The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-15
BREAKFAST CHAT.

QUEEN VIcToRIAs Balmoral estate covers %,
$50 acres, and is of the gross annual value OF
$4,000
IN England the average of life exceeds that of
France by eleven years, though the French eli
mate Is considered surerior.
MISS DUDU FLETCHER ("GeOrge Fleming'9 is
bringing out through the press of the Macmi-
lans new novel oddly entitled "Vestgia."
MIR. WILLIAM D. HowELLs is hard at work on
a new novel, the fret chapters OF which may be
looked for in early number of the Century.
LONDON has los disased chureh-ya ards, which
are slowlpbe adapted for purposes of recrea-
ton. Thirty-four of them have been fully COM
pleted
CARL sCHURz, it is said, has been favored with
flattering offer from the publisher of the At
lantic Monthly to become the editor of that
sterling periodical
GENERAL JAMES LoNGsTREET says that it is
not his emotion which causes him to break down
when he tries to make speech, but bullet
which is lodged in his throat, and which was
added TO him in the Wilderness
THE latest fashionable event Is "bud ball."
given at Henley. England, at which the ladies'
dresses were covered with rosebuds and roses of
every kind. The gentlemen had bOutonnieres
composed OF rosebuds. The rooms were beauti-
fully decorated with real roses lust arrived from
Ni Nt2. american Appletons descend from Nav
flower family. After the Norman invasion of
England Norman lady. Mahilia, fixed her resi-
dence in forest of apple orchards and received
the name Manila d'Appletone. The poet Long
fellow and Charles Sumner were related to the
family. The crest is bough with leaves and
apples.
MIR. e. V. SMALLEY's sketch of General Sher.
man il the January Century has been inspected
and revised by General Grant, whose sueges-
lions have been of great value in assisting the
writer to give an authentic and trustworthy ac-
count of the important events of General Sher-
mans career. paper on General Sheridan will
follow in the February number
CLOCK and two candeabra In the style of
Louis XVI which formed part of the deeora.
tions of the Palas Royal in Paris before the
revolution, have been purchased from Mile
Feria, an artist residing at St. Omer, Tor $780,
900. 1t is said that they have been bought by
the Baroness Rothschild to be presented to the
Princess Amelle of Orleans, as a souvenir de
famille.
THE Pail Mall Gazette has bitter parody on
Tennyson, ending:
"Alfred, Alfred, We're de vere
IL time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no tollers in our streets
Nor any poor in all these lands2
On, teach the weak to strive and hope,
Or Teach the great to help the low.
Pray heaven for noble heart,
And let the foolish title go.''
MARIO, the tenor, who has just died in Rome,
was the greatest male singer that ever lived
He made vast sums of money in the days of his
popularity, but led extremely prodigal life
His Sunday dinners in London to his friends
used to be famous. OF late years he has been
working in a library in Rome for weekly
stipend much smaller than ne was once in the
habit or giving the man who brushed his coat.
A SOUTHWARK (London) boot.maker has sued
the rector of st. Saviour's Church, in that
borough, for $500 for services rendered during
his election to the chaplaincy, and the disclos-
ures made are remarkable. He packed the
church on Sundays when his candidate preached,
and kept people away when the other candidate
preached. 1t SAYS great deal for the liberal |
views of the rector that this good election aering
agent was Irish Catholic. If half the plaintiff
says is true ST. Saviour's ought to be without an
incumbent.
Mr. GEORGE H. BUTLER writes to the editor of
the New York Sun to deny that he is in the |
Washington wOrk-house He says he is an in
mate of the government asylum for the insane, |
where drinking patients admitted. He adds:
~ have been often in my life very drunk; may |
get so again, but don't want to. II my will |
power is going or gone, and if, as the medical
men-Maudesly, DR.. Goddin9, DIR. Bliss and
your own Austin Flint-say, win power can be
grown like a mus tache, intend to remain here
until raise a new one"
Rosa BoNHEUR for the greater part of the
present year has been in failing health and has
been living in great retirement at her country
house. Feeling little stronger, she ventured
up to Paris about five weeks ago, ON important
business, hoping to return the same nighu but
she overtaxed her powers, and has been laid up
ever since in her Paris house, close to the Lux
The only hope which remains to her
friends is that her excellent and wiry constitu-
ton may enable her to pull through an opera
lion which her physicians declare to be indis-
Densable.
THE pallum is a white wooden band made In
he fashion OF circle, and is worn on the
shoulders and breast From it depend similar
bands, one each on the breast, back and both
shoulders. These bands are all marked with
red or purple crosses. The pallium is made of
he portion Of the wool Of two spotless white
ambs, which are blessed each year, ON January
Il, at the feast of ST. Agnes, at the church Of |
hat saint on the Nomenton road without the Z
walls of Rome, and which, after ceremony, are
ontided to the care of certain nuns until the ]