The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


A WASHINGTON colored race paper nominates
for 1885 Logan and Evarts for the Republican
ticket
THE jealous rivals Of Omaha. Infatuated at its
prosperity, have taken to ceiling its inhabitants
Omahogs
BEN: PERLEY PooRE writes that the Mount
Vernon Association is going to restore the old
tomb of Washington.
MISS GLIDER, of the Critic, accompanied Miss
Clara Louise Kellogg on her trip to Europe.
They are old and intimate friends
BAYARD TAYLoR's widow and her daughter
Lillian will this summer resume their residence
at Kenneth Square, Pa, after an absence of two
years in Europe.
Elk MARSHAL BAzAINE, living in poverty and
dishonor, at Madrid, still insists that he has
nothing with which to reproach himself concern
ing the surrender Of Metz.
ANYBODY that knows thing before it hap
pens is called a reporter" was the definition
written on the slate of an eight ear-old boy in
Boston school the other day.
Mr.. ARCHIBALD FORBES has had twelve of the
medals bestowed upon him by European princes
for distinguished valor strung together with a
gold chain for necklace for Miss Meigs, his
bride-elect
a OE1lCA0O uhu, rtccuLly pdck IrOm EUROPE,
was asked what he thought of the scenery in
Switzerland. II don't think much of it," he
said" it's too billy. Give me Illinois for scenery
every time"
NORWICH Bulletin: One of the most humiliat-
ing experiences in mans life is to sit in dem
lists chair and have him bore up six or eight
inches into the head without noticeably inter
fering with the brain which was supposed to fill
the upper story
A GIRL baby recently born at Akron, o., will
be very interesting young lady when she
grows up Her ears are on the lower Jaw near
the mouth and by reason Of the short haul"
she will be able to tell what she hears sooner
than the other girls
FEW of the merriest guests, viz: Mrs. Villas
Mrs. Lamont Secretary Whitney, and that elastic
and buoyant youth, cousin Ben," waltzed few
turns in the East parlor after the President and
wife had gone away, that they might say to
young people of the next century that they had
danced at Presidents wedding In the White
House.
in Kansas, is visiting his parents near Elmira
He is six feet high and wears a beard which
drags a foot upon the floor when he stands erect
His mustache is said to be five feet six inches in
length by actual measurement. He says he has
it dressed but once in three months and that it
takes three days to perform the job.
II LEFT little cheek for $40, 900 among the
wedding gifts" said the girls father to his
prospective son-in-law, land after the ceremony
is over We will quietly tear it up Sect That's
the style nowadays, George" 'Ye .es," hesitated
George, that's the style, but I'm afraid its too
late to tear it up now" 'sWhyqr Because I
went down to the bank and got it cashed."
THERE was an exhibit at the semi-annual
meeting of the Connecticut Valley Dental So
ciety, in Hartford, on Thursday and Friday, of
a set of teeth taken from a tomb near the city
of Rome. 1t is asserted that they had been
there at least $500 years The teeth are held
in place by band of gold, artistically worked
in fancy carvings, the figures being so minute
that magnifying glass is necessary to bring out
their beauty.
SENATOR LILLEY, of Middlesex, Mass, in a re-
cent speech, said that so-caled civil-service re-
form sham, travesty and humbug" Then
he quoted two competitive examination ques-
tions that were asked veteran who wanted a
place draw bridge tender. These are the
questions: What are the two largest islands in
the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth" and
What is the difference between the organiza-
ton OF city and town governments"
WALL STREET News: A Chicago woman en-
tered the Office of loan agency, the other day.
and said: u want to raise $1,000 or So, 900 on
furniture. What is your lowest rate of inter
est!' ION such loans generally ask 10 per
cent" Very we'll. Send your examiner up to
the house. 1t is speculation with me-" $50
Ing into business, ma'am!" Yes sir. I'm go
ing to take my three daughters to the seashore,
and either marry 'em off or drown en-"
THE poem "Leonainie," written many years
ago by the ''Hoosler Poet" James Whitcomb
Riley, and recently resuscitated as an unpub-
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into the language of Dante Petrarch and Aristo,
and the Italian journals contain long articles on
the discovery" to the delight of the Italian
literat, who prefer Poe to any other American
poet. But as Riiey's clever hoax took in the
New York Critic aud Edmund G. Stedman the
Italian professors will readily be forgiven.
THING unheard of before The painter Mum
kacsy has made witty reply. Vienna gentle
man came to see him the other day, and ex-
planned that he would like to buy some pictures
by him; only" he added, II cannot afford to
pay the prices you now ask. Could you not tell
me where could find some of your early work,
painted when you were young man in Hun
gary-something that / could buy cheapq' Ger
tainly; there are two or three hundred in my
native village OF Munkacs-the houses painted
when was Michael Lieb painter and glazer"
A PARIS correspondent VINO had the good fort
une to get glimpse of the baby King of Spain.
recently, gives the following description OF that
important little personage "Alfonso XIII pre-
sents splendid shape, and possesses robust
constitution and healthy color. The lead is
well proportional. The hair is long, silky and
blonde in color, the face round. the forehead
broad and bare, the eyes large and black, very
wide open and sparkling, and the nose and
mouth little pronounced, but not devoid of pro-
portion. The infant, taken altogether, reveals
an excellent temper and great intensity OF hfe !"
BosToN's memorial to Colonel Shaw, COM
mandsr of the first negro regiment in the Rebel
lion, will be in the form of concave receder,
with an arched TOP, like concave surfaced niche
In a house. On the surface will be carved, in
very high relief and heroic size, the figure of
Colonel Shaw ON horseback, and in the fore
ground. also, in high relief will be company of
colored troops, seemingly surrounding their
leader. In the arch above the central figure will
be carved. in low relief, a female figure herald
ing the fame of the martyred soldier. The mem
orial will be erected in front of the State-house
on the middle of that section of the face wall