The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
BREAKFAST-TABIIE CHAT.

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Mrs. LEW WALLACE has written a new book
for children, and the General has made the illus
trations
THE monotony of midsummer is relieved by
| the announcement that Mr.. Flinders Petrie has
discovered Pharaohs house.
SOUTHWESTERN critics regard L. W. Wesley
| the cowboy evangelist, as superior exhorter in
| every way to Mr.. Sam Jones
JOHN w. KELLY, the motor man. used to be
head waiter at Loretto Springs. now Wildwood
| Springs. Cambria county, if the Altoona Times
| is to be believed. He was also q member of the
| orchestra.
JOHN WANAMAKER pays the man who writes
| his advertisements So, 900 year. which seems
high, but the man is journalist. and the adver-
tisements are written in English, and are pleas
ant reading.
has complete set of the autographs of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence, hav-
Ing, 1t Is said, paid sixty dollars for one scraw
ing signature cut from the fly leaf of a book.
Mrs. CoNANT. wife of the missing employee of
Harper's, is proof-reader and translator of for
eign languages in that establishments She does
not yet resign all hope of seeing her husband
alive. She is in communication with all the
American diplomates abroad, always hoping for
news from the loDg-disappeared man.
C. P. HUNTINGToN says this good word for his
fellow railroad manipulator: 81 am not inter
ested in any of Mr.. Gould's lines, and we have
nothing In common, but will say this much
about him, that in all my dealings with him /
never dealt with souarer man, though there
are many people who have different opinion of
him."
II NEVER" Senator Ingalls, is quoted as say
ing, did lck of work until / had received q
| thorough education. My father and mother
supported me until l was quite able to support
| myself l belonged to the Brahmin class of New
England and am sample of genuine Yankee
training"
CHARLES LAMBS rebuke to a man who, by
self-assertion, pronounced himself devoid of any
popularity, ought not to be omitted. ''Wh
which hand do you b-b-blow your nm nose WITH"
inquired Lamb. with my right hand, TO be
sure" ''Ah" said Lamb pensively ''that's your
pc pc popularity. / b-bblow mine with my
handkerchief"
The London Academy presents revised judg-
| ments of famous Americans Daniel Webster
it seems, "died not indeed, in obscurity or alto
gether unmourned, but little honored." AS for
Abraham Lincoln, lit is easy to overestmate
his worth. He was honest and he was energetic.
but in no sense was he q truly strong man,
while Grant was greater as man than as Gen.
eral"
"A lOR4 VlSltOr at 11HWaru6u Ln6 OGuSr Qdy
rallied Mr.. Herbert Gladstone in q good
humored way, upon his fathers defeat in the
elections. '.Ahi never mind!p said the young
man; "exult as much as you like. l am happy to
say that the Prime Minister still has another
card in his sleeve!" Another cardl' repeated the
Salisburyite; s'wel if he has, earnestly hope it
| is P. P. O. card" Herbert subsidized
IT is suggested by well-known sculptor, who
has the Observation-Disclosures to be always losing
n:
| provided by the city, just as pavements and
sewers are, IN which case he observes to his
friends, the pedestrian on a rainy day would be
able to seize umbrella from public rack in
whatever street he might be- and to get rid of it
| by returning it to another rack as the
clouds rolled by
THE Bishop of Exeter. England recently con-
frmed number of idiots, and the act provoked
so much criticism that he has thought it neces-
sary to justify his conduct. He does so by say
ing that the idiots were more devout than great
many wise Christians, and quotes the dying
words Of q poor idiot known az Silly Billy:
Oh! what does Silly Billy sect
Three in One and One in Three,
And one of them has died for
DIcKENs's ''Old Curiosity Shop" where Little
Nell immortalized herself, is now supposed to be
the structure at No. Id Portsmouth street, Lin
! coins Inn Fields. London, occupied by q dealer
| in waste paper. The neghborhood is one that
| DICKENS OFTEN VISlL60 another or It's attrac-
| tions Is Quilp's wharf, which exists under the
| name of Buffers wharf. Quip himself is we'll
remembered by few OF the oldest inhabitants,
and the latest Investigations increase the evil
| dence that Dickens liked to chronicle what his
/! own eyes had seen.
THERE is rising prima donna in the West
according to newspaper writer in Los Angeles.
| He writes: There Is a woman here who is sell
ing small fruit and vegetables to educate herself
= 10 ou1 chn So
| music all her life.' but now, at forty years of
age. in spite of poverty aud disbursement, she
| is cultivating her voice. which is really fine
| one. An odd and pitiful sight was this woman,
| with her broad sun-hat and linen buster, at the
| piano the other day, playing and singing for g
| wealthy invalid, while her vegetable-wagon
stood waiting at the door.
| PROFESSOR GOODWIN SMITH relates that when
he occupied the chair of history at Oxford about
| 1865. he called on Guizot at Val Richer and had
| long talk with him on the subject of Ireland.
II well remember" he says, fhow the old states
| man stopped IN his walk and. with an emphatic
wave of his arm, said: The conduct of England
to Ireland for the last thirty years has been ad
| mrable / observed that in the opinion of Lib
erals. justice still required the disestablisment of
the Irish church. Yes replied Guizot, and
that will Gomez but repeat that the conduct of
England to Ireland for the last thirty years has
/ been admirable
THE Japanese Prince Higashi Fushimi No
| Miya, field marshal of the army, who is now
visiting Washington, is member Of the imper
ia family, although not in the direct line of sue
/ cession to the crown It was he who, after the
] great revolution of 1867 which ended in the over
| throw of the Tycoon and the restoration of the
| Mikado, was sent down to the port of Hiogo to
convey the imperial consent to the treaties and
to invite the foreign ministers to their first audi
/ ence with the Emperor in the ancient capital of
Kioto. The British and Dutch ENJOYS alone ae
/ cepted the invitation; the others declined. On
/ the way up to Kioto the British minister was at
| tackled by number of fanatic assGssins. For
tunately he escaped, while his assailants were
to pieces by the escort IL is from these first
| interviews between the Mikado and the ENJOYS
4 of Western civilization that date the progress
/ and regeneration of the empire.
| LIEUTENANT ScHwATKA, in command of the