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


priceless gem in the matrimonial department Of
life."
AFTER Mr.. Edwin Booth finishes his profess
sional tour in Europe, he will return to America.
and it is stated that he will spend the summer in
Newport.
DAMALA in the army Will be terrible to all the
foes of France A year or two of married life
with Frances greatest actress has made him
veteran to be trembled at
SIR HENRY THOMSON, the great London sur
geon, is a water-drinker and vegetarian, and ID
said to be editing vegetarian cooking book
founded on an old-time treatise.
COMMANDER ChEYNE, who is in Montreal. says
that he has not abandoned his proposed balloon
expedition to the North pole, Lieutenant
Schwatka has offered to Join him.
vANBRuGH was the leading architect of the
time of Queen Anne. DR.. Evans's epitaph on
him Is still remembered:
"Lie heavy ON him, earth, for he
Laid many heavy load on thee"
THE late DR.. Chadbourne, just before his visit
to New York, which ended so fatally, had ar
ranged with publisher to prepare book which
would embody the results of his Iife-studies in
science.
COLONEL HARRY GILMoR, of Baltimore, as he
lay mortally III, Tuesday night, said to his
brother Charles that he felt drowsy and would
go TO sleep, ana pathetically added "I'll bid you
good,by for it may be that may never wake
again."
THE employees OF the Philadelphia Press, TO
the number of hundred, have organized
among themselves u relief association for
tual benefit in case of sickness. The managing
editor of the Press, Mr. Handy, has been made
president OF the association.
wELL-CLAD and respectable man recently
created a great stir in London by promenading
the streets sandwiched between two boards
which bore these pacards: General Postotfice-
Discharged for not saluting clerk. twenty-five
years Her Majesty's servant"
THE president of the Tufts College was recent
ly made happy father, and the following morn.
ing, at prayer in the chapel, he introduced the
rather ambiguous sentence: "And we thank
thee, Lord, for the succor Thou has given"
which spread general smile over the faces Of
the class
A TAUNTON woman relates that she recently
sat beside another woman, a stranger to her, in
an Old Colony car. As the train passed QUINCY
the stranger pointed to the crowded burial
place so near the track and remarked in a COM
placent tone: GIVE got three of the best hus-
bands lynn there that ever a woman had"
A SOUTHERN correspondent of the Hartford
Times says there are three seasons in Florida
that the last pays best. Somebody had said be-
fore him that in the summer the natives Of
Florida live on sweet potatoes and sugar cane,
and in the winter on the Yankees.
NOTWITHSTANDING that Senator Edmuuds sell
dom never gives signs of being greatly graft
fed by evidence of his power with the people,
Western Republican journals say that he is con-
staDtly growing in popular appreciation, and
that nothing would please the West more than
his election to the presidency of the Senate.
Senator Edmunds has much sorrow on account
of illness and death in his family. He will soon
go to California.
LoNDoN's new law courts are hardly fairly oc-
cupled before it Is decided that they alto
gether too modern for the cob-web loving Eng
glish mind, and they are to be extensively al
tered. Doors are to be removed, curtains hung,
passages built, and most characteristic of all,
the new fashioned sloping desks with chairs are
to be replaced by long cloth-covered tables and
continuous benches, Like those in the old Lin
coins Inn courts"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR recently received dozen
bottles of whisky, with note from the agent Of
1t requesting him to taste of 1t aud kindly send
his opinion of its quality, to be used as an in
dorsement. The agent received the dozen bot
ties by express two days thereafter, and a letter
by mail from Mr.. Phillips, the Presidents secre-
tary stating in somewhat satirical language
that the President was Indifferent to the merits
of the whisky, and declined to sanpleit
'MARGERY DEANE' pictures Mime. Wagner,
the widow OF the famous composer, as follows:
"She is a woman Of the Sarah Bernhardt type,
though in every way larger, and reminded me
much by certain magnetism she possesses Of
that actress. She looks little like a Jewess,
and is woman who pays the greatest attention
to her toilets, which are of the most costly de-
scription. She writes very ceverly, and has q
remarkable mind, and gave her husband valua-
BILE assistance in his work"
AT the close Of a dinner party in Philadelphia
not long ago, Signor Salvini remarked to O
friend that certain lady among the guests was
one of the most intelligent women lie had metin
America. "She is intelligent" was the reply
"and she Is a good wife and mother, too" "Has
she ohildren7" exclaimed the tragedian, in sur
prise. Eyes, SIX" ait is very strange" said he
after moments thought; every strange. How
a young ami handsome woman has time to be in
teilgent with six children TO look after, car
not understand"