The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26

BREAKFAST TABLE-TALk.
MARK TwAINs forthcoming book is announced in
England as 1.-THE Adventures of Huckleberry Fnn-a
sequel to Tom Sawyer"
NEW YORK ferry-boat notice. "These seats
clusivey for ladies'. Gentlemen will not occupy them
until the ladies are seated"
BRASS pins were made by hand many centuries ago.
Massachusetts invented those with a solid
head, but their first manufacture was in England in
1888.
A NEWSPAPER interview with the Librarian of the
Mercantile Library of New York, ELECTS the fact that
Thackerays popularity be outlastng that of
Dickens.
THURLow WEED BARNES, grandson of Thurlow
Weed is preparing volume of memoirs of his grand
father. 1t will include hitherto unpublished letters
from Clay, Webster Lincoln Seward and Others
A WELSH doctor, who is fanatical on cremation,
arrested by the police and then nearly lynched
by mob because he tried to cremate a dead infant
with Druidical ceremonies on a lonely Welsh mount
ain.
THE late Mr.. Holloway the pill-maker a
of most precise and methodcal business habits. He
always used to pay everyone of his employees every
night, and insisted upon transactng all his business
cash basis.
L. @. G. LAMAR is said by his Mississippi friends to
be of the few poor in the United States SEN
ate. Of late years most of his salary has gone to pay
old debts, obligations of nature that only of
scrupulous integrity would think of paying.
THE Louisville Post notes the fact that Kentucky is
the garden-spot for growing beautiful women, and
mentions the case of Miles Hall, of Catlettsburg,
nineteen years of age who has already flour beauti
full wives, all living and well enough to make it
comfortable for him.
EX-SENATOR TABOR was recently elected an hon
of nd Toa
legality of his election was questioned and while the
matter was being settled he Indignantly resigned He
is going to organize post of his own, to be called
Tabor Post No L.
UNDER Mississippi law woman is liable to indet-
ment for assault if she strikes her husbands but tho
is not liable for assaulting the if he
switch larger than his little finger in doingso 1t
proposed to amend the statutes to give the
wife the immunity that her husband enjoys
In Brazil, where the inhabitants take coffee many
times day, alcoholism is unknown. Immigrants
gradually contract fondness for coffee, and their
children fall into the same habit and never contract
love for liquors that are fatal in other countries
The number of cafes in the large cities is enormous
while the drinking saloons very few.
LAWRENCE T. FELL, inspector Of child labor in
New Jersey reports that about 10000 children
| employed in factories in that State, and that this
darkness upon these unfortunates. Some of them do
not know the of the State they live in and have
been at school It will require three inspectors
to look after 1000 factories.
A JAPANESE correspondent of the London Daily
News having assumed that the Mikado unpopular
because he received no cheers while passing through
the streets in state his birthday, Japanese gentle
writes to explain that cheering would be regarded
there as dsordery He further explains that the act
of young lady who wrapped up piece of cake and
put in her sleeve at the foreign minister's reception
is quite good form, and is accepted indication
of high satisfaction which she wishes to enable
those at home to share.
SENATOR VANCE tells this story; When Judge
| Tourgee was the bench in North Carolina old
chum of his was brought before him on some triAng
charge During the trial the prisoner said something
that highly dspeased his honor DO you mean"
sterny said the Judge to bring this court into
teinptl' The prisoner smiled and said; Judge, you
have known me for many years, and we have been
friends, haven't we'" THAT is fact said the
Judge. you would do me q favor within reason,
even now, would you nota VERY likely" respond
ed his honor all graciousness and good humor "but
what is it, well" retorted the scamp do not
press hard the point of contempt this
ing!"
THE scene of the battle of Pittsburg Landing was
visited the other day by correspondent of theCall,
of PEORIA ILL., He says that farmers still gather lead
and iron in the field, and that merchant shipped
over 3 900 pounds old bullets last year The other
day child found shell that exploded after it had
been buried for twenty-one years. OF the $500 sol
diers whose remains lie in the cemetery, 1851 were
unrecognized. Two large iron cannon serve as col
at the gate of the cemetery The grave nearest
them is that of the Drummer Boy of Shiloh" Albert
Sidney johnson died under a large tree that stood
by; but of the tree there is only the stump
manning and the spot is marked by young ever
green.
THE prize of R5 600 offered by the French Acad-
envy of Medicine for cure for dphtheria was de-
manded at their last meeting by all sorts of people,
among whom were a glass maker, a machinist an
ironfounder hotckeeper and justice of the peace.
Two applied for it, lawyers wife and the
other the wife of veterinary surgeon. One pro
posed that the dphthertic patient be beaten until he
expelled the membrane and another that he be
posed to searlatina counter irritant There
several who wanted their expenses paid to Paris
that they might explain their method of cure, and
large number who refused to disclose the secret before
receiving the So 900 No one had found the infalli-
bic remedy
Woman Who Could Keep q Secret.
Philadelphia Record
Miss Elizabeth Richards, member of the Or.
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