The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-04
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

NEW ORLEANS Picayune: If a man publishes
a card it ought to be a trump
PHILADELPHIA proudly claims that she has
%. 900 more women than men.
Miss MAGGIE MITCHELL. daughter Of the
Oregon Senator, has been spending the winter
in Paris
THE Knights of Labor in Hartford are said to
contemplate nominating Mark Twain for Mayor
of that city.
MRS HANCOCK will receive the largest pen
sion, 1000 year, paid to the widow of any
soldier. Mrs Shields, widow of the General. re-
ceves 81, 200
AFTER much mental pulling and hauling, au-
thorities in Maine, including the Historical So
ciety. have settled Mount Desert as the
proper pronunciation.
GOVERNOR PROCTOR KNOTT. of Kentucky. has
appointed gentleman major on his staff with
the rank of Mister" He is said to be the only
s'Nlster" in Kentucky
MISS GENEVA ARMSTRONG, one of the teach
ers of music in the Elmra College, has invented
and patented device for feeding and watering
cattle while they are journeying in cattle cars.
A RoUGE-PoT full of rouge still fit for use was
lately excavated at Naucratis, so that the modern
young lady might appear with all the color of
the Grecian belle, if she could borrow the rouge
pot.
A SINGULAR tribute to the breadth of spirit
that characterizes General Lew Wallaces "Ben
Hur" is the fact that both his Jewish and Catho-
lie fellow-citizens are buying the book in large
quantities.
AT the recent marriage at Vienna of che
daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to the
brother of the Queen Regent of Spain. the prin-
cipal ladies in attendance dress-trains from
thirteen to nineteen feet long.
1T was thought arsenic had caused the death
of young girl in New York. But when it was
learned that she had been eating green pickles.
followed by meal of fish, hard boiled eggs and
lemons, the arsenic theory was abandoned.
Miss PALM, the Detroit lady whose name has
been associated with Senator Jones's admiration,
has been in Florida for many weeks past. The
Senator remains in Detroit, lacking the moral
courage to return to his post and face the banter
of the Senators.
ssOF the people who come here expecting to
see Mr.. Could" said young man connected
with his Office, 'the women are the most san
guine and persistent Sometimes a woman who
has not the ghost of a chance of seeing the mag
nate will pace up and down the passage all day.
A TEXAS newspaper notes that the Knights of
Labor, while clamoring for eight hours. want
the San Antonio postoffce kept open until
o'clock in order to accommodate the laboring
class" AS this would make the clerks working
days good twelve hours long. the demand pro-
vokes derisive smiles.
A TRAIN of cars is plainly heard on the line of
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad at The Needles
for distance of seventy eight miles, to place
called Cottonwood island. The discharge of the
sunrise gun at Fort Mohave can be plainly heard
at Colorado canon distance of 100 miles
Sounds Can be understood in the narrows of the
Grand Canon of the Colorado for distance of
ais fnap mill an In 9TH in
one end shouts "Boo,n the man at the other end
can plainly hear the echo. The whistle of a
Colorado steamer can be heard from Ell Dorado
canon 70 Weaverville, the head of navigation, q