The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-01-29

half a dozen fortunes. IL now making an
other one in an Idaho coal field. His career
has been an adventurous one. There have
been occasions when be stood In pressing
need of q quarter. while at other times he
dould draw his check for q million.
GEN. o. o. HOWARD lost nearly $4,000 In
the failure of the Kean bank. at Chicago,
s.. 200 of which was money raised on sub
~scription by him for the establishment of a
mission church in one of the New York
tenement districts. The General will make
good this loss out of his own pocket.
THE University of Geneva has just made
an M. d. out of the young Polish Countess
Wanda Won Szcawlnski. Her graduation
thesis was q remarkably learned paper con-
corning the eyes of crustaceous animals and
the effect of light and kne upon them.
The Countess Wanda will practice In Po-
land.
JEREMIAH (SocKLEss) SIMPSON is not .
product Of the American soil, but was born
in VrOomfield, q hamlet five miles below
Sarnia, Ont Along the river Jeremiah is
sailed a schooner until he had got together
the 5000 that gave him the impetus to 20
West.
PRINCE BAUDoUIN's death makes his
brother, Prince Albert, the second son of
the Count of Flanders, the heir apparent
to the Belgium throne. The succession
thus diverged into the Kings brothers
family when Leopold's only son, the Duke
of Brabant. died ir 1858. According to the
Belgian law the succession runs In the male
line alone.
PRESIDENT MoFFATT. of the Denver &
Rio Grande road, travels about the country
more than he paid for his home in Denver.
But be says. jokingly. that his wife makes
ii so uncomfortable for him every time he
comes back from q trip in this palatial
coach that he wants to give the blessed
thing away.
ROSE COGHLAN and Lydia Thompson
met by chance at q hotel table in Albany
the other week and. to the surprise of some
observers. fell to exchanging "reminiscences
in a very sociable way. During their talk
the fact was developed to an interested
few that Miss CoRhlan first came to this
country from England when a girl. with
Miss Thompson. playing a subordinate part
In q company under the management OF the
latter.
CARDINAL MANNING, the great English
prelate, is e~ighty-two years old-one year
older than Gladstone. His face is thin and
bloodless, his eyes sunken, and the wrinkled
skin is colorless. His kindly blue eyes
twinkle merrily, and q pleasant smile oc-
casiOnally relieves the ascetic look of his
co~untenance. He is more than ordinarily
tall, and now that his years are upon him
his head and shoulders stoop. and he is
somewhat deaf He receives visitors in q
plain black silk cassock. with . red silk
cap on his venerable head.
SITTING BULL always disliked to be
prayed for. and in that respect he was not
unlike many of his brother heather of pure
Caucasion blood. Once at q dinner party
given by the wife of IN army officer the
young clergyman present prayed 30 Ion 9
and fervently for Bulls soul that the old
warrior thought it some sort of incarnation
and refused to eat anything until the
others had partaken literally of the food.
At the end of the dinner the minister again
began to pray. But the avage could en-
dure no more. Jumping up he shouted: mo.
no! Onco heap enough; no more call down
Great Spirit to crush chief" Then he
sJrOde from the room.