The Indianapolis journal., 1884-11-09
MORNING TABLE CHAT.

ADRUG-TRADE journals advertising new patent
medicine which is declared be the only specific for
the fear of lightning"
DoN CARLOS recently expressed his confidence that
the crown of Spain would devove him at Alfonsos
death and meanwhile he will make no further effort to
secure it.
IT is to be hoped that the Earl of Lauderdales
will break the i'll luck of his immediate prede
cessors for there have been three holders of the title
in the last years.
THE improvement in the London Times under it's
new editor is marked and steady. Not only is the
mere editing much better done now, but it is evi
dent pains are taken get little blood into it's
old veins.
DR.. GEORGE I. ELLIS has offered 5000 per word
for any information concerning John Harvard, the
founder of Harvard College. The information must
be, in newspaper pariance, "beat" and information
not known to DR.. Ellis.
PERE HYACINTHE, who married American in
1872 is popular in Paris and gains only scanty
support there by occasional lectures The scene of
his former glory, Notre Dame continues, however to
be the most fashionable church in Paris.
DR.. G. JOHNSON lately told the British Medical
Association of patient of his, fty6ve years old who
had lived upon milk diet for five years. He took
gallon of milk day, but not particle of any other
THE Memphis Medical Monthly says of the Cincin-
natl Board of Health: Whereas this organization
formerly consisted of five saloonkeepers and
quack DOCTOR boast Of the retrem en of the
latter and the election in his stead of street paver
DIR. MARCY, of Paris, has succeeded in measuring
the motive power of the human body developed in
he shows that something is gained in the power of
walking by quickenng the pace from forty seventy
five steps per minute. But the latter figure is the
extreme limit with greater number of steps power
would be lost instead of gained.
AN independent Republican suggests that the char
acter of Grover Cleveland and Maria Halpn al e de-
scribed in II Kings xiii 15 and 16 as follows:
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the
hatred wherewith he hated her greater than the
love wherewith he had loved her; and Amnon said
unto her, Arise, begone.' And she said unto him.
There is cause; this evil in sending me away is
greater than the other that thou ddst unto me- But
he would not hearken unto her."
THE question to the habtability of the planets
has lately been discussed with much ability by Prof
Mcfarland. His conclusions that the four large
outer planets have not sufficiently cooled down to
allow life their surface such is the earth
that Mars gives all telescope and spectroscopic prob
abilities of conditions compatible with life as we see
it, that the th certainly for millions of years. has
been covered with multfarous life; that in respect TO
Venus and Mercury certain evidence or knowledge
presents ITSELF and that tho satellites are manifesty
fitted for such life the earth exhibts-the moon
in particular, having water and no atmosphere.
The real Queen Anne house was unlike that of the
present Queen Anne revival both outside and inside
Wren and Vanbrugh would be indeed surprised if
they could the strange works that now done,
if not in their at least in the of the age
for which they built their heavy plain solid houses
says Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, in his history of 1.-THE
Four Georges" Inside, the rooms were, a rule,
sparingy furnished. There would be center-table,
some chairs settee few pictures, mirror, spin
net some shelves, and of course, heavy windowcur-
tains Wallpapers had only begun to come in use
within the few last years of Anne's reign
THE career of Madame de Kolemines first husband
about whom nobody seems to know anything, turns
out to be as curious as that of his quondam wife
brilliant officer in the Russian service, he hsd to
leave it for keeping private gaming establishment
St Petersburg. He then became member Of the
Paris eunesse doree and although at first secuted by
his compatriots, his liberality soon made him very
popular at Bignon's, the headquarters of Russian
elegants At last his means which he annually
cruited at Monte Carlo began to fail him. and he then
as a private The latest news of him was from Al
geria.
Mr.. HowELLs is discussedgat length in the West
minister Review. The writer is of the opinion that
'Mr Howels's novels finally adapted for lower
order of readers than those who capable of fully
approaching writer of the first order" Again. he
says that Mr.. Howells to oscillate between
the desire cater for the popular appetite and lean
:. and ha nd wit,
verdict that this gifted sympathetic unphilosophical
novelist, with his acuteness and his blindness, his
fecites and his inefciencies, may be link between
a past school and future school; an intermediate
type in the evolution of fctona arti but remember
ing the fate of intermediate types cannot promise
him Immortality"
ARTIFICIAL dimples all the rage in Chicago.
One lady displays two diinples either arm. The
genius to whom she submitted herself first placed
small glass tuba the spot where the dmpls was
desired By sucking tho air out of the tube no raised
slight protuberanco and then dsftly tied round it