The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-26

Nine. Deschamps, who invented the pop
ular Julienne soup. died in Paris recently.
aged ninety-four years.
A few years ago a Michigan farmer estab-
lished small deer park for his own pleas
ure. Now he has park OF fifty-five acres,
and ships quantities of deer and elk to all
parts of the United States.
1t is not generally known that the ex-
Empress Eugenia is partly an Irishwoman.
On one side she descended from an
Irish soldier of fortune, who made e name
and place for himself in the interminable
Spanish wars
Prince Henry of Prussia is going to live
close to the French frontier. He has
bought fine old place in Lorraine. Mon
tarlier. the house. is roomy eighteenth
century chateau standing in a large park.
and having behind 1t a forest well stocked
With game, which also belongs to the prop
esty. Prince Henry. il is understood. viii
lead the life of country gentleman on
this estate.
According to a Paris. journal. French
scientist is trying to compel bees to make
medicated honey for the cure of various
diseases. He keeps the bees under glass,
and furnishes only such flowers as possess
the desired properties. By the different
kinds of honey thus produced influenza.
coughs and colds. indigestion, asthma and
many other Ills are said to be readily If
indirectly reached
Two years ago the faculty of Columbia
University formed what it called Com
mittee on Aid for Students which was in
tended to find employment for students of
the college who were In need of additional
income to pay the expenses of their course.
The first year of the committees existence
resulted In securing outside work for stu
of the committee shows that in the past
year s4.0S8 was paid out In the same way.
The Car of Russia heard of the recent
horror In that country in the following
manner according to the gossip of super
stition which reigns supreme in that coun-
try: The Czarina had bad dream. She
saw an old pilgrim. who said to her: Il
have come from Siberia. young Czarina, 10
see your day OF honor. and now your Cos
sacks have killed me-" The vision was so
real that the Czarina hastened to the Car
and asked him whether any. misfortune had
happened. The Car inquired by telephone
from the Minister OF the Imperial House,
and heard the dreadful truth.
Paul b. DuChaillu the great explorer of
Africa. told recently in a lecture at Pitts
burg how he controlled a race of savage
cannibals while he was on the dark con-
tinent He had a number of Waterbury
watches whose ticking completely nom
plussed the savages and caused them to re-
gard him as spirit He riade practice
OF leaving one of these watches in vii
lage where he had stopped. After while
the watch of course, ran down and stopped,
and the cannibals said that the spirits had
gone to Overtake their master. When Du
Cha.ilu returned to these villages he always
got the watch that he had left behind and,
unobserved wound IL. UP again. The na-
tives heard the ticking continued. swore
egain that the explorer was spirit and did
their utmost TO please him.
A writer in the Chautauquan says that
many cracker idioms Of the South are
simply obsolete English idioms. Fielding.
for instance he says, makes a very near
approach to the Scrackerism He allowed
he'd do it in such a passage as this-The
audience allowed did your part justice.
and when Burke complains that England
is disfurnished of its forces. he is using
almost the exact phraseOlogy of my cracker
neighbor, who has come to borrow a peck
of meal. and politely hopes that am not
disfurnishing myself for his accommoda-
ton. III is still occasionally heard. even
among the better class of rustics, in the
piney woods of Georgia and Alabama in its
Shakspearean sense of dangerous or
wicked as the copperhead is an Ill
naughty boy this morning. i am told by
a friend from Kentucky that the same
usage. though rare. is not unknown among
the same class in that state. To favor.
meaning to resemble, as he favors his
father was good English In the days Of
Addison AMI Shakespeare. and its derivative.
ill-favored,' is still current
He never would do a thing by rule,
And he heartily hated form;
He blew burned fingers to make 'em COOL
And, in winter, to make 'em warm
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