The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-13
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

THE average cost of a session of Congress is
So, 100000
THE Me,hodists have spent million for mis-
sons this year.
MARIN county. California. has 1000 Swiss in
habitants. mostly engaged in dairying.
Ex-ATToRNEY- GENERAL BREWSTER has re-
sumed his law practice in Philadelphia.
CAssIUs Nj. CLAY, at the age of seventy fve
still personally manages his kentucky farm.
THE young Duke Of Portland, who is unmar-
ried, has an income of no less than $3.50, 900 q
year.
FRANCIS K. HARrE, son Of Bret Harte, has
recently been added to Lawrence Barrett's COM
pany
RECENT discoveries prove that the art of wood
engraving originated with the Arabs about the
ninth century.
RUSSIA has 33,4oo doctors, of whom $50 are
women. The dentists number but 500, and the
pharmacists 1000.
THE number 40 rules in Halifax. The popula
ton numbers 49, 0O0 and there are forty police
men and forty churches
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian is the only
private citizen who has been given the rights to
the floors of Congress at all times.
NINE SOPHIE MENTER the famous pianist is
So, 600, 900 left her by Russian admrer.
THE heat in crematory retorts is made to
reach no less that 2, 0O0o. Hotter retorts than
these are unknown-at least to unmarried men,
SINCE the death of Lord Baconsield, Queen
Victoria consults confdentialy for political ad-
vice only the Duke of Richmond and Earl Gran
vile.
AN English scientist believes that fragments
of Noah's ark are still in existence, and he pro-
poses to take party to Mount Ararat in search
for them.
A BIOGRAPHY of Adelaide Nelson has been
written by Laura G. Holloway, to be illustrated
with nine photos by Sarony, and picture of
her grave.
THE Samoan name for a lady is "tomateis. {"
The word is so near tomatoes as to suggest that
the original common name for tomato was "love
apple" and in French it Is still pomme d'amour.
Miss MATTE MITCHELL, of Oregon, youngest
daughter OF the senator-elect is with her mother
in Paris. She is reported as about to marry a
French duke. Her sister married government
clerk
LADY CHURoHILL's campaigning costume was
dark blue dress, with a primrose vest, and
little black velvet hat-ali of which were most
becoming. She still has more of an American
look than English.
CONGRESSMAN OATES, Of Alabama, bears upon
his person the evidence of the terrible threshing
he received in the war. He served in twenty
seven battles, has only one arm and bears the
scars Of six wounds.
THERE is an ex-Vice- president alive, it
seems, whom everybody has forgotten for many
vears-David r. Atchison, of Missouri, who in
1853, was chosen by the Senate to fill the place
of Vice-presdent William r. King.
THE long-lost sixth piano-forte concerto of
Beethoven has been discovered in a Carinthian
village by Friedlander while searching for Schu-
bert's works. The manuscript is almost com
plete. 1t was finished and dated 1905.
THEATRICAL managers are puzzled by the fact
that once in while attendance will drop off un-
accountaby on some one night all over the city.
This happened to the New York theaters on
recent night. In this case the weather was fine
and the advance sales large.
DR.. HOLMES, by his new novel, has inspired
the formation of a freshly-coined word. .gyne-
phobia,' meaning a constitutional horror of
women 1t will be applied to men who suffer tor
lures IL the presence of women but it is sa fe to
suppose that the word will not be brought into
common use.
GENERAL GEORGE FL. THOMAS was a major in
the Second Cavalry, organized by jefferson
Davis in 1856, when he was Secretary of War. 1t
was almost entirely Differed by men of Southern
birth, and a number of its companies were rc-
cruited IN the South. This regiment furnished
twelve generals to the confederate army, includ-
ing Albert Sidney Johnston, Hardee and Robert
2. Leo. Of the five Union generals George H.
Thomas. Yirginian. stands at the head. The