The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-02

Szdr NICHOLAS mas eStaDllSneQ 1unQ OF
$4,000 to relieve journalists and authors
In distress. and to provide for their widows
and orphans when they die.
Out of 1886 ex-students of Girton. New
ham. Somerville Hall. Holloway and Alex
andria, the women's colleges of England.
only 2OS are reported as married. This
leads to the conclusion that the more
learned woman is the less use she has
for a husband.
stylish but the most intellectual and ac-
complished of queens. She speaks English,
French, German, and Spanish, reads Latin
and Greek, knows the great poets thorough
ly, reads much theological literature. and
Is fair botanist and geologist
The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Uewis CarrolD, the author of Alice in
Wonderland" says a writer in the Ladies'
Home Journal. has spent the greater part
OF his life In college. He was student.
1: e.. fellow of Christ Church. In 1854,
and from 1856 to 1881 he was mathematical
tutor.
John c. Hancock. of Hancock, Md, who
has only his left arm to shoot with, the
right having been lost in a carriage ac-
cident. has killed this season with his
ridges, 81 pheasants, Is wild turkeys and
IS woodcock OF wild ducks he has shot
% mallards and redheads.
The vivacious young nobleman who led
the attack on Rider Haggards coach dur
ing the recent parliamentary election was
Lord Wodehouse. the eldest son of the
ley was the president of the Council under
Gladstone. and when Rosebery took that
office Kimberley was made Foreign Secre-
tary.
Lace is fabric that can be made to
represent large amounts of money. The
Astors have been credited with owning
lace worth 100000 and the vanderbilts
value their laces at $4,000, O00 The Pope
is said to be content with only $4,000 rep
resented in lace =. and nd the Princess of Wales
fabric.
While the Princeton geological students
who were lost from view for while were
the guests of Chief Washable of the
Shoshone tribe they gave college yell
for the benefit of the red men. The effect
was electrical Some of the Indians en-
treated. and a few rushed from their tents.
seized their rifles and awaited results. The
chief himself. forewarned by the inter-
prefer, was unmOved.
Fargo's rapid marriage record" meaning
the quickness with which person Sc
curing a divorce in that notorious divorce
mill remarries again, was broken last week.
The new pacemaker is a man fifty-seven
years old. He secured his decree at $40
in the morning, took out a marriage license
fifty minutes later. and at 430 the same
afternoon was remarked. His latest bride
had been with him in Fargo during his en-
forced residence of ninety days.
Nine. Melba, who is just now one OF the
chief attractions of the opera season. was
born in Melbourne (hence her nom de thea
teri in 1865, her original name being
Mftchels. She married an officer at an
early age, but reverse of fortune obliged
her to seek a living with her voice. She
Marchesi. but could not at first obtain an
engagement owing to her imperfect mas
terry of French. She made her Paris debut
in October, 1887, in "Rigoletto." Unlike
Patti and Abani, she does not nurse her
voice. but talks and entertains on days
when she has to sing besides attending
concerts, plays and even balls.