The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-22
BREAKFAST CHAT.


World, is neglectlng his professional duties and
counting the still beautiful widow of a Scotch
Duke.
Mr., CoRRoDUs. the eminent violinist, has be-
come the possessor, at a cost of S3,40O, of the
stradiyarius violin once owned and used by Pa
ganiui.
THE Comte de Paris. at present heir to the
French monarchy Tor what is left of i'll. is rich,
tall, slender. IN DELEGATE health, and forty-slx
years old. His wife is ambitious and an in
trepd horsewoman.
To make the question of food at the aims
houses satisfactory, the guardians of the city of
London Union have decided that the officers
should be required to eat the same meat es
they supply to the panpers"
LORD LoRNE has a book out in ottawa. 1t is
entitled Memories of Canada and Scotland"
and consists of a number of poems. Perhaps
this, after all, may he a clew to the real inward
ness of his return to England.
PARIS special says of Sarah Bernhardt in
"Frou Frou:" IAN immense reception awaited
the heroine when she ran lightly the stage,
in a beautifully ade dark-Slue riding-habit, In
which she looked singularly young and pretty"
THE offer by Mr.. W. II. Vanderbilt of $4,000
year TO Miss Thursby to sing in the choir of
st. Bartholomew Church, New York, Sundays,
has brought out the statement that the average
salary of singeri in a quartet choir in that city
ia 5000
THE Hon. Moody Boynton, of Newburyport,
Mass, is, as they say in his State, right down
good fellow and a captivating talker. 1t is as
serted that he once charmed a Newburyport au-
dience so that it sat delighted till o'clock in the
morning.
A TOUCHING tribute to deceased public of
fetal in the Denver Tribune closes with the
words, marshal Burt leaves two wives and a
number of children" 1t is only fair to add, how
ever, that Marshal Bury lived in Salt Lake.
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CALEB sTocKwELL, of London, Ont. was ex-
ceedingly surprised the other evening when
Mrs. stockwel presented him with two sons and
two daughters, all new. Subsequently when
asked what he'd got, he sorrowfully said "Only
TWO small pair"
In closing a notice OF the arrival of two ST..
louis bellies the editor of the Tom Green County
(TexJ Times says 'Rude1 am of speech but If
you want heart with generous valves. fit to
run hydraulic pump, corral me and you'll find
IL beneath my shirt"
Mr. VANDERBILT's oldest son, Cornelius, is a
very pious young man, sustains the branch of
the Young Mems Christian Association at the
Grand Central Depot and personally conducts
its religious services twice a week. He is also
superintendent of the Sunday school.
SOME time in October Bill Nye will remove to
Hudson, Wis, where he will make his future
home. This being one of the suburbs of 81.
Paul, it is apparent that Nye intends to carry
out his old and pet scheme of publishing hui
morous weekly in the Minnesota capital.
MRS, SENATOR ALLISON, who lately suicided at
Dubuque, was worth 100000 in her own right
at the time of her death. She executed a will
last November in which she bequeathed $4,000
in cash and all the furniture, pictures, books
ana statuary of the Allison residences in Wash
ington City and Dubuque to her husband.
THE Rochester Post-Express kindly reminds
the clergyman, who are returning from Europe,
to rememberjust what ailment he was suffering
from when his congregation sent him abroad TO
be cured. Nothing is so apt to excite suspicion
as to have d. d. who went across the ocean to
cure his consumption return rejoicing in the re-
moval of his neuralgia headaches.
F. B. HARPER owner Of L0ngfellOw and Ten
Brock, said few days ago: "Longrellow is now
sixteen years old and Ten Brock twelve. 1 al
ways keep a guard over them both night and
day. have been offered $50, 900 for Longfellow,
but wouldn't sell him for 100000, nor would
1 sell Ten Brock for the same money. 1 will
keep them as long they live or until die. I
am not married. but have some poor kin down
in Woodford county who would like to have
them"
JOHN LEACH. of Yarmouth, England, says the
London Athen@um, has had the inscription
over the tomb of the grandfather of Abraham
Lincoln at Norwich photographed for friends of
the family The inscription is as follows: "In
memory of Mr.. Abraham Lincolne of this parish,
who died Jny 10, 1889, aged 70 years; and
Hannah his daughter, who died September %,
1863, aged years.
From Thee, great God, we spring, to Thee we
tend;
Path, motive, guide, original, and end"
DURING a recent visit to Gartsherrie the great
Baird ironworks on the Clyde, whose profits have
made the four brothers of that name colossal
landed milonaires, and whose Pactolus stream
to-day enrIches so many families who have
linked themselves to Gartsherrie by marriage,
Mr.. Carnegie, of Pittsburg Pa, quietly remarked
that it was "a nice little foundry" The Cart
sherrie people, with some natural Indignation,
asked him where, by chance, he could find big.
GER why" said Mr.. Carnegie, with imper-
turbable serenity. 81 own a bigger myself"
bet was made Gartsherrie representative went
back with Carnegie to Pittsburg, and the out
come of the inspection there was that the Amer
lean had won the bet.
THE vicar of st. Paul's Church, South London,
is very indignant at the wastefuluess of the
wealthy miller of an interior county, who on
becoming Salvation Army man and donning
the blue ribbon, destroyed all the wines in his
cellar, including about $50 bottles of "ine old
port" In a letter to blue-ribbon friend he
says: 81 could have told you of parish of 5000
poor, where several invalids are languishing, to
whom a couple of glasses of such wine would
mean life, and in some cases a mothers life.
AS for yourself I leave you to your ecstatic
dream; but if there should be any more wealthy
millers or others, anxious TO relieve themselves
of a few dozen, or even few bottles of fine old
port or other wine. shall be thankfully happy
to receive the same for my many sick poor; and
if its medicinal administration be a sin, am