The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-17
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

| Italy to enjoy his 81, OOO, 900 fortune.
SPEAKER CARLISLE is said to believe in the
efficacy of crossing himself with rabbit foot as
firmly as the most superstitious Kentucky negro.
THE towel that's washed in the spring. ira la,
Has nothing to do with the case;
printer would scorn anything ira la,
That's clean, when he wipes off his face
Lowell Citizen.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS new work, Dives and
Lazarus, is coming out in the Tacoma puget
Soundl Ledger under the head of Vanderbiltian
Psychos.
THE death Of the richest man in the North
has been followed by the death of the richest
citizen Of the South, and the name of the latter
was Richardson.
DURING the forthcoming carnival at Vienna
no one will be allowed to wear the costume of a
monk or nun at masked balls, on account of the
alleged offense to religious feeling.
In the theater at Marseilles gentleman seat
ed in the stalls drew a revolver from his pocket
and blew out his brains. He was in love with
an actress who was performing while the deed
was committed
REPRESENTATIVE Cole, of Maryland, will
push in Congress bill appropriating $50. 900 to
build in Patterson Park, Baltimore, monument
to Francis Scott Key, author of 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
A WASHINGTON correspondent saws of ex-
Governor Curtin's daughter: Miss Curtin is a
superior girl, quite a revelation. and, though
much in society, is distinctive from the average
society young woman.
MISS SARAH ORNE JEwETT, one Of the most
gifted literary women of the day. is tall, digni
fed. fond of out-of door lfe and thirty-sx
years of age. She resides with her mother in a
pleasant home at South Berwick, Me-
MISS HILL is attractive woman of perhaps
thirty years of age, and has wealth of beauti
full brown nair She is of sensitive and ner
vous temperament, which probably excuses her
attempt to shoot one of the defendants attor-
neys during the trial.
PARTISAN women show their colors in their
note paper using q violet or feur-de-lis for its
decoration; but those who have no politics are
content with small cork pictures stuck on one
corner.of the sheet, or with stationery covered
by the fine tracery of spider-web.
To the list of funny typographical errors we
must add the announcement Of the Brooklyn
Union that sat Worcester Mass, creation So
ciety has just been organized, with list of Off
GERS whose names are significant of wealth and
intelligence" The Union meant to say ''crema-
tion."
AT the pleasure resort of Pau it is said to be
not unusual to see person with pair of skates
in one hand and a sun umbrella in the other
he Ice Is IOu0u IN a small lake Cnat lies deep
hollow, while round about Pau people are prom
enading in sunshine as warm as that of
October
GENERAL TooMBs. in his will, gave to his
faithful servant, Billy, the use of a room, priv.
ileges of wood and an annuity as long as he
lives. There is a bequest to each of the family
servants and the desire is expressed that they be
retained as long as they wish to stay, on the
same terms as heretofore.
EX-SENATOR HENDERSON, of Missouri, says to
an interviewer: II am going to quit the practice
of law, for time at least and devote all my
leisure to general reading. find that while
have been practicing law l have neglected
general reading and am away behind ON the lit
erature of the past twenty years."
THE smoke of hell in the performances of
"Orpheus" at the New York Academy Of Music,
is said to be very natural The authority for
this judgment is not named however 1t is pro-
duced by new method. Electric lights are set
behind colored glasses of different hues, and as
these glasses are moved there appear to rise
ever-changing clouds. blue green and black by
turns or variously mingled.
LILY MAoAL1sTER LAUGHToN, regent of the
Mount Vernon Association, is claimed to have
'the smallest and most perfectly-formed foot in
America" She also has her second husband
and 1t is related that just before her marriage
she gave one of her slippers to charitable fair
when 1t was ratified for The lucky num- Der was
obtained by Bishop Potter's son, Frank Potter
who used his prize as watch-case.
A "BEoARRE" is the latest title for Partisan
dandies. and the term is also used to replace the
now well-worn expression 'chic" The ''becarre"
must be grave and sedate, after the English
model with short hair. tight high collar, small
mustache and whiskers, but no beard He must
always look thirty years of age, must neither
dance nor affect the frivolity of floral button
hole or any jewery, must shake hands Imply
with ladies, and gravely bend his head to gen
tlemen. 'Becarre." being translated, is 'natur-
al" used In musical sense.
EVEN in the most ancient times different for
eign matters were mixed with bread In Thracia
bread was mixed with powdered dried roots, in
Syria with dried mulberres, in Egypt with
whole grains In modern times in Sweden they
add to the bread powdered dried fish; in Ireland
and in Iceland. moss, which, besides being nu-
tritious, keeps the bread from drying: in Prus-
STA white clay, which contains alkali and salts,
and makes bread very light; in Russia, pow
dered bark or fnely-chopped straw. On the
western shore of England certain kind of sea-
weed is gathered. washed, boiled, and then
baked with oat meal -four. In Africa, powdered
dried locusts are mixed with Bread in India,
potatoes and pea -four, and during the famine
stones ground to fine powder.