The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-10
BREAKFAST CHAT.

LOUISE MICHEL Is described as an elderly little
spinster, Will coarse gray hair, twisted up into
corkscrew curls.
MRS. HELEN HUNT JACKSON is described as
having a face "like a Christmas lady apple"
bright, CHEEKY and wholesome.
DIR. HAMILTON is said TO have lost his health
while attending the lamented President Garfield,
and now his constitution Is broken down,
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN has recently acquired
flesh. Once he was of the proportions of the tip
of a fishing-rod. He has now grown as stout as
the handle end.
THE new Governor Of Georgia, James stoddard
BoTnton, late president of the State Senate, is q
natlve OIL Henry county, six feet three inches in
height and fifty years of age.
MANAGGIALA RoCCA, during the carnival at
Rome, went abroad dressed as a general and Civ
ing wine and bread to the children. and or the
last day he gave them a plate or maoaroni, His
trade is that OF a rag -picker. ta ,t.ia.s
THE Hon. Hamilton Fish, president of the
board of trustees of Columbia College, is quoted
as saying that he hopes the college will never
see the day when young men and women will
sit together in the classroom.
MR., CARL RosA's London season will begin at
Drury Lane on March 90, and will be limited to
thirty representations. Two entirely new operas
will be produced-"Colomba, by Mr.. A.C. Mo
Kenzie, and "Esmeralda," Dy Mr.. Thomas.
EDWIN BooTH said in a conversation at Beriins
"There is one kind of men l don't like to meet.
, 1t is these great Shakespearean scholars who ask
me if l think Hamlet was really mad! They get
beyond me, and 1 don't care to go into abstruso
faets.'
ISAAC VIGNEAUx, of Neufchatel, a liquor
dealer, left papers stating that the Almighty
was his partner in business. isaac was prosper
Gus, and gave many Thousand francs every year
to the poor, which, he said, was the Lords share
of the profits.
JUDGE HILTON has ordered the Stewart dry
goods establishment to DO painted green. When
completed, the building will be the largest green
palace in the world. but the fact will probably
not be consoling to those who prefer the original
shade Of white. ltr,
THE wife of Edmund Arnold, author of ''rhe
Light of Asia, " is said to be an architect Of dis
%tinctiOn. She is a grand-niece of DIR. Claiming.
and recently superintendent the erection of a
memorial window in the Claiming Memorial
Church, at Newport, England.
A CORRESPONDENT from Bermuda says the air
Is conducive to longevity. An old gentleman
ninety years old brought forward as a witness
another spry old man, who declared he had
named the former. A short time after the Incl
dent the latter was seen riding away on a veloci-
pede.
IN return for the autographs which Senator
Tabor so irdustriously collected, as related In
the New York Tribune, the thirty-days' senator
gave each of his colleagues a unique present.
This was an elaborate after-wedding card, bound
with a heavy band of Colorado silver, and cost
ing $3.50 each.
A LATE writer suggests that in tho matter OF
sending valentines we might return with profit
to the custom of 200 years ago, when Samuel
Pepy's wife received from her adorers, "half a
dozen pair of gloves and a pair of silk stockings
and garters for Der valentines'-to quote from
that old journalists diary.
WAoNER's property was much larger than is
generally supposed. From the Berlin Opera
house alone he had received upward of $780,.
BOO. His musical copyrights. TOO, for some
years past have been bringing him in an income
of SIS, a year, and this his family will enjoy
thirty years after his death, If the popularity of
his music continues.
PROF. H. CARMICHAEL, of Bowdoin College.
has recently taken out an additional patent on
waterproofng paper stock. His processes arc
now successfully employed in making paper
dishes indestructible by hot water. acids, or
alkalies. 1t is understood that he is at work OH
a roofing material made of paper pulp, which
will be practically indestructible. o-
ONE of the most heartily-app,auded actors on
the London stage just now Is q cat. At the
proper time she enters the room, stretches her
self, washes her face, lies down before the fire
and placidly eats the saucer of milk which 10 set
before her. She has been shut up all day in a
box too small for her and too cold to be comfort.
able, and has had no food meanwhile. rie4f
wAGNER's mausoleum at Wahnfried was not a
new tomb. When the composers dog, Russ, was
poisoned some years ago, his body was placedin
the tomb which was then destined to receive, rs
1t now has done, the remains of his master, and
Wagner had carved by the entrance the efigy OF
his favorite in an attitude of repose, and under
meath the legend, "Here Russ rests, and waits"
A "wHrrE Cross Army is being organized In
England, the object of which is to insist on pun
ishing the man who robs awoman of her virtuo
to at least as great a degree as the woman her.
self is now punished by society. The Bishop OF
Durhami is the first person of note who has como
out in favor of the work of the army The
movement is said to be spreading rapidly among
the higher classes in tho North OF England. .s
TABOR, The model senator from Colorado, it is
said, sent to o reporter, on the evening of HIS
latest wedding, tho following description of the
bride: "She is considered the handsomest wo-
man in tho world, with golden hair, large, full.
deep, saphir-blue eyes. full, red, Cupid mouth,
with q setof dazzling teeth. One of her prin.
cipal beauties is her camailie complexion, with
cheeks OF delicate PINK nush. a httle ABOVE
medium height. Beautiful, plump figure, with
magnificent neck and arms and large round
throat, feet and hands being small and very del
icately shaped"
SALMI MORSE is q tall, military-looking man,
gray of hair and mustaehe, and of grayish COM
plexion, intelligent, earnest, resolute and gen.
tlemanly. He served in the Crimeau war. aud
draws a pension that is more than sufficient to
keen him: besides, he made considerable money
keeping hotel in Australia. He lives in his thea
ter. does his own cooking, and sleeps under a
down bed.cover of rich maroon satin, on which
is his coat of arms studded with real gems. He
wears a gold ring with rich settings, which he