The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-27
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

WHITE lilies have taken the place Of orange
blossoms in English weddings.
THE revenue of the widowed Queen of Spain
is now reduced to $50, 900 a year.
THE latest fashionable notion in Boston is lin
guistic and everybody is studying Italian.
ADELAIDE RUDOLPH a niece of Mrs. Garfield.
has been elected Latin professor of the Kansas
State University.
EDITOR CHILDs, of the Philadelphia Ledger,
is estimated to be worth S.. 900, 900. And he is
as generous and noble as he is wealthy.
The Chicago Journal remarks in a spirit of
cold blooded a~trocity: 'It is not necessary that
the minister to Austria should be a Vienna-bred
| man."
By means of an invention by the superintend-
ent of the station at Woods Holl. Mass. hun
dreds of millions of Goldfish eggs can be stimuli
taneously Matched.
FROM one tree, sixteen miles east of Tampa,
Fla, there were gathered 11,643 oranges by
actual count. This is the largest yield from a
sing tree ever known.
HORACE JORDAN, one of the best of the Bos-
ton newspaper men, has the saddest Christmas
OF all. He has just gone from the Traveller
office to the mad house, poor fellow!
'THEREs a land that is fairer than day."
But though it be never so fair,
We're willing on earth still to stay,
And IN no great haste to go there.
Boston Courier.
In many parts of Europe huge earthenware
stoves are used that need but little fuel; they alb
sorb the heat instead of sending most of it up
the chimney, and then steadily radiate it for q
long time.
ACH1NEsE syndicate recently offered So, 000, 900
for the Palace Hotel, in San Francisco, and
were prepared to pay So. 500, 900, but finally con-
cluded that the investment would be an unwise
one at the present %juncture.
AN interesting relic of the famous Sir Walter
Raleigh was sold in London the other day. 1t
consists of Sir Walters original tobacco pipe.
which on a certain memorable occasion excited
the disgust of Queen Elizabeth.
A SOCIETY called the Dai Nippon Keizai Kai
Japanese Economic League) has been organized
in Japan. It's object is to investigate the eco
nomlc system of modern nations, with a view to
the establishment of such a system in Japan.
ROBERT BROWNING, the poet, fearing that the
future biographers would deal too freely with
his family affairs. has just destroyed all the let
ters to his father and the family from various
friends and literary people. which his father had
carefully preserved for many years.
ALL the candidates of the presidential tickets
of 1872 are dead. They were Grant, Greeley,
Wilson and Brown. Gen. John G.. Fremont is
the sole survivor of the campaign of 1856, Han
nlbal Hamlln OF the campaign of 1860, George
II. Pendleton of 1864 and Horatio Seymour of
1868.
A LARGE, old-fashioued clock at Green Cove,
Fla, which has kept time for 100 years, on be-
ing set back to standard time refused to run
regularly. Finally it was set forward to sun
time; when it returned to to its senses and has run
regularly ever since. This must have been the
original grandfathers clock of lyric fame.
EASTERN people are accustomed to think of an
Indian reservation as being about the size of a
large farm, or, in exceptional instances, as large
as an average township. But the Sioux reserva-
ton of South Dakota is as large as the States of
New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut and Rhode Island all put together.
MISS MARY ENDIooTT, daughter of the Secre-
tary of War, is described as Every English in
appearance. She drives a drag with a London
coachman in the front seat, aud wears a close
fitting suit of blue flannel, with a cap to match,
and poses a la Laugtry. She has a wonderfully
brilliant complexion, and greatly resembles the
famous Jersey beauty"
DooToRs say that women should be cautious
how they call TO offer sympathy to neighbors
having sick children. Women's clothing offers
inducements to fugitive bacteria. and several in
stances have been recorded lately in which con-
tagious diseases are known to have been brought
about by germs carried into the household in the
folds of heavy woollen fabrics.
LORD TENNYsoN," says the London World,
seems determined to maintain to the end the
neck-and-neck race which he has been running
for more than fifty years of public life with
Mr.. Gladstone. His life and labors,' said Mr..
Gladstone Of his friend, after their famous
yachting tour last autumn, have correspondent
in time exactly with my own
"SIR," said Captain Thompson, United States
Army, II understand that the people in the
East are denouncing General Crook because,
with ], 100 men in tho field, he does not at once
crush the ifty-fve-for the hostiles number no
more than that-lndiars that are doing all this
numbering and stealing. Why, sir. that is as
difficult to do as as it is to kill "a California flea
with a sledge- ammer.
Mrs. MARY MoRANoI, of Jackson, Miss. State
Librarian-an Office she has held for about ten
years-is the only woman ever elected to Office
in the State. The Librarian is elected by the
Legislature, and the wisdom Of their choice is