The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28

Paper can now be hung on the wall by
machinery. The device has rod on which
a roll of paper is placed and paste reser-
voir with a feeder placed so as to engage
the wrong side of the paper.
1t was inadvertently stated in this column
some days ago that General Coppinger was
born in England. He was born in County
Cork, Ireland, and served in the Papal
Guards before coming to this country.
A famous Italian surgeon, Prof. Enrico
Bottini, has given up his practice. for the
reason. as he explained in a public card,
that he was oppressed by the weight of the
income tax imposed, and was no longer able
to meet it,
Grant Duff relates in his Diary an
amusing story of Darwin. One day Duff
drove with lady to the house of the great
naturalist. The lady explained the state
of her sight, which was very peculiar. "Ah
Lady Derby" said Darwin, "how L should
like to dissect your!
A most remarkable convent is to be found
in the catacombs of the Russian cathedral
at Kiev. Deep down beneath the magnifi-
cent cathedral are miles of subterranean
corridors lined with cells, in which 1,5O0
ascetics perform their daily devotion and
duties, live, eat and sleep in the grim COM
pany of their dead predecessors.
How we long," says the Atchison Globe
''for the sight of bride from the country
to get married! 1t has been fully three
years since Atchison people felt silly joy
IN gazing upon young man with woman
in white on his arm, going from the probate
judges office to the photograph gallery.
A scrub woman at the New York City
Hall, who boasts of political pull, says
that she is a lady, and for that reason she
refuses to pick up scraps of paper from the
floor She posted a notice in one of the
rooms reading as follows: Don't throw
- fIr fiOOr -f.a
there. Remember, your mother was wom-
an"
An athletic club for women is soon to be
feature of society life in Chicago. Mrs
P d. Armour and Mrs. Emmons Blaine are
interested in the project, and have started
a movement to raise several hundred thou
sand dollars for the purchase of a site. The
subscriptions already amount to $4,000
Architects are now working on the plans.
and the construction of the house will be-
gin early in the fall.
1t is related of Prince Bismarck, says the
London Morning Post, that he was inclined,
in one Of his later days, to talk of graves,
of worms, OF epitaphs,'' and that his COM
panion delighted him by conjecturing that
when the news of his death should be
brought to the present Emperor his Majesty
would exclaim: Il feel as though | had lost
my grandfather for the third time.
Mrs Louise H. Pratt of Sherwood, Wis.
makes the somewhat original suggestion
that sweet young things with golden hair
should rot monopolize the privilege of nam
ing war ships so she wants to be allowed to
name the battle ship Wisconsin. Among her
qualifications she mentions the following:
She is fifty-one years old, got her educa-
ton in a little SChOolhOuSe in Wisconsin,
knows how to cook. knit, spin and make
soft soap; wears her hair snort, ana has
christened and reared two boys and two
girls of her own.
The German Emperor has devised a new
scheme for the encouragement OF vocal mu-
sic in the German empire. 1t will be put
I'M, operation in 1899, and 1t consists of a
singing competition to be held in different
town every year Cassel has been selected
for the first competition, the chief condi-
ton of which is that each choir taking part
will receive an unpublished muslcal conpo-
sition about an hour before the contest takes
place There will be no accompaniment:
The Kaiser's prize is a valuable Jewel, ana
the president of the winning choir will be
allowed to wear ii for year, the name OF
each singer being engraved upon IT,
o summer sweet summer, we welcomed
But your glories have faded, glories
oft do;
And we sigh for the autumn. to cheer our
dull lot,
When the fow'rs wilt away and our collars
Washington Star.
He was not at Santiago.
He was not with Dewey. and
He did nothing to the Spaniards
On the sea or on the land.
But the women send him Movers
And are mad Ger him to-day
He's the latest thing in idols
Worshiped at the matinee.
Cleveland Leader.