The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-12
Of the Democratic party, and the solid vote Of
the workingmen of the country will be cast for
James G.. Blaine
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT,

aches since she thrown from sleigh in Can
ada
UNCLE HENRY LOGAN, the colored messenger Of
the Registers Office in Washington who handles more
| money than any other man living earns 1920 year
and lives in a $40 month cottage,
JOHN KELLY is said to have done the mason work
in quite number Of buildings that standing
in New York city. He of the finest resi-
dences there now however and is worth half amilon.
SAYS the venerable Marshal Canrobert: II ami
Christian, sir am Catholic, though not a very
Roman one, and do not often practice my religion
Still, for all that, when summoned to quit the
scene shall ask God to sign my marching orders
/ PREMIER GLADsToNE's wife has begun series of
Wednesday evening receptions which assemble all
sorts and conditions Of men and women including all
the foreign ambassadors resident in London all the
members of Parliament and Mr.. Tenniel the cartoon.
ist and caricaturst of Punch.
In the Luray cavern, the guide remarks, Nov
will show you the browning wonder Of all and points
to little circular depression in the roca perfect
bird nestand there, carry out the illusion, is
little white egg smooth and perfect in shape as reality
There three, but some yandal stole the others.
The bankers of Paris recently petitoned the French
government obtain the abolition of the law Of 1791
which authorizes the mayors of communes to FIX the
price at which bread shall be sold The law remains
in active force at but few places being in reality al
most dead letter but its action is only suspended
and at any time it might be revived
GENERAL GRANT is at Long Branch for the SUM
mer. He has discarded his crutches, and is able to
walk with stout The injury sustained to his
hip last Christmas is still source of trouble howevery
Though there is not the slightest soreness under man
ipulaton there is weakness of the entire limb which
displays itself the moment he stands on it.
i IT is estimated that $500 people were damaged
physically the GLORIOUS Fourth If all the eyes,
ears, hair fragments of skin nails fingers and even
lives that have been sacrificed during the past
fury in celebrating national independence had been
4 in condition to under the immortal George the
whole revolution might have been settled at Bunker
Hill
JOAQUIN MILLER attracts attention In Washington
| by of his log cabin In corner as you enter
the is eagles nest containing six eggs Over
the mantel are hung photographs The logs gayly
festooned with bowie knives, firearms swords hornet
nests wild flowers, Mexican saddles and hunting para
phernaa, letters from noted personages and Indian
! trophies
Sunsbury thirteen miles from Hartford Conn, from
New Orleans, with his family. They have leased
comfortable old residence for the summer, not far
| from the home of Salie P. Mclean, the writer of
! sCape Cod Folks" Mr. Gable is to devote the sum
to his literary work. with the intention Of bring
! ing out book in the fall
THE venerable father of Miss P. Couzins has been
appointed United States marshal for the eastern dis
trict of Missouri He is curious looking old gentle
man, with very short legs and weary eyes He al
tends all the female suffrage conventions and takes
pardonable delight in pointing his eloquent daugh
ter and proudly saying: I'm her father She calls
him pa" just like any other girl but he invariably
answers her with polite yes. marm,o mo,
marin"
THE Woman Herald of Industry and Social Science
Co-operator is female suffrage paper which is pub
lished at San Francisco It wants
IA woman in the White House,
A woman on the throne,
woman for Governor"
And it has ticket at the head of its columns which
reads
EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY
For President Of the United States,
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUEIwAY.
For Governor of California,
CLARA SHoRTRIDGE FoLTz.
THE Gardeners Monthly laughs at the govern.
bunders failures in its efforts to raise tea
in this country, while nrrserymen were aware all
the time that there real difficulty in the way
The Monthly says: The tea plant has been grown
successfully, and is still growing successfully in
many parts of the South. Tea has been made from
the leaves good and cheap as the Chinese ever
made Let the government give but bounty-pro-
l.
vate enterprise and we viii guarantee the success Of
the Chinese tea plant tea product in America. ("
THE northern coast Of Nicaragua is the site of the
Mosquito kingdom. Although an integral portion Of
the republic of Nicaragua the government exercises
but nominal control over it. By treaty with the
British cabinet Nicaragua acknowledged the Mos
| quito king as sovereign of this strip of land and
| agreed to pay him a subsidy of $1,000 per annum
When that particular king killed himself through
drinking the English missionaries elected ilegt
mate son Of the royal family to succeed him. Since
that epoch the Nicaraguan government has ceased to
pay the stipulated subsidy although it figures in each
appropriation.
ATTENTION is given to the singular theory in Lon
don that lmindreading. as of late exhibited is
based on the muscular action Of the hand. At re-
cent sitting Of savants and amateurs, expert DEM
onstrated, in manner wholly satisfactory to the
spectators his interesting proficiency in musceread
ing Though he admitted that he could not succeed
against determined opposition, and declared it i'm.
possible to read abstract thoughts the attend
ing his direct efforts surprising He says that
the delicate muscles Of the hand respond to the pro-
cesses of thought and that mental action mas its
| respoudence in muscular movement.
| SUCH of the Egyptian peasants have received
some little culture know that the waters of the Nile
come from the ''land of the dark men'-from the
mountains Of Abyssnia In 1874, at the time Of the
war with Abyssinia, it happened that the Nile was
slow to rise and the opinion expressed that the
King Of Dabeseh was fulfilling an accent threat Of
Ethiopian kings to lead off the Nile beforet entrance
into Egypt througha canal into the Red Sea- Bit the
nhabitan Of the isolated inland villages has not
suchlghts these Should you ask him to the
Nile and its origin he would, with grateful glance
toward heaven, answer, simply, Min Allah! that is
from God or from heaven.
The coyote is the Oregon herder's willy enemy.
He is constantly the warpath and takes pains to
conceal the fact. If the sheep wander away from the