The Indianapolis journal., 1895-11-13

1t is proposed to give Pasteur's Name TO
the boulevard de vaugirard, but Paris has
already Rue Pasteur. Twenty-one other
streets are named after chemists, seven aft
and surgeons.
The hymnbook of the Episcopal Church is
known as the hymnal, but in view of the fact
tnat SO many individual whims have TO he
recognized In making ii up. Bishop Williams.
the "whimnal"
There is a joke in "'The Shop Girl that
very socn rs likely to be sprung on the
unweary right and left. Comedian Hicks
says to comedian Grossmith: do you J:ne
No; why?" Then says Hicks, You'll be
awfully hungry on Friday. wont your
: When President Eliot, of Harvard, lee
tured at the Woman's College, in Balti-
more. last Thursday. the college girls did
everything in their power to please their
DISTINGUISHED visitor. !. They marched into
and at an impressive moment the choir
broke out with the strains OF Fair Har-
ward"
The building which Verdi is erecting in
Milan as home for aged musicians is 10
cost 100000. and the composer will hiIn-
self defray all the expense or II. But a
series of charity performances will be Civ
endowment fund. The architect of the build
ing Is Camille Borto, brother of Verdrs
librettist
There Is curious example of the jealous
suspicion with which Germans are regarded
in France in the amusing story of the
scare created in Brittany by the invasion
OF a swarm or German agents who came
10 buy up the produce of the Breton or
chards. AS matter of fact they wanted
the apples for conversion into champagne
cider, but the country people firmly believed
tina. the strangers were spies in disguise
taking notes for use in future warfare.
The unusually long and disastrous
drought of the past summer greatly re-
tarded bees in collecting honey. These busy
little workers found flowers extremely
scarce, and as consequence in all parts
OF pennsylvania agriculturists have discov-
cred that the stock of honey stored up is
extremely light. The bees will need it all
and more for their own use the coming
winter. In some places the honey is so
scarce that it Is feared many bees will
starve to death.
1t may be that the bicycle hearse will
be common enough object in the future,
but just now the use of the bicycle as
coffin carrier is novelty 1t is ceasing
Wash, and its vicinity. An enterprising un-
the machine thett he uses 1T with ease
TO carry collins. big and little, into the
country districts, and the odd sight of a
man scorching along on bicycle with a
coffin strapped in front of him has been
seen several times lately.
The Sultan of Turkey has seven chill
dren, three of them being daughters, bear
ing the names of Maine. Fekie and Naile.
He is now fifty-three years old, his young
est daughter Is eleven. and his youngest
son ten. The crown will not be inher-
tied by the eldest son, but by his brother
Mehemmed Reshad Effendi-the law of sue
cession being that the Oldest living male
descendant of Gilman. the founder of the
empire, shall reign. He must be born ia
the harem, but it does not matter whether
he is the son Of a free woman or of a
slave.
Henri Rochefort begins his memoirs by
giving the recollections of his grandparents.
His grandmother was in the Place de la Con-
corde when Marie Antoinette was executed,
and described the Queen as stupefied and SO
limp that she had to be lifted from the
cart to the scaffold. His father saw the
troops swear fidelity to the "Acte Addi-
tiQnel' of Napoleon on June L. 1915. The
Emperor was dressed in a, troubadour CO.'S
tome of white satin, with crimson mantle
He looked very ridiculous. for his fat body
was supported by thin little legs and the
white satin made his fabby, bilious face
look green.