The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-07
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

MISS MULocK is said to be writing a play for
Mary Anderson.
Mrs. HANoooK's friends In Washington are
talking of presenting her house in that city.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, is paired upon all
political questions with Senator Bowen of Col
orado.
EX-SENATOR YULEE is said to have had for a
grandfather a wealthy Hebrew, who was once
Prime Minister to the Sultan of Morocco.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHAsE's mansion, at the cor
ner of Sixth and E streets, Washington. is now a
boarding house, and the title of Governor
Sprague to it Is in litigation.
A coLoRED woman, Miss Carrie Bragg, is edi-
tor of the Virginia Lancet. published in Peters
burg, Va.-the only newspaper in the Union
conducted by a colored woman.
PROFESSOR BLAcKIE, in a recent speech, after
declaring that ''all Scotchmef worth a button
have a sense of humor," exclaimed: would to
God that my beloved friend Mr.. Gladstone had a
sense of humor."
Ex-SECRETARY LINCOLN is in Chicago practic-
ing law. He is. however. in independent circum-
stances, having inherited some 800. 900 from the
estate OF his mother. from whom he was es-
tranged during her latter days.
CHARLEs A. DANA says that the most neces-
sary thing in editing In a newspaper is brains.
Next to brains he ranks newspaper instinct. I"
and after that pen, pencil and shears. And he
never SO much as mentioned cats.
JUSTICE Gritty, of London, was recently
trying a case when a large piece of plaster fell
from the ceiling upon the canopy under which
he was sitting. Fiat ~justitia, ruat coeluna," ha
exclaimed; and went on with the trial.
THE cost of the attempt made by the Demo
| cratic gang to defeat John Sherman's reelection
in Ohio last October. is placed at $87, 600. 1t
was distributed in t~wentv-four counties to aid in
electing Democratic members to the Legislature.
Mr.. WHISTLER, who likes to mingle the tech
| nical phraseologv of the sister arts, music and
| painting, as closely as possible, expresses him
self now in notes on canvas-violet, green and
flesh ~color-while one is described as a Caprice
in Red"
THE Duke and Duchess of Connaught will go
to India for two years, leaving their children in
England under the Queens personal care. On
their return home it is likely they will live at
Claremont, the former home of the late Duke of
Albany.
Mrs. SECRETARY ENDIcoTT has dispensed
with the services of officers in uniform at her re-
~ceptions. and now has the names of her callers
announced by a negro butler. So that some of
the socalled gilt-edge has been taken off the pre-
vailing "Jeffersonian simplicity" and these
State affairs are now conducted in plain black.
Mr.. LABoUeHERE announces. in London Truth:
Zone of the most remarkable pictures in the Paris
Salon this year will, / understand, be an episode
of the English campaign in the Soudan. 1t rep
resents the Mahdi seated in his tent receiving
the homage Of his chiefs, who have brought with
them a load Of British soldiers heads, freshly de-
capitated.
THE compilations Of the German race have
been studied of late by Prof. virchow, who re-
ports that 80 per cent. Of the German youths are
blondes-that is, have light hair, blue eyes and
fair skin; IA per cent. are brunettes. while 81 per
cent. show some mixture of these types. The
proportion of blondes is largest in the north, es.
pecially in Oldenburg; rarest in Bavaria and AL
SAGE. Of German Jews, only one in ten is a true
blonde.
JOSEPH CoPp1N, aged ninety-four years, died
near Cincinnati i on Saturday. Three years ago
he made for himself a burial case, which he called
'the great American coffin" It is of dressed
pine, with three PANELS on each side and one at
each end. and has iron handles. 1t is painted in
patriotic colors, the base being red, the panels
white, and the top ledge blue. The lid is en-
tirely decorated with stars and stripes. The old
| gentleman's photograph is placed securely on the
lid, and under it is a miniature flag.
LADY FLORENCE Dixie has emerged from her
seclusion by the publication of a voluminous
| poem on Irish Freedom" in Mr.. Parnelps jour
nal, ODlLoQ Ireland. WQeQ laSL l0arQ from Lazy
Florence was a Joan of Arc. leading the L0yalist
hosts against the Parnellites. She has kept quiet
since her little escapade in Windsor Park. when
her life was defended against a mythical attack
by mythical invincibles, through the timely in
| terposition of a mythical dog. AS Queen Veto
ria gave a command" to have a picture Of the
dog painted for the royal palace. and as the his
toric John Brown contracted his death disease in
carrying out the Queens command, Lady Dixie
has not been a favcrlte at court since. She now
keI4n H. Sal -1- H. -.-- A.
ranks of the enemy. Lady Florence is Scotch,
and q sister to the Marquis Of Queensbury, of
ring rule fame, who was expelled from the Brit
iSh House of Lords a few years ago on account
of his professed atheism.
WHILE "wars and rumors of wars are excit-
ing Central America, and flibustering steam
ships and belligerent Fourth Warders are hover
ing on the coast Of Honduras, ex- President
Soto is calmly awaiting the logic of events and
working hard at his History of Central Ameri-
ca.n He is now finishing the re- discovery period
and has collected and collated a vast amount of
regarding the life OF tho early Cen
trail Americans, which has never before beer
given to the public. Their civilization was SINH
lar to that of the AZtecs and Toltecs of Mexico,
and ruins of ancient cities, as extensive as those
of Yucatan. exist in distant parts of the country.
On account of the value of his historical re.
searches, ex-President Soto has been made a
member of the National Academy of Spain.
ONE of the most novel applicants for Office is
Mrs. Thompson, who is the postmistress of Louis
vile, KY. and who is in Washington seeking a
reappointment Mrs. Thompson is quite a char
| acter in her way. She is the daughter of Alex
ander Campbell. who was the founder of the
sect of Campbellites, of which Garfield was a
a member. She was first appointed by Presi-
dent Hayes. Mrs. Thompson had her eye on the
Louisville postofice long before Hayes was de-
clared to be elected. At first she thought that
Tilden would be successful, so she got up a mon
ster petition and addressed it to president Til
den." A little while afterward the Electoral
Commission declared in favor of Hayes. Mrs.
Thompson, without a moments hesitancy, struck
out the word "%Tilden,' at the head of the peti.
ton. and inserted the word Hayes When
the petition reached the White House Hayes's
attention was drawn to it. He laughed heartily
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