The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-15

The peach blossom has been selected by a
vote of the school children of Delaware as
the floral emblem of that State.
When Stuart Cumberland. the mindread-
CT, recently gave an exhibition in Stock
holm. King Oscar kindly acted as his in
terpreter to the audiences.
The tablet recently raised in Petersbor-
ough to the memory OF Mary Queen of Scots
was paid for entirely from contributions
from English women named Mary. and cost
. A Kansas district has written a contract
with a teacher to teach the school. chop
the wood. make the fire, sweep and find the
matches for SIS a month. The teacher Is a
woman.
A bicyclists accident insurance company
has just been organized in Westfeld, Mass.
1t proposes to insure bicycle riders against
all manner Of accidents met with while rid
ing their machines.
In a recent issue of the Hoxic Ran.)
Democrat the editor said: Last Saturday
night at 10 o'clock was another anniversary
for US. as it made 1,095 days since we
stepped out of the back door OF our office
and broke our beloved whisky bottle. pledg-
ing never to use the vile stun again. To
faith"
1t is said that the Prince of Wales be-
comes more and more convinced as time
goes on that the prediction made by a gyp-
sy that he would never mount the throne
of England will be fulfilled. This same
gypsy at the time she told the Prince of
Wales's fortune made several prophecies In
regard to other royal people that have been
fulfilled to the letter.
Two survivors of the Crimean war have
recently died-one, William Drake Colson.
in London, the other William Bennett, in
Chicago. Each was in the Light Brigade
during it's historic charge. and earned vari-
Gus medals for bravery. C0lSon had two
horses shot from under him, but escaped
without a scratch. Bennett had been a cap
.ain on the great lakes for the last sixteen
years.
General Don Carlos Buel, who is not often
heard of nowadays, was in Washington for
a brief visit recently. The years that give
the outward appearance of age to most SOL
diers of the rebellion seem to touch him
lightly and he is in excellent health. Since
his retirement from Office General Buel has
lived quietly at Airdrie, his picturesque
home on Green river in Kentucky. Just at
the conversion of the Shiloh battlefield into
a national park.
AS a beginner in literature the late Alex
andre Dumas wrote with extreme difficulty.
The plot OF the story he happened to have
in hand was never clear to him. and he had
to add sentence to sentence laboriously. He
tod a friend that he often CRASHED his
teeth at the slow elaboration of his ideas
ana tnat ne ndQ 10 write the Ddlue III
Camelias'' five times. His last literary pro-
ducticn was a play, The Bewitching Per
son." which he expected to produce this
winter. Father and son frequently quar-
relied over money matters before the young
er writer had established himself on his
feet in literature. Once the latter went TO
his father with the confession that he had
run into debt to the extent of $4,000. Work.
as 1 do" said the elder Dumas; Il have
just cleared off $4,000"
The rose is red.
The florist blue
The bill / owe
Is long past due.
kansas City Journal.
Time goes, you say?
All no.!
Alas! Time stays;
We go.
Book Of Sun-dials.
The lark scars up in the air:
The toad sits tight in his hole;
And 1 would / were certain which or the
Is the truer type of my soul!
IF. Anstey.