The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-17
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

PUNCH: Motto that Russia would fam write
across the Map of Europe-"Bear and for Bear"
PROFESSOR PLINY e. CHASE, Of Haverford
College, brother of President Thomas Chase is
in failing health, and may have to abandon work
for season.
A TAILOR in Boston recently had application
for the use of q full-dress suit for corpse, the
suit to be returned after the funeral--a sort of
habeas corpus suit, SO to speak.
MARY ANDERSON has been spending the au-
tumu with Mr.. and Mrs. William Black, amid
the picturesque scenery of Oban, which her host
has so graphically and charmingly immortalzed.
A TOMBSTONE in O cemetery at Augusta, Me-,
is said to contain this semi-Shakespearian in
scripton:
After lfe's scarlet fever
He sleeps we'll.
GEN. CAssIUs M. CLAY met one of his own
daughters the other day in Richmond. and did
rot know her. His wife and both daughters left
him some years ago, after he returned from Rus
Sla.
A PARROT was allowed in the witness box of
London court the other day. Poll was not
sworn, but she settled the case, which was one
of disputed ownership in herself, by turning to
one claimant and doing all that he commanded
while the other was snubbed.
scrbed by visitor to his Northampton home as
unusually methodical All his notes and refer
ences are carefully indexed and SO systematzed
that he turn without "a moments delay to
any authority he wishes to consult.
A RATHER unusual law question came up at
Waterville Me-, the other day. man owed
a sum of money and an attachment was put on
his watch-a legal attachment The man was
shrewd and said the tmepiece could not be
taken as it was his tool whereby he earned a
livelihood. He was a Waterman.
MRS GEORGE w. CHILDs has an autograph al
bum in which many prominent mon have writ
ten sentiments Goodwin Smith penned these
lines above his name:
Blest man, who wandering from Canadian wds
Is Philadelphia's guest and thine, o Childs!
Cheered he returns to dark Ontarios pines
And tells Canucks how Pennsylvania Dimes"
HERE is the way physician in Atlanta bal
ances the merits of allopathy and homeopathy
Forty nine people cut Of every fifty who are
sick would get we'll without medicine, but the
fiftieth would die Homeopathy does. perhaps,
less harm to the forty whine than allopathy, but
ailopathy has to come in to save the fftieth fell
low.
THE pastor of one of the magnificent new
churches in Minneapolis congratulates himself
that the structure is out of debt The land on
bought number of years ago for a song ana
sold recently for 100000. Several new churches
in Minneapolis and ST. Paul can show O similar
record.
PHIL ARMOUR, the Chicago millionaire. buys
a suit of clothes every year for each of his Office
employees. The boys usually select suits worth
from $50 to $780, but fastdous clerk recently
abused his employers generosity and sent in a
tailor's bill of 1925. Armour discharged him on
the ground that he wanted his clerks to stand on
an equality.
A PHILADELPHIA police captain has Juvenile
who developed funny idea the other day. A
white cow that had supplied the family with
milk, was exchanged for black one and on the
same day the youngster TO the Captain
much furried, and exclaimed: "Papa, they've
TUX our white bessie away, an put an old black
in there, an tell you, sir" shaking his fist an
grlly, 'if there's any black milk on the tea.table
tonight, won't drink it,
ACCORDING to a gentleman who has lived in
London many years, and has seen Queen Vic
toria often, there is lady in Hartford who re
sembles her greatly. He says that the general
resemblance is almost startling and when this
Hartford lady smiles her expression is absolutely
identical with the Queens The Queen, how
ever has what would, if left to ITSELF be red hair
But the arts of her hairdresser have prevented
this fact from being apparent and the Queens
hair seems to be only SANDY
Their is nauseating morsel for anti-ritual-
lists in the news that the Bishop Of Lincoln, in
England. who has revived the miter as practi-
cal portion of the Episcopal costume, has just
been presented with new one. It is, appa-
rently, fairly sumptuous piece of head gear
The groundwork is cloth OF gold s'richlY dis
persed with gold thread The orphreys-every
one knows what an orpnrey is-ars lavishly dec