The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-12
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

The Literary World uses the word 'Iiterarian"
to describe a literary person.
| In convict camp nea- Lumpkin, Ca, thirty
five Of the eighty-six negro convicts are
| preachers
Mr. JACAssE is superintendent of the art
school at Minneapolis. 1t goes without saying
| that he IS an animal painter.
THEY say in Italy that Miss Harriet Hosmer
of whose skill in sculpture virtually nothing has
been heard since the death of her master, the
Englishman Gibson, has sunk much of her prop
erty in Keeiy motor stock.
PROF. WINNECKE, formerly director of the
Strasburg Observatory, and discoverer of num-
erous comets, has been obliged to retire from
| scientific work, his mind having become unset
| tied. He is not yet fifty years old
| SENSATION has been produced in the Lon
don drug market by the accidental discovery of
a substitute for quinine. The substitute is
| alleged to have like medical properties though
| the cost Of production is not over cents all
| ounce.
| THOMAS STEVENS, the bicylist, has at last
struck good road in his trip round the world
At Lahore, where he was at last accounts, be-
| gins the greatest macadamized road in the
| world 1t is ], 800 miles long and Stevens will
| use l, 800 miles of it.
| produced at seashore resorts One of the most
unique is baby newspaper at Sea Girt, N j.
| 1t is printed every week a toy printing press
and gives the nursery news of the numerous
children in the place.
PARsoN G. NJ LEDBETTER, of Elliiav Ga.
breaches a rather advanced Sam Jones gospel
In recent sermon in which he fiercelv scored
whisky drinkers, card players and dancers, he is
reported to have said that young lady should
spit in any mans face who asked her to dance
with him."
PRINCESS SARAH WINNEMUCCA has been at
tending the Indian festivities in Nevada. TO a
reporter of the Reno Gazette she said tnat she
was getting along nicely with her school, that
fifteen or sixteen pupils are in attendance. The
lady sent out from Boston to visit the school
did not remain long, but continued on her
journey to Australia, whittier she was bound.
NINE varieties of fish were served one day last
week at fish dinner at Block island, exclusive of
lobster and crabs The soup, bisque of CLANS
was made by colored woman, seventy-fve
| years old, who was imported from Stonineton.
Conn. where she has reputation as a cook. for
the occasion. Two judges, clergyman, an
actor, a lawyer and six ordinary gentlemen
composed the company.
| AMONG the Apaches with Geronimo at the
time of his surrender was an exceedingly youth
| upon the war-path. The child was born in the
night, and the next morning, clasped in its
mothers arms, was flying over the trail on a
wild Texan pony y ct it thrved, and unless
the enervatng life of captive plays the mis-
chief with its stomach, will make lusty brave.
THE children are precocious in the West A
| few days ago a four-year-old daughter of G. J.
| Gilman, of Fargo d. T., boarded the Fargo &
Southwestern passenger train, with grip sack
| and a doll almost as large as herself, and sat
| down as unconcerned as any old traveller. About
| 10 o'clock Mr. Gilman missed his child and
| located her by telegraph. The little girl trav
eled 230 miles and said she was going to see her
| grandma.
| THE King of Spain is not at all concerned by
the new phase of the Eastern question His
mother is deeply devoted to the baby king, and
may be seen any day in the palace gardens at
| La GraDia sitting under tree with the child in
her lap, while the little princesses play on the
| grass at her feet. Rigid Spanish etiquette is
| completely laid aside while the court is in the
hills, and the Queen enjoys taking long walks
| with her children in the surrounding country
| without attendants. She devotes the afternoon
| to state business and the evening to music.
| OMAHA Herald: The Thirteen clubs" that
| gather about boards in that supposed unlucky
number, with dishes and viands wrought in the
form of collins. and skulls and cross bones sim
their credit, is, to say the least, weak and fool
| sh. When the members die they will die no
more easily for having joked at possibilities.
| They can look over the brink with more con
| fdence for having eaten icecream from NINA
ture casket. The grim satire of jollity mingling
with the embems of the tomb will lose it's force
one day The tomb will be real and the laugh
ter will have passed away.
| EMILE lola is hard at work on his new novel,
LA Ferre" In this work the author portrays
the social side of peasant lfe The scene is laid
| in Beauce. NJ. lola leads a simple life, rises
early, works hard ali day and retres about TO-
On the huge chimney-piece of his study is craven
| in large letters the device, 'Nulla dies sine
Inca" He lives the greater part of the year at
MEDIUM, a charming villa surrounded by parks
| and grain fields, few miles outside of Paris.
| He has yacht on the Seine and is half prcpri-
| etor Of an island in the river on which he has
built beautiful residence. lola is forty-sx
| years of age is the son of an Italian and was
| born in Paris He is very rich, though for many
| years he lived a life of starvation.
THE North China Herald, in referring to the
fact that Charles Lever held the post of British
consul at Spezia while General Garbaldi was i'm
prisoned there after the fight at Aspromonte,
states that ''the following facts in reference to
his Imprisonment may be- relied upon as being
absolutely authentic Lord Palmerston, who
was greatly interested in Garibaldi, notified
| Lever that Garibaldi was to have anything that
could alleviate his sufferings from his wound
and his imprisonment Mr.. Partridge. the emf
nent surgeon, YVES consulted, and he suggested
| providing the deliverer of Italy with surgical
couch. Accordingly couch. with all the noces-
! sary fittings, was bought of the well-kn own
| maker, Alderman, in Soho square, and sent out
| to Lever for presentation to Garibaldi, the cost
| between $3.50 and $400. being met out of the
secret service funds at the disposal of the Brit
ish Foreign Office"