The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-21

Philip Phillips, the singing evangelist"
is dying of consumption at Delaware. o.
Both the Empress of Russia and the
Duchess of Edinburgh have in their posses
sion set of sables which cost considerably
over f12,000. They cannot be matched any
where in the world.
Long as she has resided in England. the
Princess of Wales has never mastered the
English accent. Channel" for instance.
she pronounces ''shannel." and there are
many other little difficulties OF speech which
betray that she is foreigner born and
bred
Eight ladies' hold the rank of colonel in
the German army. They are the Empress
Frederick, Queen Victoria, the Princess AL
bert, wife of the Regent of Brunswick. the
Princess Frederick Charles, the Empress of
Germany, the Duchess Of Connaught and
the Queen Regent of Holland and the Queen
Of Holland. rtf
Matthew Boulton and James Watts Soho
foundry at Birmingham, where Watt
worked out his idea of the steam engine,
after an existence of 1873 years. is now idle.
and Will soon be broken up and dismantled.
At one time II employed 1000 men. but its
business died away, and when ii closed its
doors II had only 400.
Controller Eckels holds in high regard an
old farmer who started him in business at
the tender age of eight years as an apple
merchant; The farmers low prices and
handsome profit in nickels and dimes. Mr..
Eckeis returns his gratitude for this
in seeing that the old farmers son,
who is lawyer. gets some or his depart
ment's law business occasionally.
Members OF the Chicago Board of Edu-
cation do not object to teachers riding to
and from school on bicycles. One of them,
A. S. Trude. thinks ''it would be downright
tyranny. just at the time when every other
woman is riding wheel, or trying to. for
a fany 10 or.A y
teachers shall not ride to or from school.
My observation is that women who have
wheels at their heels are not troubled with
them in their heads
Little Flossie Slosoco the eight-year-old
daughter of the turnpike superintendent of
Yonkers who saved the life Of the infant
SON of millionaire Doolittle last month by
pushing him off the railroad track where
he had wandered while his nurse was shop
ping, has just received the odd reward she
asked for. 1t consists of a white pony, a
white goat, white dog, white cat,
white rabbit, white rat and white
she keeps e them an is rather striking
THE Rev. Morrill, twins" the evangel-
lists of Chicago. probably attract more at
tention when they go forth on their wheels
than any other of Chicago's great army of
bicycle riders 1t is rather unusual to see
two men in silk hats, long Prince Albert
peas in the pod riding bicycles. but that is
the way the Rev. Morrill, twins go out. ex-
cept on hot days, when they Shift the
Prince Alberts for long black alpaca coats
and the silk hats for high, sober, clerical
looking straw bonnets.
He SwearS to love
The damsel fair.
They wed, and now
He loves TO swear.
~ detroit Tribune.
Man with the gloomy liver,
Cease TO deplore thy fate;
Get out toward the river
And go To digging bait.
Atlanta Constitution.
II want free silver since it's cheap
Quoth she; "'twould be so funny
II we could find there's such a thing
AS bargain-counter money"
washington Star.