The Indianapolis journal., 1885-05-03
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


Mr.. GEORGE RIDDLE. of Carroll county, Maryland,
has under the same roof with him no fewer than
twenty-five unmarried daughters.
A CLERGYMAN in Paris, KY. stopped his prayer to
lead unruy boy out by the ear, and then went
"As was going on to say, o, Lord"
AMONG the other society notes of the day IL is noted
that Miss Ada Sweet Of the Chicago pension agency
Is not going out very much just now.
OF course 1t was a woman, and it Is now said to be
Mrs. Lynn Linton who wrote the scathing review of
George Ehot's Life" in the April number Of Temple
Bar :
1T is mentioned by enthusiastic paper as a
proof of President Clevelands democratic simplicity
that his harness is to be silver mounted instead
of gold mounted.
THE Archduchess Maria valoria of Austria, q
charming girl of seventeen. is being taught watch
making and the manufacture of ewelry in the shop of
Tyrolese worker.
JOHN S. WILLIAMS, of Indiana, who has been ap.
pointed Third Auditor of the Treasury, held the Office
of Appointment Clerk of the Postofiice Department
thirtysix years ago.
BEGINNER in Latin asked to translate sen
tence which, properly rendered, would have read:
Honey redolent Of age" But he preferred the freer
translation: '"rhis honey smells like time"
AT Castle Howard Lord Carlisles seat in York
shire, there is guest house in the park where a
months rest with good living is provided each
month for four hard-working women from large
towns.
PAUL DE CAssAGNAc with characteristic empha-
SIS declares M. Brisson the new French premier, to
be bamboo painted to resemble iron," and
who will drift about at the mercy of the popular tide
until ne grounds stupidity on the first sand bank"
AN English physician. DR.. Me itkerke in a recent
publication ventures the statement that single patent
medicine, very popular as soothing daught for in
fants, lis the undoubted Of death of 15O,O 900
children annually in the kingdom of Great Britain.
SCHUYLER COLFAx once said that the Rebekah de-
gree the best kept secret in the order. Men had
been expelled from the order (Odd.feows) for divulg
ing the secret work, but there was no instance
record of woman proving recreant to her obli
cations.
Mr.. GEORGE KEENAN, left last night for New York.
and will sail tomorrow on the Aurana for Liverpool
He will reach ST. Petersburg about the middle of May,
and will then visit Siberia. He does not accompany
Lieut. Schuetze, and his trip is purely for literary
purposes.
Miss EMMA Cook the daughter of Cincinnati
florist has just married, in Milan Count Arturo de
Rossi Calico. She went to Italy some years ago to
cultivate her voice, and just she preparing to
make her debut the Count saw, loved proposed, and
accepted.
SEVENTEEN YEAR-oLD boy was arrested at Port
land Me-, Friday, for selling in bottles which
he carried around in his pocket His parents supposed
he attending school, instead of which he had been
at work in a shop since January, until the shop
closed, since which time he has been peddling q-
uors in the street.
ANTOINE DUJoL, the most lately announced claim
ant n he Eren thropa ie fiyna in Mar.
seilles factory $25 month wages. He says he is
the last of the Valos line descended from Francis
Due d'Alencon, fourth son Of Henry III. 1t has not
hitherto been supposed that Francis had any legit
mate descendants.
MAcKAY is said to be the richest man in the worlda
His fortune is estimated at 1915, 900 OOO Follow
ing him como Rothschild, 100000, 900; Vanderbilt
$175, 900 900; and the Duke Of Westminster $780,
100000. Jay Gould comes further down in the
scale, struggling to make both ends meet from an in
come on $50, ,OOOO OOO
A WASHINGTON correspondent says "Mr. Ban
croft has funny way of making mock scowls, and
saying to people of fifty and sixty years of age Why
my child I'm old the hills. I'm the oldest per-
you ever knew The next minute he may be
speaking in the most serious and unconscious man
ner of poor old Mr.. Corcoran, who is just his own
age"
Miss PHELPS quotes in the New York Independent,
from private letter of George Eliot this statements
Though trust there is growth in my apprecia
on of others and in my self distrust there has been
no change in the point of view from which regard
our life since wrote my first fctionthe Scenes of
Clerical Life Any apparent change of spirit must be
due to something of which am unconscious"
STORY of refreshing innocence is told of NJ Dau-
Diet. When he sent his book "Sapho" to the New
York publishers there soon came the cabegram,
that mean9 The dictionary said that the word meant
unpleasant" but M. Daudet, concluding that his
book could not be unpleasant thought the publishers
wished ''Sapho spelled with two ps, and cabled back
:Put two PSI
ONE day, when the ground was white with snow
Nine. Dorian, great whip among the Partisan
sportswomen invited Victor Hugo to drive out and
see the skaters in the Bois de Boulogne. As he got
up beside her the box of her turnout she re-
marked: "You have forgotten your overcoat mon
cher maitre." "My overcoat! haven't any and
never had one and dress just the same way in win
ter as do in summer. My overcoat is my youth"
THE Thomaston Conn., Express says: 'AThomas
ton cat recently brought forth three Kittens one of
which had FIVE legs The mother examined them
critically, and after siderable investigation evi
IDENTIFY arrived at the conclusion that an extra leg
could be Of advantage and might subject her off
spring to good deal Of jibing and ridicule from
others of her species, for she pounced upon it, put it
out of existence in doube-quck time and buried it
in an ash-heap
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The New Signal Corps Order.