The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-04

Phoebe Cozzens has practiced law with
her father for twenty-five years.
Mrs. Bull. formerly Mrs. ]. c. Blaine jr..
is domiciled i'm New York and giving a
series Of receptions.
Whalebone sold at s. per pound in New
Bedford, Mass. last week. This is the
lowest price for many years.
The Woman's Relief Corps has 135, 900
members In ten years the organization
has expended $4,000 in charity.
Cornelius Vanderbilt paid $4,000 for the
old Seventh Regiment clubhouse in order
to pull it down and make a flower garden
on its site for his new Fifth-avenue man.
sion.
The stockholders interested in the rail-
road from Acre to Damascus are making
prophecies about the time when it will be
possible TO so from London TO India in
eight days
An English railway is soon to be provided
with electric reading lamps on the drop
penny in the SLOT system. The penny sets
clock in motion, by which means the
current is supplied and the lamp throws
light on the passengers book.
Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson, missionary
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
at Cape Palmas, Africa, is in Baltimore.
He is native of Charleston, S. c., fifty
one years OF age, and the only colored
member of the Episcopal House Of Bishops
in the United States.
Prince Bismarck has added another
feather to the journalists cap. The Man of
Iron is reported to have said that books
written by journalists have a vividnesss
and dash altogether wanting in the labored
productions of professors, maSaZinists,
literary workers and learned writer's gem
orally.
The handiest scrap books are made by
cutting pieces of white or brown paper into
big squares, all of the same size. and tying
all together with ribbon at the top. Such
a scrap book can be opened wide at any
place in the book, and it is easy TO look
over the leaves because the book can be
turned inside out, over back or sidewise.
DIR. NJ. l.. Nard who was General Grants
physician during his tour around the
world, now lives in San Francisco, where
he is devoting himself to making anatom-
ical casts of the human body. He has just
finished the largest cast of the human
heart ever made for the midWinter expo
sition at San Francisco. 1t is thlrty-nVe
times the actual size of the human organ.
The Rev. DR.. Edward Beecher and his
wife have just been celebrating, at their
home in Brooklyn, the sixty-fourth ami
versary of their wedding. The Doctor Is
now ninety, Mrs Beecher eighty-siX. OF
their twelve children only two are living.
One of the wedding presents last week was
an edition of "Uncle Toms Cabin, sent by
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bulldog is the fashionable pet in
New York. Mrs Frederick Nelson, FREDDY
Gebhardt's sister. has fine one. He Is
brindled. She brought him from Paris
year ago. Mrs Albert Stevens has a white
one. tombstone Bennett has a pure white
one His name is Governor. Mrs. Duncan
Elliott's bull terrier is called Topsparkle.
Mrs. Burke-Roche also cherishes bull
terrier.
A correspondent who recently interviewed
Professor BlaclSie says that the remark
able octogenarian, Scotch scholar and
thinker quotes Greek to his friends one
minute and sings them song in Highland
dialect the next. Though eighty-four he has
never worn glasses, but he does wear
"cummerbund" of red silk. His face is
rudy, his hair white, and he is as lively as
q SchOoiboy.