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

81. GOO for the Garfield Hospital fund.
IT is said that man and his wife eat on an
average about ton of food during year.
RENAN admits that when ne was young he did
not sing ''Gaudeamus igtur" as often as his
classmates did, and now he is sorry for It.
QUEEN VICTORIA has hourishing poultry
yard at Balmoral. The chicken-house is pala
tial structure, built in a semGoth style.
Ten thousand Chicago families are reported
without Bibles. The other thousands Of families
there have copies of the book, actually as good
as new.
and no Minister dare interrupt him when he is at
work In his dark room" even with the most
momentious affairs Of state
THE only demonstration ia Baltimore in honor
of the Presidents wedding was made by jolly
English skipper, who dressed his steamship in
bunting from truck to taffrail
MISS ELLEN TERRY, accompanied by her eld-
est daughter, and under the escort of Mr.. Henry
Irving, will leave London on July 81 for this
country on short tour for rest aud recreation
THE Independents Religious Jest-A bright
little boy in Brooklyn, at the beginning of Lent
when asked by his Sunday-school teacher "who
had tasted forty days and forty nights" replied:
"Dr. Tanner
TALMAGE says he owes much to the rewspa.
pers. This is an honest confession People who
owe for their subscription seldom acknowledge
1t. But why does not the reverend gentleman
pay up9-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Mr.. GEORGE GOULD was in Omaha the other
day, and reporter asked him how his father re-
CARDS Mr.. Powderly. "He admires him very
much said George, sand regards him highly.
He thinks he is very able man."
The infant King Of Spain enjoys the almost
unique distinction of having been BON mon
ARCH There is no other like instance in the his
tory of Spain nor of England. In France there
has been one such incident in the case of John l,
in 1916
Mr.. NEAL Dow is mar who labors with his
own sense of Importance. He is not exclusively
a crank. When he left Libby Prison he took
his blankets with him. leaving the boys to sleep
on the bare floors That is the sort Of philan-
thropist he is.
JOHANN STRAUSS object in becoming Prot
estant and citizen of Germany was that he
might marry third time. That matrimonial
act, so much regarded by Bluebeards, is forbid
den by the canons Of the Church Of Rome and
by the Austrian law.
MRS. STOCKTON acts as amanuensis for her
husband, Frank R. Stockton, who is almost
in this way, by writing only three hours a day.
he finished sMrs Null" in ten months besides
debating nine magazine articles
HERR ADOLF .SoNNENTHAL. the Austrian ira
gedian, is billed to play the whole of Schiller's
tragedy, "Walenstein," in one day. He will be-
gin at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and end at mid
night or later. The play includes ''The Camp, |"
one act: "Piccolonini." FIVE acts, and ssWallen-
stems Death" five acts.
CORRESPONDENT writes that a young woman
in Washington makes a good living teaching
American small talk to the young attaches of
the Chinese and japanese embassies Not long
ago she taught six young fellows precisely the
same round of pretty phrases, and at a recent
ball they lowered around a certain pretty girl,
and all said the same things to her.
One of the relatives of Mr.. Cleveland, who is
in Washington, but did not expect an invitation,
was Miss Cynthia Louise Cleveland, law clerk
in the Treasury Department She is cousin
of the President, but never has had any help
from him. She is female lawyer and fully
able to take care of herself. She was one Of the
few who did not believe that her cousin Grover
was to be married.
JEFFERSON is one of the weathiest actors in
America He is not making so much money now
as he used to do, for the simple reason that he
does not give himself the trouble He only
works on the stage about sixteen weeks in the
year, and this affords him all that he needs for
his yearly maintenance without at all impairing
his capital. Mr. Jefferson's fortune is variousiy
estimated at from $4O0, 900 to $500, 900.
In his forthcoming novel, '"Terre" it is said
that NJ lola will portray the peasant as he con-
ceives him, bringing out more particularly the
fierce arth-hunger which is at the bottom of his
nature, and which too often brings his worst and
nx~A- go -
time M. lola recognizes in the imam who lives
in constant contact with the soil" q certain ele-
ment of dignity and even grandeur of character
to which he expresses his intention Of doing full
justice
THE new grave OF Wendell Phillips, at Milton,
Mass, is on high ground by stately trees-a spot
selected by himself. The body of Mrs Phillips
has been laid beside him, upon his left hand, as
was his WISH and stone will be placed at the
head of the grave bearing the inscription, Gamma
& Wendell Phillips" as he was accustomed to
write their names when used together. There is
talk in Boston of opening a subscription list
toward erecting a monument to his memory--a
memorial to which his wife objected as long "a
she remained alive.
DIR. ABRAHAM Coles. the author of .Tne
Light of the World" and of eleven versions of
the ''Dies lrae. is defendant in suit brought
by Andrew Albright, another citizen of Newark
N. j., and aspirant for the Democratic nomina-
ton to the governorship Albright sold DR.
Coles doe, with the understanding that he was
to have the first fawn born. The fawn was born
but died the same day. Later the doe had twin
fawns, and Mr.. Albright demanded one of them
but DIR. Coles told him his fawn had died. The
Judge will sustain the poet, 1t is said
WHILE Bismarck, in the debate on the
schnapps monopoly bill in the German Reichs-
Ear waa urcinc his eausa with HE arcuato,,o al
vehemence, the president of the Berlin Acad-
envy, Herr Won Werner. was struggled in among
the members, and rapidly sketched him in the
heat of grafton. Suddenly the Prince caught
sight of the artist, and directly he had finished
his speech made straight for Herr Won Werner
Various members. however, neatly buttonholed
him on his way till the artist had safely retreat
cd before the Prince could catch him.
THE tribunal of Tarascon, France, has decided
to hear Jean Mistral, the millionaire, who has
remained forty seven years in q Montpelier mad