The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-18
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


will found new town, to be called by his name,
about seven miles from Washington.
JOHN RUsKIN says: 81 owe more to cab
Evidently then, it is about time for Mr.. Ruskin
to settle up.
CHARLES E. TINNEY, the basso OF ST. Pauls
Cathedral, London has been engaged under a
long contract by the New England Conservatory
of Music, of Boston.
SIR RICHARD BURTON has sold all the copies of
Nights" with all the original wickedness in it,
and his wife is about to- bring out an expurgated
edition for the general public.
HoRATIo SEYMoUR's monument, just COM
pleted in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, consists
of great bowlder which the ex Governor him
self selected for the purpose. 1t has been carved
into the form of sarcophagus.
IN consequence of the expulsion OF the princes
from France his Majesty the King of Portugal
declares that he will not set foot on French soil
on his way to Germany. He will get even with
the republic by voyaging by sea-
Mrs. MITCHELL of Chadbourn. N. c., was
very i'll in bed, and sent her eight-year-old boy
TO the we'll for water He fell in, and his help
less mother was forced to lie there and hear his
screams until his voice was still in death.
THE Medical World tells of patient whose
prematurely gray hair is returning to it's natural
color under the internal administration of phos-
phorized cod-liver oil. Anybody who prefers cod
liver oil to gray hair is at liberty to choose the
former
TEXAS Siftings Child-Grandpa, how old
are youg Grandpa am eighty years DID,
my little dear Child-Then you was born eighty
years before [ was Grandpa-Yes, my little
girl. Child-Law, what long time you had to
wait for me.
IT is considered likely that knightship will
presently be conferred upon Mr.. Martin Hollo-
way, the present head of that family. He is the
brother inlaw of the late phianthropist and pill
Manufacturer, whose surname he assumed on IL
heriting his great business.
For years tho first name in the New York city
directory has been Aab, Mrs. Louis In the
volume just issued, the hundredth. the A. B. c.
Fence Company leads off. and Mrs. Aab comes
second. Which shows that exact alphabetical
order is not browning virtue in the work.
A NoBLEMAN at Nuremberg, in Germany,
who desired to become an innkeeper was re-
uuired by the municipal council to drop the
Won" from his name and become plain citizen
before they would grant him a license This
was in accordance with an old statute of the city.
ToHERNYoHEwsKY's story, whats To Be
Done?" which is known as the 'Uncle Toms
Cabin of Nihlism,' and which the author wrote
in a St Petersburg dungeon some twenty years
ago, is being translated into English. The hor~
rors related in the narrative, it is said, exceed
anything that has been brought to light, even by
such writers as Stepniak.
THE university of Notre Dame, Ind, has con-
ferred the degree of LII. ID. on Maj. Henry F.
Brownson. of Detroit. son of the noted Orestes
A. Brownson, and it is said his worthy inheritor
| in scholarship. Major Brownson has under
| L1:eIDA &c. okt
works, which form probably the strongest body
| of Roman Catholic theology produced in this
country
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER, who is now in
London, has been frequently importuned to recite
the poem that created such furore last winter
| in Washington. Mr.. Sims, the author, sent
| Mrs Potter a note asking to meet her. He
| thanked her for the great popularity she had
given his poem in America. Sims, it is said, is
| to write a new poem especially for Mrs. Potter.
| which will be her exclusive property, and will
| not be published
"SIDNEY LUsKA" Mr.. Henry Harland) is in
Paris, with his wife, writing his third novel,
| ELIAS Baccarach, another study of Jewish life
| in New York city. His rooms are in the Latin
| quarter, on the south bank of the Seine where
/ the artists congregate, and he supports himself
by fugitive articles for the press. private let
| ter from the French capital describes him as
|
/ ing music, and the pair frequenting the opera,
| the theater, the Luxembourg and the Louvre
! and dining modestly at the cafes. An Ameri-
cans running expenses under such circum-
stances need not be very heavy.
| WHILE Roscoe Conkling was passing along
Para row, the other day, in heavy rainstorm,
he saw an aged Italian franticaly endeavoring
| to get his fruitcart under shelter. One wheel
| had caught on the steep curbstone and the old
ad not 0fh To
cart ND on the sidewalk He pushed and pulled,
| and looked the very picture of despair. Mr..
Conkling watched the Italians wild efforts for
moment. Then he shut his umbrella and rolled
up the sleeve of one arm He seized the hub of
| the entangled wheel, and, with powerful yank,
| landed it upon the sidewalk, after which he put
up his umbrella and went on his way.
| GAULo1s writer describes the crazy nominal
King of Bavaria The Castle of Furstenried, in
which his lunatic Majesty is confined, is situated
| in the midst of foress about an hours drive
from Munich. In the thirteenth century it was
a convent It was bought by King Ludwig l.
| 1t is surrounded by high wall, and the entrance
| is guarded by sentinels. King Otto has lucid
| moments, during which he reads the newspa-
! pers. His chief amusements are smoking cigar
cites and eating strawberries. He takes long
| walks in the park around the castle. A doctor
/ and three guards follow him at distance
| The other day he tried to escape, but was caught
/ by his Jalers. lie often talks or going to see
| the imperial family of Austria, to whom he is
| much attached The person who has the most
influence over him during his attacks of madness
] is his valet.
| GREAT interest is felt throughout Italy in the
condition of man named Succi, who lives at
| Forli, in the Romagna and who asserts that he
| has discovered, in the course of his travels
through great part of Africa, sort of liquor
/ extracted from various herbs which has tha af
| feet of mummifying" the body, so to speak,
and rendering it insensible to any kind of want
such hunger or thirst; while it will also admit
of person taking any poison however violent,
| without feeling any i'll effects. A committee of
the inhabitants of Forli has been formed, at his
| request, to watch the experiments which he is
making upon himself. and several doctors who
examined him have stated that the case is a very
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