The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-22
BREAKFAST CHAT.

IN a curious expurgated copy of the works OF
Moliere, intended for the of "the faithful
all the female parts suppressed.
LONDON TRUTH: The lady to whom Mr.. Oscar
Wilde is engaged to be married is Miss Constance
Lloyd, daughter of the late Horace Lloyd, @, c.
THE Boston POSTS Democratic readers have
just shown by letters that their preference for
presidential nominee is Ex-Governor TildeL, but
with Mcdonald, of Indiana, close behind him.
Mrs. DRURY, of New YORK, has for nine yeara
| engaged in making and selling surgical instru.
ments, and the most skillful operators in sur
gerry prefer her cutting instruments to those OF
any other make.
a CERTAIN editor in Virginia has not hesitated
to disguise his condition. He remarks: "Ifany
of our subscribers have any cabbage, spareribs,
backnones, turkeys, or anything else in the eat.
ing line, they will confer a favor by bringing it
to t his office"
THE Ohio temperance women have selected
Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska, as their
champion for a series of public debaIes with
DR.. Dio Lewis on prohibition. Dio is a strong
temperance man, but does II OF favor prohibition
by legal enactment.
Mr.. WILLIAM MORRIS is a good specimen of
the allaround man. He is a great poet, the
manager of large furniture and paper-hang-
ing business in the West End of London, and
now he has taken up politics. sort of Utopian,
poetico-socialistic politics.
DR.. RICHARDSON, of the University of Penn
sylvania, says that before vaccination was dis
covered, during an epidemic of smallpox, one of
every five persons died. and another of the five
was injured crippled for life. Only one in
10000 is ever injured by vaccination.
THE whole of the first edition of the ''Memors
of Princess Alice" was sold in four days. sec
ond edition was published at Darmstadt on SAT-
urday. The work was compiled for private cir
culatlon, but after the Queen had read the proof
sheets she consented to its publication.
LORD PALMERsToN seldom gave himself real
rest except when he had cold. He would then
allow himself holiday, to be spent by the fire
in a cosy. m-ehair with a novel, the more
sational the better. Disraeli had the same
fancy, and, when weary, went down to Hugh,
enden with pile of French novels
A CLEVELAND LEADER correspondent quotes
Representative in Congress saying of Senator
Brown, of Georgia: "Did you ever see him
carry umbrella when there no rain fall
ing2 He holds it in front of him. Well, he does
that because he is too mean to put the umbrella
OF the ground, for fear he viii wear out the
ferule"
WILLIAM TURNBULL: Mr.. Vanderbilt has not
been merely altering his gallery; he has really
built gallery, at cost for the building
alone of S15o,0O0 That wond build very
handsome residence for ordinary mortals,
wouldn't it2 understand that the new gallery
will display about 100 pictures never before
seen here.
A MORAL poetess had begun poem in uncom.
promising blank verse on the degeneracy OF
man:
"God made man in His own image; but he"
and here she was compelled to leave it. A de-
generate one came in and took the Liberty OF
helping her forward little:
"WOuld probably have remained so; but She"
BADNGUET, the mason, in whose clothes and
name, and with whose black pipe between his
teeth. Louis Napoleon walked out of the castle
of Ham, died recently at Chantenay, near Paris.
He never took his name again, but it was some.
times flung at Napoleon III by his enemies, when
they had nothing witty to say. Badinguet be.
came Rudolf, and no one knew he was other than
Rudolf until he died.
THE very latest heard from Dr. Ham. Griffin,
who is at this present moment parayzng the
effete nobility of England, came to hand yester.
| day, and was as follows:
CROMWELL HOUSE, SOUTH KENsINGToN, Lon.
DON, Dec. 3, 1888. Dear Mr.. H. McKenna: [
herewith send you s.. want you to ship me
to above address two gallons of the finest old
est and most delicious handmade sour-mash
whisky that money or friendship can buy pro-
Wales. Yours, HAMILTON GRIFFIN"
THERE are only three men who have not been
restored to their civil rights of all those who en-
gagged in the slavehOlders rebellion-Jeff Da-
wis., Robert Toombs and ''Bee" Robinson
Toombs scorns TO be restored to civil rights and
Robinson's application has been refused on the
ground of desert1on. He is said to be the only
man among all who Joined the rebellion who
laid himself open to that charge, as the resigna.
lions of all who resigned in due form were ac-
cepted.
GENERAL SHERIDAN will soon make his annual
pilgrimage to his old home IN Ohio, to visit his
mother. She is eighty-three years old, and the
General never neglects to visit her once a year,
and oftener when he can. He would be glad to
have her with him in his new home, but the old
lady cngs tenaciously to the homestead where
all the five children first saw the light of a sue
cessful life The old lady is proud of her boys
success, and thoroughly enjoys it, and they never
neglect to visit her and cheer her declining years
with their presence.
A NEW YORK Herald correspondent inter
viewed Mile Sarah Bernhardt at Pesth in No
vember 1881, on Marie Coombers story of her
adventures in America. Bernhard then said
sit was ali written by young man named Jehau
Soudan, whom took out. and to whom I paid
1000 francs month to jot down my Americaa
travelling impressions for me-" The tragediennt
wound up the conversation by eagerly express
ing a desire to "smash" Mile Colombier. Thu
book has now been published, and Mile Bern
hardt has fulfilled her threat,