The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28
TABLE GOSSIP.

TABLE GOSSIP.
Two hundred and fifty widows pay taxes
at Virginia, New. Gentlemen who feel that
they could enjoy the earnings of departed
husband will put this in their memorandum
books.
A telegraph man went to concert. The vio-
linist played very nicely, holding his audi
dience spell-bound. until suddenly string
snapped. The telegraph man shouted,
Wires down, by George"'
We are sometimes so impressed by fell
low-mans estimate of his importance that
we tremble at the mere suggestion of what
might have been if the Lord had forgotten
to make him.-Rome Sentinel.
At a recent trial in France the foreman of
the Jury, placing his hand on his heart, and
with voice choked with emotion, gave
in the following verdict: THE accused is
guilty, but we have our doubts as to his
identity"
full-blooded negro was with the China
men who lately arrived in Denver; he wore
the clothes, spoke only the language, and
ha6 all the ways of his Chinese companions.
He nad lived twenty-One years in China,
having been captured in youth by pirates.
Some men are born to bad luck A New
Hampshire man went through three years of
the War and wasn't even scratched or sick a
day, while his next neighbor got wound in
the only battle he was in that entities him
to a big pension, while the first poor fellow
has to work for living.-BOston Post
"Oh, 1 tell YOU you can't abolish the Jury
system. It's one of the abutments upon
which rests the structure of freedom and
equity, and all those things. If you bust the
three-card monte and other games of chance.
tell you Americans will not be denied this
kind of mental relaxation. It's about all the
fun we have.
The New York Hour calls attention to the
fact that greater care is taken of young fish
than of children in that city. For while
more than half the children died before the
age of five, the Fish Commissioners say that
only about PER cent. of the spawn of shad
or salmon are destroyed. Perhaps this is
owing to the fact that so many New Workers
like shad or salmon much better than they
like echildren.--Detroit Free Press
An out-of-town druggist yesterday en-
tered one of Boston's apothecary stores, and
handed a clerk a simple recipe. lone
dollar and fifteen cents" said the latter, as
he handed the medicine over. Isn't that
pretty steep?" asked the customer, adding,
Pm in the business myself, and know
something about the cost of these ingredi-
ents." "Oh! that alters the case," was the
Globe.
William Story maintains now that in the
glare of pure white marble half the model
ling is lost and that part of the effect of the
antique is due to the toning down of the
marble. although the color is worn off. He
has delicately tinted semi-nude ''Helen"
in his studio, a noble seated Saul" and
intends to stain his great "Sardanapalus,
which has been purchased by Mr.. Morgan,
the banker, who married daughter Rev.
John Pierrepoint, of Massachusetts,.
1t is said that the last New Hampshire
Legislature passed a law requiring Select
men of towns to cut off the ears of such
hawks and crows as may be presented TO
them for the State bounty, before paying IT,
the same as in the case of wolves. etc. AS
the town officials, after diligent search, have
failed to find any ears on the prescribed
birds to cut Off the boys who have been after
another Legislature amends the work of its
lamented predecessor, which car. not be
until the summer Of 1888.
"The human brain is much clearer in the
morning than at any other time of day."
That depends on the quality and quantity of
beverages imbibed the previous evening
Great statesmen who made our country IL
lustriOus always cleared their brains O. morn
ings with gin cocktails. George Alfred
sticks to breakfast tea The New England
farmer slyly tips bottle which he keeps
hidden in the haymOw. The Southern
planter believes in black coffee.-BostOn
Herald.
That the schoolmaster Is vanishing from
the land is too we'll grounded complaint
From the Old-fashioned fellow who in
structed boys and girls, and paid attention
to the individual talents and capabilities of
his pupils, there is substituted the teacher
of grade, who Grams the youth of the
period with so much arithmetic, so much
spelling, etc, and passes the youngster on to
the teacher OF the next grade, who repeats
the process. Teachers are nowadays merely
wheels in a huge educational machine.
Boston Herald.
There is trouble ahead for President Ar
thur. the North Adams Transcript thinks if
he allows the old bosses to have too much to
say. If he should put Sargent in his Cabi-
net, the Transcript remarks, against the
protests and warnings of his wisest friends,
be will only increase and intensity the pres
ent movements toward division and revolt.
They may try again the strength of patron
age and the machine against the people, but
they will be beaten. Politicians come and
90, but the people 60 on forever" Hall
breed exchange.
"The landmarks of our fathers" writes
Steele in ITO, ARE removed and planted fur
ther up ON the day In my own memory
the dinner hour has orept by degrees from
IL o'clock to 2; where it will end nobody
knows" In the reign of George III. the
fashionable dinner hour was 4 o'clock;
and, during the reign of that pattern of pro-
priety, George w., o'clock; and II we
could get embalmed for 200 years we should
see 1t come back to 10 in the morning. 1t is
but fair to add that our continental neigh
bors have not yet overtaken us, for Ticknor
mentions In 1888 that the King of Sweden
dined at 1. and / believe the Emperor of
Germany still dimes At ock.-Temple
Bar.