The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-17
BREAKFAST CHAT.

BEVERLY TUCKER, of Virginia, Is prep airing
volume of personal "reminiscences. 9''@aai
As Governor Foster, of Ohio, holds stock in
baseball club, his friends have dismissed all fear
of his ever coming to want
L. W. POND used to be worth 81 100000 ana
own car-shops at Worcester, Mass. He is now
working in those shops at So per day.
THE late Alexander H. Stephens always occu-
pied, in Washington, one certain set of rooms
| the rooms formerly occupied by Henry Clay.
ENGLAND is filled with cranks whose highest
| ambition is to thrust bouquet or petition into
| the Queens carriage 1t is passing. They are
| frequently arrested. =
THE Rev. DR.. John Hall maintains that Siberia
is the most fertile district of Russia, and that
many of the exiles become the richest and most
prosperous people of the empire.
DIR. +. G. COOK, of Chicago Is now the senior
physician in America in the homeopathic prac-
tice. He formerly resided in New York, bus
has been practicing in Chicago for over fifteen
| years.
ALEXANDER DUMAS was In a crowd which was
I making but slow progress through the doors Of q
church, where they were celebrating wedding
mass. 81 expect" said Dumas, "that we will ar
rive IN time for the christening"
MR.. JOHN MORLEY declares that reform is all
ways in the air when Mr.. Gladstone is In power,
and that the present British government, though
not so advanced he could wish, is the most
advanced that has ever appeared in England.
THE hair of a girl employed IN the Elgin
Watch Factory was caught in the machinery
and violently pulled. From that time all OF
the new growth was WHITE and now the Sc
ceding color has reached point half way to the
ends.
THE Falls of Minnehaha, immortalized by
Longfellow, are now Inclosed in park of which
a Philadelphia editor, smackiug his lips, one
may get his laughing-water and his ire-water at
one gulp.
THE funeral of L. N Carvalho, late editor of
the Turf. Field and Farm, took place on Thurs
day morning, In New York City, from the resi-
dence of his brother, Professor s. N. CarvalhOs
the artist The remains inferred In Cy.
press Hill Cemetery.
"LET your beans simmer in warm water slow
~, with mOlasses and mustard; then putin the
pork and bake long time. small green onion
adds a delicious flavor" This is the latest
recipe for Boston "baked beans" Don't forget
the little green onion.
COLONEL INGERsoLL's father once offered a
prayer that ot cunied iio4T and seventeen
minutes in its delivery; and the Rochester Post
Express infers that he must have been praying
for his son. This is of the cases where
prayer remained unanswered.
CARD-RECEIvERs stand about the tomb OF
Robert E. Lee, and reverent sOutherners and
foreigners leave their cards there with the cor
ners carefully turned down to show that they
called in person, An irreverent Northerner has
occasionally turned up the END of his card to
show that the visit Included Mrs. Lee, who lies
buried by her husband.
FREDERICK N. CROUCH, the composer Of
kathleen Mavourneen," is a gray haired man,
|
coat of Confederate gray keeps some of the cold
out. He is now out of employment and TOO old
to help himself. He has wife and five child
rem. He tries to smile cheerily at fate, but adj
mits that he needs help.
THE painter Dupincet, man of talent,
but was often very short of money. Other men
of talent have been in the same fix. He called
upon picture dealer, wanting to sell one of his
canvases. "What will you give mes" he asked.
.sTwenty francs" "Twenty francsi You are
joking; am not yet dying of hunger."' Very
WELL" replied the dealer, 81 can wait"
Pools and rivulets ortobacco juice were found
defling the rooms of an Oswego, N. Y, young
ladies' seminary Intellectual efforts to solve the
mystery made by the faculty. who sns-
pected one male biped after another, Chance at
length led 30 the discovery that the guilty per-
son was a young lady student of refined and
summarily expelled g.,t.
MAJOR HENRY I. STANTON, Knight of the
Garter and editor OF the Frankfort YeOmau,
strayed into church last Sunday. While there
he found ga wtchng circlet," and makes the
following legacy to rhyme on account of it,
GA witchng circlet have foundl
And naught e'er fell upon the ground
From shape!ier, fairer hold.
In leash its Silken meshes held
The suowiest charms that nature, e!&,
Hath fashioned In her mold"
PROBABLY the largest kite in the world
recently made near Rochester, N. Y Tho
frame was made of lumber two inches wide by
half an inch in thickness, and was covered with
MANILA paper The surface contained nearly
$50 squarefee The string by which the kite was
flown was of three-eighth-ineh rope, and 5000
feet in length 1t shot into the air like balloon,
and after floating mile high for two hours was
only brought down by means OF a pulley and
team.
COLONEL RICHARD NJ. JOHNSTON, his friend
and biographer, relates curious dream which
he had on the very night of Mr.. Stephens's
death. He dreamed that he and Mr.. Stephens
were riding in buggy to no particular place,
as he could remember, when a small sheet of
water appeared before them. They drove on,
bnt the water kept growing higher and higher
about the carriage, until it appeared as if about
to engulf them. At last came one huge wave.
and Mr. Stephens, rising with the water about
his waist, cried out: 81 am gone this time," and
Immediately disappeared.
BERLIN correspondent writes that as an
orator Bismarck may bo compared with Crom-
well. He has no rhetorical action; his motions
are not GRACEFUL his voice, tenor, is neither
musical nor imposing. He stammers he coughs,
he often stops for II word-it is always the right
one when he has found :it-while some of his sen.
fences terribly involved, and nearly foot
long. But as writer he may be compared with
Luther or with Schiller. Few living Germans
can write their mother-speech more clearly,
more automatically. more gracefully. more OK.