The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

Mr.. PAUL DE CASsAGNAC lately received a bequest
of 5000, 900 from NJ. Julien, a devoted friend.
THE orchid, it is said, will be the favorite flower of
the fashionable world this winter. The day of the
daisy has passed.
A SUBSCRIBER advertises for "a plain girl to cook"
He probably was afraid he would be hanged if he
cooked a pretty girl.
BARON NoRDENsKJoLD wants to conduct an expe-
dition to the South pole, and has gone to st. Peters
burg to obtain assistance.
COLONEL HIGGINsoN resigns his post as editorial
correspondent of the Woman's Journal, Boston, after
holding it for fifteen years.
THE Prince of Wales is only forty-three. But if
you count his age, on the little darky's plan, by the
fun he's had, he's most 300.
THE Lord Mayor of London is a Methodist lay
preacher, and recently delivered a sermon at the
opening of a Methodist church.
AFTER his visit to Naples, King Humbert refrained
for three weeks from visiting his wife and child, to
avoid injecting them with cholera germs.
WHEN it is remembered that Patti has to pay the
cost of her divorce suit, those persons who have had
to pay fancy prices for Patti tickets will understand
how things are.
LAWRENCE BARRETT has just received information
from Germany that he is a grandfather. Ten months
ago one of Mr.. Barrett's daughters married q distin-
guished German.
Mrs. ROBERT DOWNING. the wife of the actor, is a
relative of Aaron Burr. and greatly resembles the en-
cravings of his beautiful but Inflated daughter, Theo-
dosia Burr Allston.
PROGRESS says: "Few ladies continue their piano
playing long after marriage" Does Progress make
this announcement in order to encourage young men
to enter MISUNDERSTANDING Herald.
FELIX EMMANUEL HENRY PHILIPPorEAUX, the
French historical painter, who has just died in France,
was the father of Paul Philioppoteaux, who produced
the panoramas THE Siege of Paris" and The Battle
of Gettysburg"
THE name fustian comes from Fostat, now the
modern Cairo cambria, from Cambria; baize. from
Bajac; dimity from Damietta; drugget, from Drogheda,
Blankets were named after Thomas Blanket, a famous
English clothier.
ST. JAMEss GAZETTE, cndeavoring to fnd the
reason for the perennial popularity of Hamlet"
asks: is not the reason the fact that the very com
plexity and v~acillation of the character appeal to that
sense Of doubt and uncertainty which is common to
US ALP
THE editor of a Michigan journal says: we will
not issue a paper next week. The Office needs bat
tening up for The winter. Besides, we have now lived
more than a year within seventeen miles of our
fathers home, and have not yet found time to go
there, and now go there we must"
THEthing that makes us sad and sore,
And anything but gay,
Is to think about the canpaign-jokes
That on Election Day
Flowed through our pate,
When to use them was too late.
Two friends who had not communicated for some
time now meet under circumstances not suggestive of
gloom, and after ELUSIVE greetings: First gent
Qoq)-"And the good wife9" Second gent with due
solemnityl-'In heaven-two years First gent
MY dear fellow, I'm shocked to hear it."
STRAUSS remarkable popularity in Vienna, as
lately shown on the occasion of his anniversary fes-
tival, is said to be due to the influence which his
waltzes have had in stimulating dancing, by which
young people have been brought together and matri.
mony promoted. The Viennese say he is the greatest
matchmaker in Vienna.
CoNGREssMAN-ELEcT Truman Adams Merriman,
of New York, is said to be a 'lady's man" beyond
compare. 1t is alleged that when the Goddess of
Liberty on the Capitol at Washington was informed
of Col. Merriman's election a flush mantled her fore
head, and she exclaimed: When the members-elect
ascend the steps, 1 shall bow to him alone"
LACE is lavshly worn again, but in this century the
demand for it is confined to women, whereas in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mon, too, ex-
pended huge sums on ruffes and wristbands. In
1890 the expenditure of William III for lace was
$S,Ol5; in 1894, nearly $4,000; in 1895, $12,-
300. Queen Anne also lavished money on Mechlin
and Brussels.
IT is reported that the Queen will place buckingham
Palace at the service of the Prince of Wales, giving
Marlborough House to Prince Victor. Under the
clamor that has been made by the Radical press. the
Board of Admiralty have refused to give to Prince
Leiningen, the Queens cousin, the post of Admiral at
the More, and have placed him on the retired list. The
Queen is said to be trying to arrange a marriage De-
tween Prince Victor and Princess Marie, of Belgium.
MIR. ". S. GILBERT's sensitiveness is great, accord
ing to Sergeant Bsllantine. That gentleman says in
his new book: mn. Gilbert told me a very curious
trait in connection with himself, which ne was quite
unable to struggle against-he was incapable of being
present before the curtain al any of his own pieces;
and once, when the Prince of Wales, who occupied a
box in a theater during the performance of one of
them, desired his presence, he was obliged, after re-
manning a short time, to beg the permission of his
Royal Highness to retire"
BENJAMIN WEsr's great picture, Christ Healing
the Sick, " which was originally presented by him to
the Pennsylvania Hospital, in Philadelphia, has, after
a number of removals, found its way back there again,
and is now hung in the clinical lecture hall. When it
was first received the trustees had a special structure
erected on the hospital grounds for It's public exhibit
ton, the fees being a considerable source of income.
Then the painting was placed in the Academy of Fine
Arts. and it was afterward removed to the insane de-
partment, in West Philadelphia. The renewed inter
est felt in the work of West rs a native of Philadel-
phia has led to its being honored with an appropriate
location.
COLONEL DUNCAN McRAE, of North Carolina, is
mentioned by the Raleigh Observer in this interesting
connection: 1.-THE venerable Colonel is one of the two
men living who spoke to the Marquis de Lafayette
when ne made his triumphal tour through North
Carolina in 1924. Young McRae, then aged six, was
a natural orator, and was selected to make an address
welcoming the eminent Frenchman to Cross Greek, or
'Fayette's Landing as it was called until incorporated
as the town of Fsyette's Vile, or Fayetteville. The
other person referred to is Mr.. W, S. Harris, a vener-
able and esteemed citizen of Cabarrus. He is the only
survivor Of the troop of cavalry which met Lafayette