The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-11

more active when the body abstains from
animal nourishment
THE Empress Eugene is back again in
Paris. She stays with the Duchesse dc
Mouchy (Anna Murat), and keeps quiet.
DR.. Metzger's treatment has brought her
from sad and almost crippled state to
cheerfulness and the activity that arises
from the muscles being flexible and in
ready obedience to the nerves.
THE makers of a candy, supposed to be
cure for coughs, sent out circulars contain
ing this puzzle: What number can you
take, and when you divide it by two, three,
four, five or six, you will have one over,
but when divided by seven nothing will re-
mains" There is added the information
that If you cannot guess it the answer will
be found IN a slip of paper In a box of the
candy. 10 save our readers a headache
and - cents apiece we give the answer
721.
Mr.. MORTIMER MEMPEs, at the beginning
of his career, secured some portrait subjects
in peculiarly frank manner. He went to
Miss Ellen Terry, for example, who is one
of the hardest of persons for an artist to
get hold of, and said, Look here. Miss
Terry, Pm a young Australian, with few or
no friends here, and l want to make my
way in the world. Won't you let me paint
your p0rtrait?" Certainly" said she; and
by the word lifted him long way toward
the summit of success.
THE Queen of COrea is no fgurehead.
She belongs to one of the greatest families
of the country, and it is an open secret that
she has at times her voice in the councils
of the King. She has an estabh shment of
her own inside the palace grounds, and the
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each their separate households. The Queen
dresses, of course, in COrean costume. She
wears fine silks, and she has beautiful dia-
mOnds. She carries a chatelaine watch,
which is diamond studded, and she smokes
American cigarettes by the thousand.
LEVI P. MORT0NS place at Rhinebeck, on
the Hudson, was originally purchased from
the Indians in 1856 by Gerrit Aartsen, Arrie
Roosa and Jan Citing. In 1902 it was sold
Hendrick Heermance, the sOn-in-law of
Jacobus Kip. 1t remained in the Kip fam
lily until 1914, when it was sold to Maturin
Livingston. 1t passed through several
other hands, until it was purchased by
William Kelley, of New York, who added n
thousand acres to- it, spent a fortune on it,
and whose heirs at his death sold it at a
also spent a fortune i'll improving it, and it
will be, when completed, one of the costli-
est places in the United States.
In recent lecture Mr.. William Blaikie,
author of ''HOw to Get Strong" cOntrasted
Thomas A. Edison and John Ericsson, both
inventors, the one forty-twO years of age,
the other just double that age. Edison
never takes any exercise, and breathes COM
paratively little fresh air. Ericsson has a
gymnasium fitted up in his house, and takes
regular exercise every day. Edison is
almost totally deaf, is pale of face, and
stoops Ericsson has all his organs in their
early perfection, is ruddy of face, and
straight as an arrow. Only recently, in a
trial of strength, he Outripped two young
men in their twenties. Moral: Early to
bed and early to rise, with a regular course
of exercise.
THIS for vanity: A middle-aged woman
went to prominent physician of San
Diego, not long ago and asked him to am
putate her two great toes. He examined
them, assured her that there was nothing
wrong with them, and said that he
wouldn't cut them off. She begged him to,
saying that if they were cut off she could
wear No. shoes instead of tours, as then.
Her toes were her own, she said, to do what
she pleased with, and she would give $500
to have them off. The doctor refused, and
the woman went in quest of some one with
less conscience. A San Diego newspaper
says she found some one to do the job sue
cessfully, for two weeks later she went to
San Francisco wearing the best pair of No.
2s that could be bought in San Diego
THE late Sir Walter Stirling was neta-
bic figure on the streets of London. AL
though he was close on eighty-seven years
old, he retained the trim, spare figure of
early manhood; his brown wig was juvenil-
lty itself, and his walk was almost run.
He was constantly on foot, with his UNI
brella tucked under his arm, hurrying from
house to house, and from club to club, gOs-
siping, inquiring, collecting news and dis
tributing it,. and illustrating every social
and political event of the time from the
copiOus recesses of his inexhaustible men,
DRY. He had been educateda at Westminster,
and had as boy freely availed himself of
the traditional privilege of the Kings schol-
airs to attend the debates of the House of
Commons. Though he had never sat in
Parliament, he had lived constantly in pO-
| litical society, was keen and expert par
Humanitarian, and kind of political oracle
at Brooks's and the United University
Clubs.