The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-18
BREAKFAST-rABLE CHAT.

CONGRESSMAN MCKINNEY, of New Hamp-
shire, is said to read the Bible in the original
Hebrew.
CONGRESSMAN SCOTT, Mr.. CeveIands man
ager in Pennsylvania, has accumulated a sur
plus of $40 0OO, 900.
Puck: 1t strikes us. after careful thought.
that Achilles might have lived much longer it,
he'd been better heeed.
AN experienced Adirondack guide estimates
that there are now in the Adirondacks 10000
deer, 1000 bears and 100 wolves
COLLEGIATE Journal: A lady advertises that
che has "a fine. airy weil-furnished bedroom
for gentleman twelve foot square"
WHEN Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe received
her pay-$50-for Uncle Toms CABIN" the
check was made payable to her husband.
IT is stated in ''The Post" of San Francisco
that JEFF Davis has been blind in one eye for the
past twenty years. bur has kept the fact Sc
cret from nearly every one.
MISS HATTIE ALLEN, NJ D., the daughter of
Il B. Allen. banker at Waterloo. Ia. has
cepted the assistant professorship of medicine in
the Michigan State University.
THE opposition to the Heine monument at
Dusseldorf has been defeated, and the memorial
will ba erected in the Hofgarten. The sculptor,
Ernst Herter. is already at work on the design.
IT is now the correct thing for Boston
merchants to advertise in the new-fangled
in fifty thousand read it makes no differ
ence.
MISS PADDOCK. daughter of United States
Senator Paddock, possesses dramatic ability,
and longs to become professional. Her parents
are trying to curb her youthful ardor for the
stage.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND will attend the
in Washington. She will deliver az address
upon the subject OF why Is Not Woman the
Equal of Mani"
THERE is a well-patronized slave market in
Cabul for the sale of slaves brought from KAT
ristan. Girls bring higher prices than women.
and are sold according to height Only Moham-
medans are allowed to buy.
SOME Florida caobages measure five feet
across the top and weigh twenty pounds, SO
the Florida papers say They also tell of po-
tato twenty -seven pounds in weight, and a
turnip weighing ten pounds
DR.. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND will give up his
practice in New York next fall and move to
Washington, where he is building a fine resi-
denee. and also a private hospital for his pa
tients at cost of 100000
A PUNcTUAL Minnesota maiden lately married
a casual acquaintance, who happened to meet
her in the church. rather than be kept waiting
for her original intended, who quarter of
an hour behind his appointed time.
THE youngest woman in the newspaper bust
Mcclellan, the local editor of tho Seward Dem
ocrat. of Nebraska. She is but fifteen years
old, and an excellent news gathsrer.
A WOMAN has fair chance now of not marry
ing q drunkard in Waldeck. Germany. The
Legislature of the little principalty has just
passed a law forbidding the granting of
rage license to person addicted to the liquor
habit.
GEN. ANsoN McCooK is the typical frontier
soldier Strongly marked features. high,
broad forehead and head of hair like the name
of lion. are characteristics that make him
noticeable in any assemblage. He does not look
unlike the late John A. Logan.
A CURIOUS wedding present was given to
Mile. Zucchi, formerly ''prima ballerina" of the
Eden Theater, of Paris. by the friends of her
husband. Prince Basetchitkoff. The ex-danseuse
received 120 drinking cups. all fashioned like
dancing slippers. of different sizes.
GENERAL GREEDY. chief of the Weather Blu
reau, will have in the next issue of well-known
magazine an article telling people where to
spend the summer. It would have been much
better had Greedy told the public where to pass
the last few days, remote from the path of the
blizzard
MONTE CARLO letter in Pittsburg Dispatch:
The gambling feature of the nights play was
the phenomenal luck of Paris demi- m ondsiue
whose black pearls have filed with bitter envy
other hearts of demi-mondaines and .mondaines,
who took nearly 500, 600 francs fgome one trente
ct quarante table.
EMERSON is the American sage and seer. His
friends are claiming that many years ago he
predicted the advent of the telephone when he
wrote: "By new arts the earth is subdued aud
on the brink OF new wonders. The sun
paints; presently we shall organize the echo,
We do now the shadow"
IN the Office of the recorder Of deeds, Phila-
delphia. is preserved o Justices docket over 100
years old. One of the entries in the volume ia
as follows: Commonwealth agt Stephen
Blunt, July "a. ITS. Charged OF drinking
'Damnaton to General Washington and all his
army. Defendant held in S200."
The 'rising bell" at the Institute for the Deaf
and Dumb at Flint. Mich, is drum. When it
is placed on the floor and beaten everybody is
awakened; and it is used in the same way to call
ton is that those who cannot hear feel the VI
bration of the air produced by the beating of
the drum.
Mrs SCARF. of Niskayuna, N. Y. is an aged
lady who was born in England many years ago,
and when girl became famous for her skill in
weaving damask haneings. William ", who
then occupied the throne OF England, heard of
her accom- lIshment and sent an order to her
for twenty yards of damask for bed curtains
He was in hurry and gave her.four days for
tbs task. At the end of that time the maiden
presented the ruler with the handsomest dam
time and which even now exhibition in
Windsor Castle. William WAS pleased with the
work, but sent the young girl only S. g
ward for her achievement,
Coon fellow as the late Col. Fred Burnaby
was out of his regiment. he was a martinez of
martinets on parade. It a habir OF his to
wear his helmet, not in the orthodox fashion,
tipped over the eyes, but set well back on his
head One of his troopers took fancy to ini-
tate the Colonel. and appeared parade one
morning with his helmet .all anyhow Your
helmet sir! Put it on rightly Numbered the
Colonel, who had observed the delinquent in a
twinkling. The next day the trooper again sp-
psaxed on parade wilh his helmet cooked defiant
" on the back OF his head The Colonel at once
ordered him under arrest and gave him some