The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-02
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


CELERY shipments from Kalamazoo now average
forty tons per day.
IT is said that all the Presidents of che United States
have had blue eyes except General Harrison-and he
didn't live long
In the twenty years ending in 1883 the lottery
players of Italy turned into the royal treasury $685.
100000. Count Cavour called the lottery 1.-The tax
on fools"
CHURCH bell at Saratoga recently rang 104 times
one stroke for each year of its existence Thsis the
only instance on record where the age of Saratoga
belle has been tolled.
EXCAVATIONS of daily occurrence on the battle-
field of Austerlitz with the view of finding certain
boxes containing million of francs said to have been
buried there by Napoleons generals
BALTIMORE Herald: A Kentucky man recently
threw glass of water in friends face and instantly
killed him. 1t is supposed that few drops Of the
fluid entered his mouth and were swallowed
WHEN playing Lady Macbeth, Bernhardt always
kept to the literal historic accuracy of the piece and
appeared the stage with her feet as heaven FASH
toned them-an exploit attempted by else.
AN ingenious has devised plan for getting
satisfaction from her spouses SHORES.
When he gets well under way she ties mouth harr
monicon under his nose and she declares the music 10
lovely
The gold medal which was given some years ago to
been deposited in the bank at San jose CAL is BE-
sent to Owen Brown the now living at the age Of
sixty, Putin Bay island Lake Erie
The freengnes in Italian cities are still the same
little hand-pumps used in the beginning of this
century; not single steam freengine exists the
peninsula, owing to the rarity of fires but
ment is now on foot to introduce steam engines aC
cording to American Style
ADEALER in cod-liver oil In Marseilles advertises
that his fish caught in safe and quiet harbor,
where marine monsters cannot enter to brighten them
into diseases of the liver They live there he says
in peace and comfort their lives are healthy and this
is why my cod-liver oil is the best"
AN English surgeon says that shaving is deadly
practice and if steadily INDUCED in shortens life by
several years. and Arabs believe that washing the face
is simply indirect form of suicide 1t is not there
fore without that the tramp looks with noble
upon these practices of degenerate civilza-
ton.
AN old soldier writes to the London Truth that the
survivors of Haveocks column, which saved the
presidency of Lucknow with the loss of sixty officers
and seven hundred men, have never received clasp.
Truth asks if this does not contrast strangely with the
medals and decorations (which have been lavished
upon troops in Egypt for putting to fight few trem-
bling fellahs"
THE people of New Orleans are alarmed lest the
d
rush to the Gulf through the Atchafalaya and leave
the city island town. The steady enlargement Of
the Atchafaaya is viewed with grave apprehension,
such DETECTION would irreparably njure not only
Now Orleans but all the plantations between that city
and the mouth of the river.
! For my own part writes John Fske II believe
in the Immortality of the soul not in the is
which accept the demonstrable truths of science.
but supreme act of faith in the reasonableness OF
Gods work" Coming from Mr. Fiske" remarks
the Boston Transcript, this is surely remarkable
statement, for Darwin wrote of the vague and con-
| Trajectory probabilities of future life
THIS is the why cats wash their faces after
meals: cat caught sparrow, and was about to
devour it, but the sparrow said mo gentleman eats
me till he has first washed his face" The cat struck
with this remark set the sparrow down and began to
wash his face with his paw, but the sparrow flew
away. This vexed puss exceedingly, and he said:
"As long l live will eat first and wash my face
afterward." Which all cats do to this day.
WHEN both parents have eyes of the same color SO
cent of the children follow their parents this
feature and of the II per born with eyes other
than the parental color part be attributed to
intermittent heredity. More females than males have
black brown eyes in the proportion of 40 to As.
With different colored eyes in the yarents SO per
cent of the children follow the fathers in being dark
darkeyed.
HERDS of elephants usually consist of from thirty
to fifty Individuals but much larger numbers. even
upward Of hundred, are by no means un-
common. herd is always led by a female never by
male. In localities where fodder is scarce large
herd usually divides into parties of from ten to
twenty. These remain at little distance from
each other but all take part in any common move
ment such as a march into another tract of forest
These separate parties family groups, consisting
of old elephants with their children and grand.
children
MOST people in this country pronounce the word
| 'been' to rhyme with ''sin" or din" In England
Scotland Ireland Canada, Australia, Nova Scotia,
and south Africa, it is made to rhyme with "seen"
and between" Where did the Americans get their
pronunciation of this wordl traveller who has been
looking into the matter has discovered that this queer
pronunciation originated in Lincolnshire, England,
and the old local usage has not been driven this
day. 1t is said that many of the Lincolnshire pro
vinciaisms transported to this country, whore
they took root and hourished
THE Russian government has forbidden the use Of
the names of members of the imperial family by any
but rsclass steamers it being held be an ofenss
against the Emperor to call dirty cargo boat Alex.
ander I'LL The chief of the st. Petersburg police has
also ordered the proprietors of all hotels restaurants
and tea houses to remove the portraits of the Emperor
and other members of the imperial family from theii
public rooms, because their customers do not alwayi
show the proper respect to the representations of tho
imperial features by taking off their hats Immediately
on entering and leaving the premises.
ONE of the phenomenal literary successes of recep1
years is Blanes Twenty Years of Congress-" ThI
author thought that edition of $4,000 copisl
would be very large while his sanguine publish
ers placed the sale at 10OO0O The reality has
passed them both More than 200 900 copies of thu
first volume have been Sold and it is thought that
another so 900 copies will be needed to fully satisfy
has hear, anld n1,i ts rnarits