The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-17
THE Queen of England never goes to be,
before midnight.

THE Queen of England never goes to bed
before midnight.
Mrs. ELIZABETH who recently
died in Glasgow. left $780, 900 to chart
table institutions In that city.
THE Queen Regent of Spain refuses to
touch q penny of the SlOO.0O0 q year joint
ure to which, as the widow of the late
king, she IS entitled.
THE nearest living relative of Shak-
spcare is probably Thomas Hart. o resident
of Australia. who is eighth in descent from
Sbakspeare's sister. Joan.
WHEN an audience in Berlin did not like
q speech of the eccentric Won Bulow and
s~ignified its displeasure bv kissing. the mu-
slcian pulled out q handkerchief and dust
ed his boots.
THERE are SO few buffalo left in America
as to make it interesting to learn that
Queen Victoria has sent one from her farm
at FrogmOre. to the grounds of the Zoologi-
cal Society In London.
TIE petition for woinan's suffrage. la:ely
introduced in the Iowa Senate. was sixty
two feet long and contained the names of
1880 legal voters and Cos women who de-
sired to be legal voters.
A VISITOR at Begecheff, Russia. saw
Count Tolstois daughter open. in q single
day. letters containing checks for their
famine fund amounting to 5000 ron bles.
Most of the letters were from America and
England. There was one check from Lon
don Tor 81 .000.
THE late Roscoe Conklipg refused to at
tend his daughters wedding because she
chose to marry a railroad train hand. To-
day the young man Is at the head of one of
the biggest railroad systemsin the country.
The daughter appears to have had a better
eye for genius than the old gentleman.
Mrs. JOHN SHERWOOD. the popular writer
on etiquette. delightful psrlor reader n
society leader. is said to be past seventy.
and although suffering much from rheuma-
tism and forced by reverses OF fortune to
support herself and invalid husband, she is
always cheerful. gracious and entertaining.
THE first female knights are said to have
been women who stoutly defended TOrtosa
against the Moors in 1149. and were re-
warded with large immuniJies for them
selves aud their descendants. When Ed
ward III founded the Garter he bestowed
the robes and bad ges on his Queen aud on
the wives and daughters of the other
kniRhts.
THE demolition of myths goes on. a. is
shown by the statement that the Mar
Quis of Queensberry was never in his life
present at q prize fight. He 10 reported to
have hastily drawn up his celebrated rules
while in college TO guide some chums in
"~set-to," and although he has since been .
a recognized authority on pugilism he
takes very little interest in it.
BERNHARDI's manager is trying to make
her hurry along her performances so that
they shall not exceed those of other the
aters in length. AT present q Bernhardt
evening lasts until l1:S0 or IL o'clock. for
the reason that the actress declares that
she cannot portray such vivid parts with.
out taking q nap between the acts. The
manager storms and Bernhardt weeps. but
she doesn't hurry up just the same.
MRs. GARNER the wife of r. L. Garner.
aids her husband in the experiments he is
making to learn whether animals have Ian
guage. He makes valuable use of the
phOnOgrapb. and he said the other evening,
science, that he had nearly exhausted his
wife's lungs In getting her to laugh into
the instrument so that he might com pare
the sounds with those produced by the
monkey.
AFTER the war Of secession ex- Confeder-
ate Admiral Raphael Semmes practiced law
in Mobile. One day he was arguing o case
before his son Oliver. who was judge of the
city court. when q ruling was made against
HIM on q point of law. The old gentleman
lost his temper and made caustic reference
to- the legal knowledge of bis son, who
thereupon rebuked him, saying: "At home.
sir. respect you. but | want you to under
for you than the hum olest citizen in the
county. Take your seat. sir.'
HERE is u new view of the late Sage of
Chelsea, painted ~posthumously by Mrs.
John Stuart Blackie for the Strand Maya
zine: Zone day." said Mrs. Blackie, II
went TO call on Mrs. Carlyle. Ii was in the
afternoon of n very. very hot day. / was
Just saying goodbye, when it suddenly 0c-
Cured 10 me to ask-reterring. of course.
to her hushand-'may i see the great mans
Mrs. Carlyle took me down some dark
kitchen stairs, and there. in q corner. with
bis trousers drawn mp to his knees. sat Car
lyle on a chair. with his feet and legs in o
great tub of cold water"
WILLIAM WALLET, the Queens jester"
has died. and it is believed this Office will
not be filled again. 1t is one of the most
interesting aaryivals of middle-aRe life.
There VIII no doubt be n .protest after
Tennyson dies against another appoint
meDt 10 the poet laureateship. There was
q time when the court Jester was q more
neutrality-suspicious. than the court poet.
Ria Pasha. at COnstantinople. in le5s. had
MonteZuma, when Cortez found and wor-
RED him to death. had. it is believed. two
court clowns. one of each sex.
Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD was not born In
England. but in Tasmania. where her
father. a son of DR.. Arnold OF Rugby and
brother of Matthew Arnold, was school in
spector. This Sir. Arnold turned Roman
Catholic in 1855. and for six years was pro-
lessor in an Irish university. But later he
lott the Church of Rome and removed TO
Oxford. where his ~daughte- tound her hus-
band. then an oxford tntor. They were
married in 1872. and both became writers
for the newspapers The spiritual wander
incs of her father no doubt have had an
influence Oh the mind of tho daughter.
YE SPRING GIRL
The snow has left the ground once more.
The leaves begin to bud.
And when shc goes To walk. her trail
Now trailcth In the mud.