The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-29
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
THIS is the year when the girls leap aud the
men fly.
PUCK: It is a great thing to have an indulgent
husband, provided he doesn't indulge too fire.
quently.
THE Kentucky Legislature is considering a
bill to punish wife heaters with forty lashes on
the bare back.
JUDGE: Lady-"There! For the first time
your bill is reasonable" Florist (excitedly)-
Quick! Let me see! must have made mis-
take"
Mrs. JAMES BROWN POTTER is to be enter
tanned by Secretary Whitney and his wife and
Justice Blatchford and his wife when she plays
in Washington, next week.
OLIVER JOHNSON is the only survivor of the
twelve men who met in Boston on JAM
6, ffty-six years ago. and signed the constitution
of the Anti-slavery Society.
LIFE: We don't know whether to believe the
story that Mr. Howells replied to person who
asked for a list of the best hundred books: sI
have not written hundred books"
In the February number of the North Ameri-
can Review is able and interesting article on
Serpent Myths" from the pen of Varina Anne
Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis.
''OUIDA." who is sixty years Of age, wears her
yellow hair flying lose, and liehtcolor dec
gillette dresses. She is engaged on a new novel
which is said to be also rather decollette.
IF some one who knows would explain why
there is much more coughing to tie square
inch in church congregation than in a theater
audience he would solve much-vexed question
of the hour.
EXCHANGE: Ragged Social Philosopher (l.y-
ing dime on the bar)-The rich are getting
richer and the poor poorer. Wealthy Saloon
keeper dropping the dime into the drawer1-
Yes. that's So
New ORLEANS Picayune: A debutante
should not wear dress that does not cover her
shoulders. Such q dress makes her look too
much as if che wanted to come out which is bad
for the blossom.
THE Bishop of Litchfeld, England, has an
nounced that marriage. ''being distinctly a
prisstIy Office" he will hereafter refuse to .'or-
will be laid upon him"
THE new Episcopa1ian Club Of Massachusetts
began its career with promise, Bishop Potter, of
New York, and Bishop Paddock. of Massachu-
sets. sitting one on each side of the president
at the first regular meeting.
Mrs. GLADSTONE celebrated her seventy-sixt
birthday a few days ago, being little more
than two years her husbands junior Their
marriage took place on July %, 1889, SO that the
celebration ofitheir golden wedding looms in the
near future.
In will be news to many people that there is
Indian colony in New York city. The colony
includes men, women and children. They are
all of the Iroquois tribe. and all of them come
from Canada. They live in Blocker street
near South Fifth avenue. and are fairly intelli-
gent. The women make bead-work, which the
men sell.
Ames said "About a year before the Chicago
convention Of 1884 had an interview with Mr..
Blaine, and he said the next President of the
United States would DO a Democrat. He said
that Republican had not ghost of chance.
He advocated for the Republican candidate
Judge Miller.
LINCOLN Journal: The kind of horse to have:
Naomi-George. why in the world did you trade
your beautiful bay horse for that ugly old thinef
I'm sure I'll never ride behind it. why Mao
ter than the bay" I'm what way2" ..Well, it'll
keep in the middle of the road whether you hold
the lines or not"
LOUISE MICHEL is making every effort to OBJ
tain the release of Lucas, the man who rscently
wounded her with two shot from revolver.
miration in the mind of the average man, but it
must be acknowledged that she is clever She
knows the value of advertisement and how
to make the most of it
u sTEEPLE-JAcK near Huddersfeld had
climbed to the top of an immense chimney to
remove the scaffolding, when the rope by which
ne WAS to descend broke and fell to the ground.
While the crowd were wondering how he would
get down, he unraveied his stockings, aud
letting down the thread finally drew mp rope
big enough to let him down
REV. DR. j. NJ. BUCKLEY, editor Of the Chris
tian Advocate, New York, adds to his paper in
the Century Magazine the mind cure and
similar phenomena, curious study OF 'Astrol-
ogy. Divination and Condolences DR.. Buck
ley may fairly be considered TO have done
great public service by his exposition of current
frauds and hallucinations in this field.
AT Bucyrus. o., a woman took four rolls OF
pale-lookin e butter to a firm OF grocers and sold
them for cash. They laid the bntter away in
the cellar aud later sold it. with another lot,
to q shipper. The shipper. in cutting the stuff
up found that the four rolls not butter,
but the most ordinary kind OF mashed potatoes.
She had nodded this potatoes. frozen the rolls,
and smeared them with butter to give them .
genuine appearance.
THERE is still another man, who, being old
enough to know how to write, ought to know
better than to do as he does. He is the one who
uses low-cut envelope, so that when You at
tempt to open his letter. You find the sheet and
the envelope stuck together, so that one of them
has 10 be torn. This is excessively trying 20
the Christian temper of man who likes to sea
things done .decently and in order would