The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-24
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


SENATOR MORRILL, says it costs the govern
D. A. CLARK, of Montana, went to the range
in 1864, with about twenty-five cents, and he
now has an income OF 81, 600 day.
SENATOR EvARTs had family reunion recent
ly at which nine grandchildren tried to ride on
his knees to ''Banbury Cross" all at once.
THE court stcnographer of the Ninth judicial
district wrote 1,246 words, in Marion N Y. re-
Gently, in five minutes under public test.
1T is said, by one who has tried it, that cay
enne pepper sprinkled upon hot fannels will
afford instant relief to persons troubled with
neuralgia.
1T is queer fact, but Senator John A. Logan
has son-inlaw named Tucker and Congress.
man Tucker has a son-in law named Logan, and
they are always getting mixed up.
REV Dr. j. B. HAWTHORNE. the eminent Bap-
fist preacher of Atlanta is very tall, straight as
an arrow, wears long black hair. and curl is
trained to fall carelessly over his forehead like
'bang."
MRS FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE attributes her
attainment of her seventy year in full health
and vgor to her lifelong persistence in out door
exercise, especially horseback, in all sorts of
weather.
By his will, Signor Mortini. a wealthy philan-
thropst of Genoa, provides that all his tenants
shall be permitted to reside in the houses occu-
pied by them at his death free of rent as loug as
they live.
GEN. LORD WoLsELEY's appearance is de-
cidedly effeminate and when he speaks he
accompanies each remark with nervous shake
of the head. He is disposed to be sociable but
is not favorite with the frank and file"
The Misses Drexel. who inherited from their
E.xl L. 1ok~ II Dill
fortune of $12, 000, 600, nave just purchased 200
acres of land near Bristol. Pa, on which they
will establish an industrial school and home for
orphan boys
A BERLIN inventor has got up a musical sew
ing-machine, which turns out tunes as fast as
work. This is combination as novel as it is
agreeable, and it suggests, besides, endless cases
where the the din Of machinery may thus be
made pleasant.
MISS ANDERsoN's pecuniary gains are extra
ordinarily large. She did what few American
actors or actresses before her ever succeeded in
doing-she brought back q large sum of money
as the product Of acting in England. She has
now some $3.50, 900. all prudently invested
IT is rumored that all diplomatic objections to
the marriage of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria,
with the daughter of the Crown Prince of Ger
many have been removed by the reconciliation
of the Emperor of Russia with the Prince The
marriage, it is said, will be one of mutual affec
ton.
A BLIND boy preacher. sixteen years old, is
causing some excitement in Raleigh A week
ago he told his father that he had received a
divine command to preach the gospel, and would
be made blind for period of some days. On
Wednesday, Jan. IL, he was smitten with blind
ness.
IT has never been known exactly what the
however, has set his individual estimation by
drowning when he fell into the water at Derby,
Conn, each with lead pencil, which was in his
pack.
WHAT are you waiting for, little boys" in
quired kindly old gentleman OF street urchin
who was watching each passer-by intently.
''Waitin' fer a ng-whiskered gent smokin' a
seegar. Then I'll foller him and git the Stub"
DO long whiskered men smoke better cigars?"
Nav, but dey don't smok EN- so short"
A COW at Maillend. Fla, whenever q fire is
built out of doors. hunts it up and chews her cud
by the side of it at night. when the weather is
cold. veracious witness says that one night
the fire was covered with sand, but the cow un-
covered it, blew up the embers. and was engaged
in rolling boxes and barrels toward it when
stopped.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND never attended COL
lege of any kind. The acting Vice president,
John Sherman. is a graduate of the common
schools of Ohio The Secretary of State, Thorn
as F. Bayard, never got further than Delaware
rural academy. The Speaker of the House of
Representatives John G. Carlisle, is a self-
educated man.
HIRAM g. HoToHKIss, of Lyons, Wayne coun-
ty, is known as the peppermint king. He is
seventy Ave years Of age and wealthy He
4 4 he a..
Wayne county has about 1000 acres in this cult
ure. The trade is likely to take boom, as the
Connecticut deacons have taken to drinking pep
permint toddy.
THE Atlanta Constitution records a specimen
of confederate wit during the war. A soldier
was caught in a persimmon tree by General
Longstreet. When sternly asked by his COM
mander what he was doing there the veteran at
once disarmed wrath by saying: I'm eatin'
some green persmmons to draw my stomach up
SO it'll fit its rations."
Now that M. Theodore de Banville has gained
promotion in the Legion of Honor, it is recalled
that once, in the days of the empire he lay at
Belleville almost dying of fever, privation. dissi-
patton and the incidents of Bohemianisna in gen.
eral. Give him the Legion of Honor" said the
Empress Eugene, $50 that if he dies there will
be at least one cross on his coffin" And so he
got his first decoration.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is to handle the gavel at
the next annual meeting of the veterans of the
Army of the Cumberland. In view of that fact
General j. d. Wilder has sent to General Sheri-
dan curious memento of the in the Chat
tanooga region-a mallet made of wood cut from
the crest of Mission Ridge. and from the spot on
Chickamauga field where General Lytle fell. In
the center of the mallet is rifle bullet. round
which the wood has grown.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY is in Washington prepar-
ing for the Woman's Suffrage annual convention
Among those who will take an active part in the
convention are Mrs. Colby, of Nebraska. editor
of the Womens Tribune; Mrs. Duniway. of
Iowa, editor of the New Northwest; Mrs. Har-
bert, Of Illinois, Mrs. Helen Cougar. Mrs.
Sewall and Mrs. Haggert, of Indiana Mrs Elz-
abeth Cady Stanton, of New Jersey; Mrs Lille
Devereux Blake and Mrs. Rogers, of New York,