The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

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| BEN: BERLEY PoORE says Senator Eyarts is
! the best listener in the Senate
| SENATOR FRYE is described as strong fe at
tured man, with large nose, bushy eyebrows,
| blue eyes, gray mustache and hair. and usually
| dressed in brown CLOTH
| A STORY is now current in London that when
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain was asked how many it
takes to make caucus, he replied, lone, mad
| am, II he Is unanimous"
| SENATOR BEN Hills life was insured for $10-
900, and at his death that sum was paid to his
widow, who invested it in four houses that now
| pay her a handsome return.
| NEW YORK paper says that the boxes at the
American opera full of fashionably dressed
women. look like so many occupied bath tubs in
which the patient is sitting"
| PREPARATIONS are being made in Chicago to
celebrate, on Feb. o. the twentieth anniversary
of Prof. David Swings passionate. A feature of
the occasion will be an elaborate public dinner.
| GEN. ALBERT PIgE. now considerably over
seventy, lives quietly in Washington, somewhat
in6rm and occasionally suffering from govt, but
his mind is still clear, and his memory and appe-
| title good.
| MRS. JAMES K. POLK has found it necessa ry
to deny the report that she is Catholic. She
1 is, and always has been, Presbyterian, and
| was once even called blue Presbyterian, on ac-
count of her opposition to dancing.
| SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa. is depicted as one
of the happy looking Senator'S 1t was of him.
| when Representative that another member,
| who was witty when drunk, remarked: I'D give
| a good deal to be as wise as Allison looks. ("
| MISS ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is getting
a reputation for bon mots. such this: A West
ern visitor remarking in his free and easy way.
''You hail from Buffalo, l believe9' she replied
Eyes. we hail from Buffalo, but we reign here"
| Mr.. CHARLES GAYARRE. the historian Of Lou
isiana, was wellgrown boy of fourteen when
General Jackson fought the battle of New Or
leans, but he still occasionally publicly lectures
in the Crescent City. and reads his manuscript
without the aid of eyeglasses
| BISHOP PETER CoURTNEY's skeleton has been
unearthed il the crypt of Winchester Cathedral.
| 1t was he who was the leader of the Lancas-
| TRANS in Rhichard IT'S time, and went into ex-
| lie with his brother in the cause of Henry
| Tudor. He Is an ancestor of the present Earl of
| Devon.
SPEAKING OF wives wages, it is mentioned that
happy couple agreed to bear equally the ex-
penses of the family. One of the children fell
i'll, and difference arose as to which should buy
| medicine for the little one Both held out firmly
| The result was that the child getting no med-
cine. was soon well.
TEXAS Siftings ''You say that you have
| played Macbethg" said New York theatrical
manager to an applicant for position. ST have
| acted the role of Macbeth fourteen times !"
'Well, let me hear you repeat the defiance to
Maeduff." 80, never got SO far as that The
/ audience always made me quit before got to
| that part"
In his lecture before the Boston Scientific So
| fho a4ho TNr ~
| latest prices for wives among the Santhal peo-
| ple If the woman is young and pretty. the hus-
band must pay to her relatives from three to five
! dollars. Divorced women are quoted at about a
| dollar and a half, and widows at seventy five
| cents each.
| Miss CHAMBERLAIN, the American beauty,
has recently refused one of ''the richest and
| rankest" of the German princes Her remark
| able beauty was the feature of the opening of
! Parliament, aud the Queen was really not
| needed. She has lately been the guest of the
! Duke and Duchess of Westminster, where the
| Waleses are intimate.
SENATOR STANFoRD's guests the other evening
| sat down to banquet whose wines and fruits
1 were all from California. The tea and coffee
| service were of solid gold from California mines,
on massive golden tray. The forks and spoons
/ were Of hammered silver. wrought in rich de-
| signs. and the china was hand -painted Dresden,
1 Vienna and Paris ware.
| ELDER THOMAS PARKER DUDLY, of Licking
ton, KY, is said to be the oldest Baptist minis
ter in America. He is ninety-four years old,
| blind and very feeble He began preaching in
1920. and has preached in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Oho. Indiana, Illinois. Michigan,
| Kansas Missouri. Virginia, Delaware, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and New York
JUSTICE FIELD, of the Supreme Court, takes
deep interest in the electrical inventions of Mr.
| Edison. ~ would not" he 10 reported as say
ing. ''be surprised any day to hear that he had
| discovered the secret that the alchemists
searched for so long, and invented some method
| of keeping the vital spark alive forever. The
vital spark is nothing but electricity, after ALL"
DIsRAELI, in letter dated 1916, and just made
i public, wrote that Gladstones address was dull
and Ineffective and that be might come to be
| somebody, but he did not think He also
writes Of dull dinner party, where young
Gladstone was present. but there was an excel
lently- cooked swan, stuffed with truffes, which,
according to Disrael was tine best company
there"
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY, annually visiting
| Washington at this season as the proclaimer OF
| woman suffrage, is always welcomed as the
pleasant precursor of shad and strawberries.
Always nicely dressed in black, with dainty lace
| at her neck, and with her brown-gray hair
combed smoothly down, she by no means pre-
sents the ideal picture of the scrawny skrieker
for women's rights.
GENERAL SIGEL. the newly-appointed pension
agent at New York, was visited by two Ger
mans, the other day, who insisted ON receiving
government pensiona Being asked IL they were
veterans, they said they were-they served