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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. TiY JNO. C. NEW A SON. SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1885. Telephone Calls. business 0ffice......239 1 Editorial Dooms 242 The Sunday Journal has the largest and best circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price five cents. BISHOP FOSTER AND THE PREACHERS. We give elsewhere the text of Bishop Foster’s arraignment of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for which the Bishop was “held up” at the Methodist preachers’ meeting last MonJay. and to which the preachers generally took exceptions. It is said to he a part of an address delivered at the Centennial Conference, held in Baltimore last December, but which was eliminated from the published address by the editors, and handed ovev'to the Christian Standard, from which we copy. It reminds one of tho preachers of Indiana of a correspondence he had with Bishop Foster a few years ago. The Bishop is a lecturer, as well as a preacher of rare ability, and it is considered quite a treat, in the rural churches to secure his services in one or both capacities. A few years ago a member of tbe North Indiana Conference, wishing to treat his emigration in one of the small cities in the northern tier of counties with something new and forcible, invited the Bishop to lecture for him on a given occasion, and if possiblo stay over Sunday and preach, and asking the terms. In a few days ho received an answer, designating the time and fixing the p*rice of the lecture at SSO and expenses. The preacher, who was serving a year at not over ten or twelve times that sum, promptly replied tbat tho money could not be raised. Consequently the Bishop did not lecture at that place. The next year the Bishop presided at the Northwest Conference. and this North Conference man visited the conference in time to hear the Bishop’s address to the young preachers about to be admitted. It abounded in good advice and counsel, some of it running thus: “Remember, young brethren, that you are to be men of one work. Your business is to preach the gospel, and if you do that well you have no time for anything else. Remember, too, that you are paid for your entire time by the church you serve, and tbat you have no time of your own to devote to real estate, or merchandising, or farming, or lecturing.’’ Tho North Conference man listened with rapture, and hurried home, and, taking his pen, wrote to the Bishop as follows: “Dear Bishop—l was delighted with your address, yesterday, to tho Northwest Indiana Conference. I was especially pleased at the change that has come over your views within a year. Our people thought they would love to seo and hear a l hop, and last winter I invited you to come and lecture for us, at least, and preach if possible. They knew' you received a good salary for your entire time, and that your traveling expenses were also paid; but as this was not absolutely official business they were willing to pay your expenses, but when you asked them SSO for a lecture, taking for it the time for which you are paid by tho church, they declined, because they could not afford it. Your views must have undergone a change, or else you hold ono rule for bishops and another for preachers who are not bishops.” It was more than intimated in the discussions at the preachers’ meeting, the other day, that the Bishop lays down one rule, in this arraignment, for the people, but holds quite another for bishops and their families, in matters of dress and adornment. Was it he who, at the General Conference, delivered such a pliillipic against gold and costly apparel, displaying at every gesture most immense gold cuff-buttons? The Bishop is a voracious devourer of books, and he must have a peculiar mental gizzard if lie can make them all minister to godliness. The unanimous verdict of the preachers was that, in this respect, the Bishop is “a crank.”

REVfTAL WORK AND WORKERS. Revivalists who have fallen into or built up the business of exciting religious commotions in apathetic communities are by no means a product of this day and generation alone. The marvelous success of Moody and San key, and lately of Dr. Munhall, of this city, and Mr. Samuel Jones, of Georgia, and Dr. Barnes, the “mountain evangelist,” of Kentucky, has its parallel in the work of men of like energy and devotion in tho last generation. Among the first of these was John Newland Maffit. Among the most noted and eccentric was Elder Knapp, of the Baptist denomination. There are but few in Indianapolis now who remember him, for it is near forty years since he preached here, in the old brick church on the southwest corner of Meridian and Maryland streets. There may be some still living who heard his quaint reprehension of long prayers in one of the seimons at that time. His text was Peter’s imploration when sinking in his attempt to go to Christ on the water, “Lord save me.” “If Peter had started with one of the long prayers we hear so often," said the Elder, “he’d have been fifty feet under water before he could have Asked to be saved. “Elder Knapp,” as he was always called, spent the most of his time and effort in the East, where lie seems to havo commanded much the same interest, by much the same qualities, as the recently famous Georgia revivalist, Rev*. Sam Jones. In the early history of the Christian Church here — then oftener or always colled the “Disciples' Church” —a revivalist from Kentucky, usually

known by the pet name of “Billy” Brown, created a great sensation in the denomination, though it did not spread as revivals do now to aIL churches and forms of faith. In those days the liberality of sentiment that prevails now, and exchanges pulpits between Presbyterians and Methodists, Baptists and Christians, sends Mr. McCulloch to a reception of Father Bessonies, and mixes up creeds and communicants in a very confusing way to the bigotry that thinks it knows tho only road to heaven, was not only unknown, but held an impossibility of regenerate nature. “Close communion" was an article of faith to die in at the stake, and even intimate social intercourse was largely barred by religious intolerance. Different sects were disputing and quarreling sects, and their meetings were much more likely to take the form of prolonged and acrimonious debates than the sociality and pleasant intercourse so common now. Thus it came that revivals and all religious demonstrations attracted little interest outside of the denomination in which they started, and such of the unregenerate world as might bo attracted by the eloquence of the preacher or the excitement of the occasion. Tho greatest revival known in Indianapolis at any period of its history was in the winter and spring of 18-43, when tho “Millerite” theory of tho “second advent" had attained national notoriety and an adhesion of enthusiasts greater than any delusion of tho century. The awakening was by no means confined to tho Adventists or their missionaries, or any particular church. Every church in the city was at fever heat, and crowded nearly every night. Never a Sunday passed without a procession of the members of one or another and often of two or three to the river or canal to administer the rite of baptism, usually by immersion, sometimes by pouring the cupped hands full of water on the kneeling convert's head, or sprinkling it. The monstrous comet glaring balefully, as many thought, in the western sky, helped the excitement, and Indianapolis was much nearer a completely converted town than it ever will be again. The efforts of our later revivalists, though affecting a far wider range of denominations and attracting greater bodies of hearers, are loss pervading than that of 1843. That is, they fall far short of reaching so nearly everybody in a community. There were not more than a third as many pooplo to be leached at that time as now, and very much larger meetings now don't mean a more thorough penetration of societj' by revival influences.

WORKING FOR MONEY. A St. Louis paper, in a recent careful discussion of the considerations that should restrain all persons, and especially ladies, in affluent circumstances from practicing as amateurs, for remuneration, such arts and pursuits as would interfere with worthy women who have no other means of support —unquestionably a wise and kindly view of the subject—runs a little beyond tho bounds of reason and fact in its enthusiasm, and in one passage asserts what the general common sense will reject: “The old-fashioned sentiment which forbade gentlemen and women of a certain income working for money bad its root in the sound and honorable feeling that it became those who had enough aud to spare to allow tho less favored a chance.” One need not be much of a cynic to set this down as “gush" from overheated enthusiasm. The impulse that restrained people “of a certain income from working for money,” had its root in the belief, by no means unusual now, and once a good deal more general, especially in countries with distinctions of class recognized by law and social decrees, that it was unbecoming a gentleman or lady to work as an occupation at anything. In fact, it is not a wholly obsolete definition yet that a “gentleman is a man who does not need to work for his living," and does not. The darky who asserted that “the hog was the only gentleman lie knew anything about,” bit the general sense of the sensible world as to the abstention from work of “people of a certain income,” pretty fairly in the center. We see the same feeling heie in the class nicknamed “dudes," and their congeners of the other sex. They don’t work—not because they are controlled by “the sound and honorable feeling” so strangely discovered by our contemporary, but because they “don’t have to,” aud don’t think it creditable. But we see it more conspicuously still among the higher classes of English society. Until recently it was held unbecoming and even disgraceful for a nobleman, or gentleman of independent means, to follow any occupation except iu a military, or naval, or ecclesiastical office, or under a political appointment of respectable grade. No one of this class could be a merchant, or doctor, or teacher, or manufacturer, without loss of caste, and very few ever attempted to be. Once in awhile, but very rarely, a nobleman's younger son, who had no expectations from tho ancestral estate, would study law, as the celebrated Lord Erskine, son of the Earl of Buchan, did, and make himself noble by title as well as by biood, by his own efforts; but the cases of that kind can be counted on tbe fingers. Within the last score of years or so an occasional instance of a scion of a noble house going into a rep id able mercantile or manufacturing business lias occurred, as one of the sons of the Duke of Argyll, who is a partner in a large London dry goods house, we believe, and another —possibly the same one—who was connected with such an establishment in New York. Quite a number of the aristocracy are more or less openly partners iu business houses of one kind or another. But less than twenty years ago so despicable a character as tho Baronet

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Sir Culling Eardley, a swindler by profession, who was forced to take refuge in Boulogne from his victims and creditors, and who is now in the penitentiary for bigamy, lamented with more feeling than he ever exhibited at any other time, to a resident of this city, that his sister was “guilty of a most offensive misalliance in marrying Mr. Hanbury,” one of the great brewery firm, Truman, Hanbury & Buxton, a man of as high character as any in London, and a member of Parliament, too, but a man “in trade," and unfit for the association or family alliance of a “gentleman,” though the gentleman was a fugitive from justice and had been a noted gambler and spendthrift all his life, largely dependent on the generosity, of the brother-in-law ho despised. This is an exaggerated instance, to be sure, but it has tho essential element of the feeling that has prevented, and still prevents, wealthy people from “working for money. ” LAW AND LAW-BREAKERS. The Rev. W. F. Davis, who is posing as a martyr before tho Boston courts because he is not allowed to preach on tho Common, in violation of a city ordinance, is described as a rather remarkable man. The venerable Professor Peabody declares him to bo the most scholarly student whom he had met in Harvard during forty years; he is an expert in athletics, labors in the summers in the slums of Boston, and as a missionary in tho winters among tho lumbermen of Michigan. During the progress of his case in court last week he occupied his leisure moments in perusing his Greek Testament. With all his accomplishments and abilities, however, it seems that tho Rev. Mr. Davis stands precisely on a level with, say Mr. Sim Coy and the Indianapolis saloon-keepers, in his disposition to ignore the law. The Rev. Davis, of course, had in mind what ho conceived to bo the good of others whon ho gathered a crowd on the Common contrary to the ordinance, and it is hardly necessary to say that tho saloon-keepers havo no such purpose in view iu insisting upon keeping their dens open beyond legal hours; but the attitude of both preacher and saloon-keeper in regard to public morals is the same. It is not surprising that “Blood-washed Willie,” “Lieutenant Lizzie,” and some of the ignorant associates of Mr. Davis in hi3 out-door evangelizing efforts, should protest against the enforcement of a law which interfered with their plans; but when intelligent men, who should teach a law-abiding spirit rather than encourage its opposite, take such a stand as has this Boston man of God it is cause for wonder. The rule forbidding public gatherings on the Common may bo offensive, but it is the law-, and the Rev. Davises should abide by it rather than set an example of law-break-ing to others only too ready to object to existing regulations. It is gratifying to learn that the court reprimanded and fined tho chief offender, and it only romains to hope that law-breakers of the Sim Coy typo, with which every city is afflicted, aro treated iu the same courts with equal severity.

MINOR MENTION. Titian Ramsay Pkale, who died recently in Philadelphia, was the last survivor of Charles Wilson Peale, the portrait painter of Revolutionary fame, inherited many of his father's instincts. Tho father painted the first portrait of Washington, as a Virginia colonel, in 1772, and also the portraits of the most prominent officers of the Revolution. He was the first American popular lecturer on natural history; opened the first American museum; first made enamel teeth; invented a great varioty of machines, and published scientific essays. Ho was a pupil of Copley aud West, captain of a company at Trenton and Germantown, and a member of the Hinnsylvania convention. The versatility of somo of these early American patriots is striking. Peale was successively saddler, silversmith, watch-maker, carver, and always a naturalist, painter, patriot and inventor. His son Titian was also a naturalist, and a founder of the Philosophical Society of Washington, a member of the Wilke.s exploring expedition, and at his death the only survivor of Colonel Long's Rocky mountain expedition. Ho was very tender and humane. His notice of a red bat, which followed her captive young into tho museum, attaching herself to the breast of the captor, and showing notable maternal solicitude, even unto death, is told iu most histories of the but group. Os more noted literary tendency was his brother, Rembrandt (1778—1800), of Philadelphia. Liko his father, he was a pupil of West, and also painted a portrait of Washington, September, 1795. He had a studio at Washington, S. in 171*0, spent several years at Paris, and then lived in Philadelphia from 1800 to the time of his death. His best known paintings are ‘•The Roman Daughter,” and “The Court, of Death," the latter exhibited profitably throughout the United States. He published “Notes on Italy" and “Portfolio of an Artist," and lectured on the portraits of Washington. The memories of these two generations, 1741—1885, covered an important part of colonial ami all of federal history. What period, and in what a rich time to be upon the earth! Alive to nature and art, travelers by sea and land, competent for oveiy occasion of either barbarous or civilized life, this father and son witnessed the great dramas in whicli Washington, Napoleon and Lincoln were chief actors: saw serfdom and slavery extinguished, the establishment and triumph of representative government; the conquest and civilization by steam-power and machinery in fifty years of an area greater than had been the entire area of the world's history from the conquest of Cresar to their own time, day and generation. Notwithstanding the seriousness of the subject, it is sometimes funny to read the minute directions for escaping from a burning house or avoiding drowning, Invariably accompanied with what is evidently regarded as a rather unimportant qualification, that the person in peril shall retain or recover presence of mind enough to follow the instructions. One philanthropist tells how easily a hat may be converted into a life buoy by “holding the mouth of it down in the water," thus keeping tho air in it, aud “resting the chin on the crowih” if “a per-

son in danger in the water” will only think of it. Another tells how to get safely down a rope from a burning house: “Catch the rope with your foot, and give it a turn round the leg, near tho ankle; then press your feet together against it, to make something like a foot rest. If, in your haste or fright, you can remember it, snatch a woolen cloth or piece of leather to catch hold of the rope with, and save your hands. And, first, last, and above all, don’t lose your head.” A person in peril of water or fire needs precious little instruction what to do, if ho can “keep his head.” He'll seo the chances and means of escape better than anybody else. Tho trouble is that no amount of instruction or exhortation will teach a person to “keep his head." Practice in perilous situations will help to do it, but practice of that kind is not likely to have much chance to increase into familiarity. Tho instructions and warnings that turn up every day, almost., in some paper or other, are about tho idlest babble going, well intended as it certainly is. It is doubtful if all that has ever been published has helped a half dozen persons out of danger that their own presence of mind would not have enabled them to escape without any instruction at all. “Keeping ono’s head” won't come by teaching. Thf. case of Dr. Buck, of Braddock, a suburb of Pittsburg, is a romanco of the Fra Piavolo type. Dr. Buck is a handsome man, of about thirty years of age, who has lived for some years at Braddock in elegant style, having a fine house, well fitted up, with a valuable collection of paintings as one of its attractions. His grounds aro described as the handsomest in the place; he kept fine horses; his practice was large, aud among the best class of citizens, and ho was highly regarded by tho community. Ho is now under arrest, charged with being accessory to a highway robbery, an insurance agent having been taken, or, as it is claimed, decoyed, by him to an out-of-the-way spot, under a thin pretext, and there robbed by a supposed accomplice of Buck of a large sum of money. The evidence, though damaging, is not conclusive, but detectives claim to havo discovered that the popular Doctor has for years been connected with a body of men known as the “Gordon gang," which has become famous for its audacity iu committing robberies and its skill in escaping arrest and punishment. The Doctor is supposed to have cultivated the society of tho most wealthy citizens for tho purpose of giving “pointers” to tho gang, and it was, of course, necessary to the purposes of both that their connection should bo concealed. The trial is now in progress in a Pittsburg court, Buck denying that he had any knowledge of tho robbery. A large number of prorninout persons have testified to tho Doctor's previous good character, and he relies largely upon this for his defense. Tho outcome i3 looked for with interest by the residents of the suburb where his home is, but where, if the court goes against him, it will not bo in the future. The middle-aged men of to-day who shot grey squirrels in tho woods about the town with rifles iu their boyhood, despising shotguns as unworthy of a hunter's skill, can remember that it was a rare tiling to find a “red" or “fox squir rel.” A dozen years later it was quite as rare a tiling to find a gray squirrel. The colored race ran the other out, and kept it out for many a year. Now tho oxiles aro coming back, aud tho red squirrel is growing scarce. A fortyfour year old hunter says he has soon but three in the last year, in a region where tho gray was common enough to make satisfactory hunting. Tuero is a study for naturalists in these alternations of varieties, as there is iu tho analogous appearance aud abundance, for a few seasons, of onospecies of weed in the open ground in and about the city, aud its disappearance and replacement by a different species, that goes, in its turn, through a poriod of profusion to bo followed by a total and almost sudden extinction.

Mademoiselle Jane Hading is an actress who is winning the affections of the fickle Parisians away from their old time favorite, Sarah Bernhardt. Mademoiselle Jane, it is said, is a woman of great intellectual power, and has given much study to the art of love-making, in which she is pronounced an adept by all beholders. Just what intellectual love-making is, is not explained with as much perspicuity as could be wished, but whatever it may be like, it is declared to be irresistible and bewitching. The Prince of Wales has personally tendered tho actress his congratulations after witnessing her great personation of a loveress, and as ho is popularly supposed to be an expert in affairs of tho heart, his opinion may be considered as an excellent testimonial. The fact that to the dispatch announcing tho presentation to Harvard College by James Russell Lowell of several hundred books was appended the assurance that all the works were valuable and none of them commonplace has called out the facetious criticism of some illinformed persons. The writer of that dispatch has evidently been at some period of his life connected with a school or public library, and is acquainted with tho sort of literary junk which philanthropists are accustomed to bestow upon them with much flourish. It is gratifying to learn that tho Lowell gift is not of this sort. Sitting Bull, since he became "‘first old man” in tho “Wild West” show, is said to have developed a marvelous appetite for pie, and to havo secured all the recipes for making the delicacy for tho future reference of his squaws. And Sitting Bull was brought oust for the purpose of civilizing him, too. Rev. Sam Jones says a “dude looks as if ho was melted and poured into his pants.” Thirty years ago George 1). Prentice said of an overcoat that some admiring tailor had given him. that “it fitted as if he had been melted and poured into it.” BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT. Da. Arabella Kenkaly, daughter of the late distinguished London advocate, is said to have a lucrative practice in that city, where her abilities command the respect of even “the old practitioner. ’’ Miss Minnie Vokhis. who won the prize for essays at the last commencement at Elmira College by delivering as her own composition an old article from Scribner’s Magazine, nas returned the medal. Miss Brown, of Concord, Mass., a graduate of the Harvard Annex this year, has astonished the faculty by her high grade in the classics. Her average is higher than that reached by any of the young men in college. A GENTLEMAN of Columbia, 8. C.. heard a noise in a wardrobe, and upon opening the door discovered the interior to be all on lire, the work of a rat that had taken to devouring some matches that he found on one of the shelves. A Pennsylvania inv utor has patented a stepladder which is combined with a folding table and a drawer for holding small articles. The ladder opens and closes automatically and is made more firm than step-ladders usually are. Fou hundreds of years after the Jews left Mt. Sinai there is no proof that the Sabbath was either regularly or generally observed; the proof in rather U the contrary. It was only after the cautmlv of Babylou

and the growth into permanent power of the priesthood, during the few centuries just preceding Christ, that the Sabbath became established as a settled institution. MissJumbttk Corson, the well-known lecturer and instructor in cooking, who lias been ill for some months, is now pronounced by her physicians beyond recovery. She cannot leave hor bed, and is calmly awaiting the inevitable end. Thk widely-circulated paragraph that Charles Francis Adams is seriously ill, and failing in his mental powers, is flatly contradicted by the Boston papers, which say that ho is enjoying his usual good health and vigor, physical and mental. Thk times are rather dull, but the editors of Now England are kept busy getting crazy-quilt “beats." It is expected that this department of coutemporan eous human interest will last until the Concord School of Philosophy begins Us sessions. Thk ex-Empress Eugenie wrote the following pathetic sentence in a private letter to Monsignor Goddard at Chiselhurst: “I am left alone, the sole remnant of a shipwreck which proves how fragile and \ain are the gradeurs of this world.” Senator Brown, of Georgia, lias roused a deal of wrath among the Atlanta Jews by his recent address to the graduating class of the high-school, iu which he cal ed upon them to suffer for Christianity. Two of the live girl graduates were Hebrews. Immediately after the vote which turned the government. out five town-houses were placed by their owners at Mr. Gladstone’s disposal. He accepted the offer of the residence of Mr. Bertram Currie, iu Richmond Terrace, which is within five minutes of the House of Commons. About two years ago Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcoto agreed that whichever of them was sent for by the Queen in the event of a political crisis should be the leader of the Conservative party. A similar agreement was come to between Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. Watkrbury American: Max notes in the Buffalo* Express that “the genus Fool, species Dude, has lately adopted anew habit. It consists in wearing a high hat, shoved sufficiently far back on the head to expose two or three inches of frowsy hair, and jammed down far enough to rest on the elongated ears.” Philadelphia Call: “O, Harry! What a beautiful birthday present! I am glad to know that you didn't forgot mo. Pure gold, isn’t it?” Harry (her betrothed) —"Yes, darling.” “And the case is just superb. It isn't a charm nor an ear-ring, for you would have bought me a pair. I never saw anything like it. What is it, Harry?” “It is a thimble." Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, relates that ho and the Rev. I>r. T. W. Coit, lately deceased, were onco conducting a service together. During a chant before the prayers he turned to Dr. Coit and asked: ‘ Has Congress adjourned yet?" so as to know whether or not to offer the prayer for that body. His gravity was nearly upset by Dr. C'oit’s grim reply: “No, and never will." Thk young Princess Louise of Wales, who mado her debut recently, is described as painfully shy—not pretty, but with a gentle and pleasing expression. .She was dressed very plainly in pale blue satin and tulle, looped with clusters of cherry blossoms, and wore no jewels save a couple of diamond aigrettes in bor hair, lie older brother, the prospective King of England, is very awkward and shy. “An Indian native village" is to be established in Regent street, London, next for the purpose of affording to the English public some idea of the manners, customs, industries, and amusements of the natives of India. Sir George Birdwood, C. S. 1., of the India Office, has accepted the office of art director of the proposed exhibition. It will be modeled upon that of the Japanese village. When Hi-. Phelps, minister to England, was in New Haven, it was among his duties to instruct the academic seniors in law. A student was asked one day to give the essentials of a deed. By dint of much headscratching ho described fairly a will. Professor Phelps called his attention to the mistake, much to his confusion, but relieved him and the situation by remarking at once, “Mr. Blank, I shall have to take the will for the deed.” A whirlwind that struck a field near Marietta, Oa., a short time ago, caught up David Reedy, a colored man, who was working in the field at the time, and whisked him into the air to a height that must have boon great, if ho does not exaggerate his experience. He says that while up in the air the trees looked like little bushes, and the roaring wind sounded like rushing waters. Ilis descent was so easy that he was not iu the least harmed. Mrs. Grant showed the other day that she has lost none of the strong common sense which used to mark her speeches. When her daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, complained of the crowds that are always lingering about the cottage at Mount MacGregor, eager to get a glimpse of the famous General, and said she felt as though she were standing for a photograph, her mother replied, with more truth than compliment: “They don’t come to see you, Nellie; you needn’t mind.” “It is rumored at. Berlin,” says the London Truth, “that the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Augustonberg will soon go to England with a view to his becoming a suitor for the hand of the Princess Louise of Wales. The Duke, who came of age last February, is the nephew of Prince Christian, and brother of the Princess William of Prussia, lie possesses large family estates in Silesia, and enjoys an allowance of £15,000 a year from the German government; so, for a German prince he is a decided parti." A private letter from Kennott Square. Perm,, savs that the recent death, at eighty-nine, of Joseph Tayor, father of Bayard Taylor, was a great relief to the members of his family. While he was able to go about, his mind w f as, for six years previous to his decease, so affected that he needed constant watching, and latterly was unable to take care of himself. After the death of Bayard, of whom he was very proud and fond—he appeared to understand this—he declined rapidly and steadily until he became positively imbecile. From the recently-published diary of the Town Clerk of Stratford-on-Avon, in Shakspeare's tirno, it appears that tlio poet in his old age was very comfortable, living with his wife and his daughter Judith. His other daughter, Susanna, was married to a Puritan physician of some repute, and her little girl, Elizabeth, was a great favorite of her grandfather, who made her several bequests in his will. Shakspeare's walks in the neighborhood are described, in one of which ho fell asleep under a crab-tree; and his convivial meetings with Drayton and Bon Jonson were frequent. In his address to tHe students of the Worcester Free Institute, recently, Governor Robir.son said that the teaching of handicraft should begin at home. Boys should learn girls’ “work.” “I thank my mother,” said he, “that she taught me both to sew and to knit. Although my domestic life has always been felicitous, I have at times found this knowledge very convenient, A man who knows how to do these things, at all times honorable and sometimes absolutely necessary to preserve one's integrity, is ten times more patient when calamity befalls than one who has nc these accomplishments." The richest bootblack in America is Patrick Malloy, of Saratoga. He owns two houses, and has a fat bank account. He seems unable to explain how he got rich in any other way than by saying that he and another boy started out together, and while the other boy invested in horses, he put his money in the bank. Once a Boston swell came to him to get his shoes polished, and said, as lie dropped a dime in the old man’s hand: "That is the la>t cent I've got. I've been betting, and have lost every dollar I had. Now I must walk back to Boston." The bootblack took him to a railroad ticket office, bought a ticket to Boston, and gave that and two dollars to him. The grateful gambler repaid him, with heavy interest, when his luck returned. Mu. Buskin says that he couldn’t live in a country that lacked castles. “I have never been able to trace these prejudices to any royalty of descent,” he writes. “Os my father’s ancestors 1 kuow nothing, nor of my mother's more than that my maternal grandmother was the landlady of the Old King's Head, in Market street, Croydon. ” The maternal grandfather was a sailor, ami is supposed Vo have had something to do

with the herring business. “My fa’her began bush ness as a wine merchant, with no capital and a considerable amount of debts bequeathed him by my grandfather.” He used to travel for orders in a post-chain* and Mr. Ruskiu went with him, and thus caw most of the nobl-men a houses in England, “in reverent and healtln delight of nncovetous admirat ion." NOTE AND COMMENT. Written for the Indianapolis Journal. If cool summers are to become a constancy with us, tlio Fourth of July will have to wear a red ribbon on its waist in order to bo distinguishable from Christmas. It is rumored that Homer wa3 a Boston man. Tho next divulgemont will doubtless be to the effect that Menelaus and Helen were the original founders and proprietors of the Troy laundry. Since Indianapolis has become widely known to be the only headquarters m tho Uritod States for pure cigar-box Spanish, is it not rather mortifying that tho Mexican editorial excursion should have passed us coldly by? “American Fish, and How to Catch Them/ is the title of anew hand-book for auglers. “American fish, and how to tell the truth about those you don't catch," would be by far a morn valuable addition to piscatorial literature. Bo it resolved, that it is not kind in editors to accept poems and then so arrange their publication that they are closely followed by an advertisement announcing that somebody's carmiuative balsam is a sure cure for fits. A waggish young inau at Cambridge was re cently lined $lO and costs for annoying a lady by throwing reflections into her room by means of a mirror. This droll fellow is now doubtless ruminating over the discovery that reflections are of two kinds—humorous and solemn. The old woman, who was so neat that she whitewashed every stick of wood that she burned, does not appear at all mythical in the light of the rage for whitewashing rocks, which has recently sprung up in our city. In one yard “which no names being mentioned no offense can be took"—the rocks in the fountain, and even a large stump of former picturesqueness, have been offered at tlio altar of the god of kalsomine. Ahem! Freckles are now very fashionable, and the young woman who applies to the nearest newspaper for “a recipe for freckles" is not by any means to be interpreted as wishing to got rid of them. The freckle faced girl lias a sort of summer at the seaside near to-nature's heart expression about her which hath a fascination all its own. Buttermilk and tansy has had its day, and first class Cape-May-Namigansett-l‘ier Co-ney-Island freckles are obtainable by all girls who have energy enough to pull weeds or dig grass out of tire bricks without a sunbonnet on. Talking of locusts, it is remembered that several years ago one of tho tree toad variety of “the shrill cii ad;P, people of tho pine", found its way, in some mysterious manner, into tho Second Presbyterian Church of this city, just in time for e veiling service. When the choir began to sing, Sir Locust wound his mellow horu with an ai. of being highly pleased so assist at so creditable a performance, lie was respectfully mute during the sermon, but joined in vigorously with the closing hymn; and, as the amused congregation drifted down the aisles and homeward, it had something new to talk about. Sain Jones says: “Don't mix politics with religion, but mix religion with politics." Sometimes religion and politics mix themselves. In one of our city Sunday-schools tho kings of Bible/imes were recently under discussion. After some explanation on monarchs and monarchies, ttho superintendent asked the school whether it was desirable to live under a king. Before any of the older scholars could reply, a small boy on one of tho back seats piped out: “I’d rather have Blaine!" After the smile had subsided, the superintendent intimated that If the young citizen would wait patiently four years his fondest wishes might materialize, and then diverted the lesson for tho day into quieter channels. The little book, “Discriminate," W'hich announces itself “A Manual for Cluidanc-o in tho Use of Correct Words and Phrases in Ordinary ►Speech," very illiberally objects to the use of tho verb “catch” in relation to street cars. It says a man may “catch" a person, or “catch" some contagious disease on the cars, but ho does not “catch" tho car—ho overtakes it. This linguistic restriction should be severely frowned upon, as not in accordance with tho American idea. When a man, by dint of yelling, running, waving his arms and legs, and otherwise agitating himself, succeeds in gaining audience with the driver, and baffling tho elusive tendencies of street cars, lie should be entitled to tho free and uncircumscribed use of tho entire English language by way of reward. The quantity of model picnic weather which lias recently been distributed in this locality is entitled to commendatory remark. If people will bo so unwise as to leavo comfortable homes and shady porches with rocking chairs on them to go browsing about in dim forest aisles, where the gnat and the mosquito abide numerously; where the grass is all weeds, and tho shadiest places are always over yonder; where the children are always falling out of something, over something, or into something, and keeping their guardians in terror—if people will seek such questionable diversion, bo it repeated, they cannot bo too thankful when tho day chosen for such reckless junketing is not. piping hot. Really, viewed in cold blood and retrospectively, iho picnic is too much trouble. It involves too much baking pies and cakes beforehand, and too much recuperation afterward. Jn crowded cities, for those who seldom see real grass and trees, such excursions have great value; but in roomy places, whore every householder who is cleanly can have a yard full of fresh air, the picnic seems almost superfluous, and suggests tho temperance lecture which doesn't reach the class that needs it most. The thoughtful charity of late years, however, which gives the poor of all our cities a day in the woods, has solved tho riddle of the picnic’s highest mission. Still, while the average man continues subject to this disease, it behooves us to accept gratefully favoring circumstances; therefore, to the Signal Seivico. thanks. Emma Caklkton. The Viee-Preshleut by tlio Sea. Atlantic City Letter to Philadelphia News. It seems that Vice president Hendricks intends to make the best of his sojourn here. It would be .mproper to say that Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks are gay; yet they wisely believe in enjoying life. Last night they applauded Mine. Selina Dolaro frequently, and now they are to meet the bright little lady at a luncheon. I am informed that they will again “take in" Offenbach's charming opera. Yesterday they took their usual after breakfast bath and spent tho afternoon reading iu the sun parlor of tlio Traymore. After supper they went out for a walk on Atlantic avenue ami returned to the hotel and organized an intormal party and went to tho Olympian rink to see the young people do tho promenade step and tho grape vine twists. It was after !) o’clock before they reached the rink, and it was avident that thoy were expoctod, for tho band struck up “Hail to the Chief." The Vice president has not designated the date of his departure, and it is hardly to be expected that ho will leave as long as uis mono/ holds out.