The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-05

see. They are beautiful children. with great
Spanish eyes and curly hair. De Lesseps is
now eighty seven years old.
III is said that Mime. Boulanger and her
daughter have abandoned their recently
cherished purpose of entering convent,
Tin order to tighten the burden of exile
borne by the General" This il announced
burial of Mime. De Bonnemain, Bouianger's
friend.
PRESIDENT PALMER of the Worlds Co.
lumbar Commission, is nothing if not DO
lite. He Is also something of q joker. as
anyone who knows him well can testify.
he is especially noted. too. for the little at
tentions he pays to women. and he always
stands ready to help Q woman out of any
difficulty in which he may happen to ind
her, If reasonable assistance will do it.
Ex-EMPREss VICTORIA of Germany says,
regarding demestics: las long as the moral
welfare of the domestics is not better
looked after, q remedy of the evil cannot
be expected. In the first place, something
should be done to shorten the working
hours OF servants. and then little more
personal liberty should be allowed them.
Not all OF their demands are justlfable. but
some are. and those should be granted"
GEORGE f. EDMUNDs entered the Yer
mont Leg lslature in 1884. q year before his
long time colleague. Mr.. Morrill,. took his
seat IN Congress. The resignation of Mr..
Edmunds closes q record which was al-
ready without a precedent-the represen-
taticn OF commonwealth in the Senate by
the same two men for q continuous period
of twenty-four years-,yith the result that
their small State has long held the chair
manships of the two most important COM
mittess, on finance and on the judiciary.
CROWNED heads do not meet violent
deaths nowadays. saving and except they
be Cars. But there's weirdness in the
taking of of Pope Adrian vi. who swal-
lowed q fly in glass of water and choked.
Henry l of Spain was killed by falling
tile, Pope Clement VII by. the fumes of
poisoned torch. Tarquinius Prisons by q
tishbone. the EmperOrs Anastasius and
Carus by lightning stroke, and John, En-
DerOr of ConstantinOple. by shooting him
self through the hand with q poisoned ar
row.
In his early days Russell Sage used to
settle the claims made against small rail-
road which was operated in the western
part of Pennsylvania. One day one of the
trains killed fine cow belonging to a
himself up to look like tax assessor. and
driving up to the farmers house. said:
What do You value that red cow of yours
att" Its not worth SIS to any one" said
the sly farmer. We'll. here's the money,
said the supposed assessor. My road killed
the COW this morning"
In Chicago they are telling this story on
Sam Jones. Recently he was addressing
crowded audience. and said: IL want every
one in this congregation who wants to 60
to heaven to stand up" Then he said:
Now want every body who wants to go
to the other place to stand up" At first no
one stood mp, but finally q long, and lank.
and skinny individual in the back seats
about as fat as an umbrella, arose and said;
i don't exactly want to go to the other
place, but am willing to stand up rather
than let the preacher stand all alone"
DANIEL LOTHROP, the Boston publisher.
began his business career as an apothecary
and without college education. 1t was
while thus engaged that his love of books
led him to handle them also "a q minor
feature of his trade. After building up his
drug business, in partnership with three
brothers. who now conduct it after an as
sOciatiOn covering thirty-slx years, Daniel
decided to become = publisher, and as q
country, visiting the bookstores in the
various large cities. where he carefully
studied the demands of the book trade from
all standpOints.
AT q school directors meeting at Oak.
land, Kan, they were talking about buy.
ing flag for the school. Clark Wilson, q
prominent Alliance man. spoke as follows:
1.-THE flag 10 carried by every picnic crowd
1t is seen everywhere on the Fourth of
July. 1t is raised over every political con-
vention and floats over every drunken
brawi. 1t has become too common q prop
erty everywhere. and l. am opposed TO
spending pubic money in it's purchase. Its
floating above our school-rooms will In no
way cOnduce 30 the good morals and
patriotism of our children" After that the
board promptly concluded that q flag was
what they wanted, and SO ordered.
A BOsTONIAN, who had an interview
with Nine. Blavatslzy shortly before her
death. says that the great priestess of
theosophy weighed at that time more than
three hundred pounds. She was 90 ponder
Gus that she could not sit in an ordinary
arm chair, and she was fond of speaking of
herself as 1.-The old hippopotamus" Be-
cause of her great breadth she seemed
shorter than she was. She sat with q pack
of cards in her hand and q cigarette in her
mouth. and insisted on her visitor smoking
with her. Her hands were remarkably
beautiful and she always kept some object
in them so that they would attract the con-
slant attention of the persons about her.