The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-29
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

land. Australia, that their cultivation is no
longer profitable Only one shilling per bunch
of twenty dozen is paid for the fruit.
MIR. HosTETTER, the patent medicine manu-
facturer of Pittsburg, Pa, carries $3.50, 600 life
| insurance. He has been trying to make the
| amount 81, 100000, but SO Ear without success
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Mississippi has
decreed that no saloon-keeper may be made a
Mason in that jurisdiction. About a half dozen
other grand lodges had preceded Mississippiin a
| like decree.
| CHAUNcEY DEPEw has coined a phrase which
| will probably have run. He speaks of certain
financial transactions of an uncertain character
| as kathleen Mavourneens ioans,n because lit
| may be for years and it may be forever"
| GENERAL BoULANGER is now just fifty years
old. He is noted for his grace and gallantry.
! and, more than any other Frenchman is the
| idol and the especial hero of the ladies. No one
| else can open fan, remove lady's cloak or
mount a restless horse in so graceful and charm
/ ing way, and the same qualities are said to
| characterize all his military movements
| AN approaching marriage which creates inter-
est in English literary. circles is tnat of the Hon
| Mrs. Lionel Tennysou- husband died two
| years ago of fever on the return voyage from
India-to Mr.. Augustine Birrell, the author of
"Obiter Dicta' and other works: Mrs Tenny-
son is the daughter, of Mr. Frederick Locker
Lampson, and niece OF the late Lady Augusta
Stanley. II
THE Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, the London cler-
gyman who was overcoms by the vastnsss OF
this country, has given s25 to the fund for pur-
chasing annuity for George Jacob Holyoake
the Englsh reformer. DR. Parker's generosity
is due 20 the fact thet, ID says. whenever Mr..
Holyoake has seeA q newspaper paragraph
favoranly referring 10 Parker's ministry he has
cut it out and sent tito him DR.. Parker knows
q friend when he finds 0na- Z
SECRETARY ENDrcoTr lives the most retired
Pa ofa NH in
rule. when members of Congress have business
with the War Department. they communicate
with the Secretary by letter. Very few of them
know him personality Mr.. Endicott visited the
Capitol the other day for the first time during
his residences in Washington. When he went
into the Senate chamber he was only recognized
by three Senators, and two Of them were Re-
publicans.
THE statue of Miles Standish for the monu-
ment at Duxbury, Mass, is to DO of granite,
fourteen feet high, the shaft being 100 fest The
obelisk will be built upon Captains Hill, on a
point of land running out into Plymouth bay.
The hill is 80 feet above the water, and the
statue be twenty miles at sea- The
Captain is TO stand looking TO the east, with his
right hand containing the charter of the colony,
pointing toward Plymouth. and his left resting
upon his undrawn sword.
SAYS Chicago newspaper: s.Amelia Rives.
the young Virginia novelist. has gone to bed
sick, overwhelmed by the adverse criticisms on
her latest story. She is said to be aghast at the
Interpretation made of it by people who saw
evil where she meant none. Letters from in.
dignant readers have poured in her from all
quarters. It is Miss Rives's first experience
with hostile criticism. aud even If not deserved
it will have more wholesome effect than the
fulsome adu.ation she has been fed on"
VLADIMIR, prelate of the Greek Church and
Bishop of Alaska and the Aleutian islands, has
just reached San Francisco, CAL, which city
will hereafter be the seat of his bishopric
Vladimir is picturesque figure. His tall form
robed In rich vestments. Is slender and straight
as an arrow. He has pale. handsome face and
brown hair and beard. Bishop Vladimir was
for eight years q missionary IN .Janan He
speaks English fuently, and his sentences have
peculiar force and beauty which add great
charm to his preaching.
BENSON J. LOSING, LIZ D., the distinguished
historian. writes in Washington newspaper of
a conversation he had in 1s48 with Alexander
Hamilton's widow. Among many interesting re-
marks made by Mrs. Hamilton was one in refer
ence to Martha Washington's dislike for society.
Mrs. Washington. Who like myself, had pas
sionate love OF home and domestic life, often
complained of the waste of time she was COM
PEELED 10 endure. They call the fret lady
of the land, and think / must be extremely
happy she would say. almost bitterly, at times.
and add: They might more properly cali
the chief state prisoner
"a PAUPER's grave it seems 10 to be the fate
of Theodore Hooks eldest daughter says the
Pail Mall Gazette. This unfortunate lady
lived in little room talso occupied by kind
hearted friend and i'm beetle relative1 and earned
. precarious livelihood by teaching in q private
school at Brixton The Door creature was
brought home day TWO ago In a dying state
She had no relations. and will have to be buried
BY the parish unless some philanthropist comes
forward. sadder case has not been reported
even in the grim and pathetic records of the Lon
don coroner. Yet if every one who has laughed
at Theodore Hooks jokes only contributed q
penny towards his daughters funeral expenses
the ceremony would be as imposing as q mon-
arch's obsequies"
N. lola. the novelist Of filth has just COM
pieted his forty-eighth year. His father, an
Italian By birth and an engineer by profession.
died when Emile was in his eighth year Emile
became clerk to the French publisher Hachests,
wrote verses which nobody would print. and
was one time so poor that he lived during the
best part OF the winter on bread and oil His
first prose work. collection Of short tales waa
published nearly quarter of century ago, but
il was the novel .'Therese Racquinn when first
brought him into note. His extraordinary series
or '.natnrahsties romanees began to be pub
lished in 1871 and almost zTom that date he has
been the leadeP Of she school family nOveiists