The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
the whole world in the face with Q true.
manly sympathy for the great and small"

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manly sympathy for the great and small"
Mrs. j. w. DELANo, of San Francisco.
carefully treasures . piece of blood-stained
white silk dress which Laura Keene wore
on the stage when Lincoln was assassi-
mated. Miss Kcene held and assisted the
dying President until he was removed.
The cross of the Order of st. Olaf, which
the King of Sweden will confer upon NJ.
Pasteur on his approaching birthday ann
versary, is of gold and brill,ants. and is at
tached to q red. white and blue ribbon.
The order was created by Oscar i, father of
the present King. to recompense miscel-
laneous services, and bears the name OF the
prince who introduced Christianity into
Norway.
THE Khan of Khiya and the Emir of Box
hara, who are both going to London short.
". will be the ''lions'"o of the winter season
there. The Emr wears o gorgeous Eastern
dress. a tunic of bright red silk reaching
to the knees, and the silk glrdie around his
waist ls edged with sable aud studded with
precious stones. The tunic is also en-
brOidered with gold and jewels, and the
Emir wears on his head q turben of white
satin covered with old lace and precious
stones.
SENATOR KENNA. of West Virginia. Who
just now is disabled from active work by
~ . W no'o eAO
best camera, best dark room and finest COL
lection of amateur Photographic work in
Washington. He hns taken pictures of
almost every body o everything IN and
about the capital. and HE portraits are
something remarkable for pose and ex-
preston. He has the truly artistic faculty
of getting his living SUBJECTS into charac-
~teristic attitudes before he presses the
button.n
LARGE. coarse ears indicate coarseness of
mind, says Prof. Henry Thiebault. while q
very small ear indicates a trihlng mind.
lacking In decision. A man with o thin.
wafer-llke ear was born q by Docrite il not
q thief. When the ears are set very high
on the head their possessor Is usually found
to be narrow-minded Large, well-shaped
ears that do not spread too much to the
breeze indicate generosity, and are gener-
ally found on the leaders of the worlds
opinions. Although there are so many
million pairs OF ears in existence. no two
pairs are alike, and each has u marked IN
d~ividuality.
The present girl of Russia is said to be
plump. bright-eyed and frequently quite
pretty; but she loses her pretty skin, the
at an early aye. As ola women they have
skins like leather. wrinkled faces. faded
hair and rroubled counteDances, for ley
work hard early and late. Almost as eoon
as they can walk they are set to work in
the fields spading aud turning over the
ground. moving reaplng. sowing and rak-
ing hay. Twenty or thirty girls and wom-
en- work together In q gang, and they are
kept at work by q man Overseer who di-
reefs their labor and sees that each one
does her task.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ALLEN tells this
new story of an experience during the No
vember campaign. He visited places where
he had never been before. and at one of his
meetings he ran across an old friend.
Hello, john" said the native. grasping
the Congressman's hand. where In the
world have you been during the last three
or four yearsf" 'Beenf' echoed the Con-
gresham IN surprise. why. | have been
in Congress. up in Washington. where you
people sent me to legislate for you" "You
don't say so" was the astOnisbed constit-
uent's reply. IL thought all the time that
you were down in Texas visiting your
Uncle Buck" And such." as Mr.. Allen
said. lis flannel"
+. MARION CRAWFORD. the novelist. who
is now giving readings from his own works
in his country. is the son of the late
Thomas Crawford, the sculptor who mod
eled the Statue of Liberty on the Capitol
at Washington. His mother was the sister
of Sam Ward. Nh. Crawford was born at
the Baths of Lucca. but he considers him
self an American TO the backbone. His
wife, q daughter of General Berdan. the
sbarpshooter. he first met in Boston, but
was married to her on the B0sphOrus some
years later. The family homo Is at Sor-
rento, where a few years ago Mr.. Crawford
erected q spacious house on q bluff two
hundred feet above the Bay of Naples
There he does his literary work. 1t 10 his
custom to write about SIX Thousand words
q day. His ..Pietro Ghisleri" was written
In twenty-five working days. 1t contuina
150. 0O0 words. Il am obliged to work rapid
ly." q Mr.. Crawford. because l have
such q poor memory that if l let the work
drag l would forget at the end Of the book
what had said about the various charac-
ters at the beginning"