The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


LOUIS KossUTH. now living at Turin, has complete
recovered his health and proposes doubt to de-
vote the entire summer to reading his obituaries.
lately printed in all languages in all civilized coun
tries
VOLUME of the last writings Of the late Mrs. Mary
Cemmer Hudson is in preparation, under the editor
ship of her husband. Mr.. Edward Hudson, of Wash,
ington.
THE Boston Transcript says that the line Of perpet
ual pie must now be drawn to include Greeley COL,
where they served fortyve varieties of the edible at
dinner lately.
SOLID silver balustrade, which had stood in one
of the Mexican churches since the time of Cortez was
torn down not long ago and taken to the mint, pro-
ducing over 60 900 silver dollars.
THE Londoners who part from Lowell with much
regret will find agreeable surprise in Phelps He
looks like old English squire, but he has all the
exclusiveness and pride that belong to member of
the royal family.
THE reported serious illness Of First Assistant
Postmaster general Malcolm Hay is unfounded. Mr.
Hay is at home, Allegheny, settling up his private
affairs prior to his departure South His health is
better than for months.
A LETTER to the st. Louis PostDispatch says Mr..
Blaine takes long walks now every day. although
plexion has irmer, healthier look in it than have
seen in his face for the last ten years."
A TwENTY-DOLLAR confederate note was passed on
a Chinese merchant in Portland Ore, last week It
was difficult for the police justice to make him
derstand that the note not forgery, but simply
worthless He had never heard of the lost cause
The ruling passion is illustrated at many odd
ments Birch, the negro singer, was speaking of the
funeral of his associate, Backus Were there many
present. Billy9" MANY presents" exclaimed Birch,
why we turned 'em away before the first hymn"
THE returns of the taken in 1882 give the
population of Russia in Europe as numbering
n, 879. 52l, of whom 80 65I. 977 males, and
80, 227 544 females making, with the grand duchy
of Finland and other parts of the empire, total Ct
| over 1O2, 100000.
MRS Tom THUMB, who is soon to marry dwarf
Count declares that she loves him very much indeed.
and that she also loves. and will to love-
the late General Thumb. 1.-The General and l." she
adds lived together very happily. We had our spats
of course, but he struck me-"
ALCOHOLIC ntemperance is stated to be increasing
to alarming extent among the women of Australia.
In discussing the matter at meeting of the Mel
bourne Medical Society the physicians present con-
CURED in attrbuting the trouble to close confinement
anxiety and the fatigue arising from oyerwork
ALTHOUGH it given out publicly that Miss
Mackay would bring with her no dowry, an eye-wit-
ness to the marriage ceremony says that Immediately
after the benedicton MIR. Mackay slipped unosten-
tatiously into the hand of the bridegroom check for
81 600, 900 on the bank Of Naples. Miss Mackay
has in her right only $5 600 year income
LITTLE girl in Pennsylvania who had listened to
temperance address for the first time in her life
impressed ard interested that she went home and
wrote out the following rather novel pledge: II
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smoke, swear, cider either" She signed it, and
got several of her playmates to sign it ALSO What do
you think of its
THE mother of family consisting of two grown-up
daughters, living at Gofstown, N. b., recently died.
and when the undertaken to perform his duties
the father asked the of his wife. His reply
Mother" No other mare could he remember,
and the daughters equally ignorant never hav-
ing known their parent by any other name than
Mother"
YOUNG secretary of legation, whose duties
qured his attendance at recent White House
ception, was 80 unwilling to lose a moment of the
opera with Theo in the cast that he left the theater
changed his evening dress for his diplomatic costume
in the carriage, while driving to the White House.
luted the President, and returned he had to
the opera He was absent from the theater just
thirty minutes.
Mr. GEORGE MACDONALD the poet and novelist,
has entered field of literature-the editing of
Shakspeare's plays. His stage directions are more
poetic than practical the actors think. Imagine an
actor studying this situation: Here the actor should
show a marked calmness and elevation in Hamlet He
should have around him, it were, luminous cloud;
the cloud of his coming end. smile not all of this
world should close the speech
AN item is going the rounds of the medical press
that forty years ago DR.. Wilkinson King studied one
thousand autopsies at Guys Hospital London, to
ascertain the proportion of persons who have latent
cancer cancerous growth but who die from other
without suspicion that they have the hidden
germs of that disease He found that of all females
who die at about forty. nearly onehalf have cancers
of males oneeighth. OF males above sixty five one
fifth of all are generous
RECENT medical science to be of value in cor
rectng certain popular delusions Contemporary
historians believed that the pious and unfortunate
Queen Catharine of Aragon died by foul means from
slow poisoning DR.. Norman Moore, however, who
has investigated the true of death in several
historical characters has discovered after careful
examination of notes made by persons who en-
balmed the body Of the princess that she really died
Of melanotic sarcona of the heart
HERR SONNENTHALl now generally recognized as
the first actor Of the German-speakng race is man
of medium height and weight, with pleasant bari
tone voice, and no decacy of feature. His manner
is frank and hearty utterly destitute of subtlety and
afectaton and when shaking hands his grasp is that
of friend who values you than any other being
in the world, and has not you for years. No
foreign actor had a professional well
fact pleasant to be recorded in that means
an appreciation of simple and honest naturasm in
dramatic art.
EDMOND ABOUT il described as a thick-set, gray
haired. not specially refined looking man. with
thoroughly unconventional manners and genuine
cordiaty, and brilliant talker His wit earned
for him the title of the little of Voltare but he
was never ill-natured. The Empress Eugene once
sent to the prntngoice for the proofs of the last
chapter of one of his novels that she might read it