The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
BREAKFAST TABLE-TALK.

THE Queens youngest son and his wife are not al
lowed to accept invitations of any sort whatever with
out having first obtained permission from their royal
mother.
THE title of deacon is derived from decanus, which
originally given to officer over ten soldiers In
general way the deacon of church is a sort of
poral of the guard.
SIR ANTHONY MUsaRAvE, in his official report on
the condition of the island of Jamaica that
an average fftyeght out of every hundred children
born Legitimate.
RHoDA BRoUGHToN, the English novelist, is the
daughter of clergyman. She is wild and hoydenish,
but brilliant, and the most reckless and daring
metaphors to enliven her stories.
GREEN ADAMS Chief Clerk of the United States
House of Representatives during the Forty fourth,
Fortyifth and Forty-sxth Congresses is lying dam
gerously Ill at his residence in Philadelphia.
Ex-JUDGE CHRIsTIANoY has published three long
columns in Michigan paper to defend himself against
the charges which have been reiterated by some Of
the public prints since the death of his divorced
wife,
GENERAL SHERMAN will remain in New York few
days, after which he will return to st. Louis His
health and spirits are good The General likes st.
Louis more than any other city notwithstanding that
he is probably the most popular in Washington
NoRRIsTowN Herald: A New York man paid big
price for the first copy of Oolombers Sarah Barnum"
expecting TO find in it something very improper Be-
fore he had read dozen pages he threw down the
volume with air of disgust and resumed the perusal
of Chicago banket-sheet newspaper
PROFESSOR WHEELER, of Yale, at a recent college
dinner in Chicago said that twenty-five years ago the
average Yale student was a long-haired individual
wrapped in banketshawl. To-day he looked like
gentleman, whether he acted like one or not This
change. he believed was due to athletics
THE spy "Belle Boyd" who at the outbreak of the
rebellion fifteen years of age, is the matronly
wife of Colonel John Hammond of Texas who dwsls
ranch near San Antonio. He was one of Stone
wall Jackson's scouts in Virginia. She was as may
be remembered, banished to Europe, She has four
children. .,., g. n ;e..,a
AT the Presidents New Years reception Mrs Logan
kind and attentive to Mrs Bruce whom the other
ladies had neglected and 10! the last number of the
New York Globe organ of the colored people con-
tains large portrait of Senator Logan with eulo
CYSTIC article in which he is called the champion Of
the peoples rights
Mrs ]. j. AsroR has sent A. Oe 3homeless children
TO the South and West in the last few years at an
expense of nearly $4,000. The reports show that
in immense majority of the cases the transfer of
the children to new surroundings has resulted in
great good to them, and to the satisfaction of the
families to which they were sent.
ONE of the New York religious weeklies has under
taken a crusade against novel-reading by women. It
argues that the reading of novels leads to the neglect
of domestic duties and units the girls for practical
everyday life No objection is filed to men graft
flying their desires in this particular Perhaps the
editor of the journal in question has dyspepsia
CLAUS SPRECKLEs, the Hawaiian sugar king is
sixty years old, and is by birth Hanoverian. He is
compactly built of medium height, with white hair
iron-gray whiskers and forid face. He landed in
South Carolina thirty years ago without cea vert
to San Francisco, and after laying the foundation Of
his fortune began his sugar investments in Hawaii
APRoPos of the discussion as to the antiquity of
holiday cards, the London correspondent of the Nam
chester Guardian writes that the British Museum DOS
print representing the infant Jesus with
wishes for happy year. It is an engraving ex-
ecuted in Lower Germany in the second half of the
fifteenth century. The infant is standing erect
rich flower of fantastic FORM holding little ban.
ner,
YOU'VE MUTT, who is on trial at Pittsburg for the
killing of Dukes preserves quiet demeanor. He sits
as immovable statue, though he watches closely
every movement of his counsel Though several little
episodes during the selectionof the jury provoked a
laugh from the audience, the prisoner changed
countenance He smiled only once and then ID reply
to remark by General Blakely one of his coun-
sci.
Louis F.. SAI,oMoS tbe President Of The B,acl, Re-.
nnbie of Hayt ia desc,;bed as a nass,ve broad.
sbouldara g;ant Mt lea si foot % inches =, ba;,ht
with the physical proportions Of a oadiator snow.
white locks. keen restless ewes plitterins like d;a.
monds in setting Of let bioh intellectual fotebaad
and form despite his advanced ACE erect ss n;lr
of stone with Identified air He was educatad nj ora
of the most famous colleges in Paris and is perso,
of no ordinary ability, being brilliant conversation
alist and linguist and a crafty diplomat
THE death of Jean Trottet of Geneva recalls amap
of an energy and courage which have seldom been sur
passed He was born without legs hands or feet vet
he learned r, WRIT. '.,p his nan at his elbow
and when he grew older became an o;,;er
d A. ro;os with dex+a,itx, aud was az cood o he
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