The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-26
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

NEWTON tKan) Republican: Cupid is always
shooting and forever making Mrs
THERE is living in Chicago Mr. Hide
brand. who was for sixteen years Prince Bis
marcks body-servant.
Iowa Cry Republican: Miss Josie Chi is in
the employ of Albert Hemingway, where she
will dish hash during the coming summer.
THE doctors have again warned Mr.. Depew
that he must give up public speaking. This may
properly be set down as great public calamity.
SYRIAN Arab mendicants focking to this
country in large numbers. Nearly 5000 are al
ready here. and they are coming in steadily IN
creasing numbers
A LARGE number of Mexicans ara to make .
pilgrimage to Rome in APRIL They will arrive
in New York about the 1st of that month whence
they will sail to Naples.
BUsTs of President and Mrs Cleveland. made
has been reduced are for sale in the corridors of
the Capitol at Washington.
ASHLAND Republican: joe Efforts dog
Smut" which is we'll known and popular, had
his leg broken day last week. and now Is re-
ceiving the sympathy of many friends.
ANEW tenor has been discovered in a carpen-
ter's shop in France. He bears the very availa-
bic name of Bernard. This is the first tenor
ever found who was publicly described as q
plane
PATTI had tremendous ovation in Madrid
two weeks ago. in "Linda da Cbamounix." Tho
stalls We're from Sc to $50, the occasion being the
forty fifth anniversary of her birth, which took
place in Madrid.
JUDGE: chow is it you have SO many young
men call you?" asked jealous girl. "Be-
cause" was the reply. "father has the CONT in
one foot. and the rheumatism In the other; be-
side. we don't keep dog"
THERE is no truth in the rumor that Lady
Colin Campbell is thinking OF starting la6y's
paper. Her iadyship is to be seen in the black
stuff dress and the white cap and apron of
hospital nurse at St Georges Hospital.
MRS. JAMES SPrrTLE, Smiley PRESLEY, is
the youngest bride in the country. She Is eleven
years old and was married last week At Mat
tnews, n c.. her mother giving consent on con-
jiton that the bridegroom would keep the girl
in school five years.
LORD TENNYsoN's dairy is becoming as cole
brated the laureate's poetry. The butter,
cheese and milk sent to market are meeting an
increasing demand through the Isle of Wight,
and are rather successful products than
the poets later products.
ABBoTsFoRD is in the market to be let for
term Of years, but it is doubtful lift find tenant,
for the old home of Scott is overrun with shoals
OF tourists and the house is large and gloomy.
Abbotstord now belongs to Sir Walters great
granddaughter Mrs Maxwell Scott who is
granddaughter of Lockhart.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL has shown that atmos-
pheric germs do not pass through layer of cot
ton wool; and the discovery has been applied to
keep preserved fruit by covering the jar holding
it with cotton batting. The germs of putre-
faction in the fruit are said to be rendered
harmless by cooking. and the cotton batting
keeps out those of the air.
Miss HELEN TAYLOR, the stepdauehter and
companion of John Stuart Mill is about to visit
this country Miss Taylor is we'll known in
Ton Ions vvnr of nIJh1i mir nh
thropist. a reformer, and member of the
Metropolitan school board. She is also q de-
voted friend of the Irish cause, for which she
mas stood up bravely, more than once under
trying circumstances.
PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON in Rome
lately. He went to the opera with Princess
Gabrielli. and this is what reporter of the
Italie says of him: 1.-THE exile is we'll preserved
He does not saem to age. Every now and then.
the other evening, he would take up his opera
glass and gaze at some pretty woman who had
just entered her box-a convincing proof that
the Prince is still young and susceptible"
JAMES L. HAMILTON. the young American
who is now in custody in Mexico for killing
Indian III self-defenss. was student at St
Paus School. Concord. N. H.. at Columbia
College and at Harvard University, He is an
extremely handsome young fellow, brave as a
lion. and daring to the verge OF recklessness
He would make a much more dienifsd casus
belli between this country and Mexico than the
erstwhile famous Editor Cutting.
LONDON boasts many aristocratic milliners.
s'Mme. Valentine of Mortimer street. is Mrs.
Charles Quincy, sister of Mr.. Val Priasep, and
formerly the reiening beauty in London society.
She has, in turn made dresses for several other
noted bellies. including the Americans, Miss
Chamberlain and MISS Winslow Another
nilliner .tLierre." of Park street, is Lady Gran
vile Gordon. particular friend Of the Duchess
of Teek. She personally waits on the custom
ers at her shop.
A. r. CARTER, secretary Of the health depart
ment of Baltimore. Nd, receives many curious
certificates from physicians of that city. From
a number recently sent in the following causes
of death worthy of note: A report on the
death of a lady. eghty-five years of age, reads:
cause OF death. fall from third story window.
Seeing it fatal case, let her die in peace,
which she did in one hour and twenty minutes"
Another certificate makes the sad announce
ment: "a boy four years old died from eating
a heavy piece of apple-pie four hours before
DEATH"
THE Rev. Mr. Gambler, of Nashville. who
preached sensational sermon abusing all actors
and operasineers and got smar.ly rebuked
therefor by Miss Emma Abbott sent newspa-
per account of the incident to the Rev. c. FL.
SpurgeoD, of London, asking him if Miss Alb
bott truthful in declaring him to be one of
her friends. Mr. Sourgeon, probably still rather
groutv after his unsuccessful conflict with the
Baptist Union, curly replied that be did not
know Miss Abbott, and had never even heard of
her. From which one might well infer that the
eminent champion of orthodoxy had missed
lots of fun. But IN y'ndication OF the fair
prima donna it is to be said that Mr.. Spurgeon
is really one of her friends, but knows her only
by her proper married name, Mrs Wetherell, and
his contemporary education has been so eriev-
ously neglected that he actually doesn't know
that Mrs Wetherell and Miss Abbott are identi-
cal individuals.
WONDERS OF THE CoMsTOCK.