The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-19
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

| THE only surviving child of Noah Webster is
4 Mrs. Jones, of Bridgeport, who carries her
eighty two years with good health and vivacity.
! QUEEN VICTORIA has made the opal fashona-
BILE again All the gifts of jewelry that she has
bestowed among her friends for the past year
| have been opals
| WoMEN's milk is sold on the streets in some
Chinese cities for the sustenance of infants and
old people, it being believed peculiarly nourish-
| ing to aged persons.
GENERAL TooMBs's estate is coming out bet
| ter than was expected Mr.. DdBose, who rep
reseuts the estate, says the lands in Texas have
| just paid in $4,000, and are good for $4,000
| more.
with great earnestness upon the arrival of a we'll
/ known brother in the field: 80 Lord 'nont dis
| yer dear brudder wild de kerosine lie OBJ salbra-
/ shun and set him on fire."
| A CITIZEN of Narosla, Fla. wants to send
| some of the big red ants of that region, called
bulldog ants, to this city for use by surgeons
in fastening wounds of the intestnes He says
that if the edges of two pieces of sof. paper are
| held together, and bulldog ant held so that he
will clutch both sides, and his head be then quick
/ ly twisted off. the head becomes fixture in that
position. He says that the Spanish surgeons
! use the bulldog ants as sutures in this way.
LETTER from Italy to the Buffalo Courier
contains tins paragraph: 4It seems to me that
society grows puere and vulgar every
day. 1t has no longer the witty epigram of the
days of Horace Wapole. nor the fine manners of
| the days OF Louis XIV. l even heard to-day a
young English guardsman say that he thought
the Prince Of Wales took money for gong to Mrs.
| Mackay's house" This is about rs small an es-
| inmate OF royalty as has been made since the
| days of greedy Louis XII
THE Christian lntelligencer tells of a lady who
took seat in Twenty third street bobtail car,
| and was Immediately addressed by large and
1 apparently vigorous man who had been putting
! his fare in the box He said: IT beg your par
1 don, madam, but you have taken my seat" The
| lady arose, not too astonshed to whisper to her
| companions This is new experience" She
| stood while the sat and read his newspaper
| The writer wonders if the man is a pioneer in
| new street-car manners movement
| AIFoHso's widow has had to Danish from Mad
rid an officer who continually on duty about
! the royal palace. He fell violently in love with
| his sovereign, and, making concealment of
| his passion. revealed it in various ways One
day be made his wav to the Queens houdoir.
1 and. throwing, himself at her Majestys feet,
! poured forth his tale Of passion. The gentleman
j belongs to powerful aristecratic family. New
erthelesS he is likely to have warm time in the
regiment, which, in consequence of his escapade,
| has been ordered into virtual exile.
BOSTON newspaper man says that Green
Ough's statue of franklin in that city is worth
studying, because it illustrates theory for
! which the sculptor had the authority of the
great physiognomist Lavater 1t is that each
side of the human face represents different
| phases of human nature, man being dual ami
| NAL, with a double set of characteristics. On
| one side of the bronze face of Franklin Green
| ough has depicted the expression of the man of
d~aEx 49,
| On the other he has represented the features of
4 the author of the homey philosophy embodied
/ in Poor Richards Almanac"
| Ex-EMPREss EUGENE. after having passed a
month at Osborne assthe guest of Queen Veto
ria. has returned to Farnborough. Among her
| visitors at present are the Duke and Duchess de
/ Mouchy, Prince Joachim Murat and Princess
! Eugene Mnrat. The Empress supervises the
| building of the chapel which is to be the burial
/ place of her husband and son. The chapel will
be magnificent monument and is to be the cen
| ter Of an important parish. Meantime the En-
/ press goes every Sunday to the camp of Alder
shot, where icass is celebrated for the Catholic
/ soldiers As she passes through the camp the
soldiers present arms, as ii she were still on the
! throne.
| GERMAN journal publishes curious portrait
| Of Prince Bismarck. Bismarck" says the
/ writer, ''was an enigma when a child, and he is
| an enigma still. He never knows one day what
/ he will do the next day, and for years past he
4 has simply taken advantage of present clrcum.
stances in directing the affairs of Europe. The
great source of his strength is the facility with
! which he changes his opinions, abandons his
| friends coddles his enemies, and profits by the
malice of one. the hatred of another, the pride
! of third, while he makes fools of them all
his conscience knows no scruple. and he pro-
! fesses an equally passionate fondness for the
4 BlOle ana the latest bad French novel
The appearance of Geronimo has laid at rest
many fctions as to his appearance and condition.
correspondent who had frequent opportuni-
ties of seeing him face to face, says he is
young brave under thirty, of handsome figure
and fine bearing He has never been wounded
and apparently his band would have been good
for many more months of guerrilla warfare had
| not their supDy of ammunition given ont This
account of Geronimo agrees with the sketch Civ
en- by Capt John u. Bourke in his IAN Apache
Campaign In that work Captain Bourke de-
scrlbes Geronimo whom he calls Hieronymo as
| one OF the youngest and handsouest of the
| Chiricahua Apache chiefs but one who, in spite
OF his youth, exercised great influence over his
companions.
This is why girls in China are not allowed to
! go to school with boys according to Chan Pond,
young Chnaman now in this country: ''They
| (women) would not have drunka7d for hus-
band, but they would drink a glass of wine with
| fast young man. They would not use profane
! language yet they love the society of men who
| they know are profane out of their presence
| They would not wish to be considered dishonest
but they use deceitful words and countenance
| the society of men known as deceivers They
would not to be irreligious, but they smile upon
the most irreligioHs and even immoral men, and
show that they love to be wooed by them
| This is the virtue OF too many women-a virtue
scarcely worth the Numerically no virtue at ALL
hypOcritcal, hollow pretension to virtue, AS
unwofnanly as il is disgraeefuL This is not the
virtue of true womanhood."