The Indianapolis journal., 1885-10-18
BREAKFAST TABLE CHAT.

ROBERT TooMBs's estate is said to be worth $780,
Mr.. GOODMAN is a brother-n-law of George William
Curtis.
1T is reported that Mr. Blaine will make trip to
Europe next year.
| GEN L. M MEILLEY of Ohio, paid a S.. 600 hotel
bill at Washington while seeking an Office he did not
! get.
| FRANKLIN SIMMONS, the sculptor, is in Lewiston.
| Me-, his old homo. He expects to sail for Rome at
an early day.
| In the last ten years the French government has
spent than SO 500 900 for paintings and sculp
| lures by living artists.
| FATHER HYACINTHE declares that war cannot be
dispensed with Father H., it will be remembered, is
| priest who got married.
JOHN S. WISE the candidate for Governor of Vir
ginia born in Rio Janeiro Brazil where his father
was United States minister.
| PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's favorite flowers are
lilies of the valley, and bouquet of them is placed
| upon his desk every morning.
MoNCUEE D. CONWAY defines his religion in the
sentence God is good and says that the first task of
| religion is to convert Christianity.
Nor the least sad fact connected with the demise of
Lord Shaftesbury was that Mr. Martin F. Upper
| wrote memorial poem-and got it printed
| Il
search of signatures thus ungaantly though tersey
writes: mo postage stamps, no autographs"
REPORT is current in Quebec ecclesiastical circles
that Archbishop Taschereau of Quebec, and Arch.
bishop Gibbons of Baltimore, to be created car
| dinas.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT is said not to be church
| goer Jay Gould has not heard sermon for many
years. The Astor brothers and their families are de-
vout Episcopaans.
THE King of Denmark has a wart his chin and
though his Majesty has offered 10000 to the person
who will remove it. physicians afraid to attempt
| the operation for fear of fatal results.
| ARCHDEAcoN FARRAR has planted tree at Mr..
Childss country estate Wootten, after the example
| of General Grant Christine Nilsson Thomas Hughes
Robert 9. Winthrop Hamilton Fish and Secretary
| Bayard.
| THE Prince of Wales has been enjoying his yacht
ing and continental trip immensely and is in the best
of health and spirits. No change has been made in
the arrangements for his Royal Highness return TO
| England.
| THE senior class at Yale, Monday evening
elected Evans Wooen of Indianapolis as class ora
| tor and Charlton M. Lewis, of New York CITY as
class poet Mr. Lewiss father and brother have been
| honored in the way.
| SIR GEORGE ELLIOT is in Washington He is
/ y,
| haps, with ruddy complexion. bald head and wears
| short-cropped sdewhskers. He dresses Handsomely
and is said to be of large and distinction
| A BIsMARCKIAN BALLAD
Hogi.pogi. wingi wum
Ich boots men undo men thumb
Die Sbanish schneider he loog glun
I'm koenig of die Caroline islands
Judy.
| MAYOR HARDY of Lincoln. Neb., having offended
| powerful element of the population by his radical
stand the temperance question, received chastity
warning, coffin being left at his door, He promptly
sold the coffin for $13 and turned the money into the
| treasury of the local temperance society.
Mr.. ROBERT GIBB has painted ifelike portrait Of
Mr., Henry M. Stanley The daring discoverer of David
Livingstone is given in gray uniform with frogs
leather shoulder and waist that show traces of
travel and weather and under his the white Prus
sianooking cap with blue band which forms his cos
tume on the Congo.
DIR. FRANCIS III. DAEUMAR who was buried at Pat
erson, N. j.. on Sunday, lived for over twenty five
years In quaint old house. in which every corner
was spanned by many cobwebs; spiders walked about
with the self assertve strut of the foreman of Ger
man barber shop and it not surprising that the doc
tor had little company besides his books. In the fu
neral eulogy tho minister explained Daeumar's sf