The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-03
BREAKFAST CHAT.

SEMIRAMIDE was written in thirty days, and,
as Rosslui expressed it, sin no haste"
HENLIN MILLER, father of the poet, Joaquin
Miller, is lying dangerously ill at his residence
In Lane county, Ore, and ia not expected to
recover
THE Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, was
the first depOsltOr under the Postal Savings
Bank system, which went into force in Austria
Jan. IL.
AUBER, in speaking Of Rossini's magnificent
execution on the piano, said: "When he had
finished, looked mechanically at the ivory keys.
L fancied could see them smoke"
KEsHUB CHUNDER SEN, the HIndoo reformer,
has written play exposing the follies and vices
OF his countrymen, and intoxicating sentiments
of virtue. 1t has been received with great IA
vor.
THE Rochester Post-Expressl says that the
eighth wonder of the world has been discovered.
SIT is n Boston man who expressed a desire to
hear the Row. Joseph Cook lecture the second
time"
WASHINGTON correspondent writes: ''The
Chinese minister gave dinner party last night
The minister is not very hilarious person TO
dine with, as Chinese etiquette forbds his ad-
dressing word to any body while at the dinner
table"
MARIAN. the Amazon Queen" is now exhibit
ing in Glasgow. She is native of Germany.
seventeen years OF age and eight feet high
When the charming Marian marries, and calls
upon her husband for an adequate sealskn
sacque, there will be a circus indeed.
Mrs. MELVILLE, wife of the Arctic explorer, is
in fresh trouble. Her three children are Sc
riously ill-the eldest with pneumonia, and tie
two little ones with measles. They are living
on the third floor Of u house in West PhilaGel
phiu, and are said q ha in octuoI vUnut
ANTHONY TRoLLOPE, just before he laid down
his pen never to take it up again, wrote these
words, which will appear in his last novel;
"Amusement Is good, truth is still better, and
love best of all. Love gives itself and Is not
bought but all true love is founded esteem"
BOSTON Post: "N0thing will make a woman
more thoroughly mad than to wear fifty-dollar
hose to ball, get her dress caught up on chairs,
and have lots of similar accidents, and then find
when she comes to go home that she has danced
all evening with old wooden leggings on, having
forgotten to remove them.
MOTHER FRANCES WARDE XAVIER. the founder
of the Sisters of Mercy in America, celebrated
her golden jubilee at Manchester, N. H., on
Wednesday. She received the white veil in 1892
She came to this country in l843, accompanied
by six sisters, and established the first convent
in the United States at Pittsburg.
GENERAL BOOTH, of The Salvation Army, is
wiser in his day and generation than most of the
children of light. When any benevolently dis
posed person inserts in her will bequest to the
army, the General secures the immediate pay
ment OF the amount "a "l0an," giving a Saliva
ton Army bond at per cent. interest as "se-
curity."
A KEEN student of human nature must have
written the following: "When you see young
man sailing down the street shortly after mid
night with collar mashed down his neck you
can make up your mind there's u young girl
crawling up stairs not far distant with her shoes
under her arm aud an extinguished lamp in her
hands"
THE "History of tht Rebellion" which has beer
prepared during the last fifteen years by Mr..
Thomas L. Townsend, is now COMPLETE and fills
in manuscript seventv-six volumes, each one ten
times as large as Webster's Unabridged. The
writing itself is delicate work OF art Mr..
Townsend wishes to sell 1t TO Congress He has
already spent $4,000 in Its preparation.
LONDON WOrld "rhe present Lord st imford
has resided for some years in Africa. While IN
England he was twice married, but there was no
issue by either marriage. Considerable appre-
heusion is felt lest he shonld have married some
dusky lady during his residence on tho dark con-
tinent and reappeared with "A wife and half n
dozen children 1 trust that he has. A black
peer would he decided novelty"
BISMARCK is subject to fits of detection when
he declares that his life has been a failure; that
he has never made anyone happy, neither MIN
self, his family nor the nation at large. ."lfit
were not for me- he once said, when in a de-
spondent mood, "the world would have seen
three great wars less, and $4,000 who died in
their bloom might have lived, and now many
parents, brothers, sisters, widows would have
been spared their grief and tears"
THE most aged English baronet is the veneer
able Sir Moses Montefiore who on the 25th OF
October next will enter upon his hundredth
year according to the list compiled by the edit
or OF "Websters Red Book" Sir Henry Preston
a Scotch baroner, born in the year 1888, still
survives. There are at least twenty baronets
living who were born before tho commencement
of the present century. The eldest OF these, ar
ter the names already mentioned, appears to be
Sir T. Tyringham Bernard. born in 1871.
NEW YORK Graphic: President Chamberlain,
of Bowdoiu, boasts that "that institution has
furnished to the nation President, twenty-two
senators and representatives in Congress, four
teen judges OF nigh courts, nine Governors of
States eighteen college presidents, a Longfelow,
a Hawthorne and AN s. g. Prentss." But they
never turned out Bergh or Gebhardt. Let
President and ex-Maj Or-gederal and ex- Governor
Joshua L. Chamberlain ponder well that TACT
and not speak 50 jauntily OF what they have
dane.
The present King of Portugal is fully abreast
of his fellow-suvereigns of Europe in education
aud advanced ideas He keeps close watch upon
new inventions and discoveries, and is quick to
adopt any that may prove of real merit. He has
just had an elaborate telephone system estab-
lished between his library, the offices OF the vari-
GUS ministers, and the opera, so that he can
without moving from his chair alternately DC.
cupy himself with his books and the transa.
tions by which he has distinguished himself,
with music, and with the duties and cares of
state.
A MAN rummaglng through the shop of second