The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-02
BREAKFAST CHAT.

DOLLY SEXTON, of Mount Lebanon, has been with
the Shakers of that place since she five years old
She is 1G7 now.
THE charge against California JUDGES of fr1olity
and the specification is that he puts his hair in papers
every night, woman fashion to make it curl when he is
on the bench next day.
THE Pope of Rome is richly favored A London
lady who has been in the habit of contributing 800
900 year to Peters pence recently died and be-
queathed the Pope So, 100000.
Mrs. LOUISE LYMAN of Cabot, Mass, made clothes
line from thecombings of her hair. She began the in
dustry in 1929 and made 100 feet of the cord which
the family used for years clotheslnes.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL is now in San Francisco,
after visiting the Mormons at Salt Lake City. Pres
dent Taylor and the leading officers of the Mormon
Church courteousy afforded her ample facilities for
her inquiries among their people and She lectured to
large audience at the Salt Lake Thester.
THE two highest salaried Governors of the States
those of New York and Pennsylvania who receive
$40, 900 year each. Next California, Nevada,
and Illinois at Sc 600 each. The Governors of Colo
RADIO, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri New Jersey vir-
ginia, and Wisconsin are paid So, 900 each.
JOHN r. RAYMOND, who is inveterate gamester,
tried to match somebody for his broughan and herse
against 81 900 bill Not finding amy matches he
1afed the turnout for sixty chances at 25 each At
the beginning OF MS season LdsI year ne won
horses and a set of harness by matching a coin.
LONDON Truth says: THE lectures which have
been delivered by Mr.. Matthew Arnold during his
stay in America will be published directly upon bis
return home; and hear that in the autumn wo may
look for volume in which will be recorded his i'm.
pressions' of the United States and their inhabitants
A FARMER from Pocahontas county, West Virginia,
appeared in Staunton, the other day searching for
auction block and auctoneer. He dumb.
founded when told that there were no slave auctions
in Virginia. He returned to his mountain home I'M
able to sell the two slaves that he desired sell He
had cultivated his farm all these years in ignorance Of
the emancipation proclamation.
REFERRING to the mania for tall budings.in New
York, the Mail and Express says; 1T ought to
cur to every intelligent person that the lower stories
of tall building will suffer quite much sur
rounding structures from the effect of its towering
height upon the air and light in the street below and
therefore builders will their walls far enough
heavenward to make them nuisance"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS writes to friend in Chicago:
Thanks for your kind and thoughtful words of
graduation In a time like this, when the heathen
rage and the people imagine vain thing it is good to
have a word of support and friendship from true
man like yourself. L remember the of W. G.
Allen and Miss Mary King. have done that which,
if l had boon deferred from doing should have
branded myself a moral coward"
ABOUT two years ago Queen Victoria erected very
pretty Swiss chalet in Ballochbuie forest Bal
moral. It has never yet been occupied by her, and
she has only visited it twice in order to drink
tea there. The Queen has sent orders to her head
forester at Balmoral to have the chalet taken to
pieces as she proposes show at the International
Forestry Exhibition which is to be held in Edinburgh.
She will also exhibit number of specimens of Scotch
nj Ral from bhua
THE late Herr Lasker was shy to a fault in private
society and his German friends declare that the
son he nevor married was his excessive modesty of
disposition. Yet (says of his friends) the
who trembled before the beings he loved, more
than occasion summoned courage to beard Prince
Bismarck in the fercest moment. All the world
knows that the Prince is hard and unsparng hitter.
and his enemies report that he does not hesitate
times to strike below the belt He held Herr Lasker
in special aversion
CONSIDERABLE comment was excited at recent
wedding in Boston by the extraordinary preeaution
taken to keep out people who not invited. The
guests were the sidewalks by policeman who
demanded ticket, another policeman stood at the
entrance the awning desiring to the ticket the
sexton at the door took up the ticket fourth person
directed the friends of the contracting parties to go
on one side of the church the other and lastly tina
Of favored guests placed and all persons who
were not down for seats permitted to shift for
Themselves.
WHEN Parliament meets next week for business Sir
Henry Brand will take the chair and will occupy it
until after the address has been voted, the debate
which may occupy several days. He will then
nounce his retirement when address will be pro-
posed by Mr. Gladstone and seconded by Sir Stafford
Northcote, to the Queen, asking her to confer the
usual mark of favor peerage and pension Mr..
Arthur Peel the government candidate, and Sir NJ
White Ridley, the Conservative, viii then be pro-
posed. Whom Sir Henry Brand nominated in
February, 1872, he proposed by Sir ROUNDED
Palmer the present Lord Chancellor Selborne, and
seconded by Mr. Locke King advanced Liberal,
since dead Mr. Peel who is of stately presence, and,
like his father the late Sir Robert Peel somewhat of
a solemn swell has filled precisely the same position
as Sir Henry Brand-whipper in. He is fifty-foW
years old, and is certain Of election.