The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-16
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

/ ner ninth husband.
DR. KNOX. Bishop of Down, will be the new
| Protestant Primate of Ireland
| Mr.. G. w. CURTIS will keep cool during the
summer by nursing the frigid Edmunds boom.
| SENATOR SPooNER, of Wisconsin, is an en-
| thusiast music. His wife is splendid singer
| PROFESSOR TIMOTHY DWIGHT is being men
| toned likely to succeed President Porter of
Yale.
| CAPTAIN CoTTIER, of the lost Oregon, is to be
| given the command of one of the Boston Gu
narders.
| HENRY BERGH expects to get indictments
against all street railways who use bob tailed
in fly time.
| MRS ANNA PRATT, of Albany falls heir to
Horatio s;eymour's fine farm and homestead
| ''Deerfeld"
| SIR BACHE CUNARp, one of the directors of the
Cunard line of steamers, is now in this country
| on pleasure trip.
| GEN NEAL Dow devotes much of his time to
literary work. He is preparing to bring out a
| history of prohibition.
| THE Savannah News says that the real reason
why Southern men wear their hair long is to
| keep the sun from tanning their necks
| IT is remarked that since his wife died Mr.
/ George Bancroft has been losing interest in all
| he does, and even in his beloved rose gardens.
Mrs OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR, says
| the Cunard steamer Oregon committed suicide
| to avoid being put on the company's Boston line
| PATTI was enthusiastically received on her re-
cent return to Cralg-y-Nos. Triumphal arches
were erected and the entire population turned
| ont to greet her.
| On Primrose day Mr. Gladstone placed a
| wreath of the memorial flowers upon the brow of
| the bust of Lord Beaconsfied which adorns his
| study at Hawarden.
ANNA PERKINS, the Cleveland champion of the
| Dr. Mary Walker costume, challenges any
| lady who critIcises her costume to public de-
| bate on the trousers question.
MRS. GARFIELD has promised one of her
| friends in Washington to make a brief visit
| there, although she has said she would never set
| foot in the, to her, hated city again.
| THE death is announced of Scottish poet,
| Mr.. David Grant, of Edinburgh Some of his
poems have obtained much popularity in Scot
land. and several of his ballads have been set to
music.
| SIR JOHN LUBBoCKS bill for shorter hours for
shopkeepers' clerks in England is an indication
that before many years traders who want to keep
open evenings will have to employ extra clerks
for that purpose.
SUIToR-Sir, you undoubtedly aware of
the object of my visit2 Father believe you
desire to make my daughter happy Do you
really mean It'll Suitor-Unquestionab Father
We'll, don't marry her. then.
PARIS notary who drew up will not long
ago made clerical error, which resulted in Civ
ing fortune of 800, 900 francs to the wrong man.
| The notary has just been condemned to pay this
sum to the disappointed legatee
| THE influence of sweet sound is illustrated
| anew in the Capital, where, it is said, Baron
| Zedurek the new secretary of the German lega-
| ton, PLAYS so sweety on the fiddle that the
| very birds come and hop around in low necked
dresses,
| ROBERT G. WINTHROP wore loose fitting,
| light-coored cloak when he walked with hest
tating step and slow into the Senate chamber at
| Washington the other day. Later he sat by Mr.
! Carlisle in the House, of which he too was once
chief officer.
| AFTER his marriage TO Mrs. Theaker, Justice
| Stapley Matthews will spend the honeymoon in
Europe. Chief justice Waite will visit Alaska
during the summer, and it is possible that
Justice Gray may go with him. Several of the
| judges will go to Block Island and to Newport
SAM JONES has declined an offer of 5000 a
| night for 100 lectures on the ground that when
| go ON the lecture platform lose my grip on
| the people as an evangelist" and he defines his
1 work as an attempt ito get up some sweet now
and now, instead OF 30 much sweet by and by"
/ HERE is the way a self-relant woman heads
off, in an English newspaper, her husband, who,
apparently, had been posting" her:
/ NTOTTCE-I, MARY SANDERS NEVER CON
/ ~ tracted any debts in the name of William San
dsrs, as the name of Sanders is not good enough to
| get credit MARY SANDERS.
/ QUEEN VICTORIA is about to carry out vari-
ETY. of alterations and improvements in the house
| and grounds of BirkhalL The estate of Birk-
| hall was purchased by the Queen last year from
/ the Prince of Wales for ELS, 600, and forms the
| march" between the estates of Balmoral and
| Glenmuck. There are some fine woods on the
| property
EX-GOVERNOR 4. B. HUBBARD, minister to
Japan writes Col. P. s. f. Pfouts, of Dallas,
| Tex, telling of life in the Mikado's kingdom
Mr. Hubbard says that the Japanese women go
| sea-bathing in natures garb and that the sight
of the nymphs of the Orient thus disporting
themselves is worth trip to Japan.
/ ANDREW CARNEGIE has written to Secretary
Gornly, of the Western Pennsylvania Historical
Society," expressing willingness to give $3.50,
| 600, or any part of it that may be necessary to
!! establish free library, but not one cent TO en-
| dow it. Mr.. Carnegie has seen the endowment
| plan tried and thinks 1T is failure.
SENATOR SHERMAN ard his side partner, A.
| L. Barber, who lays the splendid Washington
pavements, have cleared cool round million out
OF mount Tl6dsdul, WHICH tney DOugnL Wne2 II
| was farm property, and have sold for from twenty
to fifty cents foot They have half of their
lots still on hand. out Of which to make another
million.
THERE is pansy thief on the hill in Brook
Ign. He goes from house to house very early in
| the morning and Steals from each accessible bed
or vase of pansies plant two. He has car.
ried his curious thieying far that there has
been general complaint, and steps are being
| taken to arrest this unlawful lover of pansy
blossoms.
AT a brilliant entertainment given recently in
Rome the lovely Queen Marguerite wore an
apron made of black Chantilly lace embroidered
| with eaeralds and diamonds There were two
| pockets. and these thiekly embroidered
! with the same precious stones. among them four
| eineralds of unusual size. The strings of the
| apron were made of double row Of real Oriental
l naarls This nraffv hit Of WEARING annarel cost