The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-15
BREAKFAST CHAT.

AN Oriental son OF soap-suds, by the name of
One Lung, is running q consumptive laundry in
Chicago
CHARLES READE, the famous English novelist,
is engaged in writing series of lives of the
patriarchs of Scripture.
Mr.. PAUL MATTHEWS, Of Justice Mat
thews, of the United States Supreme Court, has
regained his health in the Adirondacks,
SENATOR BATARD will give the city of Will
mingtOn, Del, the grove adjoining his home, if
che city will acquire the rest of the square, for a
park.
SIR EDWARD wArKM believes that the Cab
Drivers Association has more political influence
than the whole OF the railway interest in the
kingdom.
A SAN FRANCISCO lady tolls of the delight of
Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Yosemite. When
asked what he thought of 1t he said: at the
only thing have seen out here which comes Up
to the brag." stH .e4I
MR. ROBERT BROWSING is fond OF dining out
in London, and is good story teller In his
dress he is scrupulousy neat. London World
says that everything that Carlyle is or sspires
TO be in prose Mr.. Browning is in poetry.
New YORK Journal: The Princess Louise has
sent seven water colors to the Boston exhibitions.
One of them represents blue COW grazing in a
lavender meadow, through which purple
brook, filled with pink fish. purls along under
green sky, in which terra-cotta sun flames
gorgeously.
CARDINAL MoCLosKEY has returudd TO New
York greatly invigorated in health. All about
him are surprised at the change in his condition
and appearance. The Cardinal now says mass
pretty regularly in the private chapel attached
to his residence, and is able transact business
without difficulty or fatigue.
AT reception rendered to Gen Sherman in
San Francisco the other day he said In his bluff
way that when he first knew the city it was the
most forbidden, GOd-forsaken place between
Cape Horn and the north pole, and that he
would not have given % cents for the whole
place, or for the inhabitants either.
"DRINK MAP" of Oxford, England, has jGst
been issued, from which it appears that the In
habltants of that classic town must drink fully
much they study. oxford has a pOpula-
ton of only $4,000, and yet there in 1t $40
places licensed to sell liquors, They are all
we'll patronized, and intemperance IS very com
mon.
MR., Nasty remarks: awe have inherited a
record which we hewitt purged ourselves Nv be-
COZ no matter to our men, the motives and
methods are precisely the same You may paint
over the spots Leopard and cut off the tale of
a fox but the one Will still chaw up antelOpes
and the other steel chickens. Dimocrlsy is Iii
nlocrlsy, no matter how it is disgiscd"
EARL CARNARvoN, who arrived at Montreal
from England Il few days ago, Is shortly 10 visit
the battle-ground at Saratoga Mt the invitation
of the Monument Association. He will also visit
the place where his great-aunt in September,
1877, embarked on the Hudson i'll fran boat at
midnight to visit her husband. vi
wounded prisoner in the camp of GtAe al Gates.
RUSSIAN Notes: Alexander III is the despair
of opera managers In ST. Petersburg Once the
Gar was O boon TO them, for the ann ouncement
that he would honor the performance" was
sure to crowd the house. But now the mere
suspicion that he may attend ecares the public
away for they sec visions of bombs, dynamite
and sudden death. Yet the Emperor cannot be
asked to stay away:
LONDON Truth observes that 'Snakspeare was
a man Of genius, with considerable practical
knowledge of the stage Much that he wrote is
excellent, much utter trash. I see no reason
why harmless amusement should not DO derived
from giving burlesque reading to some of his
plays This, indeed, would be beneficial as an
antdote TO the servie alteration which is paio
to him." This is very fine, indeed.
THADDEUs STEVENS used to say that a con-
blackbrd. II Illustrative of the assertion, he used
TO tell Of certain farmer at whose house he
once visited. MIR. Stevens observed that the
farmers crop, which was juet rpening. was re.