The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-05
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

BKEAKEAST-TABIIE CHAT.
IT is said to be popularity of Cincinnati peo-
pie that they never eat sausages.
THE tailcr-made woman can truthfu,ly say,
''No, thank you, don't care to sit down"
PHILADELPHIA North Americans When man
gets to be a leader of workingmen he is able to
quit work.
ALTA California; Mike McCool is dead.
Michael was prize fighter, but he will live in
literature, for he originated the famous phrase,
Put up or shut up"
BILL has been introduced in the Alabama
Legislature to establish and maintain an indus
trial college for women Fifty thousand dollars
is asked for the establishment, and $25, 900 for
maintaining it.
HENRY NJ STANLEY is remarkable for broad
head, very thick through the cheek bones. His
hair is still dark and thick. covering the temples.
He is of middle size, weighing about one hun
dred and eighty pounds. He looks like a man of
about fifty years OF age.
NEW operate star, Flaulein Anna Kirbel
is creating great sensation in Norway. Ole
said to have predicted that Fraulein Kirbel will
throw Jenny Lind into the shade She is
twenty three years of age
A SUBSCRIPTION has been started for the cree
ton Of a bronze monument over the grave of ex-
President Arthur. The first day the subscrip-
tion was started $40 600 we're raised. Only the
most pronounced personal friends of General
Arthur will be asked to contribute. 1t ia ex-
pected that the subscription will reach $3.50. 600.
BISHOP LIrTLEJoHN, of the diocese of Long
Island. has sailed for Europe, to be gone for
several months. The state Of his health is such
that he feels the need of a vacation, although it
ic clu innno iVoA Hio xuifo xuh0
health demands that she pass the winter in q
warm climate, will accompany him. They will
go to London. and thence journey through
southern Europe. In the absence of the Bishop
the Rev. DR.. G. r. Van De Water. of ST. Luke's,
Brooklyn, will be the spiritual head of the do
cese by appointment of the Bishop. Bishop Lit
tlejohn will return before Easter
A LETTER from Copenhagen tells some I'M
pleasant facts about Minister Anderson, of Wis
consin, who represents this country at the Dan
ish court. He lives alone in poor lodgings of
two rooms, his meals are cooked By one old
woman, who also mends his clothes, and his
economy approaches the verge of meanness. He
squeezed the Queens hand on presentation, so
that she has been offended ever since He talks
Danish with a Norwegian accent, grave Of
Tense in Denmark He eats with his knife at
table, and has rendered himself thereby obDoX-
ious to the ladies of the court. Altogether his
diplomatic career has been more of burlesque
than anything else.
CAPTAIN S. l.. PIERCE, of Linwood, Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, who died several
days ago. was engaged In the coast
wise trade, and during the war carried
supplies to the army Once he was given a
package to deliver to General Grant in person.
In the neiehborhood of headquarters he came to
man sitting on log. Captain Pierce asked
him if he could tell him where he could find
General Grant: The person on the log replied:
Suppose tell you am General Grant, Pierce
said: II would tell you that you are a liarp and
passed on. On making further inquiries he was
directed back to the man sitting on the log The
General told him that no apologies were neces-
sary.
IT is now printed that when the disagreement
arose between Mrs Edwin Booth and her hus-
band her father. McVicker, the Chicago man
ager, sided with his daughter and her brother,
Horace, with Mr.. Booth. This led to an es-
arrangement between McVicker and his son that
absolutely separated them. Not long ago Mr.
McVicker met on the cars pretty little girl,
whose winning ways pleased him. He asked ner
name, and she gave it. and the last name was
McVicker. "Whose child Is this2r asked the old
man OF the nurse. Horace McVicker'sr was
the answer. Without word the little girls
grandfather wrote on his card, Horace come to
me at once.' and sent it by the nurse to his son,
and now the old man and Horace are inseparable
In his volume of personal "reminiscences, Mr..
Louis Engel, the musical critic OF the World,
London. tells new story about Mozart's first
beard, and the pious domestic comedy it caused:
"Of course his mother wrote about it to his
father and the father replied in the most seri-
Gus way possible. L wish to be informed wheth-
er Wolfgangs beard Is cut off with small scissors,
singed, or shaved. And the mother, in despair,
replied We have tried our best with the scis-
sors, but ] am seriously afraid we shall have to
resort to the barber To which the father re.
torts: Leave all to the Lord. wish to be sure
of one thing only. Does he attend to his con-
fessionY In nothing can we succeed unless we
have the blessing of heaven; and il | did not
think that he attends punctualy to his comics.
sions should be very unhappy indeed
IT is said that Maj. Ben Perley Poore the
Washington correspondent, delights in the use
of the words of that dreadful old man in sDavid
Copperfeld," who repeated over and over s'Oh,
my eyes and limbs! Oh. my lungs and liver!
Oh, goroo, goroo!' The other day the playful
Major saw friend walking in front of him. SO
he stole up quietly behind, damned the friends
hat down over his eyes, grabbed him by the
throat and the hair, and shouted in his deepest
tones Oh my heart on fire, Oh, my eyes
and limbs! Oh, my lungs and liver! Oh goroo
goroo" BY this time the victim managed to get
away, and turned face full of wrath and terror