The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-27
BREAKEAST-TARLE CHAT.

IT is said of Judge Davis that nothing pleased
him better than to chat with stokers and engine
men on railways when he travelled, and no man
could tell better story.
| MODEL has been completed Of the equestrian
statue of General Meade, which is to be placed
| in Paramount Park, Philadelphia. 1t represents
him as he appeared at Gettysburg.
| THoMAsToN Conn Express: Our weekly ed
itorial was written too late for this issue
| Whether it will keep until next week or not We
| can't say but we'll put it on ice and see.
| THE Rev. Geo. f. Pentecost has gone to Eng
| land for bicycling tour The Rev. DR.. Way
| land Hoyt lately of Brooklyn and now of Phila-
| delphia, is also an enthusiastic rider OF the
| wheel
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES says that every
New England deacon ought to see one Derby
day in order to learn what sort of world this is
he lives 10. Man, he adds, is sporting as we'll
as praying animal
| VICTOR HUGO is reported to have regarded
Edgar A. Poe as the "prince Of American
poets" Mr.. Whittier as ''womanly versifer'
| Mr. Lowell as ssmart chatterer," and DIR.
Holmes as.''afictngly laughable'
| The Christian at Work declares that the poem
which was said to have been cribbed by that
| paper from a forgotten publication of hers, was
|
/ ton by Miss Cleveland herself and that she was
| paid for it.
| THE following announcement appears in re-
cent French paper "a young lady, who has
| had charge of one of the principal bars in Ant
werp would accept situation at railway sta
| ton. She speaks German. and can make sixty
sandwiches with half "a pound of butter"
A RESIDENT of New Haven writes as follows
of Mrs Murray who recently secured divorce
from w. Fl. Fl. Murray: "Mrs. Murray has a
| fine practice in this city. She has an excellent
| location and many warm friends. She is a
bright energetic. hopeful woman. and deserves
| much praise"
THE latest craze among the gay and giddy
young ladies of this and surrounding villages,
says Deep River Comm paper, is to keep track
| of the tips they receive. That is, every young
man who lifts his hat as he passes by is counted.
The one hundredth clipper" the girls say, is the
one who will surely marry them
| A MISSIONARY to Mexico has concluded to give
up the ministry and take to practicing medi-
| cine. He says that the bigoted Mexicans often
| fired at him while he was preaching the gospel,
i and he had been compelled TO shoot three or
| four men in self-defense. He decided at last
! that such warlike missionary work was unprof-
| liable.
/ RATTLEsNAKE JIM of Wooster, O., says that
the only reliable cure for tho bite of rattle
snake is turpentne. He says that bottle of
| turpeutine held over the bitten spot, the un-
| co-ked mouth down, will draw out the poison,
| which can be seen it enters the turpentine in
| sort of blue fame. Although he has never
| been bitten he has tried this cure on his dogs,
| always with success.
/ VIcE-PREsIDENT HOME, of the Missouri Paci
| fc railway, who has been at the East for few
| weeks in search of health, left New York with
| his physician on Tuesday evening for his home
| IN .orio u;-D 1aff xo,~ k,,e. I,a-
been of great benefit to him. but his friends say
| that it is doubtful whether he will be able for
| some time to testify before the House committee
| On the Southwestern railroad strike.
/ GEORGE RILEY. of Schenectady, who has just
| had his hand crushed in a drill dress, is not
fortunate youth. When very small he fell off
| fence and broke his nose. Later he was nearly
| then he broke his nose again; then his head was
| crushed betw cen tho bumpers of railroad cars,
| and when the skating rink was opened he was
the first to hurt himself, breaking his arm.
FERDINAND FONDA JR., sixteen years old. has
| just reached Albany. after walking from st.
| Augustine, Fla, a distance of 1900 miles. He
started from st. Augustine on the 10Th of April,
accompanied only by young bloodhound.
| They were on the road fifty four days. took the
railroad track the entire distance, and slept out
| Of doors every night The dog was completely
| plared out when they reached Albany, and the
boy was pretty tired.
THE Due d'Aumale's friends are sorry over
his Punishment from France. He is old, wild
| over and childless and he has been devoting the
last twelve years to the erection of magnif-
cent palace at Chantilly, where he held his state
| In the midst of multitude of art treasures,
| among them the Earl of Dudleys famous Ra-
phaels, for which he paid l25,000 and noble
| collection of Gobelin tapestries. miniatures,
| falence. engraved gems and enamels.
| n,,l.o n.1o
de Paris, and heir to the shadowy crown of
France, is seventeen years of age His face is
bright and intelligent and he has resolute and
| decided disposition. He is tireless walker, an
| excellent fencer, swimmer and rider and re-
markably good shot. He speaks correctly and
| 1uently four or five languages. Although not
! great enthusiast for literature, he has liking
for Virgil and Horace and is suficietly at home
in Fsench contemporary literature and history
to take an intelligent interest in conversation Of
| the most varied kind
THE celebration of the two hundred and if-
tieth anniversary of the founding of Providence,
r. l.. has begun. The famous Roger Williams
apple-tree root will be shown, with other relics
| Roger Williams was buried in All orchard on the
side hill OF what is now known as the Sullivan
Dorr estate few years ago the grave was
1 opened and curious phenomenon was observed
An apple tree root had entered the head of the
| body and followed the spinal cord. At the thighs
the root divided and exactly followed the bones
/ of the legs and feet. This root was taken up and
preserved in the museum of Brown University
| A BosToN newspaper man named McNally, al
though only twentyone years old, has rescued
from death by drowning between thirty five and
forty persons, some of them under circumstances
| of the utmost danger and difficulty. Recently
he received from the Massachusetts, Humane So
| ciety very handsome medal Mr. McNally be-
gan his career as rescuer at the age of seven
years. and has been an expert swimmer since his
| fifth year. His playmates dubbed him a "water
dog. ard from the number of hours he spends
| in the water at a time and the distance he will
SWIM it is rather difficult to believe that nature
really intended him for land animal
One or tie most disgraceful cases OF hank