. is now s~eventy-one years old. and may
fairly be ranked as the most eminent liv-
ing English astronomer. He was one of the
discoveries of the planet Neptune, the
other being Nj. Leverrier, of Paris, now
dead. The two worked at the great prob
lem independently, and both solved 1T al
most at the same moment. Professor Adams
is small in stature, with a typical English
face and simple but cordial amer
THERE are now some 5000 women doctors
in the United States-abOut Ole to each
thirty-three of the masculine variety.
Some of them have incomes exceeding So
600. and very few fall below 81. 200. They
grow and thrive best in New York, Penn
sylvanIa and Massachusetts,. After that
have never got a footing, and outside of
Maryland and Virginia there is not one in
the length and breadth of Dixieland- Only
3 per cent. of graduates fOrswear medicine
for matrimony. and of those who do one
third marry other doctors.
REV. ANNA III. SHAW. the eloquent Meth
odist preacher. is descended from a family
of English Unitarians. Her grandmother
always refused to pay tithes to the Church
of England, and. year after year, allowed
her property to be seized and sold for non
payment of the tax. While the sale went
on In the street, the s~tout-hearted old LADY
would sit on her doorstep. knitting and de-
nouncing the officers. Miss Shaw's father
came to America with his family when she
was very young. She afterwards became a
convert to Methodism. graduated at the Bos-
ton University Theological School. was or
dained by the Methodist Protestant Church,
and is now one of the National WOman's
Christian Temperance Unions most effect
i've lecturers on temperance, woman suf.
frage and social purity.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND says that
when Washington Irving came back to
his native country from Europe. after
an absence of seventeen years
wondering what he would find tC
do in this hard land" it was the old
merchant Astor who perceived the uses OF
literature to promote the Nation, and who
engaged irving at a liberal compensation
to edit and compose the story OF the Amer
lean Fur Company's operations toward the
Columbia river. In that way the politics
of the middle portion of this century was
assisted by it's literature in it's struggle to
extend our dominion to the straits of Juan
de Fuca. whereby we nave become possessed
of the new States in that region, and hav
gained control of a large portion of Puget
| sound.