The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
BREAKFAST TABLE TALK.

G w. CHILDs of the Philadelphia Ledger, walks
ten miles every day.
VANDERBGLTs private gallery contains one hundred
and seventy paintings and is the finest collection of
pictures in America
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY is about to confer the hon
orary degree of doctor of laws upon Dr. Fordyee Ba
kerr president of the New York Academy of Medicine.
KELLY, the motor man, wears magnificent solitaire
diamond stud and solitaire diamond on his little left
finger, drives fast horse 80 handsome top buggy,
has jet black whskers and hair bright black eye,
handsome physique and dresses fautlessly.
OLIVE LOGAN photographs Minister Lowells wife
fineloong lady ofmddle age, not the thin, puny,
typical American woman generally seen abroad but
an almost English of we-deveoped proper
TONS with an agreeable smile and pleasant voice.
FANNY CARTER formerly belle of Boston is now
Mrs Ronads of London, where she is quite conspicu
in society and created sensation lately at
charity fair by appearing in headdress of nertwined
American and British flags, while the skirt of her
costume fringed with of tiny cooking utensils.
WE have it on the authority of the New York Sun
that lady sixty years old residing in Rochester, n
Y. skated from that city to Brockport twenty miles
in hour and twenty-five minutes. The Philadelphia
Press next, with the story that Mrs. Hannah
Simon of Newark, N. j., recently celebrated her
ninety ninth birthday by watzing for ten minutes.
his office kissing his children. He has collected good
deal of data going show that many forms of disease
may be transmitted by kissing also, that diseases
caught in this way virulent than when
tracted by other means He favors law making it a
punishable oense for diseased person to kiss chill
dren.
In 1910 when the cholera devastating Russia.
Tourgueneffs mother learned that the infection
spread by bacteria which pervaded the air. She had
the steward of her household build her sedan chair
with glass sides and top, in which shewas carried
through the streets to church and shopping tours
She fancied that the bacteria could not get at her
while thus closely penned up.
WHEN Mr.. Parnel in prison at Dublin an Amer
lean correspondent nterV iewed him the effect of
the norent manifesto, and incidentally asked him how
his own tenants obeying. ''Spenddly, SPLEEN
didly" remarked Parnell. They are the most faith
full I4and-leaguers in Ireland" It appears from the
suit for the recovery of rents brought in the Dublin
courts that they continued TO obey the manifesto af
ter it was withdrawn
A NEW YORK correspondent writes of Mrs.
Langtry that her toward the members of her
company and all the humber attaches of the profes
sion to which she has allied herself declared alta
BILE and charming and with the true instinct of the
woman of society, she takes pains TO make herself
agreeable to every with whom she comes in
tact. She is far sincerely admired behind the
curtain than before it, and if you have any doubt to
her claims to greatness consult the stage doorkeeper
or the call boy-who has none.
FEBRUARY % was the anniversary of Rossinis
birthday who, of course, had birthday only every
four years which made him ask a young lady who
dined with him on February %. 1864, and whose
nineteenth birthday the day before WHO is, i'll
your opinion. younger--a who celebrates his
eighteenth anniversary young lady who celebrates
her nineteenth birthday When she said the young
man of the eighteenth anniversary, he replied, well
l am that young man, and consequently am younger
than you. You said so yourself"
CURIOUS incident is related in regard to the re-
cent death of DIR. Yandell in louisville, Ky. On the
day of his death he called physician, and the sub
iect of choral being mentioned he told his friend of
ease that had come under his notice A patient suf-
fered much from trouble with his heart and while suf
fcring severely SUNNI oned DIR. Yandell. DIR. Yandel
administered dose of choral which he assured his
patient would relieve him. 1t did some good for
few moments but then the patient fell back in his
chair and died, 1t was said DIR. Yandel in speaking