The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-21
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

Mrs Dolly MADISON Is the only lady wha
has ever been. by resolution, invited to seat on
the Senate floor
In June, 1887, Nine. Christine Nilsson will ra-
tire and settle down in beautiful new house
which she has lately built and furnished in Lon
don.
JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE in his latest book,
"Oceana," says of American life: Nowhere in
America have met with vulgarity in its proper
sense"
o THOSE French! A Paris sausage-maker dis
plays in his window placard announcing: sEv-
cry link carefully inoculated by Dr. Pasteurl"
San Francisco Wasp.
THE horsey Duchess Dowager Of Montrose
who has dozens Of grandchildren, selected
Juliet as the character in which she would APP
pear at fancy ball at Cannes lately.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTT's dog is one Of the social
terrors Of Washington. It is Of stern aspect and
threatening manner, and often servant has to
be sent out to call him off and let visitors enter
SENATOR HAwLEY 10 one Of the most versatile
of congressman. He can make good speech,
write good editorial, sing a good song, paint
good picture, or give good music on piano
forte.
THE Rev. r. NJ. Haygood, who preached tha
first sermon in Atlanta, Ca. and Ia now very
in response TO the call for q Baptist minister in
that Territory.
GERMANY gets the services of her iron Chan
cellor remarkably cheap. Besides the use of his
official residence he receives only about $4,000
year. Mr.. Gladstone's salary is $50, 600. and
that of the British Lord High Chancellor $50. 000
IT is not generally known that Wordsworth,
the poet. sat to Hayden as model for his great
picture, "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, bat he
did; and Haydon's original study of the poet has
just been sold in London.
THE King Of Bavaria Is not so badly In debt as
was supposed He owes only about "a, 000 600
a paltry sum for king--and he has abundant
means to pay the greater portion, If not the
whole In cash, with something left over to make
the pot boil
JEREMIAH GOLIATH. brother Of vice-presi-
dent Henry Wilson, was for many years door
| keeper Of one Of the Senate galleries, aud was
afterward employed In the foldingroom until
his health failed him. he is now Ill, without
work and without means.
QUEEN VICTORIA drives on state occasions In
heavy gilded carriage drawn by eight cream-col.
ored horses, which are never used on any other
occasion. They are q special breed raised In
Hanover, which the Queen Is permitted to use
only because she Is of Hanoverian descent
THE Hon. E. B. Washburne is said to DO writ
| ing history Of the Commune in Paris in 1871.
A Chicago newspaper says that when Mr.. Wash
burne gets fairly at work he rushes along, some
times in French, sometimes in English, at such Q
rate rs to defy the efforts of the best short hand
writers to keep up with him.
THE owner of Maud s. recently said: every few
people realize that there are only about half
dozen days in the year when horse Is able to do
her best on the turf. yet such is the truth. The
track must be in perfect condition There must
| be no wind, the thermometer must register be-
tween 800 and 900, and then. when all these con-
ditions are fulfilled, the horse must be in the
best OF spirits.
AN American lady, while attending a wedding
at the house of an Indian nabob in Calcutta, was
somewhat surprised to see o complete set of
Rolfe's Shakespeare upon his library shelves It
was the only edition of the poet that his Excel
lency possessed and both its position and the
quality of its binding seemed to show that the
cultivated old magnate set high value upon it.
PROFESSOR MARIA MITCHELL, of Vassar Col
lege, is SO much in favor Of outdoor employment
for women, that she advises them to take uu
land-surveying for q business. This would be
rough work enough in some cases, but in such
work as landscape gardening, village improve
ment, the care Of public parks etc, why might
not the superior aesthetic taste Of woman be EN-.
ployed to advantage2
MOODY and Sankey are a revelation to New
Orleans and the effect they are having is re-
markable. On Sunday they held seven services,
and addressed 10, 900 different persons Over
six hundred attended their inquiry meetings, of
whom the Times Democrat says, ut is carefully
estimated over three hundred confessed Christ.
Such interest in religious exercises was never
before seen in New Orleans"
THE will of Commander Hayward u. S. N.
who died recently in Egypt. provides for the cre-
afi NJ lie Nv md aHd hot
ashes be placed in suitable urn of copper in her
This wifesl grave at her feet. If it possible
should insist that they be placed inside her cof-
| fin, in which case should not wish them to be
| inclosed, but that they be strewn over whatever
may remain of her precious body"
PRINCESS MARGARET. daughter of the Arch
duke Charles Louis. of Austria. was recently
attacked in the prater by mailman, and nearly
choked to death. The mailman held his grip
| upon the Prncesss throat while her sisters and
| ladies in waiting beat him as well as they knew
| how. 1t took three policemen TO overpower him.
| Archduke Charles Louis has presented one OF
the policemen with gold watch, and the others
| with 10 ducats eachs
THE frank and observant child is often an en-
| FAINT terrible. Senator Ransom. of North Caro-
| lima seems to have one of them in his household
| Recently some one spoke in the boys hearing of
| the possibility of his fathers becoming Presi-
| dent The precocious lad shook his head, and
| said: My papaf In the w bite HOusef No.
| He'd get mortgage on it before he'd been there
week 1t never would do.n So tells Kate
| Foote, in the last Independent.
JUDGE ToRRENcE, OF Minnesota, relates with
pride that he and his six brothers-all veterans
of the war of the Rebellion-were gathered
about the death bed of their mother, and she
took into her worn and wthered hand his left
hand, felt of it, and then said, Give the
other hand, my son." And as she felt of it.
with the two shortened fingers shot away in bat
tie, she murmered, 'That is the one I want"
raised it to her lips, kissed it fondly, and soon
after sank away to rest
SECRETARY LAMAR Is surely absent.minded
Recently he went to call on the wife OF Repre-.
sentative Rlount and the ladies' OF her farnif,r az