The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-01
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.

alike that they distinguished one from the other
by red white and blue ribbons tied about their wrists
observations on the Climate of New York.
JOHN SHERMAN began life a rod man the
Muskngum canal in 1887 the first year of President
Van Burens administration HIS father removed to
Ohio because his deputies in the office of internal
erue collector in Connecticut plundered him au6
broke him up
IT is denied in quarters that there is any genu
inc Mocha coffee in the markets. but it is said that
very good imitation Mocha is supplied from Rio coffee
called pea berry. But there dealers who declare
that they regularly import true Mocha brands, and
protest against assertions to the contrary
THERE groans the prodigious expense of
the London school board. 1t has cost $25, 900 900
to provide SHOOT buildings for $50 276 pupils, and
even large proportion of the poorest children
have not been reached. About 5000 parents have
been summoned to police courts annually for not
sending their children to school
SIMEON SHORTER, Birmingham workman, who
presented Mr. Gladstone with an AK has received the
following letter: Mr.. Gladstone desires me to ex
press to you bis best thanks for the detailed account
of the making of the which you kindly presented
to him. Although Mr.. Gladstone is 10th deface it's
polish in any degree he feels bound to contemplate
making trial with it. in order to the effect of
made wholly of steel"
AN ex-confederate story teller says that during
of Lees battles near Richmond he saw a comrade OF
his knees with his hands held high above his head
crying out: Come along, furough along" He
wanted to have finger taken off by bullet that he
could go home. An officer came up behind him and
gave him violent kick. The soldier cried; IF thai
amt discharge I'll be hanged" He said afterwarr
that he thought piece of burst shell had struck
him
PRETTY Mrs Wise, of virginia says: when my
busb nd VASE 70 xyould nofQO
to Washington as had nothing My friends
wrote to get out the family laces and my
old dresses, SO here am, as you see, with my
grandmothers aces all over my gowns These laces
have been the envy of all beholders. She is a fair
blonde, with slender, graceful figure and her grand
mother laces with their age hundred years, have
been all sufficient
THE following selections, from his writings, have
been selected for Ben Hills statue by the committee
in charge: HE who SAVES his country all
things and all things saved do bless him. who let's his
country die lets all things die, dies himself ignobly
and all things dying curse him. For the reverse
side: "The Constitution should know section, but
should know all the States" On one side pece I'VE
are in fathers house, brothers COM
panions and here to stay thank God forever"
On the other side will be brief recsrd of the
tors public and professional hfe
THE statue of the Duke of Wellington is to be re-
moved from Hyde Park corner 20 Aldershot, il the
streets bear the weight of the hero of Waterloo
and his horse. The monument is of kind that has
to be looked at from great distance to be apprecia
ted, and this was not to be had in the spacious
Hyde Park corner The Duke of Buccleuch is horri.
fed at the removal He would sacrifice art and good
taste to patriotic sentiments and says; 'An ideal
horse and an ideal man could be designed and cast
work of art but this statue of the Duke has merits
which an ideal statue could not have.
'THE embonpoint of ex- Queen Isabella Of SPAIN
says Lucy Hooper, is really extraordinary and she
increases her apparent size by always dressing in pale
delicate tnts pearl gray in the day time and white at
night being her favorite colors. Her features are
large her eyes blue and her complexion ford. At
times her skin bears the marks of the hereditary Bour
bon malady namely, scrofula from which the entire
royal family of Spain great sufferers Her man
ners are charming. No princess in Europe returns
salutation with admirable blending of courtesy
and dignity receives visitor with royal
grace"
DUMAs's rights in Camille have realized $780,
900. Marguerite Gauthier sketched from the
deminondaine Marie Duplessis on whose tomb Du-
mas places every November wreath The original
of Armand Duval is alive. He wrote a splendid phi
losophical letter Marie announcing that he must
put an end to their aison. She accepted it mat
ter of course and sent him banterng reply rolled up
in the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor humorousy
adding: when one writes such brilliant letter
deserves to be decorated and the lover strange to
say was decorated with the Legion of Honor, and
owes it little to his association with the brilliant
ney.makipg drama, where he was unconscously so
central figure.
AN old bachelor German immigrant, sixty-seven
years of age who is tng the soil in Dakota firing of
his solitary lot but finding helpmeet near wrote
some time ago TO his aged mother in Germany asking
her TO choose and send him wife She replied that
she knew the right woman, but she living in Bra
zi She wrote to the woman however, inclosing the
sons photograph, describing him and his life, and
proposing to her to share it. The suggestion found
favor in her eyes and through the mother the
so informed. Further correspondence followed Civ
ing directisns and the of travel, and few
weeks ago the heroine of this singular triangular
came from Brazil to New York and thence went West
TO meet her coming husband.
In the far west Of British Guiana lofty tableland
rises high above the the savanna itself at that point
5 900 feet above the This is Roraima reported
to be the home Of tribes that have long dwelt in
plete isolation On the side that has been examined
the cliffs rise perpendiculary 1000 feet above the
plain and white has as yet succeeded in reach
ing the top. Mr.. Thurin, whose travels in British
Guiana have recently been published suggests path
as vet untried by which he believes the secret of
Roraina may be penetrated. No one has been around
the foot of the plateau it is possible that the cliffs
upon the furthest eide may be less perpendicular A
rich harvest will doubtless reward the botanist or
naturalist who first penetrates this unexplored dis
trcti but the way is difficult and the expedition one
NOT TO be lightly undertaken
NEARLY all the recent prenliers of England have
enjoyed the advantage of having had wives of great
devotion and considerable ability to whose tender
care and sympathy in their ambition they have been
largely indebted. The Devotion of the Countess of
Russell who is still living and tho Countess of Bea
consheld had something of romance Mrs. Gladstone,