The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-05
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

IN Arizona any person who profane, indecent.
vile, abusive language, threats, within the hear
ing of women children, is held liable by law to fine
or imprisonment.
cow attached to the guberna torial mansion at
Jefferson City, No. having been MIXED for five years
by convicts refuses to allow anybody in citizens
dress to approach her.
THE heirs of the late Aaron Somers whose will
left $40 900 to the Democratic widows" of Bridge
port, propose to prove that Democratic" is
clerical for Protestant and so mean to break
the will.
TENNYsoN is at work on an ode to Gordon What
with the various in which his government is now
engaged the official poet doubtless sleeps on his pen
ready for any emergency He said to be slow in in
diting his tribute to Gordon, because he finds it diff
cult to please both sides but he has probably caught
the spirit of hesitation from the government itself
Mr.. ROBERT G.. SILIAa has written book entitled
Usury and the English Bishops" Professor Ruskin
contributes preface to the work in which he says
II had myself idea, till l read the connected state
which these pictures illustrate how steadily the
system of money-lending had gained on the nation
and how fatally every hand and foot was now en-.
| tangled by it,"
| The High Sheriff of Worcestershire England this
year is Mr. Perrin of Worcestershire sauce celebrity
He formerly member Of the chief druggist firm
Lee & ferrin Worcester but they sold the business
to devote their energies exclusively to the sauce
| which pays much better, yielding average over
| $500 900 year, although so extensively pirated
| especially in this country.
| THE thrty-fve love letters of Keats to Fanny
Browne which were sold at auction in London
brought about So, ZOO SO that the perpetrators of
| this outrage ON the dead poet were we'll rewarded
Six letters of Charles Lamb brought about 1886, a
| series of letters from Francis Hodgson to Byron
brought $3.50, and selected lot of letters Of Mrs
| Leigh written between 1914 and 1924 brought
| $3.50.
| THE Chicago Interior quotes a famous piece of
bathos as Amelia love thee" The correct fight
ran to the effect that the lover wrote in the sands
| agnes love thee!' and the waves rubbed it out
Thereupon followed the that he would pluck from
Norways shore her tallest pine and dip it the crater
of vesuvius; and on the high and FURNISHED heavens
he would like to any particular wave wash that
out 1t made laugh all through America in 1872,
and as written by George Mills of st. Louis, ripe
| journalist.
YES knew Cluverus," said young gentleman,
now student in the law department of the Unver.
sity of Virginia. 1--WE students at the same col
lege-Richmond College. Since the murder with
which he is charged his has been on everybody
| lips and yet have not heard it pronounced as lie
pronounces it. Cluverius pronounces his name as if
it spelled Caeveers and the accent were on the
last syllabel would not take him for a man who
| would plan murder commit it on impulse
his nature seems too sunny"
| SEVERAL days ago Bordentown dog fancer adver.
tsed the loss of yellow female Skye terrier That
same day the of the lost terrier was amazed to
see his hunting dog push open the gate leading into
his residence carrying the pet terrier in his mouth
The dog pursued his way the back porch where he
scratched the door until admitted by his master
When in the house he let go his prize and barked vocf
erously which probably plea for the reward
which had been offered. Where, when, or how the
hunting dog found his lost companion remains mys
terry to his MASTER who vouches for the above story
The dog is not known to have read the advertisements
although he may have it.
ZANIE ZANoBIA known all over the country as the
Canibal Fan Child died last Friday afternoon of can
Of the stomach at the residence of John Batters
by, in frankfort Zanie. though born in Africa was
light mulatto. Her fortune consisted of her fingers
which were about inches long and webbed
From this deformity she got her name OF the Fan
Hannah Battersby who is said to be the biggest ia,
woman in America Hannah is the wife of John
Battersby, who living skeleton" but un
accountably gained flesh and muscle and is now .
wealthy wagon.budcr. Zanie, who was nineteen
years old st her death, was the wife of Snowman
known Canada Jack q white man. She had beer
i'll at the residence Of her friends, Mr.. and Mrs Bat
tersby, for several months. Her last public appear
ence was at Forepaugh's Museum. In Philadelphia.