The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

always appends to his autograph the motto, do the
BEST leave the rest"
H. O. HoUGHToN, the publisher, will give the 500
employees in his press establishment half holiday
full pay from now until September.
THE ADMINISTRATION Society in England was very
fourshng until smallpox appeared in London. Then
it declined and is now merely the fad" of few
fanatics.
A Boston correspondentsays that Miss Sarah O.
Jewett is considered ''the handsomest woman among
all female authors with the possible exception of
Mrs. Blanche Howard.
AN old friend of the novelist, who has lately been
abroad says Thackerays wife is still living and still
suffering from mental arrangement, carefully watched
over in the house of a friend.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FoLGER is very
proud of his ancestry. People frequently remark to
him his resemblance to DIR. Benjamin Franklin. The
invariable answer comes: 81 have right to- Frank
Inns mother Folger."
SERGEANT BALLANTINE who has had lifelong
struggle for notoriety a lecturer and author is
now at work on another boundto-be stll-bon book
comparing English and American practice of the law
JUSTICE MILLER, of the Supreme Court with his
family, is on his way to the West far as the
Northern Pacific railway will carry him, and says that
in search for GOODNESS this he may extend his
journey to Alaska.
NJ WERLE, chief of the veuve Cliquot Champagne
firm died two weeks ago. leaving property worth So
600 900 francs. Sixty years ago he was employed as
clerk in the same house. and subsequently married
the oldest daughter of the head of the firm.
OLD Mr.. Sibley, the librarian emeritus of Harvard
College is rapidly recovering from his recent Illness
and there is a general fear that he will be strong
enough to lead the singing at the commencement din
ner has been his habit for the last half century.
HAYFEvER people will doubtless be pleased to learn
that English physician in his intense determination
to discover the of the disease deliberately ex-
perimented himself with the pollen of flowers and
succeeded in learning its origin by becoming victim
to its pains.
THERE is a tomcat in Albany Ga, which had one
rat in its mouth when another by where he had
been stationed and he caught the second rat with his
feet and held him securely without letting go the
one he had in his mouth, At another time he caught
three mice at plunge
A NOVELTY in the way of excursions is a crcum
navigation of Africa by the pupils of the High-schoo
of Commerce, of Milan, Italy, for the purpose of
quainting them with markets for Italian produce
professor accompanies them, to lecture about the
commercial geography of Africa during the voyage
IT is never too late. Etienne Pradier, of Auroux,
France lived contentedly bachelor until he was just
one hundred and then turned to thoughts of love.
young school-teacher accepted him, and he lived with
her happily for eight years before old age really got
the best of him. The loving couple bad child in
the time.
LORD RONALD COVER will write an introduction
for and will edit Miss Sarah Tytler's Forthcoming
life of Queen Victoria" which is described as the
first real attempt to give true and actual story" and
is believed to be a book that will give less about
Brown and more regarding Victoria than of the
recent publications have done
AN Anglomana school has been opened in Chicago,
in a quiet way, and is attended by limited number
of weak-rninded young The presiding genius
is. said to be an English hostler who with
the Lorilards and he has opened an establishment
and processes be able teach his pupils cocney
slang and English club etiquette
THE other day visitor surprised distinguished
professor who saying to his baby, "On-ny nony,
emussy tick his little footsy tootses. just then he
caught sight of the visitor, blushed and mutteredi
No no, you must not expose your pedal extremities
by extending them beyond the protecting covering of
the blanket, you will lay your system open to at
tacks of catahrral affection"
AT the battle of Ell Teb Baker Pasha struck
the right cheek, just below the eye by ball which
buried itself in the upper jaw The missile, which
was of iron, afterward removed, and found
weigh three ounces but despite the severity of the
wound which it made the General kept his seat until
loss of blood compelled him to retire. recent
operation in England brought to light the terrible
ture of the injury, but the patient is recovering
REMARKABLE speech delivered at a recent
Conservative meeting at Malvern. England by GER
tain Rev. F. Hopkinson. According to his own pub
lie confession he is deeply impressed with
of the appalling consequences which must from
the wicked policy of the present government that he
daily thanks God" that he is the last of his and
has no one to come after him and fall victim to the
dreadful doom which Mr. Gladstone will entail upon
the country.
PARIS correspondent to the New York Times
notes as the latest sport of the young gommeux in
that festive city the custom of offering supper in
of the swell restaurants which the host gives the
room and the lights the guests being allowed only the
food which they bring and which they must steal on
the way to the rendezvous The table usually dis
plays remarkable aptitude the part of the guests
70 help themselves The Duke de Morny was the
originator of this rather questionable fashion.
THE Rev. Robert Laird Collier, in speaking of Lon
don saws: There is no instakng the American any
where On the streets in the galleries. at the thea
ters he is to be met. For one, am always glad to
meet him. He is the heartiest, the frankest all in all
the truest man to be found walking il shoe leather
He is different from all other foreigners In London
He speaks the same language as the Englishman.
can instantly understand all he is saying and so it is
that his voice. and intonaton, and accent seem some
what unframed, and, perhaps, just the least bit
derbred."
ONE of the most extraordinary instances Of the rise
in value of picture is the story of The Monarch of
the Glen" Landseer painted it for the adornment of
the House of Lords; it returned to him. with
civil note of thanks and refusal to hang it on the
walls of ''the Upper House" purchaser, however,
came forward shortly after the illustrious animal
painter had received this snub, and became the pos
SCISSOR of tho picture for $1,000. Early last May,