The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-24

of the national songs Of the world, ordered
Eeen able to identify the composers of only
twenty-one numbers out of rs which his
book contains.
THE champion woman preacher of the
West Is the Rev. Eliza Freye, Of Wisconsin,
who recently preached thirty-two times in
our weeks. Miss Freye is a Methodist.
and is holding daily meetings in her church
at Maide Rock.
Miss CONSTANCE FENIMoRE WooLsoN.
who is now in Italy. intends when she re-
turns to this country to make a winter
home In Florida and a summer home at
Otsego, where her g~reatuncle, James Feni-
more Cooper, lived.
QUEEN VICTORIA doesn't wear a great
deal of fur. She has an old cloak, however,
in which she comfortably encases herself
made entirely of ermine and the ermine is
outside. The cloak gives her a very regal
appearance.
SINCE the failure of the Panama Canal
Company the towns of Panama N Colon
have entirely changed in appearance. Front
street in Colon, or Aspinwali, as the Amer
leans have always called it: In honor OF the
father of the Panama railroad, used 10 DC
lined with large stores of all descriptions.
from which the various towns on the I'm
of the canal used to get their supplies.
These stores. the trade no longer existing,
have all disappeared and their places are
taken by small Chinese shops.
HERR EASTMAN, the well-known bari
tone singer, proposes to test q curious point
of law in connection with the photograph.
When at Venedig. lately, he obligingly sang
a selection from Hamlet to q p%honograph
belonging to Signor Copell0, and the latter
hos tyivon oy brhitione nf the Instrument. AT
which he reproduced Herr Rashman's tones
to large audiences, whom he charged an
admission fee. The singer did not receive
any share of the profits, and he will try to
lave SignOr COpellOs exhibitions stopped
by law.
THE late King of Portugal was q corpu-
lent man of fifty, with q dark complexion
and a grave face. An American who saw
him recently says he bore a striking re-
semblance to ex-President Cleveland. His
son. who succeeds him as Carlos /, Is very
different from his father. physically, being
very light in complexion. He is an ambl-
tious young man, not possessing the quiet,
scholarly tastes of the late Luis. He is anx-
ious to become prominent In European pol
itics. In all his mental characteristics he
more resembles his mother than his father.
MADAME MODJEsKA is fond of entertain
ments of various sorts. She goes more into
society in New York than any one Of the
actresses who are now identified with the
American stage, and her choice of enter
tainments is supper after the play. She
attends a great many of them at belmont
co.'s, and gives about a dozen big ones dur
ing the season herself. The people are us-
nothing is known about it in the newspa-
pers. because she ~sedulously avoids public
mention of them, In this she differs some
what from some of the other FEMININE
members of the profession.
SAYS a B%ostonian: ANY one who watches
the movements of the big iron jaws of Gen.
b. +. Butler as he sits in court and manages
an important case would infer that he was
an inveterate tobacco-cbewer, so diligently
does he masticate. Still the fat old General
does not smoke or chew. His jaws for the
past four years or more have been exercised
on the mild and exclusive bark of the slip
perry elm, of which he always carries O sup
ply in his pockets. This is due to the fact
smoking. Feeling the need of something
to take off the banker for tobacco he re-
sorted to the embark and chews it con-
stantly."
In the annals of ~flounces and furbelows
the marriage of the Crown Prince of Greece
with the Princess Sophia, of Prussia. will
be remembered for the exceptional beauty
of the veil worn by the bride. This won
drous garment is now soTemnly reported as
| finished by the directors of the Sllesian lace
| schools Of Urnsdorf, Steinseiffen, and
Seidorf, where it has been made. The design
was long the subject of anxious consulta-
| tiOns between the Empress Frederick and
the designer. Burghold. The foundation
| material is the finest Brussels tulle. This
is trimmed in specially designed point
formed of 40 different masterpieces of lace
work. A technical description of all the
| beauties of this marvellous veil is beyond
our powers, but that they are many and ex-
| production has uninterruptedly occupied
200 Silesian 1ace-workers for four months.