The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-22
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

WILLIAM O'BRIEN. the Irish leader, says that
journalists the watehdoas of civilization"
.ONE New Yorker is said to have made mill
ion dollars in the last twenty five years. selling
and exchanging duplicate wedding presents.
THE journalists of Los Angeles. CAL, have
founded colony of their own at Ramona, in
the San Gabriel valley. Among them it is said.
Thomas Mast, the famous cartoonist will make
his home
PRESIDENT CARNoT. OF France says that his
greatest sorrow is that hea ven has denied him
son. His predecessors worst affection lay in
the fact that heaven had imposed upon him
son-in-law.
IT is stated that before he presented it to Par
lament Mr. Goschen made two persons-out-
side of the Ministry-acquainted with his great
conversion scheme. They were Mr.. Gladstone
and Lord Randolph Churc chill
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY will not allow mar
ried women to cali themselves Mrs. John or
James, as the case may be. il she can help it
She says that the first lesson Mrs. Dixie learned
on American soil was TO call herself Mrs. Marga-
ret not Mrs. Ashton, Dixie.
THE Queen Regent of Spain has a mania, al
most, for being photographed in company with
her children. A recent picture presents most
charming family group. It represents the Queen
Regent pouring tea at table, the baby King in
his high-chair at her side. and the two infantas
looking demure and beautiful in their plain
white dresses.
CLOTHING dealer recently offered prizeto
any one who would shake cylindrical wooden
box without rafting its contents. On the ont
side of the box was painted You can't do it.
but it be DONE" 1t was done, however, by
gentleman who brought science TO his aid. The
box contained scraps of tin, which readily
yielded their "rattlen when magnet was sD-
piled to the outside of the cylinder having sufi-
cient power to hold tham in place
THE Paris Figaro saysr 1T is a mistake TO
n
signs all his official acts Frederick, Imperator'
The acts relating to Prussia are signed Freder-
lex I'LL The second Frederick was Frederick
the Great and in Prussian Conservative circles
it was not thought that any Hohenzollern would
take that name. But the present Emperor can
only be Frederick III as King of Prussia, and
not as Emperor of Germany. There has already
been Frederick III Emperor Of Germany. He
reigned from 1440 to 1493.
JosEFFY. the pianist. has been receiving 3
good deal of social attention in Washington Of
late. He remembered having met Mrs. Cleve-
land when she was schoolgirl at Aurora N
z. "Have you forgotten how we girls bothered
you for your autograph" asked Mrs. Cleveland.
81 don't believe that you ever knew that il was
my good fortune To secure no less than twelve
of these autographs. one of which, written on
the margin Of the concert programme, is stili
retained by souvenir of that occasion"
w. A. DANIELS. of Bath, Steuben county.
New York. was, in 1863. in charge Of a wagon
train on of the roads in the historic Wilder
ness The forest was 10 flames, and Charles w.
Davidson, a boy of seventeen, lay wounded on
the ground in danger of immediate death oy
fire. Against orders, and at the risk of his lib
erty, and perhaps life. Daniels placed the boy
upon q wagon and carried him to Frsdericks-
burg. Davidson lived to become a rich man.
while Daniels lived almost in poverty. at Bath,
making small income as a painter He always
refused the pecuniary aid offered him by David
son. The latter recently died, in Chicago, how
ever. and left a fortune of $15O,000 to Daniels.
A WRITER in the Newcastle Chronicle. who
was student at Bonn with the present German
Crown Prince relates of that illustrious person
age that some time after leaving the university
he asked, in q mysterious manner, OF certain
officer in Berlin, whether ne had heard that the
army was to be modified IN twenty four hours.
The officer raahly took 1t definite assertion
and court secret; but it did not long remain q
secret in his hands He mentioned il in a
whisper TO eomeone else; the reporters cot on
the scent. and before two hours it was in capital
letters. 'A-my mobilization in swenty-.our
hours" in all the evening papers in Berlin
Then all was hurry and CONSERVATION, and in
qniries Against whom was the war7 Against
France? Against Russia3 Was it Ausrrial Was
it Italy7 Was the Fatherland invaded No
body knew. The generals were asked; they
denied all knowledge but were disbelieved
They inquired, however, for themselves; and
after the report had spread, causing panic
through all Europe. it finally traced back
to its source. Prince William severely
reprimanded by his grandfather. who gave him
three days arrest Tor MS lntenoed JOKE.
SPRING FANCIES.
In the spring the old mans fancy turns TO things
anent his health,
Aud in liver regulators he invests his surplus wealth
In the spring when flowers waking and shoot
ing up the grasses
The loving uother gives her children sulphur and
molasses.
In the spring the needs cleaning cellar, gar
ret, room and stair,
And dear wives proceed about 1t. driving HUSBANDS
to despair.
In the spring the husband fools around with spade
and rake and hoe.
And plants and sows lot Of things that never.
never grow.
In the spring the youth is anxious be fashionaby
So he has his last years repaired and sponeed
and pressed
In the spring, the maicens fancy turns 70 coiofs
bright and gay.
And IN the spring she decks herself in beautiful
array.
Thus we perceive that in the spring when buds adorn
IT'S IL our nature to display our diosyncracies.
-Boston Courier