The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-03
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

THE Cologne Gazette says there is not here
after to be Parliament at Westminster. but 9
Parchment
A GEORGIA man swallowed his tongue, and
came near strangling before doctor could get it
back into position.
MIR. AND MRS ALGERNoN SARToRIs, the latter
formerly Miss Nellie Grant. are now living in
London, having house in South Kensington.
THE recent statement of correspondent that
Senator Brown is leading temperance man of
Georgia" Is causing the newspapers Of that State
metaphorically to smile.
UP in Canada they say cockney Englishmen
just over are the only ones that call it "toboggan
ing" The natives call it sliding" and the to-
boggan is called traineau.
PAUL DE SAINT VICTOR the late famous lit
erary critic, had a superstitious fancy that he
could write well only by using an inkstand
which he had purchased in Switzerland.
A PHILADELPHIA dime museum has on exhi-
bition ''human volcano" whose breath is OF
such high temperature that it sets fire to piece
of paper held before it. The fellow came from
Kentucky.
Mr.. JOHN w. MAcKAY's grandson, called the
"young Prince Colonna," is to be christened in
grand style at cost of 5000, which is said to be
more than the childs fnther receives in year
for serving as an officer in the Italian army.
IT is said that Madame Greville's profits from
her lectures in Boston have been very small.
In New York the lectures will be given ID
drawing-rooms. 1t is also stated that Madame
Grevillea yearly income from her books Is
$4,000.
No volume of Tennyson's has exceeded the sale
of his "Maud," and that was condemned by the
critics, only to be rapturously received by. the
public. Since that, the poet-laureate has been
obstinately Indifferent to the opinions of the
critics.
MALLoN ZIDoRE. the doyen of the guild Of
the cigar-stump collectors. who recently died in
Paris. uttered wise and beautiful saying when
asked il he was contented with his lot. "Yes, !"
he replied enough to love life, but not enough to
dread death"
Mr.. PARNELL is a bachelor, and lives the sim
plest sort of life in lodgings. rule taking his
dinners at hotel His habits are so quiet that
he and his sister Anna were guests at the same
hotel for weeks without knowing that they were
under one roof.
Mr.. LABoUoHERE throws cold water on the
warm American reception Of Canon Farrar by
that the Archdeacon ''often talks and
writes nonsense and twaddle and during his
tour in the United States he seems to have sur
passed himself"
REV ATTIcUs G. HAyaooD of the Methodist
Church South, than whom no man is better
posted on matters concerning Southern educs-
tion says that since the war the people of the
North have contributed no less than $40, 000. 900
for educational purposes in the South.
THEY have at last invented something new,
albeit very gruesome in the way of circus per-
formance in Europe. It appears that the latest
freak Of female circus riders there is to hold a
living python outstretched in their hands, as
they swing around the sawdust Front seats
are not at premium
MRS. GARFIELD denies the report that she is
preparing biography Of her husband, but says
that she has been collecting the material for
such work. 1t is said that biography will APP
pear before long written with Mrs. Garfelds
authority. Colonel Rockwell, it is also reported,
will be the editor of the work.
ELECTION inspectors in France are potter
than they are in America. In the Canton of
Pielan, Brittany, . schoolmasters wife pre-
sented herself at the polls and asked whether
she could vote for her sick husband. Seer
tainly." was the mayors courteous reply, "twice
fyou like" And no one protested.
Mrs. BRowNLow, widow of the famous par
SOD, Ex-Governor and United States senator, is
still living in the Brownlow homestead at Knox
vile, Tenn, lady of sixty-seven years. remark
ably shrewd, we'll preserved and in full posses
sion Of all her faculties. She has with her one
daugher; all the other children are scattered
over the country.
THE author Of "Tom Browns School DaysD
now disguised as Judge Hughes, has just given
what may be called an Empirical decision at the
Stockport County Court, England. The dispute
was about walking match, and the Judge de-
cided to have the match walked over again in his
presence next month. Nothing could be more
characteristic Of 'Tom Brown"
A CURIOUS episode Of the hearings in a New
York divorce case was the presentation in evil
dence of Frances Hodgson Burnett's popular
novel, Through One Administration. By this
the defence sought to prove that the mere fact
Of mans being discovered in the sleeping
apartment of q woman did not constitute even
a breach Of improper conduct or action in Amer
lea.
LOVE, politics and dress got sadly mixed up
in Moda.e, Iowa A certain partisan father re-
siding in that place promised his daughter a
new silk dress if she would persuade certain
bachelor to vote the Democratic ticket The
young woman got in the vote by promising her
hand in marriage Now she refuses to wed, and
the bachelor talks of suit for damages in $500,
600 for breach of promise
AT the revival Preacher-Young men should
never go to place where they would not take
their sisters. Is there Christian young man
in this audience who thinks he may safely break
this wise rule2 Young man under the gallery
stands up. Preacher-And what is the place.
my young friend, which you think yourself justi-
fed in visiting and yet to which you would not
think of taking your sister, Young Mantle
barber shop, sir.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURcHTLLs success in
electioneerine sUpcests IN the Roston Co,r;ar
that nobody ever knew Of woman who was
plain and elderly to effect anything in political
canvass" This is an error, since Baroness Bur-
dett Coutts was very effective in assisting to
elect her young husband. MIR. Bartlett, ana the
Baroness s decidedly plain and unquestionably
elderly, but she possesses an abundance of those
solid charms which are so potent in parlia-
mentary canvass.
A RECENT incident recalls the curious effect
produced on many ladies present at the marriage
of the Duke of Albany by the violets used in