The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-28
BREAKFAST CHAT.

JAY GOULD reads the Latin and Greek poets,
but he never writes any verses himself
DAVID DAVIS. wheE last heard from, was at a
horse-race in Californis. This is bad start for
young married man.
1T is we'll understood, says the Boston Adyer.
tiser. that, next to the presidency, General But
Ter covets the degree of IL d. from Harvard.
EX-SENATOR TABOR signs reminiscently as he
remarks: "Tell you for fact the Senate in the
Forty-eighth Congress isn't what 1t used to be in
the good old days of the Forty-seventh."
s. 8, GRAY was known the world over as the
paper-coliar maker. He made three fortunes
and lost three in turn by signing notes for
friends. His death occurred at Natiok, Mass.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND has bought
house in New ork with the proceeds of his pen,
which, like good husband, he has promptly
given to his wife. and In which he expects to
end his literary days.
Mr. MOONEY, late president of the defunct
American Land League is low-sized and stout.
He wears glasses and looks like q well-todo
business man. He is past middle age. has a
round, good-natured face, and wears a dark
mustache. lf,.
ROBERT BRowNISG's home at Warwick, Eng
land ID full of remembranoes of Mrs. Browning,
whose memory he tendery oherishes. Her
writngtable, next his own, her chairs, her
books, her portraits are all of touching interest
to the visitor.
ARAB does not believe unreservedly in tho
"faith cure" He told a reporter for the Clayton
Times that he preferred European medical adj
Ttse-s for himself, but for the women and
children-God was good, and they would get
well by His mercy.
A. BRONSON ALCoTT was uDfavOrably affected,
on Friday, by sudden thunderstorm, and since
then his condition has been more serious than it
has been of late Just now he is slightly more
comfortable, but the prospect of his recovery is
not good as it was six weeks ago.
GATH "Old Mr.. Vanderbilt Is afraid OF dea tn
as Dives. He has a Inconvenience doctor to agl-
tate him daily. L suggest an old recipe at half
the money: Wear lizard-skin bag of dried
beans around the neck, and rattle it at prayer
time. Gould is a very timid man, too"
UP to the last day of his lite at Mentone, Mr.,
Green, the historian, was busy giving the most
minute directions about his second volume of
the making of England" and his wife, who
acted as his secretary and amanuensis, is left in
position to edit and see it through the press.
1t will probably be published before the close of
the year.
LORD AsHBURNHAM was obliged to sell his
fathers library, because. his house being six
miles from an inu, savauts who came to study
among It's treasures found themselves Dom.
Portable that they imposed on the good nature
OF. his hospitality past bearing 1t was borne,
however, for several years, and at last came to
this end.
LIEUTENANT FLIPPERs commission as q briga-
dier-general i'll the Mexican army has recalled
the incidents OF his career to mind. He is de-
scribed by perhaps partial correspondent as
probably the best educated man in the service,
aud inclined to studious habits, which he had
ample opportunity to cultivate, owing to his
ostracism from army society on account of his
color.
KEPPLER, who has gone far to the front as the
leading American cartoonist, sailed for Europe
on Wednesday. Five years ago he was employed
by q leading publishing house at paltry salary
of S35 week, and he is now said to be worth
over half million. His health is, however, COM
pletely shattered, and his European tour is
solely for the purpose of recovering his shat
tered system.
A DIPLOMATS was criticising the system of gov
eminent of Eastern country. "Why," he
saId to the Grand Yizier, 'nOt a single one of
your Sultans has died in his bed during the last
two hundred years." "You mistake, sir" was
the reply; "fOur of them died in their beds
during that period, though must admit that in
mattress on top of him."
PRESIDENT THEIRS. when in the height OF his
glory passing Marseilles one day and there
met an old schoOlmate who had been a farmer
for twenty years and knew absolutely nothing of
politics. "What do you do nOwF' asked the
French President, "Raise CATTLE" said the far
mer. brightenging up, land what do you do for
living up In Pars2" "Im minister" said
Theirs, modestly. "What, a Protestant7"
SIR WILLIAM VERNoN-HARcoURT, the British
Home Secretary, inherited only a few thousand
pounds from his father. but made a great deal
of money at the parliamentary bar, which
enabled him to throw up law for politics. His
first wife, step-daughter of Sir George Cornwall
Lewis, had little fortune, but his second wife,
Mr.. MOtley's daughter, has large lire income
from the Ives estate In Providence R. 1.
5oME notable announcements are made for the
popular series, Of American Men of Letters.
Taylor. By Mr.. ]. r. G. Hassard, of the New
York Tribune; Benjamin franklin, by Mr.
McMaster, whose History of the United
States has made him Immediately and Justly
famous; Margaret Fuller, by Colonel T. W.
Higginson; Edmund Quincy, by Mr. Sidney
Howard Gay; William Cullen Bryant, by Mr..
John Bigelow who knew him Intimately; and
Edgar A. Poe, by Mr.. George L. Woodbury., one
of the best prose writers and most competent
critics among our younger authors.
| General Diaz Passes Through st. louis.
ST. LOUIS, April 27-The special train with
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