The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-17
BREAKFAST CHAT.

many, is an ardent Prohibitionist and the head
of that party in the Fatherland.
HARPER's Weekly says that Mr.. Thomas Mast
has been very seriously i'll with pneumonia at
his home in Morristown, N. j., but is recover
ing.
FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria, has a horror for
card playing and will allow the practice in only
one of his palaces, his little hunting chateau of
Newberg.
MR.. BEECHER's reverend brother, Thomas K,
of Elmira, N. Y, has announced himself as an
independent Greenback candidate for Congress-
next year. He says he deems it a Christian du.
ty to give voters u variety OF candidates.
WHATEVER credit is due for discovering Mr..
DePauw's purpose to found a university and for
diverting that purpose TO Asbury, belongs to DIR.
j. j. Hight, of the Indiana conference, and at
present assistant editor of the Western Christian
Advocate. And this statement is due to the
truth of history.
A SOCIETY has been formed and INCORPORATED
under the laws of Georgia for the purchasing
and preserving Of the historic home of the late
Alexander Fl. Stephens, known as Liberty
Hail." at Crawfordville The house and premises
will he changed in no particular from their
present condition. The consideration is $4,000.
MARY NDERsoNs great beauty and wonder
full success in life are both ascribed by an astrOl-
ogist to the fact that Jupiter, Venus and the
moon were all in conjunction at the time of her
birth. Should she ever marry, though, he pre-
diets that she will be unhappy, as Mars and
the sun were also in conjunction when she was
born.
Al a Conversations Oscar Wilde and Mr..
Whistler were heard discussing the attributes of
Sarah Bernhardt and Miss Anderson. The fol-
owing attributes were heard of the former:
"Ah moonlight and sunlight combined, exceed.
i ipO1v fprrIhIa confidently plnriousO Of fila
latter, "tender, fresh. sparkling, brilliant,
| superb, placid" There was no lack of express
siveness in the conversation.
MARRIAGE for those who live in the Siberian
mines has peculiar features. When a prisoner
desires to undertake it the only thing necessary
for him to do is to send in an application to the
overseer, who forthwith allots him a wife.
Three days OF probation are then allowed, and
if any incompatibility of temper seems likely to
arise the applicant may receive twenty-five
lashes and another wife. This process is con-
tiRued until he gets a wife to suit him., :.
THE Rev. j. G. Wood has, upon Investigation,
found the redbreasb a most ivoraciOus bird, and
calculates that to keep one of them up to its
| normal weight an amount of animal food equal
to an earthworm fourteen inches in length. is
required daily. Assuming a sausage nine
inches in circumference to be q fair equivalent
of the earthworm, an average man would have
to eat sixty-seven feet of sausage daily to have
an appetite equal in proportion to the red
breasts. ot
COMMENTING on Bernhardts recent reading Of
the part of Lady Macbeth, Labouchere says in
London Truth: 81 have never understood why
| Macbeth's wife should be portrayed as an elderly
tragedy queen. Big, heavy women are generally
wanting in determination and energy. AS a
rule "A massive, dignifed-looking female is incapa-
BILE of doing anything beyond looking massive
and d~ignitied. Lady Macbeth was probably
a young-looking, slim, 1.-THE, sharp-featured
woman, with blonde hair and green eyes"
JEFF. DAVIS, says a writer in a New York
evening paper, really was put in irons while IN
prison at Fortress Monroe; but his captors had
a hard time in getting the chains on him. When
he learned that be was to be ironed his excits-
ment rose to fury as he paced his cell, venting
itself in incoherent rawlings; and while the
four men employed in ~riyiting his chains were
doing so, the writings and upheavals OF the M
furiated man developed the strength of a ma
MAC, and only ceased from sheer exhaustion.
BISMARCK is obliged to give up tobacco and
wine absolutely, on account of his catarrh,
| which does not yield to other treatment, whilo
the Emperor continues to enjoy his cigar and his
Moselle in, for his age, robust health. 1t will be
recalled that military exercise and dietary abb
steniousness changed a sickly bog into a par
ticularly healthy aud active young man, and
that Kaiser Wilhelm's old age, moderate TO an
extraordinary degree in eating and drinking
and capable OF several hours on horseback in
the sun is the result. He owns wines, Of the
best and oldest and in great quantity, like the
| ruler of nation. He drinks them like a ruler OF
himself.
THE New York Commercial Advertiser. estab-
lished in 1897, displays at the head of it's COL
umns this remarkable list of editors; Noah
Webster, 1897 to 1903; zachariah Lewis 1903
to 1920; william L. Stone, 1920 to 1874; francis
Hall, 1874 to 1868; William Henry Hurlbut,
1868 to 1867; Thurlow Weed, 1867 to 1868;
Hugh ]. Hastings, 1868 to 1888. The only sur
vivor is Mr.. Hurlbut, who has retired from jour-
nalism and is now sojourning in England. Noah
Webster established a Federalist paper In New
York city about the beginning Ofl794, which he
called the Minerva, with which was connected a
semi-weekly paper called the Herald, but In
1897 the names of the Minerva and Herald we.s
changed to the Commercial Advertiser and New
York Spectator. The latter was published as @
weekly until a few years ago, when 1t was sus'
pended, and the Saturday edition of the Com
! mercial Advertiser now flls its place.